Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 74 30
Rank change year-on-year +47 -44 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,278 655 2,185
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.92% 4.50% 6.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.39% 4.88% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 873 479 1,423
10th Percentile £60,122 £60,000 £56,809
25th Percentile £71,659 £68,875 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,700 £114,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 17,299 13,414 31,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 92.22% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,679 8,969 24,913
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,127
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Architect
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Architect job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Architect job vacancies

Architect
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architect over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Architect salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Architect in the job title.

1 356 (27.86%) Azure
2 239 (18.70%) Roadmaps
3 226 (17.68%) AWS
4 203 (15.88%) Security Cleared
5 192 (15.02%) Agile
6 180 (14.08%) Microsoft
7 173 (13.54%) AI
7 173 (13.54%) TOGAF
8 153 (11.97%) SC Cleared
9 148 (11.58%) DevOps
10 146 (11.42%) Enterprise Architecture
11 144 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
12 124 (9.70%) Mentoring
13 119 (9.31%) CI/CD
14 113 (8.84%) Technology Strategy
15 112 (8.76%) Data Modelling
16 109 (8.53%) Data Architecture
17 106 (8.29%) GCP
17 106 (8.29%) Migration
18 105 (8.22%) Analytics
19 93 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
20 92 (7.20%) Microservices
20 92 (7.20%) Presales
21 91 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
22 89 (6.96%) IT Strategy
22 89 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
23 88 (6.89%) Event-Driven
24 82 (6.42%) Degree
24 82 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
25 81 (6.34%) Security Architecture

