Architectural Design Jobs

Architectural Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 301 331
Rank change year-on-year +17 +30 -4
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 509 948 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.97% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.12% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 227 402 465
10th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £49,687
25th Percentile £59,168 £60,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £79,932 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% +6.58% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £77,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.40% +15.19% +3.05%

All Process and 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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design.

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Top 17 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 26 April 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 +127 477 £72,246 -9.62% 457
UK excluding London +27 360 £65,000 -16.40% 242
North of England +145 221 £42,500 -46.83% 48
North West +115 213 £41,000 -36.92% 29
Work from Home +67 157 £71,991 -9.93% 181
London +63 139 £80,000 -14.21% 260
South East +120 60 £77,500 +29.17% 65
South West +86 25 £115,000 +70.37% 37
Midlands +52 20 £78,700 +0.55% 19
West Midlands +51 18 £78,700 +0.55% 13
East of England +62 16 £65,000 -16.54% 25
Scotland -82 14 £63,000 -13.10% 37
Yorkshire +51 7 £62,779 -21.46% 19
Wales +44 3 £67,629 +27.71% 11
East Midlands +54 2 £63,750 -18.55% 5
North East +44 1 £62,779 -21.46% 1
Northern Ireland +31 1 - - 5

Architectural Design
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 11 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.98%) Confluence
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 100 (19.65%) Azure
2 81 (15.91%) AWS
3 51 (10.02%) GCP
4 42 (8.25%) Serverless
5 29 (5.70%) SaaS
6 20 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.14%) PaaS
9 15 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (2.55%) AWS KMS
10 13 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.16%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.57%) npm
13 8 (1.57%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.11%) Network Security
2 17 (3.34%) Firewall
3 11 (2.16%) DNS
4 10 (1.96%) DHCP
4 10 (1.96%) HTTP
5 7 (1.38%) MPLS
5 7 (1.38%) WAN
6 6 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (0.98%) NAS
7 5 (0.98%) SAN
7 5 (0.98%) VPN
7 5 (0.98%) VSAN
8 4 (0.79%) LAN
8 4 (0.79%) PBX
8 4 (0.79%) VPLS
8 4 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (4.32%) Metadata
4 21 (4.13%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.34%) RDBMS
7 11 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.77%) Data Vault
8 9 (1.77%) Tableau
9 8 (1.57%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.18%) Power BI
12 5 (0.98%) MySQL
13 3 (0.59%) Data Mart
13 3 (0.59%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.59%) Oracle ODI
14 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (6.09%) Git
2 18 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.14%) JIRA
4 14 (2.75%) JUnit
4 14 (2.75%) Mockito
5 12 (2.36%) JMeter
6 10 (1.96%) PowerBuilder
7 8 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.57%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.57%) webpack
8 6 (1.18%) GitLab
8 6 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.79%) NetBeans
10 3 (0.59%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.39%) Postman
11 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.39%) Subversion
11 2 (0.39%) Xcode
11 2 (0.39%) XCTest
General
1 161 (31.63%) Telecoms
2 153 (30.06%) Automotive
3 129 (25.34%) Social Skills
4 97 (19.06%) Finance
5 29 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.30%) Banking
7 26 (5.11%) Electronics
8 25 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (3.93%) Games
11 17 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.34%) Law
12 15 (2.95%) Marketing
12 15 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.16%) Retail
14 8 (1.57%) Legal
15 6 (1.18%) iGaming
16 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.98%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 153 (30.06%) Principal Engineer
2 152 (29.86%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 142 (27.90%) Architect
4 76 (14.93%) Senior
5 60 (11.79%) Lead
6 55 (10.81%) Developer
7 46 (9.04%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (6.29%) Systems Engineer
9 29 (5.70%) Lead Architect
9 29 (5.70%) Senior Architect
9 29 (5.70%) Software Developer
10 21 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (4.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 20 (3.93%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.73%) AWS Architect
13 18 (3.54%) Technical Leader
14 16 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.14%) Lead Enterprise Architect
15 15 (2.95%) Technical Architect
16 14 (2.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.07%) .NET
2 33 (6.48%) Kafka
3 30 (5.89%) REST
4 29 (5.70%) Spring Boot
5 25 (4.91%) React
6 24 (4.72%) Web Services
7 21 (4.13%) HTML
8 19 (3.73%) Spring
9 16 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (2.95%) Node.js
11 14 (2.75%) Hibernate
12 13 (2.55%) Middleware
13 12 (2.36%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (2.36%) Apache Camel
13 12 (2.36%) jQuery
13 12 (2.36%) SOAP
13 12 (2.36%) WireMock
14 11 (2.16%) RESTful
15 10 (1.96%) GraphQL
16 9 (1.77%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.73%) Management Information System
2 45 (8.84%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 19 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.95%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.36%) Mobile Games
9 11 (2.16%) CSOC
9 11 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.16%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
12 7 (1.38%) FPGA
12 7 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.73%) Windows
2 11 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.96%) Linux
4 5 (0.98%) Android
5 4 (0.79%) CentOS
5 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.59%) Unix
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (33.01%) Agile
2 162 (31.83%) Systems Engineering
3 152 (29.86%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 102 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (19.65%) Mentoring
6 92 (18.07%) Roadmaps
7 91 (17.88%) CI/CD
8 90 (17.68%) Software Engineering
9 88 (17.29%) Microservices
10 84 (16.50%) DevOps
11 52 (10.22%) Containerisation
11 52 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
12 51 (10.02%) Architectural Patterns
13 49 (9.63%) Service Delivery
14 46 (9.04%) ITIL
14 46 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (8.84%) Data Architecture
16 44 (8.64%) TOGAF
17 42 (8.25%) Event-Driven
18 40 (7.86%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 94 (18.47%) Java
2 61 (11.98%) Python
3 59 (11.59%) C#
4 54 (10.61%) JavaScript
5 44 (8.64%) SQL
6 16 (3.14%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.55%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.96%) C++
10 9 (1.77%) C
11 5 (0.98%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.98%) Ruby
11 5 (0.98%) Swift
12 4 (0.79%) Bash
12 4 (0.79%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.39%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.39%) Groovy
13 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 218 (42.83%) Degree
2 61 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 52 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 19 (3.73%) Azure Certification
8 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.96%) CCNP
9 10 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.79%) CCNA
12 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.59%) CCIE
14 2 (0.39%) CEH
14 2 (0.39%) CISM
14 2 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.86%) GDPR
2 26 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.11%) HIPAA
3 14 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.55%) QA
5 8 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (1.57%) NIST
6 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 6 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.79%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.79%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.20%) ECSS
System Software
1 65 (12.77%) Docker
2 12 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.38%) Firmware
3 7 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.27%) Terraform
3 24 (4.72%) Grafana
4 20 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.36%) Kibana
6 10 (1.96%) Ansible
6 10 (1.96%) QRadar
7 8 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.79%) Nagios
10 3 (0.59%) Argo
10 3 (0.59%) Consul
10 3 (0.59%) Istio
10 3 (0.59%) Puppet
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.20%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.20%) MOM
Vendors
1 83 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.86%) Oracle
3 26 (5.11%) Google
4 18 (3.54%) Splunk
5 16 (3.14%) VMware
6 14 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.55%) Cisco
8 12 (2.36%) SAP
9 10 (1.96%) Citrix
10 9 (1.77%) Meraki
11 8 (1.57%) Databricks
11 8 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.38%) Apple
12 7 (1.38%) EMC
13 5 (0.98%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.79%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.79%) HP
14 4 (0.79%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.79%) Red Hat