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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 561 578
Rank change year-on-year -129 +17 +159
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 101 125 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.28% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 49 27 37
10th Percentile £38,000 £44,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -18.59%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,600 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +29.63% -39.15%

All Process & 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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 17 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 3 September 2026. 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 -106 78 £67,500 +17.39% 154
UK excluding London -94 57 £62,500 -10.71% 75
Work from Home -1 46 £65,000 +30.00% 60
London -91 34 £62,742 +19.51% 109
North of England -23 25 £75,000 +19.05% 11
North West -2 17 £75,000 +19.05% 6
Wales - 9 £30,000 -
Yorkshire - 7 £75,000 - 5
East of England - 7 - - 5
South East -33 4 £63,750 -44.57% 8
South West -80 4 - - 16
Scotland -17 3 - - 20
Midlands -41 3 - - 9
West Midlands -29 2 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £61,250 - 7
East Midlands -21 1 - -
North East - 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 21 (20.79%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.92%) CMS
3 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.98%) WordPress
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Adobe XD
2 5 (4.95%) Sketch
3 3 (2.97%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.98%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.98%) InDesign
4 2 (1.98%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.79%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (18.81%) Azure
3 16 (15.84%) AWS
3 16 (15.84%) Power Platform
4 15 (14.85%) Figma
5 14 (13.86%) PowerApps
6 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (9.90%) Power Automate
8 7 (6.93%) Google Analytics
8 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (4.95%) Miro
9 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.96%) GCP
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.97%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.98%) Alation
13 1 (0.99%) AWS Direct Connect
13 1 (0.99%) Copilot Studio
13 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) Intranet
2 2 (1.98%) Broadband
3 1 (0.99%) BGP
3 1 (0.99%) DNS
3 1 (0.99%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) Power BI
2 10 (9.90%) Metadata
3 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.96%) Power Query
4 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Axure RP
1 7 (6.93%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.99%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.99%) Git
General
1 36 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (17.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (17.82%) Public Sector
3 17 (16.83%) Law
4 16 (15.84%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (12.87%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.91%) Finance
7 7 (6.93%) Marketing
7 7 (6.93%) Publishing
8 6 (5.94%) Automotive
8 6 (5.94%) Legal
8 6 (5.94%) Retail
9 4 (3.96%) Banking
10 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.97%) Games
11 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (27.72%) Architect
2 17 (16.83%) Lead
3 15 (14.85%) Designer
3 15 (14.85%) Senior
4 14 (13.86%) UX Designer
5 13 (12.87%) Information Architect
6 12 (11.88%) Data Architect
7 11 (10.89%) Consultant
8 8 (7.92%) Chief Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (5.94%) Content Strategist
11 5 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Administrator
12 4 (3.96%) Data Modeller
12 4 (3.96%) Developer
12 4 (3.96%) SharePoint Administrator
12 4 (3.96%) SharePoint Consultant
12 4 (3.96%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.96%) Workflow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) CSS
1 12 (11.88%) HTML
2 7 (6.93%) REST
3 3 (2.97%) Kafka
3 3 (2.97%) Spring
3 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.98%) .NET
4 2 (1.98%) Framer.js
4 2 (1.98%) React
4 2 (1.98%) SPFx
4 2 (1.98%) Terraform
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.89%) Taxonomies
3 8 (7.92%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.92%) Low-Code
4 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.98%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.70%) Analytics
2 28 (27.72%) Agile
3 27 (26.73%) User Experience
4 25 (24.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (22.77%) AI
6 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (21.78%) UX Design
7 21 (20.79%) Data Modelling
8 20 (19.80%) Decision-Making
9 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (17.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 18 (17.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (16.83%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (14.85%) User Research
13 14 (13.86%) Prototyping
13 14 (13.86%) Service Design
14 13 (12.87%) Architectural Design
14 13 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (12.87%) Usability Testing
14 13 (12.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.95%) SQL
3 4 (3.96%) Java
4 3 (2.97%) Go
5 2 (1.98%) C#
5 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Degree
2 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (14.85%) SC Cleared
2 15 (14.85%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (26.73%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.92%) ISO 9001
3 8 (7.92%) WCAG
4 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.98%) GDPR
6 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.99%) Argo
3 1 (0.99%) Istio
Vendors
1 34 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.86%) Adobe
3 8 (7.92%) Google
4 4 (3.96%) OneTrust
4 4 (3.96%) YouTube
5 1 (0.99%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.99%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle