Head of Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Head of Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Architecture salary in the UK excluding London is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 720 648
Rank change year-on-year +154 -72 +158
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Architecture 14 38 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.054% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.057% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 33 108
10th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 -
25th Percentile £103,125 £82,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £87,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +25.00% -24.04%
75th Percentile £116,875 £107,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £117,750 £121,023 -
UK median annual salary £120,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +28.57% -30.00%

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 35,260 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,851 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,716 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Head of Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Architecture in the UK excluding London

Head of Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Head of Architecture in the UK excluding London

Head of Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Architecture in the UK excluding London

Head of Architecture
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 Head of Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Midlands +61 6 £115,000 +27.78% 6
West Midlands +56 6 £115,000 +27.78% 6
North of England +46 3 £112,500 +37.20%
North West +4 3 £112,500 +40.63%
South West +111 2 - -
South East - 2 £110,000 - 9
Scotland +128 1 - - 2
Head of Architecture
UK

Head of Architecture Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Head of Architecture 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 Head of Architecture in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Roadmaps
2 9 (64.29%) Finance
3 8 (57.14%) Data Architecture
3 8 (57.14%) Architecture Roadmap
4 6 (42.86%) Business Strategy
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 5 (35.71%) AWS
5 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) ER Studio
6 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) People Management
6 4 (28.57%) Architectural Design
6 4 (28.57%) Databricks
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Azure
6 4 (28.57%) ArchiMate
6 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (14.29%) Use Case
8 2 (14.29%) Avaloq
8 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (14.29%) VMware
8 2 (14.29%) Data Management
8 2 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
8 2 (14.29%) ITIL
8 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse

Head of Architecture 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) ER Studio
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Roadmaps
2 8 (57.14%) Architecture Roadmap
2 8 (57.14%) Data Architecture
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) ArchiMate
5 4 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) People Management
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Data Management
7 2 (14.29%) ITIL
7 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (14.29%) Use Case
7 2 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Avaloq
2 2 (14.29%) VMware