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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 688 630
Rank change year-on-year +93 -58 +173
Permanent jobs citing Information Architecture 59 54 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 47
10th Percentile - £54,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,563 £83,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.67% +50.00% -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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 13 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 8 December 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 +101 49 £65,000 -3.70% 94
London +84 33 £52,500 -34.38% 23
UK excluding London +87 20 £67,000 -10.67% 82
Work from Home +91 18 £50,000 -33.33% 82
Scotland - 9 - - 4
North of England +27 5 £72,250 +12.89% 17
South East +41 3 £48,750 -45.83% 21
North West +37 3 £73,500 +14.84% 7
Yorkshire - 2 £72,250 - 9
Midlands +35 1 £51,000 - 17
South West +27 1 - - 8
East of England +24 1 £87,500 - 12
West Midlands - 1 £51,000 - 8

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 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Adobe XD
2 5 (8.47%) InVision
2 5 (8.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Figma
2 13 (22.03%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) Google Analytics
4 11 (18.64%) AWS
5 9 (15.25%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.47%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) Heroku
7 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.08%) Apigee
9 3 (5.08%) Kong
9 3 (5.08%) SaaS
10 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.69%) Dagster
11 1 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.78%) Big Data
4 3 (5.08%) Metadata
4 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.69%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.69%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.69%) KDB
5 1 (1.69%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Axure RP
1 11 (18.64%) Balsamiq
2 2 (3.39%) Vite
General
1 35 (59.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (57.63%) Law
3 30 (50.85%) Finance
4 17 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (25.42%) Banking
5 15 (25.42%) Public Sector
6 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
7 8 (13.56%) Marketing
8 6 (10.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (5.08%) Legal
10 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.69%) Police
11 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.69%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.69%) Publishing
11 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Software Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Lead
2 18 (30.51%) Lead Software Engineer
3 17 (28.81%) Designer
4 12 (20.34%) Architect
5 11 (18.64%) Senior
6 9 (15.25%) UX Designer
7 7 (11.86%) Java Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Lead Java Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Senior Architect
9 5 (8.47%) Interaction Designer
10 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) AWS Software Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
12 2 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (3.39%) Python Engineer
12 2 (3.39%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) CSS
1 17 (28.81%) HTML
2 6 (10.17%) Kafka
2 6 (10.17%) Spring
3 5 (8.47%) Node.js
4 4 (6.78%) React
4 4 (6.78%) RESTful
4 4 (6.78%) Swagger
5 3 (5.08%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.39%) Jest
6 2 (3.39%) OAuth
6 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.39%) OpenID
6 2 (3.39%) REST
6 2 (3.39%) SAML
6 2 (3.39%) Web Services
7 1 (1.69%) D3.js
7 1 (1.69%) PySpark
7 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.34%) Product Ownership
3 10 (16.95%) Management Information System
4 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Equities
6 1 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) Agile
2 31 (52.54%) Community of Practice
3 24 (40.68%) AI
4 23 (38.98%) Analytics
5 22 (37.29%) Architectural Design
5 22 (37.29%) Machine Learning
5 22 (37.29%) Software Engineering
6 20 (33.90%) Operational Stability
7 18 (30.51%) Mentoring
7 18 (30.51%) Prototyping
7 18 (30.51%) SDLC
8 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
8 17 (28.81%) User Research
9 16 (27.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 16 (27.12%) Wireframes
9 16 (27.12%) Workshop Facilitation
10 15 (25.42%) User Experience
11 13 (22.03%) Analytical Thinking
11 13 (22.03%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (22.03%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) JavaScript
2 11 (18.64%) Java
3 6 (10.17%) Go
4 5 (8.47%) Python
4 5 (8.47%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) Lua
6 2 (3.39%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.69%) C#
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (23.73%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) Accessibility
2 11 (18.64%) WCAG
3 7 (11.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (27.12%) Adobe
3 15 (25.42%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) MKS
4 3 (5.08%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.08%) Sparx
5 2 (3.39%) Facebook
5 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.69%) BMC
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) Murex
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow