Information Architecture Job Trends

Information Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Information Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 554 565
Rank change year-on-year -145 +11 +157
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 99 125 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 49 27 37
10th Percentile £38,000 £44,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -18.59%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,600 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +29.63% -39.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Information Architecture 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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

Information Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Information Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Information Architecture
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Information Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Information Architecture

Information Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Architecture over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 1 September 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 -130 76 £67,500 +17.39% 136
UK excluding London -94 55 £62,500 -10.71% 69
Work from Home +5 46 £65,000 +30.00% 56
London -85 35 £60,484 +15.21% 98
North of England -26 24 £75,000 +19.05% 9
North West -6 16 £75,000 +19.05% 5
Wales - 9 £30,000 -
Yorkshire - 7 £75,000 - 4
East of England - 6 - - 6
South East -38 4 £63,750 -44.57% 8
South West -80 4 - - 11
Scotland -31 3 - - 22
Midlands -42 3 - - 8
West Midlands -22 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £61,250 - 6
East Midlands -20 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Information Architecture
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 20 (20.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.08%) CMS
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.02%) WordPress
5 1 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Adobe XD
2 5 (5.05%) Sketch
3 3 (3.03%) Chatbot
4 2 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (2.02%) InDesign
4 2 (2.02%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.20%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (19.19%) Azure
3 16 (16.16%) AWS
3 16 (16.16%) Figma
4 14 (14.14%) Power Platform
5 12 (12.12%) PowerApps
6 11 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (9.09%) Power Automate
8 8 (8.08%) Google Analytics
9 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (5.05%) Miro
10 5 (5.05%) OneDrive
11 4 (4.04%) GCP
12 3 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
13 2 (2.02%) Alation
14 1 (1.01%) AWS Direct Connect
14 1 (1.01%) Copilot Studio
14 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) Intranet
2 2 (2.02%) Broadband
3 1 (1.01%) BGP
3 1 (1.01%) DNS
3 1 (1.01%) Firewall
3 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) Power BI
2 9 (9.09%) Metadata
3 4 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Power Query
4 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Axure RP
1 8 (8.08%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.01%) Claude Code
General
1 34 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 17 (17.17%) Law
5 15 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (13.13%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (9.09%) Finance
8 7 (7.07%) Marketing
8 7 (7.07%) Publishing
9 6 (6.06%) Automotive
9 6 (6.06%) Retail
10 5 (5.05%) Legal
11 4 (4.04%) Banking
12 3 (3.03%) Aerospace
12 3 (3.03%) Games
13 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (27.27%) Architect
2 17 (17.17%) Lead
3 16 (16.16%) Designer
4 15 (15.15%) Senior
4 15 (15.15%) UX Designer
5 12 (12.12%) Data Architect
5 12 (12.12%) Information Architect
6 11 (11.11%) Consultant
7 8 (8.08%) Chief Architect
8 7 (7.07%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (6.06%) Content Strategist
10 5 (5.05%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Data Modeller
11 4 (4.04%) Developer
11 4 (4.04%) SharePoint Consultant
11 4 (4.04%) SQL Developer
11 4 (4.04%) Workflow Developer
12 3 (3.03%) Knowledge Management Consultant
12 3 (3.03%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.13%) CSS
1 13 (13.13%) HTML
2 7 (7.07%) REST
3 3 (3.03%) Kafka
3 3 (3.03%) Spring
3 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.02%) .NET
4 2 (2.02%) Framer.js
4 2 (2.02%) React
4 2 (2.02%) SPFx
4 2 (2.02%) Terraform
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.10%) Taxonomies
3 7 (7.07%) AI Agents
3 7 (7.07%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.02%) Graphic Design
8 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) Analytics
2 28 (28.28%) Agile
2 28 (28.28%) User Experience
3 25 (25.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (23.23%) UX Design
5 21 (21.21%) Data Modelling
6 20 (20.20%) AI
6 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (19.19%) Decision-Making
7 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
8 18 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
9 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (16.16%) User Research
11 15 (15.15%) Prototyping
12 14 (14.14%) Community of Practice
12 14 (14.14%) Inclusive Design
12 14 (14.14%) Service Design
12 14 (14.14%) Usability Testing
13 13 (13.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.10%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.05%) SQL
3 4 (4.04%) Java
4 3 (3.03%) Go
5 2 (2.02%) C#
5 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Degree
2 16 (16.16%) SC Cleared
2 16 (16.16%) Security Cleared
3 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 11 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.09%) WCAG
4 8 (8.08%) ISO 9001
5 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.02%) GDPR
7 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.01%) Argo
3 1 (1.01%) Istio
Vendors
1 34 (34.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.15%) Adobe
3 9 (9.09%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) OneTrust
4 3 (3.03%) YouTube
5 1 (1.01%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle