Architect Jobs in Reading

Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median Architect salary in Reading is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 14 40
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 145 224 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.48% 13.85% 6.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.96% 14.80% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 53 49 73
10th Percentile £61,000 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,250 £91,250
Berkshire median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 1,618 1,514 1,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 93.63% 97.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 810 1,020
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,863
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Reading

Architect
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in Reading.

Salary trend for Architect in Reading

Architect
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Reading

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Reading region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 65 (44.83%) Actionable Insight
2 55 (37.93%) TOGAF
3 53 (36.55%) Security Cleared
4 37 (25.52%) Technical Architecture
5 35 (24.14%) Validation
5 35 (24.14%) Model Validation
6 34 (23.45%) Agile
6 34 (23.45%) Requirements Management
6 34 (23.45%) VSAT
6 34 (23.45%) Network Architecture
6 34 (23.45%) Network Management
7 32 (22.07%) SC Cleared
8 30 (20.69%) Presales
9 24 (16.55%) Azure
9 24 (16.55%) Social Skills
10 23 (15.86%) AWS
10 23 (15.86%) Microsoft
11 21 (14.48%) Physics
12 19 (13.10%) Analytics
13 18 (12.41%) Business Development
13 18 (12.41%) Degree
13 18 (12.41%) Migration
14 17 (11.72%) Firewall
15 16 (11.03%) Project Management
16 15 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
17 14 (9.66%) SD-WAN
17 14 (9.66%) WAN
17 14 (9.66%) Wireless
18 13 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 13 (8.97%) C#

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.76%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.76%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.69%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.55%) Azure
2 23 (15.86%) AWS
3 9 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.21%) SaaS
4 7 (4.83%) GCP
5 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.76%) OCI
7 3 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.38%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.69%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.69%) IaaS
9 1 (0.69%) PaaS
9 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.45%) VSAT
2 17 (11.72%) Firewall
3 14 (9.66%) SD-WAN
3 14 (9.66%) WAN
3 14 (9.66%) Wireless
4 5 (3.45%) Network Security
5 4 (2.76%) BGP
5 4 (2.76%) DNS
5 4 (2.76%) SSL
5 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.07%) Internet
6 3 (2.07%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (2.07%) VPN
7 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
1 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.69%) Big Data
4 1 (0.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) GitLab
1 9 (6.21%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.69%) DbUnit
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.69%) jMock
3 1 (0.69%) JUnit
3 1 (0.69%) Maven
3 1 (0.69%) Mockito
3 1 (0.69%) Postman
3 1 (0.69%) Selenium
3 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 24 (16.55%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (4.14%) Automotive
3 6 (4.14%) Finance
4 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.07%) Legal
6 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.69%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.76%) Web Services
3 3 (2.07%) .NET
3 3 (2.07%) Kafka
3 3 (2.07%) React
4 2 (1.38%) Node.js
4 2 (1.38%) REST
4 2 (1.38%) SOAP
4 2 (1.38%) Spring
5 1 (0.69%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.69%) Celery
5 1 (0.69%) EDI
5 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth
5 1 (0.69%) OpenID
5 1 (0.69%) PowerMock
5 1 (0.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.69%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.52%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.83%) PKI
4 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.07%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.83%) Actionable Insight
2 55 (37.93%) TOGAF
3 37 (25.52%) Technical Architecture
4 35 (24.14%) Model Validation
4 35 (24.14%) Validation
5 34 (23.45%) Agile
5 34 (23.45%) Network Architecture
5 34 (23.45%) Network Management
5 34 (23.45%) Requirements Management
6 30 (20.69%) Presales
7 21 (14.48%) Physics
8 19 (13.10%) Analytics
9 18 (12.41%) Business Development
9 18 (12.41%) Migration
10 16 (11.03%) Project Management
11 15 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.97%) IT Strategy
12 13 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (8.97%) Thought Leadership
13 12 (8.28%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.97%) C#
1 13 (8.97%) Python
2 10 (6.90%) SQL
3 9 (6.21%) Fortran
4 7 (4.83%) Java
5 6 (4.14%) C++
6 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (36.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.41%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.83%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) CISSP
6 3 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) COBIT
1 5 (3.45%) NIST
2 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.07%) OpenView
1 3 (2.07%) Suricata
2 1 (0.69%) Ansible
2 1 (0.69%) Consul
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.28%) Cisco
2 12 (8.28%) Juniper
3 9 (6.21%) Fortinet
4 8 (5.52%) Oracle
5 7 (4.83%) Google
6 5 (3.45%) Sparx
7 3 (2.07%) BMC
7 3 (2.07%) Databricks
7 3 (2.07%) HP
7 3 (2.07%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.07%) Remedy
7 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.07%) Splunk
8 2 (1.38%) SAP
9 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce