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 leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 17 64
Rank change year-on-year -13 +47 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,821 4,957 3,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.85% 10.30% 4.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.17% 11.48% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,120 1,373 1,858
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -8 1,121 £75,000 -6.25% 84
South East -3 868 £75,000 -9.09% 74
North West -7 668 £75,000 -5.82% 46
Midlands -14 609 £75,439 +0.59% 44
South West -17 435 £78,273 +7.96% 34
Yorkshire -2 377 £77,500 -3.13% 24
West Midlands +9 373 £79,842 +6.46% 32
Scotland -41 359 £75,000 +6.27% 16
East Midlands -26 231 £70,000 -3.45% 12
East of England -17 181 £85,000 +3.03% 15
Wales -8 145 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Northern Ireland +1 111 £80,000 +10.34% 30
North East -1 76 £75,150 -11.59% 16
Isle of Man - 8 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 948 (24.81%) Azure
2 881 (23.06%) Agile
3 750 (19.63%) AWS
4 731 (19.13%) TOGAF
5 634 (16.59%) Social Skills
6 591 (15.47%) Microsoft
7 576 (15.07%) Security Cleared
8 548 (14.34%) Roadmaps
9 541 (14.16%) Finance
10 477 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
11 443 (11.59%) Mentoring
12 438 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
13 426 (11.15%) Technical Architecture
14 423 (11.07%) Degree
15 407 (10.65%) DevOps
16 369 (9.66%) SC Cleared
17 332 (8.69%) Presales
18 319 (8.35%) Enterprise Architecture
19 308 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 302 (7.90%) Migration
21 298 (7.80%) Data Architecture
22 282 (7.38%) Public Cloud
23 275 (7.20%) Software Engineering
24 267 (6.99%) Validation
25 266 (6.96%) Network Architecture
26 262 (6.86%) Requirements Management
27 259 (6.78%) Network Management
28 257 (6.73%) GCP
29 254 (6.65%) SaaS
30 249 (6.52%) Model Validation

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 (2.02%) SAS
2 71 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.05%) WebLogic
4 14 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.24%) CMS
7 8 (0.21%) Confluence
8 6 (0.16%) Apache
9 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.079%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.052%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.026%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.026%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.026%) Appian
13 1 (0.026%) Drupal
13 1 (0.026%) nginx
13 1 (0.026%) Umbraco
Applications
1 53 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.39%) Simulink
4 3 (0.079%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.079%) Revit
5 1 (0.026%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.026%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 84 (2.20%) SAP ERP
2 76 (1.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 45 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 29 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 27 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.24%) SAP PP
7 8 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 6 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 6 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.16%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.10%) SAP APO
10 4 (0.10%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.10%) SAP WM
11 3 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.079%) Maximo
12 2 (0.052%) Temenos T24
13 1 (0.026%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 948 (24.81%) Azure
2 750 (19.63%) AWS
3 257 (6.73%) GCP
4 254 (6.65%) SaaS
5 212 (5.55%) Power Platform
6 199 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
7 197 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
8 86 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (1.78%) PaaS
10 59 (1.54%) PowerApps
11 57 (1.49%) IaaS
12 51 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
13 50 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
14 47 (1.23%) Serverless
15 41 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (0.71%) Snowflake
18 26 (0.68%) Power Automate
19 21 (0.55%) Entra ID
20 20 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 242 (6.33%) VSAT
2 110 (2.88%) WAN
3 88 (2.30%) SD-WAN
4 81 (2.12%) Broadband
5 79 (2.07%) DNS
6 73 (1.91%) Firewall
7 69 (1.81%) Network Security
8 62 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 51 (1.33%) BGP
10 45 (1.18%) SSL
11 44 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
12 30 (0.79%) VPN
13 27 (0.71%) LAN
14 24 (0.63%) Wireless
15 15 (0.39%) Internet
16 13 (0.34%) DHCP
17 12 (0.31%) HTTP
18 11 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
18 11 (0.29%) MQTT
19 10 (0.26%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (2.43%) Power BI
3 88 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 75 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
5 73 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 68 (1.78%) BigQuery
7 62 (1.62%) Looker
8 53 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
9 51 (1.33%) Metadata
9 51 (1.33%) SQL Server
10 47 (1.23%) RDBMS
11 41 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 37 (0.97%) Big Data
12 37 (0.97%) Data Lake
13 33 (0.86%) Data Vault
14 30 (0.79%) Tableau
15 20 (0.52%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.50%) MySQL
17 17 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
18 13 (0.34%) GIS
Development Applications
1 52 (1.36%) Visual Studio
2 48 (1.26%) Git
3 26 (0.68%) GitLab
4 23 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 12 (0.31%) JIRA
8 7 (0.18%) MSBuild
8 7 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (0.13%) Maven
10 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.10%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.052%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.052%) ERwin
11 2 (0.052%) MLflow
12 1 (0.026%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.026%) JUnit
12 1 (0.026%) MSI
12 1 (0.026%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 634 (16.59%) Social Skills
2 541 (14.16%) Finance
3 308 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 239 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 159 (4.16%) Public Sector
6 147 (3.85%) Marketing
7 135 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 135 (3.53%) Retail
8 120 (3.14%) Law
9 70 (1.83%) Banking
10 65 (1.70%) Legal
11 46 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 42 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 34 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 30 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 30 (0.79%) Military
14 30 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (0.52%) Automotive
16 18 (0.47%) Games
16 18 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (4.00%) .NET
2 71 (1.86%) React
3 66 (1.73%) Node.js
4 60 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
5 51 (1.33%) Web Services
6 49 (1.28%) REST
7 46 (1.20%) Spring Boot
8 45 (1.18%) Django
9 41 (1.07%) Kafka
10 40 (1.05%) Middleware
11 38 (0.99%) HTML
12 34 (0.89%) OAuth
13 32 (0.84%) CSS
13 32 (0.84%) JSON
14 30 (0.79%) RESTful
15 28 (0.73%) SAML
16 27 (0.71%) XML
17 23 (0.60%) .NET Framework
17 23 (0.60%) AngularJS
18 21 (0.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 282 (7.38%) Public Cloud
2 218 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 137 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 126 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 88 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 85 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 82 (2.15%) Cyberattack
8 82 (2.15%) PKI
9 53 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.23%) IoT
12 37 (0.97%) PMI
13 28 (0.73%) Credit Risk
14 27 (0.71%) Operational Technology
15 23 (0.60%) Mobile App
16 21 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 20 (0.52%) Private Cloud
18 19 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 202 (5.29%) Linux
2 67 (1.75%) Windows
3 44 (1.15%) Android
4 41 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 15 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.37%) Unix
8 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.24%) Solaris
9 8 (0.21%) VME
10 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.079%) CentOS
13 2 (0.052%) Mesosphere
13 2 (0.052%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.026%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (23.06%) Agile
2 731 (19.13%) TOGAF
3 548 (14.34%) Roadmaps
4 477 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
5 443 (11.59%) Mentoring
6 438 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
7 426 (11.15%) Technical Architecture
8 407 (10.65%) DevOps
9 332 (8.69%) Presales
10 319 (8.35%) Enterprise Architecture
11 302 (7.90%) Migration
12 298 (7.80%) Data Architecture
13 275 (7.20%) Software Engineering
14 267 (6.99%) Validation
15 266 (6.96%) Network Architecture
16 262 (6.86%) Requirements Management
17 259 (6.78%) Network Management
18 249 (6.52%) Model Validation
19 246 (6.44%) Project Management
20 239 (6.25%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 226 (5.91%) Python
2 182 (4.76%) SQL
3 149 (3.90%) Java
4 142 (3.72%) C#
5 114 (2.98%) JavaScript
6 79 (2.07%) C++
7 70 (1.83%) C
8 30 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 27 (0.71%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.60%) Fortran
11 22 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.52%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.29%) Embedded C
14 8 (0.21%) COBOL
14 8 (0.21%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 8 (0.21%) R
14 8 (0.21%) Scala
15 7 (0.18%) Bicep
15 7 (0.18%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 576 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 423 (11.07%) Degree
3 369 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.32%) Azure Certification
5 111 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 98 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 94 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 83 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 71 (1.86%) CISSP
10 69 (1.81%) CCNP
11 67 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 64 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 61 (1.60%) CCNA
14 52 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 50 (1.31%) CISM
16 38 (0.99%) PMI Certification
17 35 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
18 33 (0.86%) Master's Degree
19 26 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 23 (0.60%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 115 (3.01%) GDPR
3 64 (1.67%) NIST
4 47 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (0.92%) COBIT
6 34 (0.89%) QA
7 27 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.37%) SLA
11 7 (0.18%) GRC
11 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.16%) ISO 13485
13 4 (0.10%) NCSC
14 3 (0.079%) HMG Infosec
14 3 (0.079%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 3 (0.079%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.079%) PMO
14 3 (0.079%) RMADS
System Software
1 63 (1.65%) Docker
2 32 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.13%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.079%) Firmware
8 3 (0.079%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.052%) KVM
9 2 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.052%) Xen
10 1 (0.026%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.026%) HDFS
10 1 (0.026%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.026%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 82 (2.15%) Terraform
3 36 (0.94%) Stealthwatch
4 35 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (0.76%) OpenView
6 26 (0.68%) Ansible
7 22 (0.58%) Puppet
8 17 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (0.39%) CASB
10 6 (0.16%) Grafana
10 6 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.16%) SCCM
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 5 (0.13%) Suricata
11 5 (0.13%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.079%) Endace
12 3 (0.079%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 2 (0.052%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 591 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 206 (5.39%) Google
3 170 (4.45%) Oracle
4 150 (3.93%) SAP
5 109 (2.85%) Cisco
6 76 (1.99%) Sparx
7 75 (1.96%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.96%) Hyperion
8 71 (1.86%) Adobe
9 70 (1.83%) Apple
10 69 (1.81%) ServiceNow
11 52 (1.36%) Meraki
12 50 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 41 (1.07%) Juniper
14 37 (0.97%) Databricks
15 31 (0.81%) HP
16 29 (0.76%) BMC
16 29 (0.76%) Remedy
17 25 (0.65%) Dell
18 22 (0.58%) VMware