Architectural Design Job Trends in the South East

Architectural Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 273 237
Rank change year-on-year +125 -36 +17
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 131 34 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.26% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 0.42% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 27
10th Percentile £63,125 £61,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.67% +10.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £78,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,062 £97,750 £88,100
England median annual salary £79,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.63% - +3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,394 8,137 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.63% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 4,002 4,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,300
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the South East

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the South East

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +100 110 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Berkshire +84 97 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Buckinghamshire - 12 £72,500 - 1
Hampshire - 11 £75,000 - 3
Surrey +11 6 £27,500 -
Middlesex - 2 - -
East Sussex - 2 £75,535 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £70,000 - 1
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 57 (43.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.30%) GCP
2 24 (18.32%) AWS
2 24 (18.32%) Azure
3 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.53%) Fivetran
5 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.27%) BigQuery
2 19 (14.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.05%) FileMaker
3 4 (3.05%) MySQL
4 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.53%) Looker
5 2 (1.53%) Power BI
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.53%) Tableau
6 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.29%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (1.53%) Git
General
1 99 (75.57%) Marketing
2 65 (49.62%) Social Skills
3 62 (47.33%) Finance
4 57 (43.51%) Manufacturing
5 43 (32.82%) Law
6 3 (2.29%) Agriculture
6 3 (2.29%) Electronics
6 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.53%) Advertising
7 2 (1.53%) French Language
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (59.54%) Senior
2 59 (45.04%) Analyst
2 59 (45.04%) Senior Analyst
3 57 (43.51%) SAP Analyst
4 47 (35.88%) Architect
5 20 (15.27%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (15.27%) GCP Architect
5 20 (15.27%) Platform Architect
6 19 (14.50%) Data Architect
6 19 (14.50%) Senior Architect
6 19 (14.50%) Senior Data Architect
7 11 (8.40%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Developer
9 7 (5.34%) Principal Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Lead
10 6 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Network Architect
13 3 (2.29%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) OLE
2 4 (3.05%) Node.js
2 4 (3.05%) Sequelize
3 3 (2.29%) TypeORM
4 2 (1.53%) React
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.76%) CSS
5 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.76%) Express.js
5 1 (0.76%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.76%) Kafka
5 1 (0.76%) Next.js
5 1 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.76%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.76%) Spring
5 1 (0.76%) Spring MVC
5 1 (0.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.29%) e-Learning
2 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
1 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
1 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.09%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (47.33%) Technical Leadership
3 57 (43.51%) Data Collection
3 57 (43.51%) Data Management
3 57 (43.51%) Decision Quality
3 57 (43.51%) Impact Analysis
3 57 (43.51%) Incident Management
3 57 (43.51%) Logistics
3 57 (43.51%) Quality Management
3 57 (43.51%) SAP Implementation
3 57 (43.51%) Translating Business Requirements
3 57 (43.51%) User Acceptance Testing
4 43 (32.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (32.82%) Mentoring
5 41 (31.30%) Roadmaps
6 39 (29.77%) Data Science
6 39 (29.77%) Strategic Roadmap
7 25 (19.08%) AI
8 22 (16.79%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (16.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.08%) Python
2 21 (16.03%) Java
3 20 (15.27%) Go
4 4 (3.05%) C#
4 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.29%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.53%) SQL
7 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared
2 7 (5.34%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) Degree
4 5 (3.82%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (43.51%) SAP
2 21 (16.03%) Google
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft