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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 105 23
Rank change year-on-year +80 -82 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,636 591 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.35% 3.58% 7.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.81% 3.89% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 409 1,215
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,625 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,150 £125,000
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 20,956 15,194 24,337
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.07% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,101 9,406 17,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4 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 4 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 (31.66%) Azure
2 399 (24.39%) Roadmaps
3 349 (21.33%) Microsoft
4 289 (17.67%) Security Cleared
5 287 (17.54%) AWS
6 281 (17.18%) Agile
7 271 (16.56%) AI
8 240 (14.67%) SC Cleared
9 225 (13.75%) Enterprise Architecture
10 207 (12.65%) Technical Architecture
11 196 (11.98%) TOGAF
12 184 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 176 (10.76%) Technology Strategy
14 175 (10.70%) CI/CD
15 164 (10.02%) DevOps
16 162 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
17 157 (9.60%) Analytics
18 151 (9.23%) Mentoring
19 148 (9.05%) Presales
20 143 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
20 143 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
21 135 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
22 134 (8.19%) Data Architecture
23 133 (8.13%) IT Strategy
24 132 (8.07%) Business Strategy
24 132 (8.07%) Data Modelling
25 130 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
26 129 (7.89%) Decision-Making
26 129 (7.89%) Migration
27 128 (7.82%) GCP

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 11 (0.67%) CMS
1 11 (0.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.31%) Confluence
2 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.18%) Apache
3 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.18%) SAS
4 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.061%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.12%) Shopify
8 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.061%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 518 (31.66%) Azure
2 287 (17.54%) AWS
3 128 (7.82%) GCP
4 97 (5.93%) Power Platform
5 85 (5.20%) SaaS
6 74 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
8 58 (3.55%) Serverless
9 55 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 47 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 38 (2.32%) PaaS
13 35 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 33 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (1.77%) Anthropic Claude
16 25 (1.53%) dbt
17 21 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
19 18 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
20 17 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.85%) WAN
2 88 (5.38%) LAN
3 59 (3.61%) Network Security
4 57 (3.48%) Broadband
5 39 (2.38%) Firewall
5 39 (2.38%) SD-WAN
6 29 (1.77%) MPLS
7 23 (1.41%) VPN
8 16 (0.98%) BGP
8 16 (0.98%) DNS
8 16 (0.98%) HTTP
9 14 (0.86%) IPsec
9 14 (0.86%) WLAN
10 13 (0.79%) SNMP
11 12 (0.73%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.73%) VoIP
11 12 (0.73%) VSAN
12 11 (0.67%) CTI
12 11 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.22%) Metadata
2 31 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.71%) Power BI
4 26 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 19 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.98%) Delta Lake
9 15 (0.92%) Data Vault
10 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.67%) Tableau
11 8 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.49%) MySQL
12 7 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 40 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.71%) GitLab
3 27 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 25 (1.53%) Snyk
5 15 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 8 (0.49%) Git
7 5 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.12%) MLflow
9 1 (0.061%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.061%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.061%) ERwin
9 1 (0.061%) JMeter
9 1 (0.061%) Maven
9 1 (0.061%) Postman
9 1 (0.061%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.061%) Selenium
General
1 362 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 321 (19.62%) Finance
3 249 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 198 (12.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (5.99%) Law
6 96 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (3.24%) Legal
10 46 (2.81%) Retail
11 44 (2.69%) Games
12 43 (2.63%) Marketing
13 41 (2.51%) Banking
14 20 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.67%) Back Office
17 9 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.49%) Health Technology
19 7 (0.43%) Advertising
20 6 (0.37%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.42%) REST
2 39 (2.38%) SOAP
3 38 (2.32%) .NET
4 30 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
5 28 (1.71%) Middleware
5 28 (1.71%) OAuth
6 26 (1.59%) RESTful
6 26 (1.59%) Visualforce
7 24 (1.47%) SAML
8 18 (1.10%) LDAP
9 17 (1.04%) LangChain
9 17 (1.04%) PySpark
10 16 (0.98%) OpenID
11 15 (0.92%) LangGraph
12 11 (0.67%) Node.js
12 11 (0.67%) OpenAPI
12 11 (0.67%) Swagger
13 8 (0.49%) XML
14 7 (0.43%) Django
14 7 (0.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.16%) Data Centre
3 54 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 32 (1.96%) Cyberattack
6 31 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 29 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.22%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 14 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.67%) IVR
14 11 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
15 10 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
17 8 (0.49%) IoT
17 8 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.04%) Windows
2 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (24.39%) Roadmaps
2 281 (17.18%) Agile
3 271 (16.56%) AI
4 225 (13.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 207 (12.65%) Technical Architecture
6 196 (11.98%) TOGAF
7 184 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 176 (10.76%) Technology Strategy
9 175 (10.70%) CI/CD
10 164 (10.02%) DevOps
11 162 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
12 157 (9.60%) Analytics
13 151 (9.23%) Mentoring
14 148 (9.05%) Presales
15 143 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 143 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
16 135 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 134 (8.19%) Data Architecture
18 133 (8.13%) IT Strategy
19 132 (8.07%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 63 (3.85%) Python
2 55 (3.36%) SQL
3 40 (2.44%) C#
4 30 (1.83%) Apex Code
5 28 (1.71%) SOQL
5 28 (1.71%) SOSL
6 25 (1.53%) Bicep
7 20 (1.22%) Java
8 18 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.92%) Scala
10 14 (0.86%) Go
11 12 (0.73%) JavaScript
12 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.24%) C
13 4 (0.24%) Ruby
14 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.12%) Bash
15 2 (0.12%) C++
15 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 240 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 112 (6.85%) Degree
4 47 (2.87%) Azure Certification
4 47 (2.87%) CISSP
5 40 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
6 33 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.47%) CISM
11 22 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.79%) CCNP
13 12 (0.73%) VCAP
13 12 (0.73%) VCDX
13 12 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (0.67%) SnowPro
15 10 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.61%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.81%) GRC
2 77 (4.71%) NIST
3 70 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.77%) GDPR
6 23 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.34%) NCSC
8 15 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.55%) QA
12 8 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.49%) PMO
13 7 (0.43%) WCAG
14 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.31%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 35 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.28%) vSphere
5 19 (1.16%) Docker
6 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 43 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.14%) Terraform
3 26 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.79%) CASB
5 12 (0.73%) Ansible
6 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.37%) Avamar
7 6 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.37%) VxRail
8 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.18%) Endace
10 2 (0.12%) SCCM
11 1 (0.061%) Argo
Vendors
1 349 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.22%) Databricks
3 58 (3.55%) Cisco
4 51 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.87%) Palo Alto
6 39 (2.38%) Oracle
7 31 (1.89%) SAP
7 31 (1.89%) VMware
8 29 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
8 29 (1.77%) Google
8 29 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.71%) Splunk
10 26 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.53%) Tenable
12 15 (0.92%) Juniper
13 14 (0.86%) Dell
13 14 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.79%) NetApp
14 13 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
15 12 (0.73%) Broadcom