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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 92 29
Rank change year-on-year +67 -63 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,570 638 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.37% 3.87% 7.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.84% 4.19% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,111 444 1,486
10th Percentile £63,744 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £71,659 £67,500 £70,000
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 £107,500 £107,850 £116,250
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 20,031 15,209 30,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,594 9,441 23,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £57,098
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.58% -8.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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.

1 484 (30.83%) Azure
2 358 (22.80%) Roadmaps
3 314 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 292 (18.60%) Agile
5 287 (18.28%) AWS
6 274 (17.45%) Security Cleared
7 246 (15.67%) AI
8 225 (14.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 225 (14.33%) SC Cleared
9 215 (13.69%) TOGAF
10 180 (11.46%) CI/CD
10 180 (11.46%) DevOps
11 177 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 175 (11.15%) Technology Strategy
13 167 (10.64%) Technical Architecture
14 162 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
15 154 (9.81%) Mentoring
16 147 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (8.85%) Analytics
17 139 (8.85%) Data Architecture
18 134 (8.54%) GCP
19 133 (8.47%) Presales
20 131 (8.34%) Data Modelling
21 129 (8.22%) IT Strategy
22 128 (8.15%) Migration
23 127 (8.09%) Technical Leadership
24 125 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
25 114 (7.26%) Decision-Making
26 112 (7.13%) Event-Driven
27 110 (7.01%) Problem-Solving

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 10 (0.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.51%) CMS
3 6 (0.38%) Confluence
4 5 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) Apache
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.13%) JBoss
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.064%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Revit
6 2 (0.13%) ArchiCAD
6 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.064%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
2 11 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
3 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.064%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.064%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.064%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 484 (30.83%) Azure
2 287 (18.28%) AWS
3 134 (8.54%) GCP
4 92 (5.86%) Power Platform
5 83 (5.29%) SaaS
6 70 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.89%) Serverless
8 51 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (3.12%) Entra ID
10 37 (2.36%) PaaS
11 34 (2.17%) Snowflake
12 33 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 30 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (1.46%) dbt
16 17 (1.08%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (1.02%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.67%) WAN
2 75 (4.78%) Broadband
3 62 (3.95%) LAN
4 59 (3.76%) Network Security
5 42 (2.68%) SD-WAN
6 38 (2.42%) Firewall
7 29 (1.85%) MPLS
7 29 (1.85%) VPN
8 18 (1.15%) BGP
9 16 (1.02%) DNS
10 15 (0.96%) HTTP
10 15 (0.96%) SNMP
10 15 (0.96%) WLAN
11 14 (0.89%) IPsec
12 13 (0.83%) SSL
13 12 (0.76%) VoIP
13 12 (0.76%) VSAN
14 11 (0.70%) CTI
14 11 (0.70%) VLAN
15 10 (0.64%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.71%) Metadata
2 24 (1.53%) Power BI
2 24 (1.53%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.46%) Data Lake
4 22 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.21%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.64%) Delta Lake
10 9 (0.57%) Data Vault
10 9 (0.57%) Tableau
11 7 (0.45%) MySQL
11 7 (0.45%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.23%) GitLab
2 35 (2.23%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.59%) Snyk
4 7 (0.45%) Git
5 5 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 1 (0.064%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.064%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.064%) ERwin
8 1 (0.064%) JMeter
8 1 (0.064%) Maven
8 1 (0.064%) Postman
8 1 (0.064%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.064%) Selenium
8 1 (0.064%) TeamCity
General
1 334 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 271 (17.26%) Finance
3 251 (15.99%) Public Sector
4 193 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (6.24%) Law
6 92 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (3.82%) Games
10 53 (3.38%) Legal
11 51 (3.25%) Marketing
12 50 (3.18%) Retail
13 30 (1.91%) Banking
14 21 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.70%) Back Office
17 9 (0.57%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.45%) Aviation
20 6 (0.38%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.27%) REST
2 51 (3.25%) SOAP
3 37 (2.36%) .NET
3 37 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (2.17%) Visualforce
5 32 (2.04%) OAuth
6 27 (1.72%) Middleware
6 27 (1.72%) RESTful
7 26 (1.66%) SAML
8 20 (1.27%) OpenID
9 16 (1.02%) LDAP
10 12 (0.76%) Node.js
11 11 (0.70%) OpenAPI
11 11 (0.70%) PySpark
11 11 (0.70%) Swagger
12 8 (0.51%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.51%) Kafka
13 7 (0.45%) .NET Core
13 7 (0.45%) ARM Templates
13 7 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 106 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.39%) Data Centre
3 58 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.29%) Cyberattack
5 33 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (0.89%) PKI
12 13 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.76%) IoT
14 11 (0.70%) IVR
14 11 (0.70%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 9 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
17 8 (0.51%) Onboarding
17 8 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.08%) Windows
2 9 (0.57%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (22.80%) Roadmaps
2 292 (18.60%) Agile
3 246 (15.67%) AI
4 225 (14.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 215 (13.69%) TOGAF
6 180 (11.46%) CI/CD
6 180 (11.46%) DevOps
7 177 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 175 (11.15%) Technology Strategy
9 167 (10.64%) Technical Architecture
10 162 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
11 154 (9.81%) Mentoring
12 147 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 139 (8.85%) Analytics
13 139 (8.85%) Data Architecture
14 133 (8.47%) Presales
15 131 (8.34%) Data Modelling
16 129 (8.22%) IT Strategy
17 128 (8.15%) Migration
18 127 (8.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (3.31%) Python
2 51 (3.25%) SQL
3 37 (2.36%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.29%) SOQL
4 36 (2.29%) SOSL
5 28 (1.78%) C#
6 23 (1.46%) Java
7 21 (1.34%) Bicep
8 18 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.64%) Go
10 10 (0.64%) Scala
11 9 (0.57%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.38%) Bash
12 6 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.13%) C++
14 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 274 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 225 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.62%) Degree
4 53 (3.38%) CISSP
5 46 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.97%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.72%) CISM
11 24 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.83%) CCNP
15 12 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.76%) VCAP
15 12 (0.76%) VCDX
15 12 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 11 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.35%) NIST
2 68 (4.33%) GRC
3 62 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 57 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.85%) GDPR
6 28 (1.78%) NCSC
7 22 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.70%) PMO
11 11 (0.70%) QA
12 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.45%) WCAG
14 5 (0.32%) IFRS
15 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.25%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.27%) vSphere
5 17 (1.08%) Docker
6 13 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.45%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 33 (2.10%) Terraform
2 30 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (0.89%) Ansible
5 11 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.64%) CASB
7 6 (0.38%) Avamar
7 6 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.38%) VxRail
8 5 (0.32%) Endace
8 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.064%) Argo
Vendors
1 314 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.89%) Cisco
3 54 (3.44%) Salesforce
4 47 (2.99%) Databricks
4 47 (2.99%) Palo Alto
5 39 (2.48%) Google
5 39 (2.48%) Oracle
6 36 (2.29%) Splunk
7 31 (1.97%) SAP
8 30 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (1.85%) VMware
10 27 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 25 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.59%) Tenable
12 18 (1.15%) Juniper
13 14 (0.89%) Dell
13 14 (0.89%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.83%) NetApp
14 13 (0.83%) Nimble Storage
15 12 (0.76%) Broadcom