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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 695 688
Rank change year-on-year +135 -7 +59
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 116 64 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.092% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 50
10th Percentile - £50,516 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,000 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £88,150 £86,400 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.95% +3.64% -12.00%

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 43,375 57,355 53,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.80% 82.16% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,550 30,763 40,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £53,500 £53,888
% change year-on-year -12.62% -0.72% +2.64%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +125 84 £56,250 -13.46% 22
London +101 66 £52,500 -34.38% 9
UK excluding London +80 47 £73,500 +28.95% 22
Scotland +22 32 - - 6
Work from Home +67 12 £50,000 -33.33% 26
South West +54 10 £143,500 - 2
North of England +7 3 £73,500 +32.67% 4
North West 0 3 £73,500 +32.67% 3
Midlands +52 1 £51,000 - 1
South East +19 1 - - 6
West Midlands - 1 £51,000 - 1

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 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.45%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.59%) Sketch
3 2 (1.72%) InVision
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) AWS
2 14 (12.07%) Azure
2 14 (12.07%) GCP
3 13 (11.21%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (9.48%) Figma
5 9 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (7.76%) Apigee
5 9 (7.76%) Google Analytics
5 9 (7.76%) Kong
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.31%) GitHub
8 3 (2.59%) Dagster
8 3 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.59%) Prefect
9 2 (1.72%) Heroku
9 2 (1.72%) SaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Big Data
2 12 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.17%) InterSystems Cache
3 6 (5.17%) Power BI
4 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.45%) KDB
4 4 (3.45%) Kdb+
4 4 (3.45%) Metadata
5 3 (2.59%) Data Mart
5 3 (2.59%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Axure RP
1 8 (6.90%) Balsamiq
1 8 (6.90%) Vite
2 3 (2.59%) Spinnaker
3 2 (1.72%) JUnit
3 2 (1.72%) Mockito
General
1 99 (85.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 98 (84.48%) Law
3 93 (80.17%) Finance
4 55 (47.41%) Banking
5 34 (29.31%) Marketing
6 19 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
8 11 (9.48%) Investment Banking
9 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
10 7 (6.03%) Legal
11 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.59%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.72%) Publishing
13 1 (0.86%) Front Office
13 1 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 87 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 76 (65.52%) Lead
3 75 (64.66%) Lead Software Engineer
4 27 (23.28%) Java Engineer
4 27 (23.28%) Java Software Engineer
5 23 (19.83%) Lead Java Engineer
6 15 (12.93%) Senior
7 13 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Designer
8 12 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Python Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Python Software Engineer
10 10 (8.62%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.90%) UI Engineer
11 8 (6.90%) UX Designer
12 7 (6.03%) Developer
12 7 (6.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 7 (6.03%) Lead Developer
12 7 (6.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.00%) Spring
2 25 (21.55%) Kafka
3 17 (14.66%) React
4 15 (12.93%) CSS
4 15 (12.93%) HTML
4 15 (12.93%) RESTful
5 9 (7.76%) OpenAPI
5 9 (7.76%) Spring Boot
5 9 (7.76%) Swagger
6 8 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.90%) Jest
6 8 (6.90%) REST
6 8 (6.90%) Web Services
7 7 (6.03%) PySpark
8 6 (5.17%) OAuth
8 6 (5.17%) OAuth2
8 6 (5.17%) OpenID
8 6 (5.17%) SAML
9 5 (4.31%) Node.js
10 4 (3.45%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (63.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.21%) Management Information System
3 12 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.90%) Derivative
5 4 (3.45%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.45%) Equities
5 4 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.72%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Life Science
8 1 (0.86%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (87.07%) Agile
2 91 (78.45%) Software Engineering
3 90 (77.59%) Architectural Design
4 86 (74.14%) Community of Practice
5 84 (72.41%) Operational Stability
6 73 (62.93%) AI
7 72 (62.07%) Machine Learning
7 72 (62.07%) SDLC
8 70 (60.34%) CI/CD
9 55 (47.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 28 (24.14%) Analytics
11 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.79%) Prototyping
13 15 (12.93%) DevOps
13 15 (12.93%) User Experience
14 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
15 13 (11.21%) User Research
16 11 (9.48%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (9.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 11 (9.48%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.97%) Java
2 23 (19.83%) Python
3 19 (16.38%) Go
3 19 (16.38%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.66%) SQL
5 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.76%) Kotlin
6 9 (7.76%) Lua
7 4 (3.45%) C#
7 4 (3.45%) Scala
8 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Degree
2 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.86%) MBA
7 1 (0.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.90%) WCAG
2 4 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.90%) Terraform
3 3 (2.59%) Argo
4 1 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (16.38%) Google
2 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.48%) Adobe
4 9 (7.76%) MKS
4 9 (7.76%) MuleSoft
5 6 (5.17%) Facebook
5 6 (5.17%) Oracle
6 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.59%) Murex
8 2 (1.72%) BMC
8 2 (1.72%) Databricks
8 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.86%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.86%) Informatica
9 1 (0.86%) Nintex
9 1 (0.86%) Sparx