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 to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 32 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,955 4,327 3,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.57% 7.18% 4.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% 8.05% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,084 1,579 1,671
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,418
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,925 £64,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +25 1,107 £78,126 -0.16% 158
South East +2 881 £75,000 -9.09% 151
Midlands +5 646 £75,000 - 79
North West +10 588 £75,000 - 93
South West -5 537 £75,000 +3.45% 83
Yorkshire +31 459 £79,842 -0.20% 48
West Midlands +27 400 £77,500 +3.33% 43
Scotland -40 382 £75,400 -4.25% 40
East Midlands -12 239 £65,000 -10.34% 35
East of England -28 176 £85,000 - 45
Wales -12 131 £65,000 +2.36% 22
Northern Ireland +12 104 £95,000 +31.03% 18
North East +9 60 £79,842 -4.67% 17
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 1,026 (25.94%) Azure
2 891 (22.53%) Agile
3 882 (22.30%) TOGAF
4 819 (20.71%) Social Skills
5 800 (20.23%) AWS
6 780 (19.72%) Security Cleared
7 770 (19.47%) Actionable Insight
8 751 (18.99%) Roadmaps
9 640 (16.18%) Finance
10 631 (15.95%) Microsoft
11 550 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
12 483 (12.21%) Technical Architecture
13 467 (11.81%) SC Cleared
14 453 (11.45%) Degree
15 423 (10.70%) Mentoring
16 413 (10.44%) Validation
17 391 (9.89%) Requirements Management
18 386 (9.76%) Presales
19 385 (9.73%) Enterprise Architecture
20 382 (9.66%) Network Management
21 381 (9.63%) Model Validation
22 374 (9.46%) Network Architecture
23 366 (9.25%) Data Architecture
24 355 (8.98%) DevOps
25 344 (8.70%) VSAT
26 322 (8.14%) Microservices
27 320 (8.09%) GCP
27 320 (8.09%) Public Cloud
28 315 (7.96%) Analytics
28 315 (7.96%) Data Modelling

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 (1.95%) SAS
2 52 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.01%) WebLogic
4 19 (0.48%) CMS
5 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 9 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.15%) Apache
8 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.13%) Drupal
10 4 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.076%) WordPress
12 2 (0.051%) Confluence
12 2 (0.051%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.025%) Appian
13 1 (0.025%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.46%) Simulink
3 16 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.051%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.025%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.025%) Revit
Business Applications
1 87 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 86 (2.17%) SAP ERP
3 36 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
8 9 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.18%) SAP MM
9 7 (0.18%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.15%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
11 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.13%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.10%) SAP APO
13 3 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
14 2 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
14 2 (0.051%) SAP SCM
15 1 (0.025%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (25.94%) Azure
2 800 (20.23%) AWS
3 320 (8.09%) GCP
4 260 (6.57%) SaaS
5 224 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
6 190 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 142 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (2.83%) PaaS
9 102 (2.58%) IaaS
10 88 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
12 59 (1.49%) Serverless
13 52 (1.31%) PowerApps
14 50 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (1.11%) Snowflake
16 42 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
17 41 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
18 29 (0.73%) Power Automate
19 27 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
20 24 (0.61%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 344 (8.70%) VSAT
2 110 (2.78%) WAN
3 94 (2.38%) Firewall
4 90 (2.28%) DNS
5 85 (2.15%) SD-WAN
6 82 (2.07%) Broadband
7 79 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 73 (1.85%) Network Security
9 57 (1.44%) BGP
10 53 (1.34%) SSL
11 49 (1.24%) VPN
12 29 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
13 27 (0.68%) Wireless
14 25 (0.63%) HTTP
14 25 (0.63%) LAN
15 23 (0.58%) DHCP
16 16 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.38%) VLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Internet
18 14 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (2.76%) BigQuery
3 103 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 98 (2.48%) Looker
5 88 (2.23%) Relational Database
6 86 (2.17%) Metadata
7 85 (2.15%) Data Lake
8 81 (2.05%) Power BI
9 56 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 56 (1.42%) SQL Server
10 55 (1.39%) Big Data
10 55 (1.39%) RDBMS
11 41 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 25 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
12 25 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (0.53%) MongoDB
14 19 (0.48%) DB2
15 18 (0.46%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.40%) GIS
17 10 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (1.14%) Git
2 44 (1.11%) Visual Studio
3 24 (0.61%) GitLab
4 23 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
7 8 (0.20%) Maven
8 6 (0.15%) JIRA
9 4 (0.10%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.10%) JUnit
10 3 (0.076%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.076%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.051%) CANoe
11 2 (0.051%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.051%) ERwin
11 2 (0.051%) MLflow
11 2 (0.051%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.025%) MSI
12 1 (0.025%) Selenium
General
1 819 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 640 (16.18%) Finance
3 290 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (4.91%) Public Sector
6 163 (4.12%) Retail
7 148 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 145 (3.67%) Banking
9 111 (2.81%) Law
10 109 (2.76%) Marketing
11 92 (2.33%) Legal
