Architectural Design Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 274 340
Rank change year-on-year +5 +66 +38
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 395 727 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.97% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.18% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 141 255 191
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,869 £46,750
25th Percentile £54,441 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,000 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +12.72% -1.14%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £76,250
% change year-on-year +0.09% +4.83% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 +77 177 £41,000 -48.71% 32
North West +66 177 £41,000 -36.92% 12
South East +142 119 £80,000 +60.00% 62
Scotland -82 29 £63,000 -13.10% 14
South West +87 26 £115,000 +108.14% 21
East of England +42 19 £65,000 -23.53% 11
Midlands +43 15 £57,500 -26.54% 31
West Midlands +38 14 £57,500 -19.73% 20
Wales +45 9 £80,000 +44.85% 4
East Midlands +39 1 £90,000 +14.98% 10
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 5
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
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 10 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.27%) CMS
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.76%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.42%) Azure
2 42 (10.63%) AWS
3 35 (8.86%) GCP
4 14 (3.54%) Salsify
5 11 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (2.78%) SaaS
6 10 (2.53%) Serverless
7 9 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.52%) npm
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (1.27%) PaaS
11 4 (1.01%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.01%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.01%) GitHub
11 4 (1.01%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.76%) Collibra
12 3 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.53%) DHCP
1 10 (2.53%) DNS
2 8 (2.03%) Firewall
3 5 (1.27%) NAS
3 5 (1.27%) Network Security
3 5 (1.27%) SAN
3 5 (1.27%) VPN
3 5 (1.27%) VSAN
4 4 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (1.01%) MPLS
4 4 (1.01%) PBX
4 4 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.01%) VPLS
5 2 (0.51%) SNMP
6 1 (0.25%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.37%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.80%) Metadata
3 14 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.03%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.52%) Big Data
6 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (1.01%) Tableau
8 3 (0.76%) MySQL
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.51%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (0.51%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.51%) KDB
9 2 (0.51%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 16 (4.05%) Git
2 10 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.53%) JUnit
2 10 (2.53%) Mockito
3 8 (2.03%) JMeter
4 6 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.52%) webpack
5 5 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.76%) ERwin
6 3 (0.76%) JIRA
6 3 (0.76%) NetBeans
7 2 (0.51%) GitLab
8 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.25%) Spock
8 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (31.39%) Automotive
2 122 (30.89%) Telecoms
3 84 (21.27%) Finance
4 72 (18.23%) Electronics
5 67 (16.96%) Social Skills
6 38 (9.62%) Law
7 37 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (8.10%) Banking
9 28 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (7.09%) Marketing
10 16 (4.05%) Legal
11 13 (3.29%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.78%) Retail
13 7 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.27%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.51%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (30.89%) Principal Engineer
2 121 (30.63%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 58 (14.68%) Architect
4 49 (12.41%) Senior
5 44 (11.14%) Lead
6 41 (10.38%) Systems Engineer
7 39 (9.87%) Developer
8 34 (8.61%) Software Engineer
9 28 (7.09%) Software Developer
10 21 (5.32%) Java Engineer
10 21 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (3.54%) Lead Java Engineer
13 14 (3.54%) Senior Architect
13 14 (3.54%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (2.53%) Designer
15 10 (2.53%) Managed Services Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.33%) Spring Boot
2 23 (5.82%) Spring
3 20 (5.06%) React
4 18 (4.56%) Kafka
5 16 (4.05%) Web Services
6 15 (3.80%) REST
7 12 (3.04%) .NET
7 12 (3.04%) RESTful
8 10 (2.53%) HTML
9 9 (2.28%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (2.03%) Apache Camel
10 8 (2.03%) Hibernate
10 8 (2.03%) jQuery
10 8 (2.03%) Node.js
10 8 (2.03%) WireMock
11 7 (1.77%) Middleware
11 7 (1.77%) Playwright
12 6 (1.52%) Jest
13 5 (1.27%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.44%) Algorithms
2 55 (13.92%) Management Information System
3 36 (9.11%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.54%) Taxonomies
5 9 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.27%) Life Science
9 3 (0.76%) Replication
10 2 (0.51%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.51%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.51%) FPGA
10 2 (0.51%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.51%) VHDL
11 1 (0.25%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.30%) Windows
2 7 (1.77%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.52%) Linux
4 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (45.57%) Systems Engineering
2 151 (38.23%) Agile
3 120 (30.38%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 80 (20.25%) Technical Leadership
5 74 (18.73%) Software Engineering
6 73 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (14.18%) Signal Processing
8 55 (13.92%) Roadmaps
9 49 (12.41%) CI/CD
9 49 (12.41%) Mentoring
10 43 (10.89%) ITIL
11 41 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 35 (8.86%) Service Delivery
13 32 (8.10%) Microservices
14 31 (7.85%) OO
15 29 (7.34%) Data Management
16 28 (7.09%) Analytics
16 28 (7.09%) Business Analysis
17 27 (6.84%) OOP
18 26 (6.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.73%) Java
2 42 (10.63%) Python
3 39 (9.87%) C#
4 30 (7.59%) SQL
5 27 (6.84%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.28%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.27%) Ruby
10 4 (1.01%) Go
11 3 (0.76%) C
12 2 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 167 (42.28%) Degree
2 58 (14.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (5.82%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.56%) Azure Certification
4 18 (4.56%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.01%) CCNA
9 4 (1.01%) CCNP
9 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.76%) PhD
11 1 (0.25%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 20 (5.06%) GDPR
3 16 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.77%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.77%) NIST
4 7 (1.77%) QA
5 4 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.01%) COBIT
5 4 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.76%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.76%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) ECSS
7 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (7.09%) Docker
2 14 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.77%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.76%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.51%) Firmware
7 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.03%) Kibana
3 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.52%) Terraform
4 5 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.51%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 38 (9.62%) Oracle
2 36 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.06%) Google
4 16 (4.05%) VMware
5 10 (2.53%) Citrix
6 8 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.03%) Splunk
7 6 (1.52%) Apple
7 6 (1.52%) Cisco
8 4 (1.01%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.01%) HP
8 4 (1.01%) Meraki
8 4 (1.01%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.76%) Facebook
9 3 (0.76%) Informatica
9 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.51%) Murex
10 2 (0.51%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.25%) Databricks
11 1 (0.25%) NVIDIA