Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,431 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 100 23
Rank change year-on-year +74 -77 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,697 574 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.37% 3.47% 7.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.84% 3.75% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 390 1,201
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,375 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,313 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £82,132 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +2.66% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 21,645 15,315 23,784
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.47% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,461 9,273 17,019
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,165
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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.

1 518 (30.52%) Azure
2 428 (25.22%) Roadmaps
3 353 (20.80%) Microsoft
4 301 (17.74%) AI
4 301 (17.74%) AWS
5 287 (16.91%) Security Cleared
6 286 (16.85%) Agile
7 240 (14.14%) SC Cleared
8 226 (13.32%) Enterprise Architecture
9 205 (12.08%) Technical Architecture
10 194 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 187 (11.02%) Technology Strategy
12 186 (10.96%) TOGAF
13 174 (10.25%) CI/CD
14 165 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
15 164 (9.66%) Analytics
16 162 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
17 151 (8.90%) Mentoring
18 148 (8.72%) Data Architecture
19 147 (8.66%) DevOps
19 147 (8.66%) Presales
20 145 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
21 142 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
22 140 (8.25%) Decision-Making
22 140 (8.25%) IT Strategy
23 137 (8.07%) GCP
23 137 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
24 134 (7.90%) Business Strategy
25 130 (7.66%) Data Modelling
26 129 (7.60%) Migration

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 22 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.65%) CMS
3 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.29%) Apache
4 5 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.29%) Confluence
5 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.059%) Appian
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.059%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.059%) Revit
7 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
3 9 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.12%) Shopify
8 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.059%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.059%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 518 (30.52%) Azure
2 301 (17.74%) AWS
3 137 (8.07%) GCP
4 100 (5.89%) Power Platform
5 98 (5.77%) SaaS
6 78 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
8 58 (3.42%) Serverless
9 54 (3.18%) Snowflake
10 53 (3.12%) Entra ID
11 52 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
12 38 (2.24%) PaaS
13 36 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
15 30 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
16 28 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
18 24 (1.41%) Amazon Bedrock
18 24 (1.41%) dbt
19 18 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (6.36%) WAN
2 87 (5.13%) LAN
3 61 (3.59%) Network Security
4 48 (2.83%) Broadband
5 39 (2.30%) Firewall
6 38 (2.24%) SD-WAN
7 26 (1.53%) MPLS
8 19 (1.12%) VPN
9 16 (0.94%) DNS
10 14 (0.82%) BGP
10 14 (0.82%) IPsec
10 14 (0.82%) WLAN
11 13 (0.77%) HTTP
11 13 (0.77%) Unified Communications
12 12 (0.71%) VSAN
13 11 (0.65%) CTI
13 11 (0.65%) VLAN
13 11 (0.65%) VoIP
14 10 (0.59%) SNMP
14 10 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.30%) Metadata
2 35 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.83%) Power BI
4 27 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.24%) Delta Lake
7 20 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.12%) Data Vault
9 15 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.71%) Tableau
11 10 (0.59%) MySQL
12 9 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.53%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 3 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
16 3 (0.18%) QGIS
16 3 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.47%) Snyk
3 22 (1.30%) GitLab
4 21 (1.24%) Claude Code
4 21 (1.24%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.59%) Git
6 5 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.12%) ERwin
7 2 (0.12%) MLflow
8 1 (0.059%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.059%) JMeter
8 1 (0.059%) Maven
8 1 (0.059%) Postman
8 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.059%) Selenium
General
1 374 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 346 (20.39%) Finance
3 265 (15.62%) Public Sector
4 202 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (5.89%) Law
6 98 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 93 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
8 80 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.06%) Banking
9 52 (3.06%) Legal
10 42 (2.47%) Retail
11 37 (2.18%) Games
12 36 (2.12%) Marketing
13 15 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.77%) Back Office
16 10 (0.59%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.47%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.41%) Advertising
18 7 (0.41%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.83%) REST
2 42 (2.47%) .NET
2 42 (2.47%) Terraform
3 34 (2.00%) Middleware
4 32 (1.89%) SOAP
5 28 (1.65%) RESTful
6 24 (1.41%) LangChain
6 24 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
7 23 (1.36%) OAuth
8 21 (1.24%) LangGraph
8 21 (1.24%) PySpark
9 20 (1.18%) Visualforce
10 19 (1.12%) SAML
11 13 (0.77%) LDAP
12 12 (0.71%) OpenAPI
12 12 (0.71%) Swagger
13 11 (0.65%) Node.js
13 11 (0.65%) OpenID
14 9 (0.53%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.47%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.89%) Data Centre
3 49 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 33 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 30 (1.77%) Cyberattack
6 30 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.24%) Hedge funds
10 20 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.65%) IVR
13 11 (0.65%) Low-Code
13 11 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (0.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.59%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.47%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.12%) Windows
2 11 (0.65%) Linux
3 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (25.22%) Roadmaps
2 301 (17.74%) AI
3 286 (16.85%) Agile
4 226 (13.32%) Enterprise Architecture
5 205 (12.08%) Technical Architecture
6 194 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 187 (11.02%) Technology Strategy
8 186 (10.96%) TOGAF
9 174 (10.25%) CI/CD
10 165 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
11 164 (9.66%) Analytics
12 162 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
13 151 (8.90%) Mentoring
14 148 (8.72%) Data Architecture
15 147 (8.66%) DevOps
15 147 (8.66%) Presales
16 145 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 142 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
18 140 (8.25%) Decision-Making
18 140 (8.25%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 70 (4.12%) Python
2 62 (3.65%) SQL
3 46 (2.71%) C#
4 27 (1.59%) Bicep
5 24 (1.41%) Apex Code
5 24 (1.41%) Java
6 22 (1.30%) SOQL
6 22 (1.30%) SOSL
7 19 (1.12%) Scala
8 16 (0.94%) Go
9 15 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.24%) C
12 4 (0.24%) Ruby
12 4 (0.24%) Rust
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) ABAP
14 2 (0.12%) C++
14 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 287 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 240 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 116 (6.84%) Degree
4 53 (3.12%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.71%) CISSP
6 43 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 37 (2.18%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.65%) CISM
10 26 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.88%) SnowPro
13 13 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 12 (0.71%) VCAP
14 12 (0.71%) VCDX
15 11 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.65%) CCIE
15 11 (0.65%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.60%) GRC
2 79 (4.66%) NIST
3 69 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.77%) GDPR
6 22 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.30%) NCSC
7 15 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 15 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.53%) QA
10 8 (0.47%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.35%) PMO
11 6 (0.35%) WCAG
12 5 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS
12 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.36%) Docker
5 22 (1.30%) vSphere
6 13 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.41%) vCloud
9 1 (0.059%) Firmware
9 1 (0.059%) iptables
Systems Management
1 48 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.82%) CASB
4 12 (0.71%) Ansible
5 10 (0.59%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.35%) Avamar
6 6 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.35%) VxRail
7 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.24%) SCCM
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
Vendors
1 353 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.83%) Databricks
3 56 (3.30%) Cisco
4 48 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.77%) Palo Alto
6 45 (2.65%) Oracle
7 39 (2.30%) Google
8 37 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.12%) VMware
10 34 (2.00%) SAP
11 29 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
12 27 (1.59%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.47%) Tenable
14 22 (1.30%) Splunk
15 14 (0.82%) Dell
15 14 (0.82%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.82%) Juniper
16 13 (0.77%) NetApp
16 13 (0.77%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.71%) Broadcom