Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 27 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 -12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,317 8,313 8,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.45% 7.88% 5.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 8.60% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,490 4,177 4,620
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +2 5,200 £80,000 -5.88% 1,063
UK excluding London -1 3,760 £75,000 -6.25% 582
Work from Home +4 2,544 £80,000 -5.88% 573
London +6 1,967 £90,000 -2.70% 509
North of England +27 1,060 £78,126 +0.81% 138
South East +4 834 £75,000 -11.76% 157
Midlands +16 616 £75,000 - 80
North West +14 558 £75,000 - 89
South West -2 513 £75,000 +3.45% 82
Yorkshire +37 446 £79,932 +1.18% 38
West Midlands +27 388 £77,500 +3.33% 51
Scotland -45 370 £75,000 -1.96% 51
East Midlands -13 220 £65,000 -10.34% 29
East of England -32 163 £77,886 -8.37% 56
Wales -10 121 £66,250 -5.36% 18
Northern Ireland +15 95 £100,000 +37.93% 12
North East +16 58 £79,887 -3.17% 12
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,864 (29.51%) Azure
2 1,576 (24.95%) Agile
3 1,549 (24.52%) Social Skills
4 1,431 (22.65%) Finance
5 1,387 (21.96%) Roadmaps
6 1,356 (21.47%) TOGAF
7 1,256 (19.88%) AWS
8 1,129 (17.87%) Microsoft
9 1,064 (16.84%) Security Cleared
10 928 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
11 780 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
12 748 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
13 686 (10.86%) SC Cleared
14 681 (10.78%) Degree
15 632 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
16 607 (9.61%) Presales
17 597 (9.45%) DevOps
17 597 (9.45%) Mentoring
18 590 (9.34%) Data Architecture
19 575 (9.10%) Data Modelling
19 575 (9.10%) GCP
20 559 (8.85%) Oracle
21 556 (8.80%) Strategic Roadmap
22 548 (8.68%) SAP
23 526 (8.33%) Migration
24 521 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
25 511 (8.09%) Microservices
26 497 (7.87%) Analytics
27 493 (7.80%) Data Management
28 488 (7.73%) ERP

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
1 301 (4.76%) SAS
2 99 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 59 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 53 (0.84%) WebLogic
5 52 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 50 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 49 (0.78%) Apache
8 27 (0.43%) CMS
9 17 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 15 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 14 (0.22%) IIS
12 10 (0.16%) Drupal
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) Confluence
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
13 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.11%) WildFly
14 5 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.063%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 34 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.047%) Revit
7 2 (0.032%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 319 (5.05%) SAP ERP
2 136 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 108 (1.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 88 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 41 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.49%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.30%) SAP BPC
7 19 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 18 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 16 (0.25%) Endur
10 14 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 13 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 12 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 11 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
13 11 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 10 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
15 9 (0.14%) Elite 3E
15 9 (0.14%) SAP SD
15 9 (0.14%) SAP WM
16 8 (0.13%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1,864 (29.51%) Azure
2 1,256 (19.88%) AWS
3 575 (9.10%) GCP
4 429 (6.79%) SaaS
5 363 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 327 (5.18%) Power Platform
7 261 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
7 261 (4.13%) PaaS
8 231 (3.66%) IaaS
9 150 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 101 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
11 100 (1.58%) Serverless
11 100 (1.58%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.50%) PowerApps
13 73 (1.16%) Power Automate
14 57 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 55 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 52 (0.82%) dbt
18 48 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 380 (6.02%) VSAT
2 306 (4.84%) Broadband
3 204 (3.23%) Firewall
4 176 (2.79%) WAN
5 125 (1.98%) DNS
6 115 (1.82%) VPN
7 110 (1.74%) SD-WAN
8 97 (1.54%) Network Security
9 92 (1.46%) LAN
10 84 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 71 (1.12%) BGP
12 69 (1.09%) SSL
13 61 (0.97%) Wireless
14 42 (0.66%) Internet
15 41 (0.65%) DHCP
16 33 (0.52%) HTTP
17 31 (0.49%) VLAN
18 30 (0.47%) MPLS
19 27 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
20 23 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
2 203 (3.21%) Data Lake
3 174 (2.75%) Metadata
4 152 (2.41%) Power BI
5 148 (2.34%) Relational Database
6 143 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 141 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 132 (2.09%) BigQuery
9 114 (1.80%) Looker
10 107 (1.69%) Big Data
11 83 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 73 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
13 65 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
14 52 (0.82%) Oracle Database
15 50 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
16 47 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
17 46 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (0.62%) Apache Arrow
18 39 (0.62%) Dremio
19 38 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 76 (1.20%) Git
2 75 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 51 (0.81%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.54%) GitLab
5 26 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 15 (0.24%) JIRA
7 15 (0.24%) Maven
8 10 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.13%) Jaeger
10 7 (0.11%) ERwin
10 7 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.079%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.079%) MLflow
11 5 (0.079%) Selenium
11 5 (0.079%) Subversion
11 5 (0.079%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.063%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.063%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.063%) TestNG
General
1 1,549 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 1,431 (22.65%) Finance
3 521 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 359 (5.68%) Banking
6 355 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 281 (4.45%) Retail
