Digital Architect Job Trends

Digital Architect
UK

The median Digital Architect salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 720 684
Rank change year-on-year +88 -36 +281
Permanent jobs requiring a Digital Architect 30 41 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.060% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.063% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 44
10th Percentile £90,000 £59,375 -
25th Percentile £96,250 £67,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -18.63%
75th Percentile - £98,125 £95,000
90th Percentile - £105,000 £119,625
UK excluding London median annual salary - £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +2.73% -10.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,041 64,839 52,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 95.28% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27,079 36,852 40,255
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,974 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.05% -4.76% -

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Digital Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Digital Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Digital Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the UK

Digital Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Architect over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Digital Architect in the UK

Digital Architect
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 30 October 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 +76 30 £100,000 +33.33% 5
UK excluding London +71 16 - - 3
South East +58 15 - - 1
London +46 14 £100,000 +33.33% 2
Work from Home +56 13 £100,000 +42.86% 4
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Digital Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, Digital Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Digital Architect in the job title.

1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) SAP
2 14 (46.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (46.67%) Source to Pay
3 13 (43.33%) B2B
3 13 (43.33%) B2C
3 13 (43.33%) Node.js
3 13 (43.33%) React
3 13 (43.33%) React Native
3 13 (43.33%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (40.00%) Ariba
4 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 12 (40.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (40.00%) Project Management
4 12 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 12 (40.00%) SAP MDG
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure
6 1 (3.33%) Adobe
6 1 (3.33%) AI
6 1 (3.33%) AI Transformation
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification

Digital Architect Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 14 (46.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (40.00%) SAP MDG
3 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.33%) CloudFront
2 1 (3.33%) Datadog
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 25 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) Node.js
1 13 (43.33%) React
1 13 (43.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) Source to Pay
3 13 (43.33%) B2B
3 13 (43.33%) B2C
3 13 (43.33%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 12 (40.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (40.00%) Project Management
4 12 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (3.33%) AI
5 1 (3.33%) AI Transformation
5 1 (3.33%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (3.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (3.33%) DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (3.33%) Generative AI
5 1 (3.33%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (3.33%) Microservices
5 1 (3.33%) Product Management
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) SAP
2 12 (40.00%) Ariba
3 1 (3.33%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce