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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 707 549 687
Rank change year-on-year -158 +138 -6
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 98 118 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.24% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.27% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 42 22 25
10th Percentile £31,000 - £54,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,855 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% -13.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,625 £69,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £119,250 £84,650 £86,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £73,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +22.50% +1.88%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 16 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 10 October 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 -128 82 £75,000 +33.33% 177
UK excluding London -117 58 £62,500 -14.97% 90
Work from Home -27 39 £63,750 +27.50% 73
London -81 35 £77,500 +47.62% 118
North of England -36 25 £75,000 +2.04% 11
North West -9 16 £75,000 +2.04% 3
East of England - 10 - - 10
Wales - 9 £30,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £75,000 - 5
South East -51 5 £63,750 - 14
South West -80 4 - - 15
Scotland -19 3 - - 31
Midlands -40 2 - - 6
West Midlands -46 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 - - 3

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 21 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.16%) CMS
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Adobe XD
2 6 (6.12%) Sketch
3 3 (3.06%) Chatbot
4 2 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (2.04%) InDesign
4 2 (2.04%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.49%) Azure
2 23 (23.47%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (20.41%) Power Platform
4 18 (18.37%) PowerApps
5 17 (17.35%) AWS
6 16 (16.33%) Figma
7 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (14.29%) Power Automate
9 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (6.12%) Google Analytics
11 5 (5.10%) GCP
11 5 (5.10%) Miro
11 5 (5.10%) OneDrive
12 4 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
13 2 (2.04%) Alation
13 2 (2.04%) GitHub
14 1 (1.02%) AWS Direct Connect
14 1 (1.02%) Azure API Management
14 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Intranet
2 2 (2.04%) Broadband
3 1 (1.02%) BGP
3 1 (1.02%) DNS
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) Internet
3 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) Metadata
1 16 (16.33%) Power BI
2 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.08%) Power Query
3 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.02%) Redis
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Axure RP
1 6 (6.12%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 37 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Organisational Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 17 (17.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (16.33%) Law
6 14 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (10.20%) Finance
8 8 (8.16%) Marketing
8 8 (8.16%) Retail
9 7 (7.14%) Publishing
10 6 (6.12%) Automotive
10 6 (6.12%) Legal
11 4 (4.08%) Banking
12 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
12 3 (3.06%) Games
13 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (32.65%) Architect
2 16 (16.33%) Designer
3 15 (15.31%) Data Architect
3 15 (15.31%) UX Designer
4 14 (14.29%) Lead
4 14 (14.29%) Senior
5 12 (12.24%) Information Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Administrator
6 8 (8.16%) Chief Architect
6 8 (8.16%) SharePoint Administrator
7 7 (7.14%) Consultant
8 6 (6.12%) Content Strategist
9 5 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Head of Architecture
10 4 (4.08%) Head of Data Architecture
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Data Architect
10 4 (4.08%) SharePoint Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.24%) HTML
2 11 (11.22%) CSS
3 5 (5.10%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) Kafka
4 3 (3.06%) Spring
4 3 (3.06%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.06%) Terraform
5 2 (2.04%) .NET
5 2 (2.04%) Framer.js
5 2 (2.04%) React
5 2 (2.04%) SPFx
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.02%) Middleware
6 1 (1.02%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) AI Agents
1 12 (12.24%) Taxonomies
2 11 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.08%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.08%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.65%) Analytics
2 29 (29.59%) AI
3 27 (27.55%) Agile
4 26 (26.53%) User Experience
5 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (25.51%) Decision-Making
6 23 (23.47%) Data Modelling
6 23 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.45%) Enterprise Architecture
7 22 (22.45%) UX Design
8 21 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (20.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (19.39%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (16.33%) Data Governance
12 15 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (15.31%) User Research
13 14 (14.29%) Service Design
13 14 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
13 14 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
14 13 (13.27%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.16%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.10%) SQL
3 4 (4.08%) Java
4 3 (3.06%) Go
5 2 (2.04%) C#
5 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.02%) Bicep
6 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (21.43%) Degree
2 16 (16.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.18%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.59%) Accessibility
2 11 (11.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.16%) ISO 9001
3 8 (8.16%) WCAG
4 7 (7.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.04%) GDPR
6 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.02%) Argo
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.02%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (37.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.29%) Adobe
3 7 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (4.08%) OneTrust
4 4 (4.08%) YouTube
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) OneLogin