Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 701 1,298 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.57% 6.80% 7.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.89% 7.05% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 437 838 1,104
10th Percentile £61,100 £56,809 £62,250
25th Percentile £71,349 £66,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.32% -2.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,333 18,402 19,612
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 96.46% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,145 11,504 16,014
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,836 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.90% -3.61% -

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025, 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.

1 278 (39.66%) Azure
2 171 (24.39%) AWS
3 159 (22.68%) Roadmaps
4 158 (22.54%) Agile
5 133 (18.97%) Microsoft
6 121 (17.26%) AI
7 119 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 119 (16.98%) Data Modelling
7 119 (16.98%) Enterprise Architecture
8 117 (16.69%) Analytics
9 115 (16.41%) Security Cleared
10 109 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (14.27%) TOGAF
12 97 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
13 91 (12.98%) Data Architecture
14 89 (12.70%) DevOps
15 80 (11.41%) Microservices
16 77 (10.98%) Degree
17 76 (10.84%) GCP
17 76 (10.84%) SC Cleared
18 75 (10.70%) Mentoring
19 74 (10.56%) Python
19 74 (10.56%) SaaS
19 74 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 73 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 69 (9.84%) CI/CD
21 69 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
22 68 (9.70%) Data Management
23 66 (9.42%) Decision-Making
24 65 (9.27%) Technical 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 9 (1.28%) JBoss
1 9 (1.28%) WebSphere
2 6 (0.86%) Confluence
3 5 (0.71%) CMS
3 5 (0.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.43%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.43%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 278 (39.66%) Azure
2 171 (24.39%) AWS
3 76 (10.84%) GCP
4 74 (10.56%) SaaS
5 46 (6.56%) Snowflake
6 42 (5.99%) Serverless
7 33 (4.71%) Power Platform
8 32 (4.56%) PaaS
9 30 (4.28%) IaaS
10 24 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 21 (3.00%) OCI
12 18 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.00%) GitHub
14 13 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.28%) Amazon S3
17 8 (1.14%) Entra ID
18 7 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.00%) Broadband
1 21 (3.00%) Firewall
2 17 (2.43%) WAN
3 14 (2.00%) LAN
3 14 (2.00%) VPN
4 10 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.28%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.00%) DHCP
6 7 (1.00%) DNS
7 5 (0.71%) Network Security
8 3 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.43%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.43%) GPON
8 3 (0.43%) InfiniBand
8 3 (0.43%) IPv4
8 3 (0.43%) IPv6
8 3 (0.43%) Junos
8 3 (0.43%) PPP
8 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 21 (3.00%) Metadata
4 17 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.28%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (2.14%) Power BI
7 13 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.57%) Data Vault
9 8 (1.14%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.71%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.71%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.57%) QlikView
11 4 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (4.42%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.43%) GitLab
3 16 (2.28%) SonarQube
4 15 (2.14%) JIRA
5 9 (1.28%) Git
6 6 (0.86%) ER Studio
6 6 (0.86%) ERwin
7 4 (0.57%) MSBuild
7 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 217 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 141 (20.11%) Finance
3 81 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 80 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (7.13%) Retail
7 39 (5.56%) Marketing
8 34 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (4.71%) Law
10 31 (4.42%) Banking
11 28 (3.99%) Legal
12 17 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (2.28%) Games
14 14 (2.00%) Back Office
14 14 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.71%) Electronics
15 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.71%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.85%) .NET
2 32 (4.56%) Node.js
2 32 (4.56%) React
2 32 (4.56%) REST
3 26 (3.71%) SOAP
4 25 (3.57%) Middleware
5 23 (3.28%) React Native
6 17 (2.43%) Lightning Web Components
6 17 (2.43%) Visualforce
7 13 (1.85%) Django
8 12 (1.71%) GraphQL
8 12 (1.71%) Spring
9 11 (1.57%) Hibernate
10 9 (1.28%) gRPC
10 9 (1.28%) Kafka
10 9 (1.28%) Web Services
11 7 (1.00%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.00%) Blazor
11 7 (1.00%) JSON
11 7 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.70%) Data Centre
2 46 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 31 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (4.28%) Virtual Team
7 26 (3.71%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.42%) Mobile App
9 20 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.43%) IoT
11 10 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.28%) DataPower
13 7 (1.00%) CMDB
13 7 (1.00%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.85%) Linux
2 9 (1.28%) Windows
3 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.43%) OpenWrt
4 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (22.68%) Roadmaps
2 158 (22.54%) Agile
3 121 (17.26%) AI
4 119 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 119 (16.98%) Data Modelling
4 119 (16.98%) Enterprise Architecture
5 117 (16.69%) Analytics
6 109 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (14.27%) TOGAF
8 97 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
9 91 (12.98%) Data Architecture
10 89 (12.70%) DevOps
11 80 (11.41%) Microservices
12 75 (10.70%) Mentoring
13 74 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 69 (9.84%) CI/CD
16 68 (9.70%) Data Management
17 66 (9.42%) Decision-Making
18 65 (9.27%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 74 (10.56%) Python
2 64 (9.13%) SQL
3 58 (8.27%) C#
4 45 (6.42%) Java
5 23 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 18 (2.57%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.43%) Apex Code
8 15 (2.14%) SOQL
8 15 (2.14%) SOSL
9 8 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.00%) Bicep
11 6 (0.86%) C++
12 4 (0.57%) Go
13 3 (0.43%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Bash
15 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.14%) PHP
15 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 115 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.98%) Degree
3 76 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 48 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 44 (6.28%) Azure Certification
6 34 (4.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 31 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (4.14%) DV Cleared
9 21 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.71%) CISSP
12 9 (1.28%) CISM
13 8 (1.14%) CCNP
14 7 (1.00%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.57%) CCNA
15 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.28%) GDPR
2 23 (3.28%) NIST
3 19 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.28%) NCSC
6 8 (1.14%) QA
7 7 (1.00%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 35 (4.99%) Docker
2 6 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.43%) Firmware
4 3 (0.43%) GPFS
4 3 (0.43%) Lustre
4 3 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.85%) Terraform
3 22 (3.14%) Ansible
4 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.43%) Endace
7 2 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Autotask
8 1 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) Rancher
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.56%) Databricks
3 30 (4.28%) Google
4 28 (3.99%) SAP
5 22 (3.14%) Oracle
5 22 (3.14%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.85%) Palo Alto
7 19 (2.71%) Adobe
8 18 (2.57%) Apple
9 17 (2.43%) Cisco
9 17 (2.43%) Workday
10 15 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.14%) Splunk
11 7 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.00%) Juniper
12 6 (0.86%) Ariba
13 5 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.71%) Sparx
14 4 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (0.57%) Okta