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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 100 29
Rank change year-on-year +74 -71 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,456 589 2,384
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.29% 3.84% 6.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.76% 4.16% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 420 1,568
10th Percentile £63,552 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,500 £67,500 £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 £100,000 £98,474 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £115,000
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 18,758 14,142 33,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 92.12% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,672 8,631 25,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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.

1 411 (28.23%) Azure
2 297 (20.40%) Roadmaps
3 255 (17.51%) AWS
4 246 (16.90%) Microsoft
5 239 (16.41%) Agile
6 222 (15.25%) Security Cleared
7 209 (14.35%) AI
8 200 (13.74%) TOGAF
9 178 (12.23%) Enterprise Architecture
10 177 (12.16%) SC Cleared
11 158 (10.85%) DevOps
12 154 (10.58%) CI/CD
13 152 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
14 144 (9.89%) Technology Strategy
15 130 (8.93%) Mentoring
16 126 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 124 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 124 (8.52%) Data Architecture
18 122 (8.38%) GCP
19 119 (8.17%) Data Modelling
20 116 (7.97%) Presales
21 115 (7.90%) Analytics
22 107 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
23 104 (7.14%) IT Strategy
23 104 (7.14%) Migration
24 103 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
25 102 (7.01%) Event-Driven
25 102 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
26 97 (6.66%) Degree
27 96 (6.59%) Microservices

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 (0.62%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.55%) CMS
3 6 (0.41%) Confluence
4 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.27%) Apache
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.27%) JBoss
5 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.069%) IIS
8 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Revit
5 2 (0.14%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.069%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.069%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 411 (28.23%) Azure
2 255 (17.51%) AWS
3 122 (8.38%) GCP
4 78 (5.36%) SaaS
5 67 (4.60%) Serverless
6 57 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 46 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 40 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (2.20%) PaaS
11 27 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (1.85%) Snowflake
12 26 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (1.10%) IaaS
14 15 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (0.96%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (0.89%) Azure AI
16 13 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 87 (5.98%) Broadband
2 53 (3.64%) WAN
3 50 (3.43%) Network Security
4 39 (2.68%) SD-WAN
5 37 (2.54%) Firewall
6 29 (1.99%) LAN
7 27 (1.85%) MPLS
8 26 (1.79%) VPN
9 15 (1.03%) BGP
9 15 (1.03%) WLAN
10 13 (0.89%) DNS
11 12 (0.82%) HTTP
11 12 (0.82%) SNMP
12 11 (0.76%) IPsec
12 11 (0.76%) SSL
12 11 (0.76%) VSAN
13 10 (0.69%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (0.48%) SSH
15 7 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.46%) Metadata
2 25 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.65%) Power BI
4 21 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.17%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.62%) Tableau
10 7 (0.48%) MySQL
10 7 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (0.41%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.27%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 45 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 34 (2.34%) GitLab
2 34 (2.34%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.72%) Snyk
4 6 (0.41%) Git
5 5 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.14%) MLflow
6 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.069%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.069%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.069%) ERwin
7 1 (0.069%) JMeter
7 1 (0.069%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.069%) Postman
7 1 (0.069%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.069%) Selenium
General
1 255 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 233 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 212 (14.56%) Finance
4 158 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (4.67%) Games
7 61 (4.19%) Law
8 57 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.57%) Marketing
10 47 (3.23%) Retail
11 43 (2.95%) Legal
12 26 (1.79%) Banking
13 25 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.24%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.69%) Back Office
16 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.48%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.41%) Health Technology
19 5 (0.34%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.60%) REST
2 51 (3.50%) SOAP
3 39 (2.68%) .NET
4 36 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.34%) Visualforce
6 29 (1.99%) OAuth
7 28 (1.92%) Middleware
8 25 (1.72%) SAML
9 24 (1.65%) RESTful
10 22 (1.51%) OpenID
11 18 (1.24%) LDAP
12 12 (0.82%) GraphQL
13 11 (0.76%) Node.js
14 9 (0.62%) OpenAPI
14 9 (0.62%) Spring
14 9 (0.62%) Swagger
15 7 (0.48%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.48%) PySpark
16 6 (0.41%) ARM Templates
16 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.40%) Data Centre
3 53 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.61%) Cyberattack
5 29 (1.99%) Management Information System
5 29 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 28 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.24%) PKI
9 15 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (0.82%) IoT
12 11 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.76%) Operational Technology
13 10 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.55%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.82%) Windows
2 8 (0.55%) Linux
3 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (20.40%) Roadmaps
2 239 (16.41%) Agile
3 209 (14.35%) AI
4 200 (13.74%) TOGAF
5 178 (12.23%) Enterprise Architecture
6 158 (10.85%) DevOps
7 154 (10.58%) CI/CD
8 152 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
9 144 (9.89%) Technology Strategy
10 130 (8.93%) Mentoring
11 126 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 124 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (8.52%) Data Architecture
13 119 (8.17%) Data Modelling
14 116 (7.97%) Presales
15 115 (7.90%) Analytics
16 107 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
17 104 (7.14%) IT Strategy
17 104 (7.14%) Migration
18 103 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (3.30%) SQL
2 46 (3.16%) Python
3 36 (2.47%) Apex Code
3 36 (2.47%) SOQL
3 36 (2.47%) SOSL
4 31 (2.13%) C#
5 22 (1.51%) Java
6 19 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 17 (1.17%) Bicep
8 13 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.62%) Go
11 8 (0.55%) Bash
11 8 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.48%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) C++
13 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.14%) X++
14 1 (0.069%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 222 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 177 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 97 (6.66%) Degree
4 51 (3.50%) CISSP
5 48 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 43 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 36 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.85%) CISM
9 27 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.89%) CCNP
14 12 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.76%) VCAP
15 11 (0.76%) VCDX
15 11 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (0.69%) CCIE
17 9 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.56%) NIST
2 55 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.47%) GRC
5 30 (2.06%) NCSC
6 26 (1.79%) GDPR
7 16 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.76%) PMO
10 10 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.55%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.55%) QA
12 7 (0.48%) WCAG
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) vSphere
5 14 (0.96%) Docker
6 12 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.48%) vCloud
8 6 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (1.72%) Terraform
3 18 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.82%) Ansible
5 9 (0.62%) CASB
6 8 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.41%) Avamar
7 6 (0.41%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.41%) VxRail
8 5 (0.34%) Endace
9 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 246 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.37%) Salesforce
3 46 (3.16%) Cisco
4 44 (3.02%) Palo Alto
5 42 (2.88%) Databricks
6 37 (2.54%) Splunk
7 35 (2.40%) Google
8 32 (2.20%) Oracle
9 30 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
9 30 (2.06%) SAP
10 27 (1.85%) VMware
11 25 (1.72%) Tenable
12 21 (1.44%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.24%) Juniper
14 17 (1.17%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.96%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.89%) Dell
16 13 (0.89%) NetApp
16 13 (0.89%) Nimble Storage
17 11 (0.76%) Meraki