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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 317 328
Rank change year-on-year -127 +11 -42
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 385 435 654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.87% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.98% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 237 136 294
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,096 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,563 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £79,932
% change year-on-year -6.90% -9.30% +16.26%

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -115 329 £75,000 - 84
UK excluding London -116 217 £67,500 -6.90% 63
Work from Home +1 123 £85,000 +19.30% 50
London -84 112 £92,500 +15.63% 34
North of England +4 72 £73,750 -22.07% 16
South East -101 61 £67,500 -10.00% 18
North West +16 44 £70,000 -26.03% 6
Midlands -18 26 £57,500 -6.12% 7
South West -60 23 £57,000 -22.71% 9
West Midlands -14 19 £55,000 -4.35% 6
East of England -23 18 £90,000 +65.32% 4
Yorkshire -14 17 £77,500 -3.13% 7
North East -51 11 £80,500 +11.03% 3
Wales -55 9 £48,961 -33.67% 3
Scotland -31 8 £97,500 +79.09% 7
East Midlands -17 7 £95,000 - 1

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 6 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.30%) Confluence
3 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.26%) Revit
4 1 (0.26%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 18 (4.68%) Unit4 Business World
2 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.52%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 183 (47.53%) Azure
2 170 (44.16%) AWS
3 78 (20.26%) GCP
4 34 (8.83%) SaaS
5 28 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 24 (6.23%) GitHub
7 23 (5.97%) Serverless
8 21 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.38%) PaaS
10 13 (3.38%) Snowflake
11 12 (3.12%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.75%) Firewall
2 16 (4.16%) DNS
3 8 (2.08%) HTTP
4 6 (1.56%) AMQP
4 6 (1.56%) Network Security
4 6 (1.56%) SMS
4 6 (1.56%) WAN
5 5 (1.30%) LAN
6 4 (1.04%) VPN
7 2 (0.52%) BGP
7 2 (0.52%) Internet
7 2 (0.52%) NAS
7 2 (0.52%) SAN
7 2 (0.52%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) DHCP
8 1 (0.26%) DSL
8 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.16%) Power BI
2 15 (3.90%) Metadata
2 15 (3.90%) MySQL
3 13 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.60%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.34%) Tableau
7 7 (1.82%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.82%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.04%) GIS
10 4 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.78%) QGIS
12 2 (0.52%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (8.83%) Git
2 17 (4.42%) GitLab
3 10 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.82%) JIRA
5 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.52%) MLflow
5 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.26%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 121 (31.43%) Finance
2 98 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (12.21%) Influencing Skills
5 40 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 39 (10.13%) Banking
7 27 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (6.49%) Marketing
9 22 (5.71%) Retail
10 20 (5.19%) Law
11 18 (4.68%) Local Government
12 11 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.82%) Advertising
14 7 (1.82%) Legal
14 7 (1.82%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.56%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.56%) Tech for Good
16 5 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (48.05%) Architect
2 84 (21.82%) Lead
3 64 (16.62%) Senior
4 48 (12.47%) Software Engineer
5 37 (9.61%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (9.09%) Data Architect
7 31 (8.05%) Technical Architect
8 29 (7.53%) Developer
9 27 (7.01%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.97%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.71%) Security Architect
12 21 (5.45%) Lead Architect
12 21 (5.45%) Salesforce Architect
13 20 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (5.19%) Technical Leader
14 19 (4.94%) Platform Architect
15 16 (4.16%) Applications Architect
16 13 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
16 13 (3.38%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.61%) .NET
2 35 (9.09%) React
3 20 (5.19%) Node.js
3 20 (5.19%) REST
4 15 (3.90%) CSS
4 15 (3.90%) LDAP
5 14 (3.64%) Regular Expression
5 14 (3.64%) Spring
6 13 (3.38%) LangChain
6 13 (3.38%) MFC
7 12 (3.12%) Next.js
7 12 (3.12%) XMPP
8 11 (2.86%) RESTful
9 10 (2.60%) HTML
9 10 (2.60%) Middleware
9 10 (2.60%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.34%) .NET Core
10 9 (2.34%) OpenID
10 9 (2.34%) scikit-learn
10 9 (2.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.23%) NHS
3 19 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.94%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.60%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Blog
13 4 (1.04%) IoT
13 4 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.39%) Windows
2 38 (9.87%) Linux
3 16 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.86%) CentOS
6 2 (0.52%) AIX
6 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (29.09%) AI
2 94 (24.42%) DevOps
3 93 (24.16%) Mentoring
4 90 (23.38%) CI/CD
5 89 (23.12%) Agile
6 85 (22.08%) Roadmaps
7 83 (21.56%) Technical Leadership
8 75 (19.48%) Software Engineering
9 74 (19.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 73 (18.96%) Decision-Making
11 66 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
12 64 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (14.55%) Analytics
15 52 (13.51%) Coaching
16 50 (12.99%) Data Governance
16 50 (12.99%) Machine Learning
17 47 (12.21%) Technology Strategy
18 46 (11.95%) Enterprise Architecture
19 44 (11.43%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.48%) Python
2 43 (11.17%) C#
3 37 (9.61%) Java
3 37 (9.61%) SQL
4 26 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.94%) Bash
6 15 (3.90%) C++
7 12 (3.12%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.86%) Ruby
9 10 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.56%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.56%) Go
11 5 (1.30%) Bicep
11 5 (1.30%) PHP
12 4 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.78%) Scala
13 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.39%) Degree
3 23 (5.97%) DV Cleared
3 23 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.68%) DBS Check
6 15 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.30%) CISSP
10 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.78%) CCIE
13 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.52%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.52%) CCDE
13 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (5.97%) QA
2 22 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.38%) GDPR
5 12 (3.12%) ISO 9001
6 7 (1.82%) NIST
6 7 (1.82%) PERC
7 5 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.78%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (10.39%) Docker
2 19 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.64%) vSphere
4 5 (1.30%) Firmware
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (20.52%) Terraform
2 34 (8.83%) Kubernetes
3 31 (8.05%) Ansible
4 19 (4.94%) Grafana
5 11 (2.86%) Nagios
6 6 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.30%) Istio
8 4 (1.04%) Nessus
9 3 (0.78%) linkerd
9 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.78%) Puppet
9 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.52%) Argo
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.26%) Cilium
11 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 57 (14.81%) Salesforce
3 23 (5.97%) Red Hat
4 19 (4.94%) Splunk
5 18 (4.68%) NEC
5 18 (4.68%) SAP
5 18 (4.68%) VMware
6 17 (4.42%) Databricks
7 14 (3.64%) Oracle
8 12 (3.12%) McAfee
9 11 (2.86%) Google
9 11 (2.86%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.82%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.04%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (1.04%) Cisco
11 4 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.04%) Palantir
12 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.52%) Sparx