Architectural Design Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 390 270
Rank change year-on-year +75 -120 +62
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 194 209 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.49% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.58% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 56 100 135
10th Percentile £61,063 £42,500 £48,546
25th Percentile £67,500 £54,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £88,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £97,597 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

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 32,488 36,200 27,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.80% 84.59% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,839 17,533 20,384
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Architectural Design

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 8 December 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 8 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
South East +135 128 £75,000 +9.09% 54
Midlands +36 23 £75,000 -4.70% 27
North of England -21 18 £73,750 +17.48% 25
West Midlands +30 16 £75,000 -4.70% 18
Scotland -6 11 £77,500 -13.89% 6
North West +4 10 £70,000 +11.50% 12
East of England 0 8 £97,500 +14.71% 21
South West +18 5 £64,350 -4.67% 16
East Midlands +16 4 £77,500 +106.67% 7
North East +6 4 £72,500 +22.08% 2
Yorkshire -15 4 £81,250 +38.30% 11
Wales 0 2 £68,958 +50.56% 3
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (1.55%) CMS
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 57 (29.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.03%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.03%) Shopify
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.93%) Azure
2 51 (26.29%) GCP
3 45 (23.20%) AWS
4 13 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.15%) SaaS
6 8 (4.12%) IaaS
7 6 (3.09%) PaaS
8 5 (2.58%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.55%) OCI
9 3 (1.55%) Serverless
10 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.03%) Fivetran
10 2 (1.03%) GitHub
10 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) LAN
1 2 (1.03%) VPN
1 2 (1.03%) WAN
2 1 (0.52%) BGP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.31%) BigQuery
2 19 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.06%) MySQL
6 3 (1.55%) Big Data
6 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.03%) FileMaker
7 2 (1.03%) Looker
7 2 (1.03%) Power BI
7 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.03%) Tableau
8 1 (0.52%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.52%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.52%) KDB
8 1 (0.52%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.55%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (1.03%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 106 (54.64%) Marketing
2 95 (48.97%) Social Skills
3 87 (44.85%) Finance
4 57 (29.38%) Manufacturing
5 55 (28.35%) Law
6 13 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.12%) Publishing
8 7 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.61%) Banking
8 7 (3.61%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.58%) Electronics
9 5 (2.58%) Legal
10 3 (1.55%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.03%) Advertising
11 2 (1.03%) French Language
11 2 (1.03%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.52%) Automotive
12 1 (0.52%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (48.45%) Architect
2 89 (45.88%) Senior
3 59 (30.41%) Analyst
3 59 (30.41%) Senior Analyst
4 57 (29.38%) SAP Analyst
5 28 (14.43%) Senior Architect
5 28 (14.43%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (12.37%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (10.82%) Data Architect
8 20 (10.31%) GCP Architect
8 20 (10.31%) Lead
8 20 (10.31%) Platform Architect
9 19 (9.79%) Senior Data Architect
10 12 (6.19%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Enterprise Architect
12 10 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) AWS Architect
14 8 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
15 7 (3.61%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 6 (3.09%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.61%) Node.js
2 6 (3.09%) Kafka
2 6 (3.09%) React
3 4 (2.06%) OLE
3 4 (2.06%) Sequelize
3 4 (2.06%) Spring
4 3 (1.55%) .NET
4 3 (1.55%) CSS
4 3 (1.55%) REST
4 3 (1.55%) TypeORM
5 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.03%) HTML
5 2 (1.03%) Next.js
5 2 (1.03%) OAuth
5 2 (1.03%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.03%) OpenID
5 2 (1.03%) RESTful
5 2 (1.03%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.03%) SAML
6 1 (0.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.55%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.55%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.52%) CMDB
6 1 (0.52%) FPGA
6 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.52%) Verilog
6 1 (0.52%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.06%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) VMS
2 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.14%) Roadmaps
2 72 (37.11%) Technical Leadership
3 71 (36.60%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (34.02%) Translating Business Requirements
5 63 (32.47%) Data Management
6 58 (29.90%) Logistics
6 58 (29.90%) User Acceptance Testing
7 57 (29.38%) Data Collection
7 57 (29.38%) Decision Quality
7 57 (29.38%) Impact Analysis
7 57 (29.38%) Incident Management
7 57 (29.38%) Quality Management
7 57 (29.38%) SAP Implementation
8 54 (27.84%) Mentoring
9 49 (25.26%) Agile
9 49 (25.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (22.16%) Strategic Roadmap
11 42 (21.65%) AI
12 39 (20.10%) Data Science
13 32 (16.49%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.04%) Python
2 32 (16.49%) Java
3 22 (11.34%) Go
4 16 (8.25%) SQL
5 11 (5.67%) C#
6 8 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.06%) Bicep
9 3 (1.55%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.03%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.79%) Degree
2 14 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.70%) AWS Certification
3 13 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (5.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.06%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.03%) CCNP
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.52%) HND
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.61%) QA
3 5 (2.58%) GDPR
3 5 (2.58%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.58%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (5.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Terraform
3 2 (1.03%) Argo
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (34.54%) SAP
2 27 (13.92%) Google
3 14 (7.22%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.12%) Workday
5 4 (2.06%) Oracle
6 2 (1.03%) Adobe
6 2 (1.03%) Facebook
6 2 (1.03%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.52%) Aruba
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco
7 1 (0.52%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.52%) Murex
7 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) VMware
7 1 (0.52%) Xilinx