Architect Jobs in Reading

Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median Architect salary in Reading is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 34 173 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 6.58% 9.07% 14.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.82% 9.55% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 23 59 41
10th Percentile £64,500 £64,450 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £89,375 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £106,250
Berkshire median annual salary £81,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 435 1,812 1,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.14% 94.97% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 234 1,119 734
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,959 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -13.14% +0.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.70% -

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 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, 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 23 (67.65%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) DevOps
2 16 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (41.18%) GDPR
3 14 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
3 14 (41.18%) Microservices
3 14 (41.18%) SQL
4 13 (38.24%) .NET
4 13 (38.24%) C#
4 13 (38.24%) Docker
4 13 (38.24%) Code Quality
5 12 (35.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (35.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (35.29%) Event-Driven
5 12 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 12 (35.29%) Git
6 11 (32.35%) Performance Testing
6 11 (32.35%) JSON
6 11 (32.35%) MSBuild
6 11 (32.35%) Bootstrap
6 11 (32.35%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (32.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (32.35%) REST
6 11 (32.35%) HTML
6 11 (32.35%) JavaScript
6 11 (32.35%) ASP.NET
6 11 (32.35%) CSS
6 11 (32.35%) XML
6 11 (32.35%) Visual Studio
6 11 (32.35%) MVC

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 (11.76%) CMS
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 12 (35.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (32.35%) SonarCloud
5 7 (20.59%) SaaS
6 5 (14.71%) PaaS
7 4 (11.76%) AWS
7 4 (11.76%) iPaaS
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.88%) Serverless
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
9 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
1 1 (2.94%) NAS
1 1 (2.94%) SAN
1 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
1 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Git
2 11 (32.35%) MSBuild
2 11 (32.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 11 (32.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (32.35%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 11 (32.35%) Retail
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Legal
5 4 (11.76%) Marketing
5 4 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Back Office
7 1 (2.94%) French Language
7 1 (2.94%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) .NET
2 11 (32.35%) ASP.NET
2 11 (32.35%) Bootstrap
2 11 (32.35%) CSS
2 11 (32.35%) gRPC
2 11 (32.35%) HTML
2 11 (32.35%) JSON
2 11 (32.35%) REST
2 11 (32.35%) XML
3 2 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (5.88%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) Laravel
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.94%) SAP XI
4 1 (2.94%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) Microservices
2 14 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (38.24%) Code Quality
4 12 (35.29%) Event-Driven
4 12 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 11 (32.35%) API Integration
5 11 (32.35%) Data Encryption
5 11 (32.35%) Design Patterns
5 11 (32.35%) MVC
5 11 (32.35%) Performance Optimisation
5 11 (32.35%) Performance Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
7 7 (20.59%) Migration
8 6 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 5 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) SQL
2 13 (38.24%) C#
3 11 (32.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) Apex Code
4 2 (5.88%) SOQL
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) PHP
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (41.18%) GDPR
2 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.82%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) GMP
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Databricks
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Computacenter
3 1 (2.94%) Concur
3 1 (2.94%) Meraki
3 1 (2.94%) VMware