Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,431 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 99 26
Rank change year-on-year +76 -73 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,807 584 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.54% 3.61% 7.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.03% 3.90% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 393 1,025
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% -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 22,503 14,991 22,313
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.61% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,883 8,935 14,520
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 September 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 15 September 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.

1 530 (29.33%) Azure
2 450 (24.90%) Roadmaps
3 368 (20.37%) Microsoft
4 336 (18.59%) AI
5 317 (17.54%) AWS
6 300 (16.60%) Security Cleared
7 296 (16.38%) Agile
8 249 (13.78%) SC Cleared
9 226 (12.51%) Enterprise Architecture
10 219 (12.12%) Technical Architecture
11 209 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 204 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
13 194 (10.74%) Technology Strategy
14 183 (10.13%) TOGAF
15 177 (9.80%) Mentoring
16 174 (9.63%) Data Architecture
17 166 (9.19%) CI/CD
18 165 (9.13%) Analytics
19 162 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
20 157 (8.69%) Presales
21 149 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
22 147 (8.14%) Decision-Making
22 147 (8.14%) IT Strategy
23 141 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
24 140 (7.75%) GCP
25 139 (7.69%) DevOps
25 139 (7.69%) Migration
26 138 (7.64%) Architectural Patterns
27 136 (7.53%) Data Modelling
28 133 (7.36%) Business Strategy

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 23 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.44%) CMS
3 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.055%) Appian
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.11%) Weka
8 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.055%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
2 12 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.055%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.055%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 530 (29.33%) Azure
2 317 (17.54%) AWS
3 140 (7.75%) GCP
4 102 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 102 (5.64%) SaaS
5 84 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (3.60%) Snowflake
7 63 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
8 56 (3.10%) Serverless
9 55 (3.04%) Entra ID
10 54 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
11 45 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
12 41 (2.27%) PaaS
13 37 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 34 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
15 33 (1.83%) Amazon Bedrock
16 27 (1.49%) Azure Databricks
17 25 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
17 25 (1.38%) dbt
18 23 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 104 (5.76%) WAN
2 84 (4.65%) LAN
3 62 (3.43%) Network Security
4 36 (1.99%) Firewall
5 35 (1.94%) SD-WAN
6 31 (1.72%) Broadband
7 25 (1.38%) MPLS
8 19 (1.05%) VPN
9 16 (0.89%) Unified Communications
10 15 (0.83%) DNS
11 14 (0.77%) BGP
11 14 (0.77%) HTTP
11 14 (0.77%) IPsec
12 13 (0.72%) WLAN
13 12 (0.66%) VSAN
14 11 (0.61%) CTI
14 11 (0.61%) SSL
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) VoIP
15 10 (0.55%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.76%) Metadata
2 35 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.88%) Power BI
4 23 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 22 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.22%) Delta Lake
6 20 (1.11%) Data Vault
7 19 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 12 (0.66%) Tableau
9 11 (0.61%) MySQL
10 9 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
11 7 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.33%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.22%) GIS
14 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 36 (1.99%) Claude Code
2 25 (1.38%) Snyk
3 17 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.55%) Git
5 9 (0.50%) GitLab
6 8 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.11%) ERwin
8 2 (0.11%) MLflow
9 1 (0.055%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.055%) JMeter
9 1 (0.055%) Maven
9 1 (0.055%) Postman
9 1 (0.055%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.055%) Selenium
General
1 405 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 393 (21.75%) Finance
3 294 (16.27%) Public Sector
4 191 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (5.81%) Law
6 104 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
7 94 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
8 90 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
9 69 (3.82%) Banking
10 55 (3.04%) Legal
11 43 (2.38%) Retail
12 21 (1.16%) Marketing
13 20 (1.11%) Games
14 18 (1.00%) Back Office
15 17 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.77%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.61%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.50%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.39%) Advertising
19 7 (0.39%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.43%) Middleware
2 43 (2.38%) Terraform
3 40 (2.21%) .NET
4 33 (1.83%) RESTful
5 31 (1.72%) REST
6 27 (1.49%) LangChain
7 24 (1.33%) LangGraph
8 21 (1.16%) OAuth
8 21 (1.16%) PySpark
9 20 (1.11%) SOAP
10 18 (1.00%) SAML
11 16 (0.89%) OpenAPI
11 16 (0.89%) Swagger
12 13 (0.72%) LDAP
13 11 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
15 9 (0.50%) Kafka
15 9 (0.50%) OpenID
15 9 (0.50%) XML
16 8 (0.44%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 69 (3.82%) Data Centre
3 44 (2.43%) AI Agents
4 40 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.66%) Cyberattack
7 30 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (1.66%) Hedge funds
8 20 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 16 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (0.66%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.61%) IVR
13 10 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 10 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.55%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.05%) Windows
2 16 (0.89%) Linux
3 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (24.90%) Roadmaps
2 336 (18.59%) AI
3 296 (16.38%) Agile
4 226 (12.51%) Enterprise Architecture
5 219 (12.12%) Technical Architecture
6 209 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 204 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
8 194 (10.74%) Technology Strategy
9 183 (10.13%) TOGAF
10 177 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 174 (9.63%) Data Architecture
12 166 (9.19%) CI/CD
13 165 (9.13%) Analytics
14 162 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
15 157 (8.69%) Presales
16 149 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 147 (8.14%) Decision-Making
17 147 (8.14%) IT Strategy
18 141 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
19 139 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (3.93%) Python
2 60 (3.32%) SQL
3 49 (2.71%) C#
4 28 (1.55%) Bicep
5 25 (1.38%) Java
6 20 (1.11%) Scala
7 15 (0.83%) Go
8 14 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.50%) SOQL
12 9 (0.50%) SOSL
13 5 (0.28%) Rust
14 4 (0.22%) C
14 4 (0.22%) Ruby
15 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.17%) X++
16 2 (0.11%) ABAP
16 2 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 300 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 249 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.64%) Degree
4 57 (3.15%) Azure Certification
5 48 (2.66%) CISSP
6 45 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.77%) CISM
9 32 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 21 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.89%) SnowPro
14 15 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.66%) VCAP
15 12 (0.66%) VCDX
16 10 (0.55%) CCIE
16 10 (0.55%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.37%) GRC
2 85 (4.70%) NIST
3 74 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.88%) GDPR
6 32 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.38%) NCSC
8 16 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 15 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.44%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.39%) QA
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.33%) PMO
14 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.28%) IFRS
15 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
2 34 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 24 (1.33%) vSphere
5 23 (1.27%) Docker
6 15 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.39%) vCloud
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.055%) iptables
Systems Management
1 48 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.83%) CASB
4 11 (0.61%) Ansible
5 10 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.33%) Avamar
6 6 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.33%) VxRail
7 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.22%) SCCM
9 1 (0.055%) Argo
Vendors
1 368 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.09%) Databricks
3 54 (2.99%) Oracle
4 53 (2.93%) Cisco
5 52 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.55%) Palo Alto
7 39 (2.16%) Google
7 39 (2.16%) VMware
8 33 (1.83%) SAP
9 31 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.38%) Tenable
13 16 (0.89%) NetApp
14 15 (0.83%) Juniper
15 14 (0.77%) Dell
16 13 (0.72%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.72%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.66%) Adobe
17 12 (0.66%) Broadcom