Applications Architect Jobs

Application Architect
UK

The median Application Architect salary in the UK is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 806 836
Rank change year-on-year +131 +30 +279
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Architect 36 104 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 29 96
10th Percentile £68,900 £35,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £69,750 £60,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £98,125 £100,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £110,500 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,500 £62,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year +14.40% -20.63% +1.61%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Applications Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect.

Salary trend for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +119 36 £83,750 +1.52% 29
UK excluding London +156 25 £71,500 +14.40% 16
South East +104 22 £82,500 +17.86% 9
London +105 10 £105,000 +5.00% 15
Work from Home +72 5 - - 12
East of England - 2 £71,500 - 1
South West +115 1 - -

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Applications 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 featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 32 (88.89%) Azure
2 25 (69.44%) Agile
2 25 (69.44%) Social Skills
3 23 (63.89%) Finance
4 22 (61.11%) Migration
5 21 (58.33%) ERP
5 21 (58.33%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (52.78%) Marketing Automation
6 19 (52.78%) Regulatory Compliance
6 19 (52.78%) iPaaS
6 19 (52.78%) SaaS
6 19 (52.78%) PaaS
6 19 (52.78%) Data Governance
6 19 (52.78%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (52.78%) Legal
6 19 (52.78%) Risk Management
6 19 (52.78%) Practice Management
6 19 (52.78%) CMS
6 19 (52.78%) Marketing
6 19 (52.78%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (52.78%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (47.22%) Mentoring
7 17 (47.22%) Coaching
7 17 (47.22%) Creative Thinking
8 13 (36.11%) AWS
9 11 (30.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 11 (30.56%) Software Engineering
10 10 (27.78%) ArchiMate
11 9 (25.00%) DevOps
11 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (52.78%) CMS
2 5 (13.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (13.89%) Appian
3 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.78%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (88.89%) Azure
2 19 (52.78%) iPaaS
2 19 (52.78%) PaaS
2 19 (52.78%) SaaS
3 13 (36.11%) AWS
4 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 5 (13.89%) MinIO
5 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Airbyte
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Robot Framework
1 5 (13.89%) Selenium
1 5 (13.89%) Snyk
General
1 25 (69.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (63.89%) Finance
3 19 (52.78%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (52.78%) Legal
3 19 (52.78%) Marketing
3 19 (52.78%) Organisational Skills
3 19 (52.78%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Back Office
5 1 (2.78%) Front Office
5 1 (2.78%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (13.89%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) EDI
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.78%) React
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (58.33%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
3 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (13.89%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.78%) Derivative
5 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Agile
2 22 (61.11%) Migration
3 21 (58.33%) ERP
4 19 (52.78%) Data Governance
4 19 (52.78%) Marketing Automation
4 19 (52.78%) Practice Management
4 19 (52.78%) Regulatory Compliance
4 19 (52.78%) Risk Management
5 17 (47.22%) Coaching
5 17 (47.22%) Creative Thinking
5 17 (47.22%) Mentoring
6 11 (30.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 11 (30.56%) Software Engineering
7 10 (27.78%) ArchiMate
8 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 9 (25.00%) DevOps
8 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (19.44%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
9 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Bicep
2 2 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) IBM
3 5 (13.89%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (13.89%) Black Duck
3 5 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) Salesforce
3 5 (13.89%) UiPath
3 5 (13.89%) VMware
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.78%) Coverity
5 1 (2.78%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft