Architectural Design Job Trends in Reading

Architectural Design
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 74 92
Rank change year-on-year +23 +18 +8
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 1 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.17% 1.11% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.26% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £60,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -30.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £85,625
90th Percentile - - £98,500
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% -23.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 715 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 78.80% 88.16% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 297 323 612
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £50,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Reading

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Sequelize
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker