Architect Jobs in Southampton

Architect
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Architect salary in Southampton is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2 46 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 0.61% 5.23% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 5.37% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 25 21
10th Percentile - £60,000 £56,500
25th Percentile - £67,500 £63,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -20.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile - £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile - £98,000 £90,000
Hampshire median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -7.28% +0.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 323 857 709
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.78% 97.39% 93.04%
Number of salaries quoted 242 721 561
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,475 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Southampton

Architect
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Architect in Southampton

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Southampton region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Telematics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Telematics
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP