Architect Jobs in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect salary in the South East is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 39 40
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 376 839 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.44% 5.03% 6.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.17% 5.36% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 268 440 497
10th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £93,625 £97,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £78,700 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -1.63% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the South East.

Salary trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -11 138 £82,500 +6.45% 104
Hampshire +1 109 £77,000 +10.00% 88
Berkshire -1 97 £82,500 +10.00% 67
Isle of Wight - 66 £65,000 - 7
Buckinghamshire +7 29 £85,800 +7.25% 26
Middlesex -24 20 £90,000 - 3
Surrey -16 16 £82,500 -2.94% 16
Oxfordshire +7 12 £89,000 +11.25% 26
Kent +29 10 £82,500 -10.81% 17
West Sussex +9 8 £77,500 +14.81% 8
East Sussex -16 4 £80,000 - 5
Sussex +15 3 £55,000 -26.67% 6
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 129 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 117 (31.12%) Security Cleared
3 108 (28.72%) Mentoring
4 105 (27.93%) Degree
5 92 (24.47%) Agile
6 89 (23.67%) Technical Leadership
7 88 (23.40%) DevOps
8 83 (22.07%) Azure
9 81 (21.54%) SC Cleared
10 75 (19.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 74 (19.68%) Microservices
12 71 (18.88%) Design Patterns
13 67 (17.82%) Configuration Management
13 67 (17.82%) Management Information System
14 64 (17.02%) Finance
15 60 (15.96%) Chartered Engineer
16 59 (15.69%) Customer Requirements
17 58 (15.43%) REST
18 54 (14.36%) IBM
19 53 (14.10%) Requirements Management
20 52 (13.83%) Business Case
21 50 (13.30%) SQL
22 49 (13.03%) Systems Engineering
23 48 (12.77%) Systems Thinking
23 48 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
23 48 (12.77%) Microsoft
23 48 (12.77%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
23 48 (12.77%) DV Cleared
23 48 (12.77%) Rational DOORS
23 48 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (3.99%) CMS
2 3 (0.80%) Confluence
3 2 (0.53%) IBM Domino
3 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (22.07%) Azure
2 39 (10.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 39 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (9.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 35 (9.31%) SonarCloud
5 31 (8.24%) SaaS
6 22 (5.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 19 (5.05%) PaaS
8 17 (4.52%) AWS
9 13 (3.46%) iPaaS
10 7 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.60%) IaaS
11 6 (1.60%) IBM Cloud
12 5 (1.33%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.33%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.33%) Serverless
13 4 (1.06%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.85%) WAN
2 13 (3.46%) MPLS
3 11 (2.93%) Firewall
4 8 (2.13%) BGP
4 8 (2.13%) Junos
5 7 (1.86%) IPsec
5 7 (1.86%) LAN
6 6 (1.60%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (1.33%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.33%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.53%) Internet
8 2 (0.53%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.27%) SAN
9 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.27%) VPN
9 1 (0.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.31%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.06%) Metadata
5 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.53%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.53%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (12.77%) Rational DOORS
2 38 (10.11%) Git
3 36 (9.57%) MSBuild
3 36 (9.57%) Octopus Deploy
4 35 (9.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 35 (9.31%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.86%) MSI
6 3 (0.80%) ERwin
6 3 (0.80%) JIRA
7 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
General
1 129 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.02%) Finance
3 37 (9.84%) Marketing
4 32 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.91%) Retail
6 21 (5.59%) Law
7 16 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (3.46%) Legal
8 13 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.86%) Advertising
10 7 (1.86%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.80%) Automotive
12 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.53%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.27%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.43%) REST
2 41 (10.90%) .NET
3 37 (9.84%) CSS
3 37 (9.84%) HTML
4 36 (9.57%) ASP.NET
4 36 (9.57%) JSON
4 36 (9.57%) XML
5 35 (9.31%) Bootstrap
5 35 (9.31%) gRPC
6 34 (9.04%) Middleware
7 22 (5.85%) Lightning Web Components
8 21 (5.59%) SOAP
9 4 (1.06%) Web Services
10 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.80%) LDAP
10 3 (0.80%) PySpark
10 3 (0.80%) SAML
11 2 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.53%) Leaflet
11 2 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 67 (17.82%) Management Information System
2 27 (7.18%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.86%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.60%) Blockchain
5 6 (1.60%) PKI
6 5 (1.33%) IoT
7 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.80%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.53%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.27%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.27%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.71%) Windows
2 8 (2.13%) Linux
3 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.72%) Mentoring
2 92 (24.47%) Agile
3 89 (23.67%) Technical Leadership
4 88 (23.40%) DevOps
5 74 (19.68%) Microservices
6 71 (18.88%) Design Patterns
7 67 (17.82%) Configuration Management
8 59 (15.69%) Customer Requirements
9 53 (14.10%) Requirements Management
10 52 (13.83%) Business Case
11 49 (13.03%) Systems Engineering
12 48 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (12.77%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
12 48 (12.77%) Systems Thinking
13 44 (11.70%) Enterprise Architecture
13 44 (11.70%) Information Security
14 43 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (10.64%) Computer Science
15 40 (10.64%) Event-Driven
15 40 (10.64%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.30%) SQL
2 40 (10.64%) C#
3 37 (9.84%) JavaScript
4 22 (5.85%) Apex Code
5 18 (4.79%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.39%) Python
7 3 (0.80%) Java
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.27%) C
9 1 (0.27%) C++
9 1 (0.27%) PHP
9 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.27%) R
9 1 (0.27%) Scala
9 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (31.12%) Security Cleared
2 105 (27.93%) Degree
3 81 (21.54%) SC Cleared
4 75 (19.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (15.96%) Chartered Engineer
6 48 (12.77%) DV Cleared
7 37 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (6.38%) Master's Degree
9 20 (5.32%) CISSP
10 8 (2.13%) CCNA
10 8 (2.13%) CCNP
10 8 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.13%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.33%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.53%) CESG Certified Professional
14 2 (0.53%) CISMP
14 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 37 (9.84%) GDPR
3 25 (6.65%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 9 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.33%) SLA
7 3 (0.80%) NIST
7 3 (0.80%) QA
8 2 (0.53%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) GMP
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (10.64%) Docker
2 29 (7.71%) Active Directory
3 24 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.33%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 11 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (2.39%) WMI
3 6 (1.60%) Terraform
4 5 (1.33%) SCCM
5 2 (0.53%) Ansible
5 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (14.36%) IBM
2 48 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.71%) Cisco
3 29 (7.71%) Salesforce
4 26 (6.91%) Juniper
5 25 (6.65%) VMware
6 21 (5.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 11 (2.93%) SAP
8 5 (1.33%) Oracle
8 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.33%) SevOne
9 3 (0.80%) Databricks
9 3 (0.80%) Fujitsu
9 3 (0.80%) Google
10 2 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.53%) Informatica
10 2 (0.53%) Thales
10 2 (0.53%) Zoho
11 1 (0.27%) Concur
11 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto