Digital Architect Job Trends

Digital Architect
UK

The median Digital Architect salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 662 838
Rank change year-on-year +5 +176 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Digital Architect 121 16 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.033% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.036% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 106 13 24
10th Percentile £62,500 £59,634 £70,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -31.58% +19.87%
75th Percentile £86,875 £80,000 £116,875
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -31.58% +26.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 93,088 44,174 95,628
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.90% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 63,779 26,115 68,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Architect in the UK

Digital Architect
Top 14 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 16 July 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 +22 113 £77,500 +19.23% 22
UK excluding London -26 67 £77,500 +19.23% 10
Work from Home +44 62 £80,000 -11.11% 4
London +13 50 £77,000 -14.44% 18
South West -30 28 £78,750 +28.75% 2
Midlands -9 17 £80,000 +23.08%
West Midlands -14 16 £78,750 -1.56%
South East - 7 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 6 £70,000 -
Wales - 3 - - 2
Scotland - 3 £105,000 - 4
North of England - 3 £105,000 - 1
North West - 3 £105,000 - 1
East Midlands -40 1 £90,000 +38.46%

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 2026, 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 58 (47.93%) Azure
2 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
3 33 (27.27%) Agile
4 32 (26.45%) SC Cleared
5 31 (25.62%) Microsoft
6 28 (23.14%) AI
7 23 (19.01%) Roadmaps
8 22 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
9 20 (16.53%) AWS
10 19 (15.70%) TOGAF
11 17 (14.05%) DevOps
12 16 (13.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (11.57%) Customer-Centricity
13 14 (11.57%) Microservices
14 13 (10.74%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (10.74%) Prototyping
14 13 (10.74%) Service Design
14 13 (10.74%) Waterfall
15 12 (9.92%) Anthropic Claude
15 12 (9.92%) Information Security
15 12 (9.92%) NIST
15 12 (9.92%) OpenAI
15 12 (9.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (9.92%) Security Operations
15 12 (9.92%) Zapier
16 11 (9.09%) GCP
17 10 (8.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 10 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
18 9 (7.44%) Digital Innovation
18 9 (7.44%) Mentoring

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 7 (5.79%) CMS
2 6 (4.96%) Sitecore CMS
3 4 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) Drupal
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.83%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.93%) Azure
2 20 (16.53%) AWS
3 13 (10.74%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.92%) Anthropic Claude
4 12 (9.92%) Zapier
5 11 (9.09%) GCP
6 9 (7.44%) PaaS
6 9 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.44%) Serverless
7 8 (6.61%) SaaS
8 4 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (3.31%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.31%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.48%) IaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Firewall
1 4 (3.31%) Network Security
2 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.31%) GIS
1 4 (3.31%) Power BI
2 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 20 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.92%) Finance
3 11 (9.09%) Law
4 4 (3.31%) Retail
5 3 (2.48%) Marketing
5 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.65%) GraphQL
1 2 (1.65%) Node.js
2 1 (0.83%) .NET
2 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.83%) Next.js
2 1 (0.83%) React
2 1 (0.83%) RESTful
2 1 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.48%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.83%) AS400
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Android
1 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.27%) Agile
2 28 (23.14%) AI
3 23 (19.01%) Roadmaps
4 22 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 19 (15.70%) TOGAF
6 17 (14.05%) DevOps
7 16 (13.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (11.57%) Customer-Centricity
8 14 (11.57%) Microservices
9 13 (10.74%) Prototyping
9 13 (10.74%) Service Design
9 13 (10.74%) Waterfall
10 12 (9.92%) Information Security
10 12 (9.92%) Security Operations
11 10 (8.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (7.44%) Digital Innovation
12 9 (7.44%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.44%) User Experience
13 8 (6.61%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.83%) C#
1 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.13%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) NIST
1 12 (9.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.31%) GDPR
2 4 (3.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 31 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.92%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.61%) Adobe
4 6 (4.96%) Sitecore
5 4 (3.31%) Cisco
5 4 (3.31%) HP
5 4 (3.31%) VMware
6 2 (1.65%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) Juniper
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle