Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 37 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,782 4,234 3,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.40% 6.85% 4.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.70% 7.67% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 1,672 1,690
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,418
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,042 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +5.39% +6.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North of England +28 1,064 £78,126 +0.81% 137
South East +2 837 £75,000 -11.76% 142
Midlands +10 620 £75,000 - 70
North West +9 563 £75,000 - 82
South West -5 518 £75,000 +3.45% 74
Yorkshire +38 445 £79,932 -0.09% 41
West Midlands +24 389 £76,750 +2.33% 40
Scotland -43 371 £75,000 -4.15% 49
East Midlands -16 223 £65,000 -10.34% 30
East of England -44 166 £79,136 -6.90% 50
Wales -14 122 £66,250 -3.28% 20
Northern Ireland +14 96 £100,000 +37.93% 9
North East +10 58 £79,887 -6.02% 15
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 997 (26.36%) Azure
2 870 (23.00%) TOGAF
3 858 (22.69%) Agile
4 775 (20.49%) Security Cleared
5 771 (20.39%) AWS
6 769 (20.33%) Actionable Insight
7 742 (19.62%) Social Skills
8 735 (19.43%) Roadmaps
9 649 (17.16%) Finance
10 604 (15.97%) Microsoft
11 482 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
12 470 (12.43%) Technical Architecture
13 467 (12.35%) SC Cleared
14 402 (10.63%) Validation
15 381 (10.07%) Requirements Management
16 375 (9.92%) Enterprise Architecture
17 373 (9.86%) Data Architecture
18 372 (9.84%) Degree
18 372 (9.84%) Network Management
18 372 (9.84%) Presales
19 371 (9.81%) Model Validation
20 362 (9.57%) Network Architecture
21 358 (9.47%) Mentoring
22 342 (9.04%) Microservices
23 334 (8.83%) VSAT
24 332 (8.78%) DevOps
25 323 (8.54%) GCP
26 322 (8.51%) Data Modelling
27 320 (8.46%) Public Cloud
28 311 (8.22%) Analytics

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 77 (2.04%) SAS
2 50 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.06%) WebLogic
4 19 (0.50%) CMS
5 13 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.16%) Apache
7 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.13%) Drupal
9 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.079%) WordPress
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.053%) Confluence
11 2 (0.053%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.026%) Appian
12 1 (0.026%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.48%) Simulink
3 16 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.053%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.026%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 86 (2.27%) SAP ERP
1 86 (2.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 36 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 29 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 10 (0.26%) SAP PP
7 9 (0.24%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.19%) SAP MM
8 7 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.16%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 4 (0.11%) SAP APO
12 3 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
13 2 (0.053%) SAP SCM
14 1 (0.026%) NetSuite
14 1 (0.026%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 997 (26.36%) Azure
2 771 (20.39%) AWS
3 323 (8.54%) GCP
4 265 (7.01%) SaaS
5 219 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
6 181 (4.79%) Power Platform
7 121 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 114 (3.01%) PaaS
9 102 (2.70%) IaaS
10 85 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 66 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 59 (1.56%) Serverless
13 51 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
14 46 (1.22%) PowerApps
15 45 (1.19%) Snowflake
16 42 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (0.66%) Matillion
18 24 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 334 (8.83%) VSAT
2 109 (2.88%) WAN
3 92 (2.43%) DNS
3 92 (2.43%) Firewall
4 84 (2.22%) SD-WAN
5 82 (2.17%) Broadband
6 78 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 67 (1.77%) Network Security
8 57 (1.51%) BGP
9 53 (1.40%) SSL
10 47 (1.24%) VPN
11 29 (0.77%) Wireless
12 27 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 26 (0.69%) LAN
14 25 (0.66%) HTTP
15 24 (0.63%) DHCP
16 16 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.40%) VLAN
18 14 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
19 13 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (2.88%) BigQuery
3 106 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 98 (2.59%) Looker
5 87 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 86 (2.27%) Metadata
7 82 (2.17%) Power BI
8 75 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 59 (1.56%) Big Data
9 59 (1.56%) SQL Server
10 58 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
11 55 (1.45%) RDBMS
12 41 (1.08%) Oracle Database
13 25 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
14 22 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.50%) Data Vault
15 19 (0.50%) DB2
16 16 (0.42%) GIS
17 10 (0.26%) Tableau
18 9 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (1.22%) Git
2 42 (1.11%) Visual Studio
3 23 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.58%) GitLab
5 21 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
7 8 (0.21%) Maven
8 6 (0.16%) JIRA
9 4 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.11%) JUnit
10 3 (0.079%) ERwin
10 3 (0.079%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.079%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.053%) CANoe
11 2 (0.053%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.053%) MLflow
11 2 (0.053%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.026%) Postman
12 1 (0.026%) SonarQube
General
1 742 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 649 (17.16%) Finance
3 286 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 184 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 159 (4.20%) Retail
7 157 (4.15%) Banking
8 148 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
9 103 (2.72%) Legal
10 102 (2.70%) Law
11 99 (2.62%) Marketing
12 83 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 51 (1.35%) Aerospace
15 38 (1.00%) Games
16 37 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.71%) Automotive
18 24 (0.63%) Telecoms
19 21 (0.56%) Military
20 20 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.73%) .NET
2 73 (1.93%) Spring Boot
3 60 (1.59%) OpenID
4 56 (1.48%) Kafka
5 50 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
6 47 (1.24%) SAML
7 40 (1.06%) REST
8 39 (1.03%) HTML
9 36 (0.95%) JSON
9 36 (0.95%) OAuth
10 33 (0.87%) React
11 32 (0.85%) Spring
12 31 (0.82%) Web Services
13 30 (0.79%) Node.js
14 29 (0.77%) .NET Framework
15 26 (0.69%) Middleware
15 26 (0.69%) YAML
16 23 (0.61%) XML
17 21 (0.56%) RESTful
18 19 (0.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 320 (8.46%) Public Cloud
2 275 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 138 (3.65%) Management Information System
4 123 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 120 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 90 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 87 (2.30%) PKI
8 56 (1.48%) IoT
9 48 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.00%) Private Cloud
10 38 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 35 (0.93%) Blockchain
11 35 (0.93%) PMI
12 32 (0.85%) Mobile App
13 31 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 28 (0.74%) Credit Risk
14 28 (0.74%) Data Structures
15 25 (0.66%) Robotics
16 23 (0.61%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 149 (3.94%) Linux
2 75 (1.98%) Windows
3 41 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (1.00%) Unix
5 19 (0.50%) Android
6 17 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.19%) Solaris
10 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
11 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.079%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.053%) VME
14 1 (0.026%) CentOS
14 1 (0.026%) HPUX
14 1 (0.026%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (23.00%) TOGAF
2 858 (22.69%) Agile
3 769 (20.33%) Actionable Insight
4 735 (19.43%) Roadmaps
5 482 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
6 470 (12.43%) Technical Architecture
7 402 (10.63%) Validation
8 381 (10.07%) Requirements Management
9 375 (9.92%) Enterprise Architecture
10 373 (9.86%) Data Architecture
11 372 (9.84%) Network Management
11 372 (9.84%) Presales
12 371 (9.81%) Model Validation
13 362 (9.57%) Network Architecture
14 358 (9.47%) Mentoring
15 342 (9.04%) Microservices
16 332 (8.78%) DevOps
17 322 (8.51%) Data Modelling
18 311 (8.22%) Analytics
19 293 (7.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 182 (4.81%) SQL
2 162 (4.28%) Python
3 157 (4.15%) Java
4 146 (3.86%) C#
5 93 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.30%) C++
7 48 (1.27%) C
8 40 (1.06%) T-SQL
9 39 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 23 (0.61%) MATLAB
11 12 (0.32%) Ruby
12 11 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.26%) Go
13 10 (0.26%) R
14 9 (0.24%) Fortran
14 9 (0.24%) Scala
15 8 (0.21%) Embedded C
16 7 (0.19%) Bicep
17 6 (0.16%) Bash
18 5 (0.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 775 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 467 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 372 (9.84%) Degree
4 139 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 138 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 130 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 126 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 112 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 102 (2.70%) CISSP
10 92 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 85 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 75 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.72%) CISM
14 49 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 48 (1.27%) CCNP
16 45 (1.19%) CCSP
17 42 (1.11%) CCNA
18 39 (1.03%) PMI Certification
19 38 (1.00%) CCSK
20 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 149 (3.94%) GDPR
3 74 (1.96%) NIST
4 50 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (1.19%) QA
6 32 (0.85%) COBIT
7 23 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 20 (0.53%) SLA
9 19 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 10 (0.26%) SEPA
12 7 (0.19%) ISO 13485
12 7 (0.19%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.16%) NCSC
14 4 (0.11%) GRC
14 4 (0.11%) PMO
15 3 (0.079%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.079%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 112 (2.96%) Docker
2 39 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.53%) Active Directory
6 19 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 13 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.32%) vSphere
9 11 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.26%) Firmware
11 5 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.079%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.026%) HDFS
13 1 (0.026%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.026%) KVM
13 1 (0.026%) RACF
13 1 (0.026%) Xen
Systems Management
1 179 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 104 (2.75%) Terraform
3 37 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (0.77%) OpenView
5 28 (0.74%) Ansible
6 24 (0.63%) Puppet
7 15 (0.40%) CASB
7 15 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
8 9 (0.24%) Grafana
8 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.16%) Endace
10 6 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.16%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
12 3 (0.079%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.079%) MOM
12 3 (0.079%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 604 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.90%) Google
3 183 (4.84%) Oracle
4 159 (4.20%) SAP
5 108 (2.86%) Cisco
6 86 (2.27%) Sparx
7 75 (1.98%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.98%) Hyperion
8 69 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.48%) Databricks
10 53 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 51 (1.35%) VMware
12 47 (1.24%) Juniper
13 44 (1.16%) Apple
14 40 (1.06%) Adobe
15 36 (0.95%) Meraki
16 31 (0.82%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.79%) HP
18 29 (0.77%) BMC
18 29 (0.77%) Remedy