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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 647 581
Rank change year-on-year +43 -66 +216
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 35 59 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.11% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.12% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 31 38 44
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,758 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,750 £62,500 £44,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £73,238 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +36.26% -14.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £80,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,000 £73,238 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% +46.48% -20.00%

All Process and 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 48,803 50,313 45,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.65% 89.69% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,630 25,271 34,729
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -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 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 +58 34 £69,000 -5.79% 14
London +52 18 £52,500 -34.38% 13
Work from Home +70 16 £51,250 -31.67% 10
UK excluding London +25 11 £69,000 -5.79% 5
North of England +26 7 £71,000 +12.70%
North West +35 4 £69,000 +9.52%
Yorkshire - 3 £73,500 -
South East +22 2 £48,750 -35.00% 4
Midlands +25 1 £51,000 +64.52%
East of England +22 1 £87,500 -
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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (42.86%) Adobe XD
2 5 (14.29%) InVision
2 5 (14.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Figma
2 11 (31.43%) Google Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Azure
4 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
5 5 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 5 (14.29%) GitHub
5 5 (14.29%) Heroku
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.57%) AWS
6 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS
8 1 (2.86%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Power BI
2 5 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.57%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Axure RP
1 10 (28.57%) Balsamiq
General
1 14 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (34.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (31.43%) Law
5 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 8 (22.86%) Finance
7 5 (14.29%) Financial Institution
8 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.86%) Banking
9 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Designer
2 13 (37.14%) Architect
3 9 (25.71%) UX Designer
4 7 (20.00%) Senior
5 5 (14.29%) Interaction Designer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Architect
6 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Designer
8 1 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Data Modeller
8 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Principal Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Product Designer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Product Designer
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Writer
8 1 (2.86%) User Experience Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) CSS
1 15 (42.86%) HTML
2 5 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 8 (22.86%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Analytics
2 16 (45.71%) Mentoring
2 16 (45.71%) Prototyping
2 16 (45.71%) User Research
3 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 15 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 15 (42.86%) Wireframes
3 15 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
4 13 (37.14%) Enterprise Architecture
4 13 (37.14%) User Experience
5 12 (34.29%) UX Design
6 11 (31.43%) Actionable Insight
6 11 (31.43%) Analytical Thinking
6 11 (31.43%) Community of Practice
6 11 (31.43%) Roadmaps
7 10 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
7 10 (28.57%) Usability Testing
8 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
9 8 (22.86%) TOGAF
10 7 (20.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (28.57%) WCAG
3 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (42.86%) Adobe
3 11 (31.43%) Google
4 3 (8.57%) Sparx
5 1 (2.86%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce