Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £73,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 37 31
Rank change year-on-year -50 -6 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,267 3,882 4,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.24% 5.48% 7.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.58% 5.78% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 866 2,089 1,569
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £63,875 £62,500 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 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
North of England -75 380 £65,000 -16.80% 318
South East -25 372 £75,000 - 567
North West -87 254 £60,000 -20.00% 187
Midlands -49 224 £70,321 -6.24% 248
West Midlands -27 165 £72,500 -6.45% 161
Scotland -5 101 £80,000 +6.38% 83
Yorkshire -38 99 £80,000 +0.20% 100
East of England -36 75 £66,200 -19.76% 161
South West -69 75 £76,250 +1.67% 217
East Midlands -67 58 £65,000 - 74
Wales -18 33 £67,500 +4.79% 34
North East +9 29 £65,000 -18.59% 33
Northern Ireland -9 12 £87,500 -7.89% 33
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 362 (28.57%) Agile
2 341 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 290 (22.89%) Roadmaps
4 281 (22.18%) Azure
5 273 (21.55%) Finance
6 267 (21.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 261 (20.60%) Degree
8 252 (19.89%) Mentoring
9 239 (18.86%) Security Cleared
10 212 (16.73%) DevOps
11 205 (16.18%) Enterprise Architecture
12 204 (16.10%) TOGAF
13 182 (14.36%) SC Cleared
14 177 (13.97%) Technical Leadership
15 172 (13.58%) Microservices
16 166 (13.10%) Management Information System
17 162 (12.79%) Microsoft
18 153 (12.08%) Business Strategy
19 152 (12.00%) AWS
20 151 (11.92%) ERP
21 138 (10.89%) Manufacturing
22 137 (10.81%) Customer Requirements
23 129 (10.18%) Information Security
23 129 (10.18%) SQL
24 128 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
25 125 (9.87%) Data Architecture
26 123 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
27 117 (9.23%) Computer Science
27 117 (9.23%) Cisco
27 117 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management

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 65 (5.13%) Confluence
2 18 (1.42%) CMS
3 11 (0.87%) Umbraco
4 9 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.55%) SAS
5 7 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.24%) Apache
7 3 (0.24%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.16%) IIS
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.079%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Windchill
5 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.079%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.079%) Odoo
7 1 (0.079%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 281 (22.18%) Azure
2 152 (12.00%) AWS
3 102 (8.05%) SaaS
4 85 (6.71%) GCP
5 59 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
6 58 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (4.26%) PaaS
8 49 (3.87%) Power Platform
9 40 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 38 (3.00%) Serverless
11 33 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (2.60%) SonarCloud
12 31 (2.45%) IaaS
13 28 (2.21%) Entra ID
14 26 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
15 25 (1.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 22 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.74%) OCI
17 21 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 113 (8.92%) WAN
2 86 (6.79%) Firewall
3 58 (4.58%) LAN
4 35 (2.76%) MPLS
5 32 (2.53%) VPN
6 26 (2.05%) BGP
7 23 (1.82%) IPsec
8 22 (1.74%) DNS
8 22 (1.74%) Network Security
9 21 (1.66%) Junos
10 19 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 19 (1.50%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.87%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.55%) Internet
16 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
16 6 (0.47%) Wireless
17 5 (0.39%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.95%) Data Lake
1 50 (3.95%) NoSQL
2 38 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (2.60%) Power BI
4 30 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 23 (1.82%) MySQL
6 20 (1.58%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (1.26%) Big Data
9 12 (0.95%) RDBMS
9 12 (0.95%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.79%) Metadata
12 9 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.71%) Tableau
13 5 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.39%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (5.29%) JIRA
2 58 (4.58%) Rational DOORS
3 57 (4.50%) Git
4 47 (3.71%) Visual Studio
5 34 (2.68%) MSBuild
5 34 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
5 34 (2.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (0.79%) MSI
7 7 (0.55%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.47%) ERwin
8 6 (0.47%) GitLab
9 2 (0.16%) Babel
9 2 (0.16%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.16%) Mocha
9 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.16%) webpack
10 1 (0.079%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.079%) Selenium
10 1 (0.079%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 341 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 273 (21.55%) Finance
3 138 (10.89%) Manufacturing
4 109 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.60%) Banking
6 54 (4.26%) Marketing
6 54 (4.26%) Retail
7 51 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (3.71%) Public Sector