8 244 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 182 (2.88%) Marketing
10 156 (2.47%) Law
11 132 (2.09%) Legal
12 108 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 105 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 74 (1.17%) Retail Banking
15 62 (0.98%) Games
16 53 (0.84%) Aerospace
17 51 (0.81%) Investment Banking
18 48 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
19 46 (0.73%) Front Office
20 44 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (4.92%) .NET
2 119 (1.88%) Kafka
3 98 (1.55%) Spring Boot
4 88 (1.39%) HTML
5 87 (1.38%) Web Services
6 85 (1.35%) Middleware
7 77 (1.22%) REST
8 63 (1.00%) JSON
9 61 (0.97%) React
10 59 (0.93%) OpenID
11 57 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
12 56 (0.89%) Spring
12 56 (0.89%) XML
13 50 (0.79%) CSS
14 49 (0.78%) SAML
15 48 (0.76%) RESTful
16 45 (0.71%) .NET Framework
17 43 (0.68%) .NET Core
17 43 (0.68%) AngularJS
18 42 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 447 (7.08%) Public Cloud
2 352 (5.57%) Cloud Native
3 249 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 216 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 169 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 148 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 139 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 134 (2.12%) PKI
9 81 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 79 (1.25%) IoT
11 75 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 63 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 61 (0.97%) PMI
14 59 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 56 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 53 (0.84%) Cyberattack
17 49 (0.78%) Data Structures
18 46 (0.73%) Virtual Team
19 42 (0.66%) Equities
20 41 (0.65%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 287 (4.54%) Linux
2 160 (2.53%) Windows
3 58 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (0.81%) Unix
5 47 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 39 (0.62%) Android
6 39 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 31 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.41%) VMS
9 14 (0.22%) SUSE
9 14 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.14%) Solaris
11 6 (0.095%) Mesosphere
12 3 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.047%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.032%) AIX
13 2 (0.032%) CentOS
13 2 (0.032%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.016%) HPUX
14 1 (0.016%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,576 (24.95%) Agile
2 1,387 (21.96%) Roadmaps
3 1,356 (21.47%) TOGAF
4 928 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
5 780 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
6 748 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
7 632 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
8 607 (9.61%) Presales
9 597 (9.45%) DevOps
9 597 (9.45%) Mentoring
10 590 (9.34%) Data Architecture
11 575 (9.10%) Data Modelling
12 556 (8.80%) Strategic Roadmap
13 526 (8.33%) Migration
14 511 (8.09%) Microservices
15 497 (7.87%) Analytics
16 493 (7.80%) Data Management
17 488 (7.73%) ERP
18 470 (7.44%) Validation
19 437 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 348 (5.51%) SQL
2 321 (5.08%) Python
3 319 (5.05%) Java
4 275 (4.35%) C#
5 225 (3.56%) JavaScript
6 98 (1.55%) PowerShell
7 79 (1.25%) C
8 64 (1.01%) C++
9 53 (0.84%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 25 (0.40%) Scala
12 23 (0.36%) MATLAB
13 22 (0.35%) Bicep
14 20 (0.32%) R
15 19 (0.30%) Bash
16 16 (0.25%) Go
16 16 (0.25%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.25%) Ruby
17 15 (0.24%) VB
18 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,064 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 686 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 681 (10.78%) Degree
4 276 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 219 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 202 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 194 (3.07%) TOGAF Certification
8 192 (3.04%) CISSP
9 189 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 158 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
11 121 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 119 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 112 (1.77%) CISM
14 103 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 94 (1.49%) Master's Degree
16 76 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 68 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 67 (1.06%) CCSP
19 59 (0.93%) CCNP
20 52 (0.82%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 178 (2.82%) GDPR
3 139 (2.20%) QA
4 104 (1.65%) NIST
5 97 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.74%) COBIT
7 35 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 33 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 27 (0.43%) SLA
10 20 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 12 (0.19%) SEPA
12 11 (0.17%) NCSC
13 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.11%) PMO
14 6 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 199 (3.15%) Docker
2 126 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (0.62%) vSphere
6 28 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.22%) vCloud
10 10 (0.16%) Firmware
10 10 (0.16%) KVM
11 5 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.047%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.047%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.016%) HDFS
13 1 (0.016%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.016%) LXC
13 1 (0.016%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.016%) RACF
Systems Management
1 292 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 223 (3.53%) Terraform
3 94 (1.49%) Ansible
4 45 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 43 (0.68%) Puppet
6 32 (0.51%) OpenView
7 23 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.25%) CASB
9 15 (0.24%) Stealthwatch
10 12 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.16%) Grafana
11 10 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.14%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.13%) Kiali
14 6 (0.095%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.095%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.095%) Endace
14 6 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.095%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,129 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 559 (8.85%) Oracle
3 548 (8.68%) SAP
4 395 (6.25%) Google
5 301 (4.76%) Anaplan
6 300 (4.75%) Hyperion
7 154 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 150 (2.37%) Cisco
9 142 (2.25%) Databricks
10 139 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 111 (1.76%) Sparx
12 106 (1.68%) VMware
13 80 (1.27%) Juniper
14 74 (1.17%) Citrix
15 69 (1.09%) IBM
16 56 (0.89%) HP
17 48 (0.76%) Adobe
18 46 (0.73%) Apple
19 43 (0.68%) BMC
19 43 (0.68%) MuleSoft