Information Architecture Job Trends

Information Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Information Architecture skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 590 711
Rank change year-on-year +41 +121 +27
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 124 203 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.26% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.32% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 50
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,847 £39,675
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,000 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -13.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £69,375 £69,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £83,750 £120,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,500 £54,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +36.11% -28.00% +27.66%

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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Information Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Architecture 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +145 90 £57,500 -11.54% 105
London +105 70 £52,500 -25.00% 18
UK excluding London -24 49 £73,500 +36.11% 98
Scotland -35 32 - - 4
Work from Home +78 17 £50,000 -9.09% 17
South West +68 10 £143,500 - 15
North of England +53 4 £63,000 +5.00% 24
North West +2 4 £63,000 +5.00% 12
South East +44 2 £115,000 +27.78% 21
Midlands +61 1 £51,000 - 22
West Midlands +54 1 £51,000 - 10

Information Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.23%) Apache
3 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.81%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (11.29%) Adobe XD
2 4 (3.23%) Sketch
3 3 (2.42%) InVision
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 40 (32.26%) AWS
2 15 (12.10%) Azure
3 14 (11.29%) GCP
4 13 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.68%) Figma
6 9 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.26%) Apigee
6 9 (7.26%) Google Analytics
6 9 (7.26%) Kong
7 6 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.03%) GitHub
9 3 (2.42%) Dagster
9 3 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.42%) Prefect
9 3 (2.42%) SaaS
10 2 (1.61%) Heroku
11 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.10%) Big Data
2 12 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.84%) InterSystems Cache
3 6 (4.84%) Power BI
4 5 (4.03%) Metadata
5 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.23%) KDB
5 4 (3.23%) Kdb+
6 3 (2.42%) Data Mart
6 3 (2.42%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.81%) Power Query
8 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Axure RP
1 10 (8.06%) Balsamiq
2 8 (6.45%) Vite
3 3 (2.42%) Spinnaker
4 2 (1.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.61%) Mockito
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (79.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 98 (79.03%) Law
3 94 (75.81%) Finance
4 55 (44.35%) Banking
5 37 (29.84%) Marketing
6 20 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (11.29%) Social Skills
8 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
9 11 (8.87%) Investment Banking
10 8 (6.45%) Legal
11 6 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.42%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.61%) Publishing
14 1 (0.81%) Front Office
14 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 87 (70.16%) Software Engineer
2 77 (62.10%) Lead
3 75 (60.48%) Lead Software Engineer
4 27 (21.77%) Java Engineer
4 27 (21.77%) Java Software Engineer
5 23 (18.55%) Lead Java Engineer
6 16 (12.90%) Senior
7 15 (12.10%) Designer
8 13 (10.48%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (8.87%) Python Engineer
10 11 (8.87%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (8.06%) AWS Software Engineer
11 10 (8.06%) UX Designer
12 9 (7.26%) Architect
13 8 (6.45%) Developer
13 8 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (6.45%) UI Engineer
14 7 (5.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 7 (5.65%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.39%) Spring
2 25 (20.16%) Kafka
3 18 (14.52%) CSS
3 18 (14.52%) HTML
4 17 (13.71%) React
5 15 (12.10%) RESTful
6 9 (7.26%) OpenAPI
6 9 (7.26%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.26%) Swagger
7 8 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.45%) Jest
7 8 (6.45%) REST
7 8 (6.45%) Web Services
8 7 (5.65%) PySpark
9 6 (4.84%) OAuth
9 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.84%) OpenID
9 6 (4.84%) SAML
10 5 (4.03%) Node.js
11 4 (3.23%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (59.68%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.10%) Management Information System
3 14 (11.29%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.45%) Derivative
5 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.23%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.23%) Equities
6 4 (3.23%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.42%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.61%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.61%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.81%) FMCG
9 1 (0.81%) Life Science
9 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Android
1 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (84.68%) Agile
2 91 (73.39%) Software Engineering
3 90 (72.58%) Architectural Design
4 86 (69.35%) Community of Practice
5 84 (67.74%) Operational Stability
6 73 (58.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 72 (58.06%) Machine Learning
7 72 (58.06%) SDLC
8 70 (56.45%) CI/CD
9 55 (44.35%) Continuous Delivery
10 31 (25.00%) Analytics
11 20 (16.13%) User Experience
12 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (13.71%) Prototyping
14 16 (12.90%) DevOps
15 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
15 15 (12.10%) User Research
16 14 (11.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 14 (11.29%) Wireframes
17 13 (10.48%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 51 (41.13%) Java
2 23 (18.55%) Python
3 22 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.32%) Go
5 18 (14.52%) SQL
6 11 (8.87%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.26%) Kotlin
7 9 (7.26%) Lua
8 5 (4.03%) C#
9 4 (3.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Degree
2 12 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) MBA
6 1 (0.81%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.06%) WCAG
3 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.45%) Terraform
3 3 (2.42%) Argo
4 1 (0.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.32%) Google
3 14 (11.29%) Adobe
4 9 (7.26%) MKS
4 9 (7.26%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.84%) Facebook
5 6 (4.84%) Oracle
6 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.42%) Murex
8 2 (1.61%) BMC
8 2 (1.61%) Databricks
8 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.81%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.81%) Informatica
9 1 (0.81%) Nintex
9 1 (0.81%) Sparx