Architect Job Trends in Surrey

Architect
South East > Surrey

The median Architect salary in Surrey is £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 85 40
Rank change year-on-year +20 -45 -11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 61 9 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.55% 0.78% 5.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 0.91% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46 8 57
10th Percentile - £81,775 £68,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £84,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.86% +18.64%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,125 £100,000
South East median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 2,262 992 1,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 86.11% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 688 959
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -7.69% -5.88%
75th Percentile £76,125 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,852
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.57% -5.72%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Architect job vacancy trend in Surrey

Architect
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Surrey

Architect
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Architect in Surrey

Architect
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Guildford - 24 £82,500 - 29
Egham - 9 £95,000 - 2
Camberley 0 7 £75,000 -11.76% 5
Godalming - 4 - -
Leatherhead - 2 - - 10
Reigate - 2 - - 2
Woking - 2 £85,000 - 6
Sunbury-on-Thames -3 1 - - 4
Staines - 1 - - 10
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 15 September 2026, 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 Surrey region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 19 (31.15%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) Agile
2 9 (14.75%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (14.75%) Wireless
3 8 (13.11%) 5G
3 8 (13.11%) Intelligent Network
3 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.11%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) Architectural Design
4 7 (11.48%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (11.48%) AWS
4 7 (11.48%) Cyber Intelligence
4 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
5 6 (9.84%) .NET
5 6 (9.84%) AI
5 6 (9.84%) C#
5 6 (9.84%) Degree
5 6 (9.84%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (8.20%) Business Strategy
6 5 (8.20%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.20%) Community of Practice
6 5 (8.20%) Data Architecture
6 5 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (8.20%) GCP
6 5 (8.20%) Microservices
6 5 (8.20%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (8.20%) Technology Strategy

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) JBoss
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.64%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP HR
1 2 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) GCP
4 4 (6.56%) SaaS
5 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.28%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.64%) Boomi
7 1 (1.64%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) Wireless
2 8 (13.11%) 5G
2 8 (13.11%) Intelligent Network
2 8 (13.11%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.64%) 4G
3 1 (1.64%) Broadband
3 1 (1.64%) Firewall
3 1 (1.64%) LAN
3 1 (1.64%) LTE
3 1 (1.64%) NGN
3 1 (1.64%) VLAN
3 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Git
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.56%) Law
5 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.64%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) .NET
2 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (3.28%) Entity Framework
3 2 (3.28%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.28%) Middleware
3 2 (3.28%) Spring
3 2 (3.28%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (14.75%) Agile
1 9 (14.75%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (11.48%) Architectural Design
2 7 (11.48%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (11.48%) Cyber Intelligence
2 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
3 6 (9.84%) AI
3 6 (9.84%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (8.20%) Business Strategy
4 5 (8.20%) CI/CD
4 5 (8.20%) Community of Practice
4 5 (8.20%) Data Architecture
4 5 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (8.20%) Microservices
4 5 (8.20%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (8.20%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (6.56%) DevOps
5 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) C#
2 2 (3.28%) Java
2 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.28%) Python
2 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) HND
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) PhD
4 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
1 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Google
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle
2 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.28%) SAP
2 2 (3.28%) VMware
3 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.64%) Databricks
3 1 (1.64%) Ericsson
3 1 (1.64%) Huawei
3 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.64%) Nokia
3 1 (1.64%) Samsung
3 1 (1.64%) Sparx