Digital Architect Job Trends in the South East

Digital Architect
England > South East

The median Digital Architect salary in the South East is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 292 308
Rank change year-on-year +37 +16 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Digital Architect 18 1 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.012% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.013% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £95,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £96,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -6.98% +36.94%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £126,250
90th Percentile - - £127,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -21.05% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 10,137 7,631 11,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 88.97% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,459 3,960 8,637
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Digital Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Digital Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Digital Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the South East

Digital 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 Digital Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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 - 15 £85,000 - 2
Berkshire - 14 - -
East Sussex - 2 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £85,000 - 2
Digital Architect
England

Digital Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Digital Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Digital Architect in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) SAP
1 14 (77.78%) SAP S/4HANA
1 14 (77.78%) Source to Pay
2 12 (66.67%) Ariba
2 12 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 12 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
2 12 (66.67%) Project Management
2 12 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 12 (66.67%) SAP MDG
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.56%) Agile
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Architectural Design
4 1 (5.56%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
4 1 (5.56%) CMS
4 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
4 1 (5.56%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (5.56%) Data Governance

Digital Architect Skill Set
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 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 14 (77.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (66.67%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
2 1 (5.56%) Datadog
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Source to Pay
2 12 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 12 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
2 12 (66.67%) Project Management
2 12 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (5.56%) Agile
3 1 (5.56%) Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) Architectural Design
3 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
3 1 (5.56%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (5.56%) Data Governance
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.56%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (5.56%) Observability
3 1 (5.56%) Personalization
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Debt
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) SAP
2 12 (66.67%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) Sitecore