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 14 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.02%) CMS
3 8 (0.63%) Confluence
3 8 (0.63%) JBoss
3 8 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 7 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.23%) Apache
6 3 (0.23%) SAS
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.078%) IIS
8 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.078%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.16%) Revit
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.078%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (1.17%) Oracle Assets
1 15 (1.17%) Oracle Financials
1 15 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
1 15 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.078%) Actimize
6 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.078%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.078%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 356 (27.86%) Azure
2 226 (17.68%) AWS
3 106 (8.29%) GCP
4 76 (5.95%) Serverless
5 70 (5.48%) SaaS
6 51 (3.99%) Power Platform
7 44 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (2.74%) Entra ID
9 33 (2.58%) Snowflake
10 29 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (2.11%) PaaS
12 21 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (1.33%) IaaS
15 15 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (0.94%) Azure AI
16 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
17 10 (0.78%) iPaaS
18 9 (0.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.26%) Broadband
2 39 (3.05%) WAN
3 35 (2.74%) Firewall
3 35 (2.74%) Network Security
4 28 (2.19%) SD-WAN
5 26 (2.03%) LAN
6 21 (1.64%) VPN
7 18 (1.41%) MPLS
8 11 (0.86%) WLAN
9 9 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (0.63%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.55%) BGP
12 6 (0.47%) VSAN
12 6 (0.47%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.39%) DNS
13 5 (0.39%) HTTP
13 5 (0.39%) SNMP
14 4 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.52%) Metadata
2 30 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 15 (1.17%) Power BI
6 14 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.94%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.39%) Tableau
11 4 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.31%) Big Data
11 4 (0.31%) GIS
11 4 (0.31%) QGIS
11 4 (0.31%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.23%) MySQL
13 2 (0.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 34 (2.66%) GitLab
2 34 (2.66%) SonarQube
3 24 (1.88%) Snyk
4 6 (0.47%) Git
5 5 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.16%) MLflow
6 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.078%) JIRA
7 1 (0.078%) JMeter
7 1 (0.078%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.078%) Postman
7 1 (0.078%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.078%) Selenium
7 1 (0.078%) Subversion
General
1 220 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 188 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 179 (14.01%) Finance
4 139 (10.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (5.16%) Games
7 60 (4.69%) Marketing
8 58 (4.54%) Law
9 40 (3.13%) Legal
10 38 (2.97%) Retail
11 30 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (2.19%) Banking
13 24 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.02%) Back Office
17 10 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.47%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.47%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.09%) REST
2 53 (4.15%) SOAP
3 44 (3.44%) .NET
4 36 (2.82%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.66%) Visualforce
6 33 (2.58%) Middleware
7 20 (1.56%) OAuth
7 20 (1.56%) OpenID
8 19 (1.49%) RESTful
9 16 (1.25%) LDAP
9 16 (1.25%) SAML
10 14 (1.10%) GraphQL
11 11 (0.86%) Spring
12 10 (0.78%) Hibernate
13 8 (0.63%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.55%) Django
14 7 (0.55%) Node.js
15 6 (0.47%) OpenAPI
15 6 (0.47%) Swagger
15 6 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.23%) Data Centre
3 50 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.90%) Cyberattack
5 31 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.43%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.33%) PKI
9 15 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (1.02%) IoT
12 11 (0.86%) Operational Technology
13 10 (0.78%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.63%) DataPower
14 8 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.47%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.02%) Windows
2 8 (0.63%) Linux
3 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (18.70%) Roadmaps
2 192 (15.02%) Agile
3 173 (13.54%) AI
3 173 (13.54%) TOGAF
4 148 (11.58%) DevOps
5 146 (11.42%) Enterprise Architecture
6 144 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
7 124 (9.70%) Mentoring
8 119 (9.31%) CI/CD
9 113 (8.84%) Technology Strategy
10 112 (8.76%) Data Modelling
11 109 (8.53%) Data Architecture
12 106 (8.29%) Migration
13 105 (8.22%) Analytics
14 93 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (7.20%) Microservices
15 92 (7.20%) Presales
16 91 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 89 (6.96%) IT Strategy
17 89 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (3.83%) Python
2 48 (3.76%) SQL
3 36 (2.82%) Apex Code
3 36 (2.82%) C#
3 36 (2.82%) SOQL
3 36 (2.82%) SOSL
4 32 (2.50%) Java
5 20 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 16 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 14 (1.10%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.70%) Bash
9 8 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.55%) Go
11 6 (0.47%) Bicep
12 3 (0.23%) Scala
13 2 (0.16%) C++
13 2 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.078%) R
14 1 (0.078%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 203 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 153 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 82 (6.42%) Degree
4 43 (3.36%) CISSP
4 43 (3.36%) TOGAF Certification
5 40 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 31 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.64%) CISM
12 16 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.86%) CCNP
15 7 (0.55%) CCIE
15 7 (0.55%) CCSP
16 6 (0.47%) VCAP
16 6 (0.47%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.07%) NIST
2 32 (2.50%) GRC
3 29 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.72%) GDPR
6 21 (1.64%) NCSC
7 17 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.63%) PMO
10 8 (0.63%) QA
11 7 (0.55%) WCAG
12 5 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
13 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.16%) SLA
14 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.078%) PERC
System Software
1 37 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
2 26 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.10%) Docker
3 14 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.70%) vSphere
5 7 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.47%) vCloud
7 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (1.33%) Ansible
3 14 (1.10%) Kubernetes
4 13 (1.02%) Terraform
5 6 (0.47%) Endace
6 3 (0.23%) Avamar
6 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (0.23%) VxRail
7 2 (0.16%) CASB
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.078%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.078%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.078%) Puppet
8 1 (0.078%) Rancher
Vendors
1 180 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.68%) Salesforce
3 35 (2.74%) Databricks
3 35 (2.74%) Google
3 35 (2.74%) Splunk
4 34 (2.66%) Cisco
5 33 (2.58%) Palo Alto
6 29 (2.27%) Oracle
7 27 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
8 25 (1.96%) SAP
9 24 (1.88%) Tenable
10 20 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.49%) VMware
12 14 (1.10%) Juniper
13 13 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.94%) Meraki
15 10 (0.78%) Dell
16 9 (0.70%) NetApp
16 9 (0.70%) Nimble Storage
17 8 (0.63%) CheckPoint