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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 551 646
Rank change year-on-year -147 +95 +60
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 103 122 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.28% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 47 24 24
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,250 £47,708
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £68,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,950 £82,925
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £73,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -14.97% +36.11% -28.00%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 22 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 22 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 -134 82 £70,000 +24.44% 158
UK excluding London -126 60 £62,500 -14.97% 99
Work from Home -14 45 £65,000 +30.00% 68
London -104 34 £67,500 +28.57% 90
North of England -45 26 £75,000 +2.04% 18
North West -24 17 £75,000 +2.04% 8
East of England - 10 - - 8
Wales - 9 £30,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £75,000 - 8
South East -41 4 £63,750 - 15
South West -83 4 - - 19
Scotland -23 3 - - 26
Midlands -43 3 - - 10
West Midlands -48 2 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 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 23 (22.33%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.77%) CMS
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Adobe XD
2 6 (5.83%) Sketch
3 3 (2.91%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.94%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.94%) InDesign
4 2 (1.94%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (19.42%) Azure
3 19 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 17 (16.50%) PowerApps
5 16 (15.53%) AWS
5 16 (15.53%) Figma
6 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (12.62%) Power Automate
8 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (5.83%) Google Analytics
10 5 (4.85%) Miro
10 5 (4.85%) OneDrive
11 4 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.88%) GCP
12 2 (1.94%) Alation
12 2 (1.94%) GitHub
13 1 (0.97%) Azure API Management
13 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.97%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) Intranet
2 2 (1.94%) Broadband
3 1 (0.97%) BGP
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) Firewall
3 1 (0.97%) Internet
3 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) Power BI
2 11 (10.68%) Metadata
3 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.88%) Power Query
3 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.97%) Redis
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Axure RP
1 6 (5.83%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.97%) Git
General
1 40 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Organisational Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Public Sector
4 17 (16.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (15.53%) Law
6 13 (12.62%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (8.74%) Finance
8 8 (7.77%) Marketing
9 7 (6.80%) Publishing
9 7 (6.80%) Retail
10 6 (5.83%) Automotive
10 6 (5.83%) Legal
11 4 (3.88%) Banking
12 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
12 3 (2.91%) Games
13 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (27.18%) Architect
2 16 (15.53%) Designer
2 16 (15.53%) Senior
3 15 (14.56%) Lead
3 15 (14.56%) UX Designer
4 12 (11.65%) Information Architect
5 11 (10.68%) Consultant
5 11 (10.68%) Data Architect
6 8 (7.77%) Chief Architect
7 7 (6.80%) Administrator
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (6.80%) SharePoint Administrator
8 6 (5.83%) Content Strategist
9 5 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.88%) Developer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Architect
10 4 (3.88%) SharePoint Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) HTML
2 11 (10.68%) CSS
3 8 (7.77%) REST
4 3 (2.91%) Kafka
4 3 (2.91%) Spring
4 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.91%) Terraform
5 2 (1.94%) .NET
5 2 (1.94%) Framer.js
5 2 (1.94%) React
6 1 (0.97%) Middleware
6 1 (0.97%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (0.97%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) AI Agents
2 11 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.68%) Taxonomies
3 8 (7.77%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.83%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.94%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.97%) Replication
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.18%) Analytics
2 27 (26.21%) Agile
3 26 (25.24%) AI
3 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (25.24%) User Experience
4 25 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (21.36%) UX Design
6 21 (20.39%) Data Modelling
6 21 (20.39%) Decision-Making
7 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (18.45%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (15.53%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (15.53%) Workshop Facilitation
11 15 (14.56%) Prototyping
11 15 (14.56%) User Research
12 14 (13.59%) Service Design
13 13 (12.62%) Technology Strategy
13 13 (12.62%) Usability Testing
13 13 (12.62%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
2 6 (5.83%) SQL
3 4 (3.88%) Java
4 3 (2.91%) Go
5 2 (1.94%) C#
5 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.97%) Bicep
6 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (20.39%) Degree
2 18 (17.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.56%) Security Cleared
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (28.16%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.77%) ISO 9001
3 8 (7.77%) WCAG
4 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.94%) GDPR
6 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.97%) Argo
3 1 (0.97%) Grafana
3 1 (0.97%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (34.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.59%) Adobe
3 7 (6.80%) Google
4 4 (3.88%) OneTrust
4 4 (3.88%) YouTube
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle
6 1 (0.97%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.97%) OneLogin