Architect Jobs in South London

Architect
London > South London

The median Architect salary in South London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 41 62
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3 46 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.42% 5.24% 3.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 5.48% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 12
10th Percentile - £72,500 £80,500
25th Percentile - £74,759 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £104,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £107,500 £102,250
London median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 566 840 661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.16% 95.67% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 165 396 374
10th Percentile £26,375 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,063 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in South London

Architect
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Architect in South London

Architect
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in South London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in South London

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform