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 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 +47
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 36 171 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 6.74% 10.85% 15.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.64% 11.48% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 21 63 33
10th Percentile £62,500 - £63,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £65,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,500 £106,250
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +12.50%

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 471 1,490 1,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.20% 94.54% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 286 848 728
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,813 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%

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 August 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 August 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 26 (72.22%) Azure
2 15 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 14 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (36.11%) GDPR
4 13 (36.11%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
4 13 (36.11%) SQL
4 13 (36.11%) Finance
4 13 (36.11%) Agile
5 12 (33.33%) Microservices
5 12 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven
6 11 (30.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (30.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (30.56%) Migration
6 11 (30.56%) .NET
6 11 (30.56%) C#
6 11 (30.56%) Docker
6 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (30.56%) Git
6 11 (30.56%) SaaS
7 10 (27.78%) PaaS
7 10 (27.78%) REST
7 10 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (27.78%) JSON
7 10 (27.78%) Performance Testing
7 10 (27.78%) Data Governance
7 10 (27.78%) MSBuild

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 9 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 26 (72.22%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (30.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 11 (30.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 11 (30.56%) SaaS
4 10 (27.78%) PaaS
4 10 (27.78%) SonarCloud
5 9 (25.00%) iPaaS
6 3 (8.33%) AWS
7 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) NAS
1 1 (2.78%) SAN
1 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.78%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Git
2 10 (27.78%) MSBuild
2 10 (27.78%) Octopus Deploy
2 10 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (27.78%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Retail
4 9 (25.00%) Legal
4 9 (25.00%) Marketing
4 9 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) .NET
2 10 (27.78%) ASP.NET
2 10 (27.78%) Bootstrap
2 10 (27.78%) CSS
2 10 (27.78%) gRPC
2 10 (27.78%) HTML
2 10 (27.78%) JSON
2 10 (27.78%) REST
2 10 (27.78%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) Middleware
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.78%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
3 13 (36.11%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 12 (33.33%) Microservices
5 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven
5 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 11 (30.56%) Migration
6 10 (27.78%) API Integration
6 10 (27.78%) Data Encryption
6 10 (27.78%) Data Governance
6 10 (27.78%) Design Patterns
6 10 (27.78%) MVC
6 10 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (27.78%) Performance Testing
6 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.78%) Regulatory Compliance
6 10 (27.78%) Risk Management
7 9 (25.00%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 11 (30.56%) C#
3 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) Apex Code
4 2 (5.56%) SOQL
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (36.11%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (2.78%) Grafana
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) Computacenter
3 1 (2.78%) Meraki
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) VMware