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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 683 664
Rank change year-on-year +154 -19 +97
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 120 52 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.093% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 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 £63,894
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +1.73% +6.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £101,875 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £84,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.23% +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 43,588 55,894 49,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.96% 82.57% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,305 29,396 38,125
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

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 6 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 6 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 +131 88 £57,500 -14.81% 46
London +97 69 £52,500 -34.38% 33
UK excluding London +102 48 £84,000 +29.23% 39
Scotland - 32 - - 7
Work from Home +57 12 £50,000 -33.33% 40
South West +46 10 £143,500 - 2
North West +29 3 £73,500 +44.68% 3
North of England +12 3 £73,500 +44.68% 3
Midlands +49 1 £51,000 - 2
East of England +29 1 £87,500 - 2
South East +26 1 - - 22
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 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.33%) Apache
3 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.50%) InVision
2 3 (2.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.67%) AWS
2 17 (14.17%) Azure
3 15 (12.50%) GCP
4 13 (10.83%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (10.00%) Figma
6 9 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.50%) Apigee
6 9 (7.50%) Google Analytics
6 9 (7.50%) Kong
7 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.00%) GitHub
8 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.50%) Dagster
9 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.50%) Heroku
9 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.50%) Prefect
10 2 (1.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.50%) Big Data
2 12 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.67%) Power BI
4 6 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
5 5 (4.17%) Metadata
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.33%) KDB
6 4 (3.33%) Kdb+
7 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.50%) Data Mart
7 3 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Axure RP
1 9 (7.50%) Balsamiq
2 8 (6.67%) Vite
3 3 (2.50%) Spinnaker
4 2 (1.67%) JUnit
4 2 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 100 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 100 (83.33%) Law
2 95 (79.17%) Finance
3 55 (45.83%) Banking
4 33 (27.50%) Marketing
5 20 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.83%) Social Skills
7 11 (9.17%) Investment Banking
7 11 (9.17%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.83%) Legal
9 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.50%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.67%) Publishing
12 1 (0.83%) Front Office
12 1 (0.83%) Police
12 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (72.50%) Software Engineer
2 76 (63.33%) Lead
3 75 (62.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 27 (22.50%) Java Engineer
4 27 (22.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 23 (19.17%) Lead Java Engineer
6 18 (15.00%) Senior
7 14 (11.67%) Designer
8 13 (10.83%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (9.17%) Python Engineer
10 11 (9.17%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (8.33%) Architect
11 10 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.67%) UI Engineer
12 8 (6.67%) UX Designer
13 7 (5.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 7 (5.83%) Lead Developer
13 7 (5.83%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (24.17%) Spring
2 25 (20.83%) Kafka
3 17 (14.17%) React
4 16 (13.33%) CSS
4 16 (13.33%) HTML
5 15 (12.50%) RESTful
6 9 (7.50%) OpenAPI
6 9 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.50%) Swagger
7 8 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.67%) Jest
7 8 (6.67%) REST
7 8 (6.67%) Web Services
8 7 (5.83%) PySpark
9 6 (5.00%) Node.js
9 6 (5.00%) OAuth
9 6 (5.00%) OAuth2
9 6 (5.00%) OpenID
9 6 (5.00%) SAML
10 4 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 75 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 13 (10.83%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.67%) Derivative
5 4 (3.33%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.33%) Equities
5 4 (3.33%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.67%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.67%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.83%) FMCG
8 1 (0.83%) Life Science
8 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (85.00%) Agile
2 90 (75.00%) Architectural Design
2 90 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 87 (72.50%) Community of Practice
4 84 (70.00%) Operational Stability
5 75 (62.50%) AI
6 74 (61.67%) Machine Learning
7 72 (60.00%) SDLC
8 70 (58.33%) CI/CD
9 55 (45.83%) Continuous Delivery
10 30 (25.00%) Analytics
11 18 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (15.00%) Prototyping
12 17 (14.17%) Mentoring
13 15 (12.50%) DevOps
13 15 (12.50%) User Experience
14 14 (11.67%) User Research
15 12 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 12 (10.00%) Wireframes
15 12 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.50%) Java
2 23 (19.17%) Python
3 20 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.83%) Go
5 17 (14.17%) SQL
6 11 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.50%) Kotlin
7 9 (7.50%) Lua
8 4 (3.33%) C#
8 4 (3.33%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Degree
2 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) MBA
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.50%) WCAG
3 4 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 10 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.67%) Terraform
3 3 (2.50%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.83%) Google
3 12 (10.00%) Adobe
4 9 (7.50%) MKS
4 9 (7.50%) MuleSoft
5 6 (5.00%) Facebook
5 6 (5.00%) Oracle
6 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.50%) Murex
8 2 (1.67%) BMC
8 2 (1.67%) Databricks
8 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.83%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.83%) Informatica
9 1 (0.83%) Nintex
9 1 (0.83%) Sparx