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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 96 29
Rank change year-on-year +70 -67 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,485 604 2,394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.30% 3.88% 6.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.77% 4.21% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 441 1,576
10th Percentile £63,744 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,750 £68,250 £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 19,113 14,337 33,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 92.14% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13,948 8,797 25,968
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,922
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 23 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 23 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.

1 427 (28.75%) Azure
2 307 (20.67%) Roadmaps
3 264 (17.78%) AWS
4 259 (17.44%) Microsoft
5 252 (16.97%) Agile
6 227 (15.29%) Security Cleared
7 211 (14.21%) AI
8 206 (13.87%) TOGAF
9 188 (12.66%) Enterprise Architecture
10 181 (12.19%) SC Cleared
11 168 (11.31%) CI/CD
12 167 (11.25%) DevOps
13 150 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
13 150 (10.10%) Technology Strategy
14 135 (9.09%) Mentoring
15 132 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 129 (8.69%) Data Architecture
16 129 (8.69%) GCP
17 125 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 124 (8.35%) Data Modelling
19 118 (7.95%) Analytics
20 115 (7.74%) Presales
20 115 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
21 109 (7.34%) IT Strategy
22 107 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
23 105 (7.07%) Event-Driven
24 103 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
25 101 (6.80%) Migration
26 100 (6.73%) Decision-Making
26 100 (6.73%) 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 8 (0.54%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.47%) CMS
3 6 (0.40%) Confluence
4 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) Apache
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.20%) JBoss
5 3 (0.20%) SAS
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) Revit
5 2 (0.13%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.067%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.067%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.067%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 427 (28.75%) Azure
2 264 (17.78%) AWS
3 129 (8.69%) GCP
4 79 (5.32%) SaaS
5 65 (4.38%) Serverless
6 59 (3.97%) Power Platform
7 48 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 44 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (2.29%) PaaS
11 29 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 27 (1.82%) Snowflake
14 16 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (1.08%) IaaS
15 15 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
17 13 (0.88%) Azure AI
17 13 (0.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 86 (5.79%) Broadband
2 54 (3.64%) WAN
3 52 (3.50%) Network Security
4 40 (2.69%) SD-WAN
5 36 (2.42%) Firewall
6 29 (1.95%) LAN
7 27 (1.82%) MPLS
8 26 (1.75%) VPN
9 16 (1.08%) BGP
10 15 (1.01%) WLAN
11 14 (0.94%) DNS
12 13 (0.88%) HTTP
12 13 (0.88%) SNMP
13 12 (0.81%) IPsec
13 12 (0.81%) VSAN
14 11 (0.74%) SSL
15 10 (0.67%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
16 9 (0.61%) VLAN
17 8 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.58%) Metadata
2 24 (1.62%) Power BI
2 24 (1.62%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 21 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 18 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.61%) Tableau
8 8 (0.54%) Delta Lake
9 7 (0.47%) MySQL
9 7 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.40%) Data Vault
11 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 47 (3.16%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.36%) GitLab
3 34 (2.29%) SonarQube
4 25 (1.68%) Snyk
5 7 (0.47%) Git
6 5 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
7 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.067%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.067%) ERwin
8 1 (0.067%) JMeter
8 1 (0.067%) Postman
8 1 (0.067%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.067%) Selenium
General
1 260 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 241 (16.23%) Public Sector
3 222 (14.95%) Finance
4 154 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (4.58%) Games
7 61 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (4.04%) Law
9 52 (3.50%) Marketing
10 50 (3.37%) Retail
11 46 (3.10%) Legal
12 28 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.68%) Banking
14 22 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.61%) Back Office
18 7 (0.47%) Aviation
18 7 (0.47%) Financial Institution
19 6 (0.40%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.58%) REST
2 52 (3.50%) SOAP
3 38 (2.56%) .NET
4 37 (2.49%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.29%) Visualforce
6 31 (2.09%) OAuth
7 29 (1.95%) Middleware
8 26 (1.75%) SAML
9 24 (1.62%) RESTful
10 22 (1.48%) OpenID
11 18 (1.21%) LDAP
12 12 (0.81%) Node.js
13 11 (0.74%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.61%) OpenAPI
14 9 (0.61%) PySpark
14 9 (0.61%) Swagger
15 8 (0.54%) Spring
16 7 (0.47%) .NET Core
16 7 (0.47%) ARM Templates
17 6 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 92 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.51%) Data Centre
3 55 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.56%) Cyberattack
5 30 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 27 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 24 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.08%) PKI
10 14 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.81%) IoT
11 12 (0.81%) Operational Technology
12 11 (0.74%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (0.54%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.94%) Windows
2 8 (0.54%) Linux
3 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (20.67%) Roadmaps
2 252 (16.97%) Agile
3 211 (14.21%) AI
4 206 (13.87%) TOGAF
5 188 (12.66%) Enterprise Architecture
6 168 (11.31%) CI/CD
7 167 (11.25%) DevOps
8 150 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
8 150 (10.10%) Technology Strategy
9 135 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 132 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 129 (8.69%) Data Architecture
12 125 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 124 (8.35%) Data Modelling
14 118 (7.95%) Analytics
15 115 (7.74%) Presales
15 115 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
16 109 (7.34%) IT Strategy
17 107 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
18 105 (7.07%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 51 (3.43%) Python
2 50 (3.37%) SQL
3 37 (2.49%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.42%) SOQL
4 36 (2.42%) SOSL
5 32 (2.15%) C#
6 24 (1.62%) Java
7 19 (1.28%) Bicep
8 18 (1.21%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.81%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.67%) Go
12 9 (0.61%) Scala
13 8 (0.54%) Bash
13 8 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.13%) C++
14 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.13%) Ruby
14 2 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 227 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.67%) Degree
4 50 (3.37%) CISSP
5 48 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.75%) CISM
10 26 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.88%) CCNP
14 12 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.81%) VCAP
14 12 (0.81%) VCDX
14 12 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (0.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.52%) NIST
2 55 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.49%) GRC
5 29 (1.95%) NCSC
6 28 (1.89%) GDPR
7 16 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.74%) PMO
9 11 (0.74%) QA
10 10 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.47%) WCAG
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 39 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 39 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 23 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.21%) vSphere
4 17 (1.14%) Docker
5 13 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.47%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 29 (1.95%) Terraform
2 27 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 13 (0.88%) Ansible
5 9 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.54%) CASB
7 6 (0.40%) Avamar
7 6 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.40%) VxRail
8 5 (0.34%) Endace
8 5 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 259 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.50%) Salesforce
3 47 (3.16%) Cisco
4 45 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 44 (2.96%) Databricks
6 37 (2.49%) Google
6 37 (2.49%) Splunk
7 36 (2.42%) Oracle
8 32 (2.15%) SAP
9 30 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (1.82%) VMware
11 25 (1.68%) Tenable
12 21 (1.41%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.21%) Juniper
14 17 (1.14%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.94%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.88%) Dell
16 13 (0.88%) NetApp
16 13 (0.88%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.81%) Broadcom