Architectural Design Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 180 169
Rank change year-on-year +107 -11 -13
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 108 11 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.76% 0.30% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 0.33% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 8
10th Percentile £65,000 £60,625 £47,625
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,625 £68,750 £85,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,375 £95,750
South East median annual salary £75,000 £68,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -16.67% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,231 3,357 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.51% 90.05% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 1,631 2,138
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,463
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire +76 97 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Buckinghamshire - 10 £72,500 - 9
Oxfordshire - 1 £70,000 - 4
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (0.93%) CMS
Business Applications
1 57 (52.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (37.96%) GCP
2 24 (22.22%) AWS
3 23 (21.30%) Azure
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.52%) BigQuery
2 19 (17.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.70%) MySQL
4 3 (2.78%) FileMaker
4 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Git
General
1 99 (91.67%) Marketing
2 59 (54.63%) Social Skills
3 57 (52.78%) Finance
3 57 (52.78%) Manufacturing
4 40 (37.04%) Law
5 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 76 (70.37%) Senior
2 57 (52.78%) Analyst
2 57 (52.78%) SAP Analyst
2 57 (52.78%) Senior Analyst
3 40 (37.04%) Architect
4 20 (18.52%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (18.52%) GCP Architect
4 20 (18.52%) Platform Architect
5 19 (17.59%) Data Architect
5 19 (17.59%) Senior Architect
5 19 (17.59%) Senior Data Architect
6 6 (5.56%) Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Principal Developer
8 4 (3.70%) Lead
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Developer
9 2 (1.85%) C# Developer
10 1 (0.93%) Software Engineer
10 1 (0.93%) Technical Architect
10 1 (0.93%) Technical Engineer
10 1 (0.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) Node.js
1 4 (3.70%) Sequelize
2 3 (2.78%) TypeORM
3 2 (1.85%) React
4 1 (0.93%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.93%) CSS
4 1 (0.93%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.93%) Express.js
4 1 (0.93%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.93%) Kafka
4 1 (0.93%) Next.js
4 1 (0.93%) RESTful
4 1 (0.93%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.93%) Spring
4 1 (0.93%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.78%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (53.70%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (52.78%) Data Collection
2 57 (52.78%) Data Management
2 57 (52.78%) Decision Quality
2 57 (52.78%) Impact Analysis
2 57 (52.78%) Incident Management
2 57 (52.78%) Logistics
2 57 (52.78%) Quality Management
2 57 (52.78%) SAP Implementation
2 57 (52.78%) Technical Leadership
2 57 (52.78%) Translating Business Requirements
2 57 (52.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 43 (39.81%) Mentoring
4 40 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (36.11%) Data Science
5 39 (36.11%) Roadmaps
5 39 (36.11%) Strategic Roadmap
6 22 (20.37%) AI
6 22 (20.37%) Machine Learning
7 21 (19.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.44%) Java
2 20 (18.52%) Go
2 20 (18.52%) Python
3 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (0.93%) Degree
1 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (52.78%) SAP
2 21 (19.44%) Google