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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 385 303
Rank change year-on-year +31 -82 +5
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 327 400 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.64% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.74% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 108 216 278
10th Percentile £60,875 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,438 £61,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £96,827
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +16.67%

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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 +60 309 £75,535 -8.44% 175
UK excluding London +75 194 £75,000 +3.45% 145
South East +135 128 £75,000 +9.09% 51
London +17 113 £85,000 -2.86% 43
Work from Home -5 63 £73,750 +10.07% 60
Midlands +36 23 £75,000 -4.70% 27
North of England -21 18 £73,750 +17.48% 25
West Midlands +30 16 £75,000 -4.70% 18
Scotland -6 11 £77,500 -13.89% 6
North West +4 10 £70,000 +11.50% 12
East of England 0 8 £97,500 +14.71% 21
South West +18 5 £64,350 -4.67% 16
East Midlands +16 4 £77,500 +106.67% 7
North East +6 4 £72,500 +22.08% 2
Yorkshire -15 4 £81,250 +38.30% 11
Wales 0 2 £68,958 +50.56% 3

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 7 (2.14%) Apache
1 7 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.92%) CMS
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
1 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 57 (17.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.61%) Shopify
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (27.83%) Azure
2 83 (25.38%) AWS
3 58 (17.74%) GCP
4 37 (11.31%) Power Platform
5 21 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.42%) SaaS
6 18 (5.50%) Fivetran
6 18 (5.50%) Snowflake
7 10 (3.06%) GitHub
8 9 (2.75%) Serverless
9 8 (2.45%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (2.45%) IaaS
9 8 (2.45%) OCI
10 7 (2.14%) PaaS
11 6 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.14%) HTTP
2 5 (1.53%) Firewall
3 4 (1.22%) BGP
4 3 (0.92%) DNS
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) VPN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.31%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) OSPF
6 1 (0.31%) SAN
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (6.42%) BigQuery
2 21 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 20 (6.12%) Power BI
4 18 (5.50%) Looker
4 18 (5.50%) Tableau
5 9 (2.75%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.53%) Big Data
7 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.22%) Metadata
7 4 (1.22%) MySQL
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.61%) FileMaker
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.31%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.31%) KDB
10 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.83%) JIRA
2 5 (1.53%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.22%) Git
4 3 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.61%) ERwin
5 2 (0.61%) Vite
6 1 (0.31%) GitLab
6 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 178 (54.43%) Social Skills
2 170 (51.99%) Finance
3 110 (33.64%) Marketing
4 89 (27.22%) Law
5 58 (17.74%) Manufacturing
6 38 (11.62%) Banking
7 30 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (7.34%) Electronics
9 22 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (6.12%) Automotive
11 19 (5.81%) Aerospace
12 18 (5.50%) Advertising
12 18 (5.50%) French Language
13 13 (3.98%) Public Sector
14 11 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (2.75%) Legal
16 8 (2.45%) Publishing
17 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (44.95%) Architect
2 125 (38.23%) Senior
3 75 (22.94%) Analyst
3 75 (22.94%) Senior Analyst
4 58 (17.74%) Solutions Architect
5 57 (17.43%) SAP Analyst
6 36 (11.01%) Lead
6 36 (11.01%) Software Engineer
7 34 (10.40%) Cloud Architect
8 31 (9.48%) Senior Architect
9 28 (8.56%) Data Architect
10 26 (7.95%) Platform Architect
11 21 (6.42%) GCP Architect
12 19 (5.81%) Senior Data Architect
13 18 (5.50%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (4.28%) Developer
16 13 (3.98%) Enterprise Architect
17 12 (3.67%) Java Software Engineer
17 12 (3.67%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.59%) REST
1 15 (4.59%) Spring
2 13 (3.98%) Kafka
3 12 (3.67%) Middleware
3 12 (3.67%) RESTful
4 9 (2.75%) React
5 8 (2.45%) Hibernate
5 8 (2.45%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.14%) Node.js
7 6 (1.83%) JPA
7 6 (1.83%) Pandas
8 5 (1.53%) .NET
9 4 (1.22%) OLE
9 4 (1.22%) Sequelize
9 4 (1.22%) Swagger
10 3 (0.92%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.92%) CSS
10 3 (0.92%) HTML
10 3 (0.92%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (22.02%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.81%) Life Science
2 19 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.36%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.53%) Blog
7 5 (1.53%) CMDB
7 5 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.22%) Derivative
8 4 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.22%) NHS
8 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.92%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) VMS
2 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (39.14%) Agile
2 104 (31.80%) Technical Leadership
3 102 (31.19%) Roadmaps
4 100 (30.58%) Mentoring
5 98 (29.97%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (22.94%) Translating Business Requirements
7 68 (20.80%) AI
8 66 (20.18%) Data Management
9 60 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (18.04%) User Acceptance Testing
11 58 (17.74%) Logistics
12 57 (17.43%) Data Collection
12 57 (17.43%) Decision Quality
12 57 (17.43%) Impact Analysis
12 57 (17.43%) Incident Management
12 57 (17.43%) Quality Management
12 57 (17.43%) SAP Implementation
13 51 (15.60%) Software Engineering
14 50 (15.29%) Machine Learning
15 49 (14.98%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 63 (19.27%) Python
2 59 (18.04%) Java
3 35 (10.70%) SQL
4 26 (7.95%) Go
5 13 (3.98%) C#
6 10 (3.06%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.14%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.22%) Bicep
9 3 (0.92%) Lua
9 3 (0.92%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (24.16%) Degree
2 37 (11.31%) Master's Degree
3 25 (7.65%) Security Cleared
4 23 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.42%) PhD
6 19 (5.81%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.75%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.61%) CCNP
14 2 (0.61%) CISSP
15 1 (0.31%) HND
15 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.36%) QA
3 10 (3.06%) NIST
4 9 (2.75%) GDPR
5 6 (1.83%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (6.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.14%) Terraform
3 2 (0.61%) Argo
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (20.80%) SAP
2 62 (18.96%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.48%) Google
4 9 (2.75%) Oracle
4 9 (2.75%) Software AG
5 8 (2.45%) Workday
6 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.92%) Adobe
7 3 (0.92%) MKS
7 3 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.61%) Databricks
8 2 (0.61%) Facebook
8 2 (0.61%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.31%) Aruba
9 1 (0.31%) Conga
9 1 (0.31%) iManage
9 1 (0.31%) NEC
9 1 (0.31%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) VMware