12 78 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 58 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 38 (0.96%) Games
15 38 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (0.68%) Automotive
17 26 (0.66%) Telecoms
18 24 (0.61%) Military
19 20 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.53%) .NET
2 64 (1.62%) Spring Boot
3 59 (1.49%) OpenID
4 50 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
5 48 (1.21%) Kafka
6 46 (1.16%) SAML
7 39 (0.99%) HTML
8 37 (0.94%) REST
9 35 (0.88%) OAuth
9 35 (0.88%) Web Services
10 34 (0.86%) JSON
11 33 (0.83%) React
12 32 (0.81%) .NET Framework
13 31 (0.78%) Node.js
14 28 (0.71%) Middleware
15 27 (0.68%) YAML
16 22 (0.56%) RESTful
16 22 (0.56%) Spring
17 21 (0.53%) XML
18 20 (0.51%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 320 (8.09%) Public Cloud
2 297 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 143 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 124 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 123 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 88 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 87 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 86 (2.17%) PKI
9 57 (1.44%) IoT
10 50 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 40 (1.01%) Security Posture
12 38 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (0.94%) PMI
14 36 (0.91%) Private Cloud
15 33 (0.83%) Mobile App
16 31 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 30 (0.76%) Blockchain
18 28 (0.71%) Credit Risk
18 28 (0.71%) Data Structures
19 23 (0.58%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 175 (4.42%) Linux
2 77 (1.95%) Windows
3 41 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (0.96%) Unix
5 20 (0.51%) Android
6 17 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.20%) VME
9 7 (0.18%) Solaris
10 6 (0.15%) Mesosphere
11 5 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.051%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) HPUX
13 1 (0.025%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (22.53%) Agile
2 882 (22.30%) TOGAF
3 770 (19.47%) Actionable Insight
4 751 (18.99%) Roadmaps
5 550 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
6 483 (12.21%) Technical Architecture
7 423 (10.70%) Mentoring
8 413 (10.44%) Validation
9 391 (9.89%) Requirements Management
10 386 (9.76%) Presales
11 385 (9.73%) Enterprise Architecture
12 382 (9.66%) Network Management
13 381 (9.63%) Model Validation
14 374 (9.46%) Network Architecture
15 366 (9.25%) Data Architecture
16 355 (8.98%) DevOps
17 322 (8.14%) Microservices
18 315 (7.96%) Analytics
18 315 (7.96%) Data Modelling
19 311 (7.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 180 (4.55%) SQL
2 169 (4.27%) Python
3 147 (3.72%) C#
3 147 (3.72%) Java
4 97 (2.45%) JavaScript
5 52 (1.31%) C
6 51 (1.29%) C++
7 43 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 40 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 23 (0.58%) MATLAB
10 13 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 12 (0.30%) Ruby
12 11 (0.28%) Fortran
12 11 (0.28%) R
12 11 (0.28%) Scala
13 10 (0.25%) Go
14 8 (0.20%) COBOL
14 8 (0.20%) Embedded C
14 8 (0.20%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 7 (0.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 780 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 467 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 453 (11.45%) Degree
4 141 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 140 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 136 (3.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 133 (3.36%) AWS Certification
8 116 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
9 104 (2.63%) CISSP
10 93 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 87 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 76 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 66 (1.67%) CISM
14 52 (1.31%) CCNP
15 49 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 45 (1.14%) CCNA
16 45 (1.14%) CCSP
17 40 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
17 40 (1.01%) PMI Certification
18 38 (0.96%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (3.82%) GDPR
2 149 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 78 (1.97%) NIST
4 55 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (1.04%) QA
6 32 (0.81%) COBIT
7 23 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 20 (0.51%) SLA
10 7 (0.18%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.18%) ISO 26262
11 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.13%) NCSC
13 4 (0.10%) GRC
13 4 (0.10%) SEPA
14 3 (0.076%) HMG Infosec
14 3 (0.076%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.076%) RMADS
System Software
1 104 (2.63%) Docker
2 38 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.51%) Active Directory
6 18 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
7 13 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.30%) vSphere
9 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.051%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.051%) KVM
12 2 (0.051%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.051%) Xen
13 1 (0.025%) HDFS
13 1 (0.025%) RACF
Systems Management
1 173 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 107 (2.71%) Terraform
3 37 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (0.73%) Ansible
4 29 (0.73%) OpenView
5 26 (0.66%) Puppet
6 18 (0.46%) Stealthwatch
7 15 (0.38%) CASB
8 9 (0.23%) Grafana
8 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.15%) Endace
10 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 5 (0.13%) Suricata
11 5 (0.13%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.076%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.076%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 631 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.62%) Google
3 183 (4.63%) Oracle
4 157 (3.97%) SAP
5 112 (2.83%) Cisco
6 87 (2.20%) Sparx
7 75 (1.90%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.90%) Hyperion
8 69 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 54 (1.37%) Databricks
10 51 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 50 (1.26%) VMware
12 49 (1.24%) Juniper
13 47 (1.19%) Apple
14 41 (1.04%) Adobe
15 39 (0.99%) Meraki
16 30 (0.76%) HP
16 30 (0.76%) MuleSoft
17 29 (0.73%) BMC
17 29 (0.73%) Remedy