.NET Architect Job Trends

Microsoft .NET Architect
UK

The median Microsoft .NET Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 732 665
Rank change year-on-year +89 -67 +378
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Architect 16 20 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.030% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.031% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 48
10th Percentile £68,500 £70,000 £82,125
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £92,813 £87,500 -
90th Percentile £98,250 £121,875 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 47,329 64,125 50,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.87% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29,261 36,011 38,681
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -

.NET Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

.NET Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for .NET Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Architect job vacancies in the UK

.NET Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Architect over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 November 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
England +97 15 £80,000 +6.67% 2
UK excluding London +68 9 £80,000 +6.67%
Work from Home +84 7 £80,000 -5.88% 1
London +55 5 £91,250 +10.61% 2
Midlands +65 4 £80,000 -14.67%
East Midlands +25 4 £80,000 -14.67%
North of England - 4 £77,500 -
North West - 2 £91,250 -
Yorkshire - 2 £70,000 -
East of England - 1 - -

.NET Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 November 2025, .NET Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring .NET Architect in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) Azure
3 11 (68.75%) C#
4 10 (62.50%) Agile
5 8 (50.00%) SQL
6 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
7 5 (31.25%) AWS
7 5 (31.25%) DevOps
7 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
7 5 (31.25%) SaaS
8 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (25.00%) GCP
8 4 (25.00%) Microservices
8 4 (25.00%) Product Management
8 4 (25.00%) Software Delivery
8 4 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (25.00%) Technical Debt
9 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
9 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (18.75%) HTML
9 3 (18.75%) IIS
9 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
9 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
9 3 (18.75%) Oracle
9 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (18.75%) Strategic Roadmap
10 2 (12.50%) Ajax
10 2 (12.50%) Architecture Governance

.NET Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (18.75%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) SaaS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (12.50%) Publishing
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) Ajax
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) CSS3
3 2 (12.50%) HTML5
3 2 (12.50%) React
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) ADO
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Client/Server
2 2 (12.50%) FMCG
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Product Management
4 4 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Debt
5 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Logistics
6 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle