Architectural Design Job Trends

Architectural Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 353 349
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 -30
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 301 397 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.74% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.82% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 119 205 257
10th Percentile £60,875 £52,500 £49,912
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £110,000 £98,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 +10 286 £79,750 -0.31% 75
UK excluding London +24 169 £75,000 +11.11% 62
London -13 103 £85,000 - 23
South East +103 102 £72,500 +5.45% 21
Work from Home -21 67 £75,000 +7.14% 52
Midlands +18 23 £75,000 -4.70% 6
North of England -41 23 £72,500 +15.49% 15
West Midlands +13 17 £75,000 -4.70% 2
East of England +16 13 £97,500 +25.81% 11
Yorkshire -12 11 £81,250 +33.71% 4
North West -28 7 £70,000 +10.00% 7
North East +10 5 £72,500 +15.49% 4
South West -1 4 £64,350 -4.67% 5
Wales +10 3 £68,958 +2.16% 4
East Midlands -6 3 £77,500 +106.67% 4
Scotland -16 2 £77,500 -13.89% 2

Architectural Design
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 5 (1.66%) Apache
1 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.66%) CMS
2 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 59 (19.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.99%) SAP ERP
3 7 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.33%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.66%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.66%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.66%) Shopify
6 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 105 (34.88%) Azure
2 77 (25.58%) AWS
3 37 (12.29%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (9.30%) GCP
5 28 (9.30%) SaaS
6 14 (4.65%) Fivetran
6 14 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 12 (3.99%) GitHub
8 11 (3.65%) PaaS
9 10 (3.32%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (3.32%) IaaS
10 9 (2.99%) Serverless
11 7 (2.33%) OCI
12 6 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.99%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.32%) HTTP
2 4 (1.33%) Firewall
3 3 (1.00%) BGP
4 2 (0.66%) DNS
4 2 (0.66%) LAN
4 2 (0.66%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) WAN
5 1 (0.33%) DSL
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) OSPF
5 1 (0.33%) SAN
5 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.32%) Power BI
3 14 (4.65%) Looker
3 14 (4.65%) Tableau
4 10 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.66%) Metadata
6 5 (1.66%) MySQL
7 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.33%) FileMaker
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.33%) Big Data
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.66%) Git
3 3 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (0.66%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.66%) ERwin
4 2 (0.66%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 189 (62.79%) Social Skills
2 151 (50.17%) Finance
3 76 (25.25%) Marketing
4 58 (19.27%) Manufacturing
5 38 (12.62%) Law
6 31 (10.30%) Banking
7 29 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (7.31%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (5.65%) Electronics
10 15 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (4.98%) Public Sector
11 14 (4.65%) Advertising
11 14 (4.65%) Automotive
11 14 (4.65%) French Language
12 13 (4.32%) Aerospace
12 13 (4.32%) Publishing
13 12 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (2.99%) Legal
15 4 (1.33%) Retail
16 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (42.52%) Architect
2 111 (36.88%) Senior
3 71 (23.59%) Analyst
3 71 (23.59%) Senior Analyst
4 57 (18.94%) SAP Analyst
5 52 (17.28%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (7.64%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.31%) Lead
8 19 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (5.98%) Data Architect
9 18 (5.98%) Enterprise Architect
10 17 (5.65%) Development Engineer
10 17 (5.65%) Senior Development Engineer
10 17 (5.65%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 17 (5.65%) Software Development Engineer
11 15 (4.98%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.98%) Developer
11 15 (4.98%) Platform Architect
12 14 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.32%) Middleware
1 16 (5.32%) REST
2 9 (2.99%) Spring
3 8 (2.66%) Hibernate
3 8 (2.66%) Node.js
4 7 (2.33%) OLE
4 7 (2.33%) RESTful
5 6 (1.99%) .NET
5 6 (1.99%) Kafka
5 6 (1.99%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.66%) JPA
6 5 (1.66%) Pandas
6 5 (1.66%) React
7 4 (1.33%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.33%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.33%) Sequelize
8 3 (1.00%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.00%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.98%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.32%) Life Science
3 13 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.33%) Blog
5 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.99%) NHS
7 5 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.66%) Windows
2 2 (0.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.33%) CentOS
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) VMS
3 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (37.21%) Technical Leadership
2 105 (34.88%) Agile
2 105 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 77 (25.58%) Mentoring
5 73 (24.25%) Translating Business Requirements
6 63 (20.93%) Data Management
7 59 (19.60%) User Acceptance Testing
8 58 (19.27%) Logistics
9 57 (18.94%) Data Collection
9 57 (18.94%) Decision Quality
9 57 (18.94%) Impact Analysis
9 57 (18.94%) Incident Management
9 57 (18.94%) Quality Management
9 57 (18.94%) SAP Implementation
10 55 (18.27%) DevOps
11 48 (15.95%) Enterprise Architecture
12 45 (14.95%) AI
13 40 (13.29%) Software Engineering
14 38 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.29%) Python
2 35 (11.63%) Java
3 25 (8.31%) SQL
4 13 (4.32%) C#
5 9 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.33%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.99%) Go
9 4 (1.33%) Bicep
9 4 (1.33%) Ruby
10 3 (1.00%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (27.57%) Degree
2 37 (12.29%) Master's Degree
3 28 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.31%) AWS Certification
6 17 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.98%) PhD
9 13 (4.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.33%) Chartered Engineer
11 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.00%) CISSP
13 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.66%) CCNP
14 2 (0.66%) CISM
14 2 (0.66%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.31%) QA
2 11 (3.65%) NIST
3 8 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.66%) GDPR
6 4 (1.33%) NCSC
7 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.66%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (5.65%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.33%) Terraform
3 2 (0.66%) Ansible
3 2 (0.66%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.33%) Nagios
4 1 (0.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 82 (27.24%) SAP
2 65 (21.59%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.32%) Software AG
3 13 (4.32%) Workday
4 12 (3.99%) Google
5 9 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.33%) Oracle
7 4 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.33%) Databricks
7 4 (1.33%) NEC
8 2 (0.66%) Adobe
8 2 (0.66%) iManage
8 2 (0.66%) Intapp
8 2 (0.66%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.66%) Palantir
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco
9 1 (0.33%) IBM
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.33%) VMware
9 1 (0.33%) webMethods