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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 643 574
Rank change year-on-year +19 -69 +239
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 36 52 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.100% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.11% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 33 34 53
10th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £63,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £73,238 £62,788
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +16.64% -3.40%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £90,000 £94,731
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,000 £73,238 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% +46.48% -14.89%

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 50,903 47,795 61,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.21% 91.56% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 30,118 23,045 47,857
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,326 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 11 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 30 January 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 +37 35 £69,000 -5.79% 15
London +49 19 £52,500 -34.38% 10
Work from Home +75 17 £52,500 -30.00% 17
UK excluding London +29 11 £69,000 -5.79% 15
North of England +4 7 £71,000 -5.02%
North West +18 4 £69,000 -7.69%
Yorkshire - 3 £73,500 -
South East +12 2 £48,750 -35.00% 5
East of England +26 1 £87,500 -
Midlands +19 1 £51,000 +64.52% 2
West Midlands - 1 £51,000 -

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 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Adobe XD
2 5 (13.89%) InVision
2 5 (13.89%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Figma
2 12 (33.33%) Google Analytics
3 10 (27.78%) Azure
4 9 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.89%) GitHub
5 5 (13.89%) Heroku
6 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (8.33%) AWS
7 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.56%) SaaS
9 1 (2.78%) GCP
9 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Axure RP
1 11 (30.56%) Balsamiq
General
1 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (30.56%) Law
5 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 8 (22.22%) Finance
7 5 (13.89%) Financial Institution
8 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Designer
2 13 (36.11%) Architect
3 11 (30.56%) UX Designer
4 8 (22.22%) Senior
5 5 (13.89%) Interaction Designer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Designer
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Data Modeller
8 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Information Management Consultant
8 1 (2.78%) Principal Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Management Consultant
8 1 (2.78%) Senior UX Designer
8 1 (2.78%) User Experience Consultant
8 1 (2.78%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) CSS
1 16 (44.44%) HTML
2 5 (13.89%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Analytics
2 17 (47.22%) Mentoring
2 17 (47.22%) Prototyping
2 17 (47.22%) User Research
3 16 (44.44%) Agile
3 16 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 16 (44.44%) Wireframes
3 16 (44.44%) Workshop Facilitation
4 14 (38.89%) User Experience
5 13 (36.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (36.11%) UX Design
6 12 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
6 12 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
7 11 (30.56%) Community of Practice
7 11 (30.56%) Inclusive Design
7 11 (30.56%) Roadmaps
7 11 (30.56%) Usability Testing
8 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 8 (22.22%) TOGAF
10 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) SC Cleared
1 17 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 11 (30.56%) WCAG
3 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (44.44%) Adobe
3 12 (33.33%) Google
4 3 (8.33%) Sparx
5 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce