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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 700 674
Rank change year-on-year +151 -26 +90
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 121 51 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.091% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 50
10th Percentile - £52,258 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £61,394
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +5.87% +2.32%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,250 £93,342
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +30.00% -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 45,350 56,347 49,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 83.11% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27,263 29,385 38,254
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,112 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -

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 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 12 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 November 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 +139 88 £57,500 -14.81% 25
London +108 69 £52,500 -34.38% 17
UK excluding London +114 48 £63,000 -3.08% 13
Scotland - 32 - - 2
Work from Home +94 15 £50,000 -33.33% 11
South West +40 9 - - 1
North West +43 3 £73,500 +44.68% 3
North of England +41 3 £73,500 +44.68% 4
South East +25 2 £52,500 -41.67% 2
Midlands +59 1 £51,000 - 2
East of England +21 1 £87,500 - 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 7 (5.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.31%) Apache
4 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.65%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.48%) InVision
2 3 (2.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.40%) AWS
2 16 (13.22%) Azure
3 15 (12.40%) GCP
4 14 (11.57%) Figma
5 13 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (9.09%) Google Analytics
7 9 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (7.44%) Apigee
7 9 (7.44%) Kong
8 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.96%) GitHub
10 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.48%) Dagster
11 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.48%) Heroku
11 3 (2.48%) Prefect
11 3 (2.48%) SaaS
12 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) Big Data
2 12 (9.92%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.79%) Power BI
4 6 (4.96%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.31%) KDB
5 4 (3.31%) Kdb+
6 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.48%) Data Mart
6 3 (2.48%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.48%) Metadata
7 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) Axure RP
1 10 (8.26%) Balsamiq
2 8 (6.61%) Vite
3 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
4 2 (1.65%) JUnit
4 2 (1.65%) Mockito
General
1 102 (84.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 101 (83.47%) Law
3 96 (79.34%) Finance
4 55 (45.45%) Banking
5 32 (26.45%) Marketing
6 20 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (11.57%) Social Skills
8 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
9 11 (9.09%) Investment Banking
10 6 (4.96%) Legal
11 5 (4.13%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.48%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.83%) Front Office
13 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.83%) Police
13 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.83%) Publishing
13 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (71.90%) Software Engineer
2 75 (61.98%) Lead
2 75 (61.98%) Lead Software Engineer
3 27 (22.31%) Java Engineer
3 27 (22.31%) Java Software Engineer
4 23 (19.01%) Lead Java Engineer
5 19 (15.70%) Senior
6 14 (11.57%) Designer
7 13 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Python Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
10 10 (8.26%) Architect
10 10 (8.26%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) UI Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) UX Designer
12 7 (5.79%) Developer
12 7 (5.79%) Lead Software Developer
12 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.97%) Spring
2 25 (20.66%) Kafka
3 17 (14.05%) CSS
3 17 (14.05%) HTML
3 17 (14.05%) React
4 15 (12.40%) RESTful
5 9 (7.44%) OpenAPI
5 9 (7.44%) Spring Boot
5 9 (7.44%) Swagger
6 8 (6.61%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.61%) Jest
6 8 (6.61%) REST
6 8 (6.61%) Web Services
7 7 (5.79%) PySpark
8 6 (4.96%) Node.js
8 6 (4.96%) OAuth
8 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
8 6 (4.96%) OpenID
8 6 (4.96%) SAML
9 4 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 75 (61.98%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Management Information System
3 14 (11.57%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.61%) Derivative
5 4 (3.31%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.31%) Equities
5 4 (3.31%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (85.12%) Agile
2 90 (74.38%) Architectural Design
2 90 (74.38%) Software Engineering
3 88 (72.73%) Community of Practice
4 84 (69.42%) Operational Stability
5 76 (62.81%) AI
6 74 (61.16%) Machine Learning
7 72 (59.50%) SDLC
8 70 (57.85%) CI/CD
9 55 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
10 31 (25.62%) Analytics
11 19 (15.70%) Prototyping
12 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
13 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (14.05%) User Experience
14 14 (11.57%) DevOps
14 14 (11.57%) User Research
15 13 (10.74%) Collaborative Working
15 13 (10.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 13 (10.74%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.15%) Java
2 23 (19.01%) Python
3 21 (17.36%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.70%) Go
5 16 (13.22%) SQL
6 11 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.44%) Kotlin
7 9 (7.44%) Lua
8 4 (3.31%) C#
8 4 (3.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Degree
2 15 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.26%) WCAG
3 3 (2.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (19.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Terraform
3 3 (2.48%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.36%) Google
3 13 (10.74%) Adobe
4 9 (7.44%) MKS
4 9 (7.44%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.96%) Facebook
5 6 (4.96%) Oracle
6 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.48%) Murex
8 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.83%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.83%) BMC
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) Sparx