9 40 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.92%) Law
12 28 (2.21%) Legal
13 26 (2.05%) Electronics
14 19 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.18%) Advertising
16 14 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.63%) Telecoms
19 6 (0.47%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.68%) REST
2 66 (5.21%) .NET
3 64 (5.05%) Middleware
4 56 (4.42%) CSS
5 46 (3.63%) HTML
6 39 (3.08%) JSON
7 36 (2.84%) XML
8 34 (2.68%) ASP.NET
9 33 (2.60%) Bootstrap
9 33 (2.60%) gRPC
10 29 (2.29%) React
11 27 (2.13%) SOAP
12 25 (1.97%) Lightning Web Components
13 17 (1.34%) SAML
14 14 (1.10%) Kafka
15 13 (1.03%) .NET Framework
15 13 (1.03%) OAuth
16 12 (0.95%) jQuery
16 12 (0.95%) OpenID
16 12 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 166 (13.10%) Management Information System
2 53 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 28 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.74%) Operational Technology
9 20 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 14 (1.10%) IoT
13 14 (1.10%) NHS
13 14 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.10%) Social Media
14 11 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.87%) SCADA
15 8 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.26%) Windows
2 27 (2.13%) Linux
3 14 (1.10%) Windows Vista
4 12 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.55%) Android
5 7 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.079%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (28.57%) Agile
2 290 (22.89%) Roadmaps
3 252 (19.89%) Mentoring
4 212 (16.73%) DevOps
5 205 (16.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 204 (16.10%) TOGAF
7 177 (13.97%) Technical Leadership
8 172 (13.58%) Microservices
9 153 (12.08%) Business Strategy
10 151 (11.92%) ERP
11 137 (10.81%) Customer Requirements
12 129 (10.18%) Information Security
13 128 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (9.87%) Data Architecture
15 123 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 117 (9.23%) Computer Science
16 117 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 116 (9.16%) PLM
18 114 (9.00%) Analytics
18 114 (9.00%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 129 (10.18%) SQL
2 69 (5.45%) C#
3 67 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 54 (4.26%) Java
5 50 (3.95%) Python
6 38 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 25 (1.97%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.18%) Bicep
8 15 (1.18%) C++
9 12 (0.95%) C
10 8 (0.63%) R
11 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 4 (0.32%) Scala
12 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.16%) ABAP
13 2 (0.16%) Bash
13 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.079%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.079%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.079%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 267 (21.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 261 (20.60%) Degree
3 239 (18.86%) Security Cleared
4 182 (14.36%) SC Cleared
5 102 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 93 (7.34%) CISSP
7 91 (7.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 69 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
9 64 (5.05%) DV Cleared
10 49 (3.87%) CCNA
11 42 (3.31%) Master's Degree
12 37 (2.92%) Azure Certification
12 37 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 29 (2.29%) DBS Check
14 28 (2.21%) CCNP
15 25 (1.97%) AWS Certification
16 24 (1.89%) JNCIA
17 23 (1.82%) CISM
18 22 (1.74%) JNCIS
19 16 (1.26%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.24%) GDPR
2 56 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 42 (3.31%) NIST
4 39 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 32 (2.53%) Data Quality
7 27 (2.13%) SLA
8 24 (1.89%) QA
9 19 (1.50%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.34%) NCSC
11 14 (1.10%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.55%) Basel II
13 7 (0.55%) Basel III
13 7 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
13 7 (0.55%) IFRS
13 7 (0.55%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.47%) COBIT
14 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 78 (6.16%) Docker
2 35 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.39%) Firmware
5 5 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.24%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.16%) KVM
7 2 (0.16%) NFS
7 2 (0.16%) SRDF
7 2 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.16%) Xen
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
3 29 (2.29%) Terraform
4 12 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (0.95%) WMI
5 11 (0.87%) Ansible
6 4 (0.32%) CASB
7 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.24%) SCCM
8 2 (0.16%) Grafana
8 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.16%) Puppet
9 1 (0.079%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.079%) Istio
9 1 (0.079%) Marathon
9 1 (0.079%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 162 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 117 (9.23%) Cisco
3 105 (8.29%) Juniper
4 93 (7.34%) SAP
5 68 (5.37%) IBM
6 58 (4.58%) Siemens
7 46 (3.63%) VMware
8 44 (3.47%) Oracle
9 40 (3.16%) Google
10 39 (3.08%) Salesforce
11 38 (3.00%) Databricks
12 32 (2.53%) Aruba
12 32 (2.53%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 16 (1.26%) Meraki
16 12 (0.95%) Apple
17 11 (0.87%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.87%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.87%) SevOne