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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 98 26
Rank change year-on-year +73 -72 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,795 601 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.22% 3.60% 7.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% 3.87% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 396 976
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,456 £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 £110,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 23,342 15,548 20,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.24% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 8,763 12,969
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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.

1 514 (28.64%) Azure
2 461 (25.68%) Roadmaps
3 361 (20.11%) Microsoft
4 342 (19.05%) AI
5 306 (17.05%) AWS
6 294 (16.38%) Security Cleared
7 280 (15.60%) Agile
8 243 (13.54%) SC Cleared
9 224 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
10 214 (11.92%) Technical Architecture
11 213 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 212 (11.81%) Enterprise Architecture
13 191 (10.64%) Technology Strategy
14 181 (10.08%) Analytics
15 171 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 170 (9.47%) Mentoring
17 168 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
18 167 (9.30%) Data Architecture
19 166 (9.25%) CI/CD
19 166 (9.25%) TOGAF
20 155 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
21 152 (8.47%) Decision-Making
22 148 (8.25%) IT Strategy
23 146 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
24 145 (8.08%) Migration
24 145 (8.08%) Presales
25 141 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
26 139 (7.74%) Data Modelling
27 135 (7.52%) GCP
28 130 (7.24%) DevOps

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 21 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.39%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.22%) Confluence
5 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.056%) Appian
6 1 (0.056%) JBoss
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.22%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Weka
8 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.056%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.056%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.056%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 514 (28.64%) Azure
2 306 (17.05%) AWS
3 135 (7.52%) GCP
4 110 (6.13%) SaaS
5 106 (5.91%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
7 70 (3.90%) Entra ID
8 63 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
9 61 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 54 (3.01%) Serverless
11 52 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
13 42 (2.34%) PaaS
14 38 (2.12%) Amazon Bedrock
15 36 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (1.50%) Azure Databricks
17 27 (1.50%) dbt
18 26 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
19 25 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.40%) WAN
2 79 (4.40%) LAN
3 57 (3.18%) Network Security
4 31 (1.73%) Firewall
5 30 (1.67%) SD-WAN
6 23 (1.28%) Broadband
6 23 (1.28%) MPLS
7 20 (1.11%) VPN
8 16 (0.89%) DNS
8 16 (0.89%) Unified Communications
9 15 (0.84%) BGP
10 14 (0.78%) HTTP
10 14 (0.78%) IPsec
11 13 (0.72%) WLAN
12 11 (0.61%) CTI
12 11 (0.61%) DHCP
12 11 (0.61%) SSL
12 11 (0.61%) VLAN
12 11 (0.61%) VoIP
13 10 (0.56%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.07%) Metadata
2 38 (2.12%) Power BI
3 27 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.34%) Data Lake
4 24 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 23 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 20 (1.11%) Data Vault
6 20 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 20 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 12 (0.67%) MySQL
7 12 (0.67%) Tableau
8 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
9 8 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.28%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 42 (2.34%) Claude Code
2 18 (1.00%) Snyk
3 10 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.45%) Git
5 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.11%) ERwin
7 2 (0.11%) JIRA
7 2 (0.11%) MLflow
8 1 (0.056%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.056%) JMeter
8 1 (0.056%) Maven
8 1 (0.056%) Postman
8 1 (0.056%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.056%) Selenium
8 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 421 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 418 (23.29%) Finance
3 280 (15.60%) Public Sector
4 164 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (5.85%) Law
6 98 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
7 97 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
8 94 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
9 87 (4.85%) Banking
10 58 (3.23%) Legal
11 51 (2.84%) Retail
12 27 (1.50%) Back Office
13 20 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.72%) Marketing
17 12 (0.67%) French Language
17 12 (0.67%) Games
18 9 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.73%) Terraform
2 48 (2.67%) Middleware
3 39 (2.17%) .NET
4 38 (2.12%) RESTful
5 30 (1.67%) REST
6 26 (1.45%) LangChain
7 24 (1.34%) LangGraph
7 24 (1.34%) OpenAPI
7 24 (1.34%) Swagger
8 22 (1.23%) OAuth
9 21 (1.17%) PySpark
10 18 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
10 18 (1.00%) SAML
11 13 (0.72%) LDAP
11 13 (0.72%) SOAP
12 10 (0.56%) Django
12 10 (0.56%) Kafka
12 10 (0.56%) OpenID
13 9 (0.50%) XML
14 8 (0.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 60 (3.34%) Data Centre
3 53 (2.95%) AI Agents
4 42 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (2.01%) Hedge funds
7 32 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (0.72%) Low-Code
11 13 (0.72%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.67%) IVR
12 12 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.61%) Cyberattack
14 10 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
15 9 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.11%) Linux
2 18 (1.00%) Windows
3 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (25.68%) Roadmaps
2 342 (19.05%) AI
3 280 (15.60%) Agile
4 224 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
5 214 (11.92%) Technical Architecture
6 213 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 212 (11.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 191 (10.64%) Technology Strategy
9 181 (10.08%) Analytics
10 171 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 170 (9.47%) Mentoring
12 168 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
13 167 (9.30%) Data Architecture
14 166 (9.25%) CI/CD
14 166 (9.25%) TOGAF
15 155 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
16 152 (8.47%) Decision-Making
17 148 (8.25%) IT Strategy
18 146 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
19 145 (8.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (4.35%) Python
2 57 (3.18%) SQL
3 53 (2.95%) C#
4 36 (2.01%) Bicep
5 25 (1.39%) Java
6 20 (1.11%) Scala
7 16 (0.89%) Go
8 15 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 14 (0.78%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.33%) Rust
12 5 (0.28%) C
12 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.17%) Ruby
14 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.17%) X++
15 2 (0.11%) ABAP
15 2 (0.11%) SOQL
15 2 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 294 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 243 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.07%) Degree
4 66 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 54 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
6 45 (2.51%) CISSP
7 40 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (2.12%) AWS Certification
9 36 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.73%) CISM
11 29 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.89%) SnowPro
14 14 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.56%) VCAP
17 10 (0.56%) VCDX
18 9 (0.50%) CIPD
19 8 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.85%) GRC
2 77 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.62%) NIST
4 63 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (2.17%) GDPR
6 37 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.34%) NCSC
8 15 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.45%) QA
11 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.33%) PMO
13 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.17%) SLA
16 2 (0.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 34 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.50%) Docker
4 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.23%) vSphere
5 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.28%) vCloud
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) iptables
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.84%) CASB
4 10 (0.56%) Ansible
4 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.50%) Grafana
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%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.33%) VxRail
7 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.22%) SCCM
9 1 (0.056%) Argo
Vendors
1 361 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.85%) Databricks
3 67 (3.73%) Oracle
4 58 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 47 (2.62%) Cisco
6 40 (2.23%) Google
7 35 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 34 (1.89%) SAP
9 33 (1.84%) VMware
10 27 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 27 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
12 18 (1.00%) Tenable
13 16 (0.89%) Juniper
14 14 (0.78%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.78%) NetApp
15 12 (0.67%) Adobe
15 12 (0.67%) Dell
15 12 (0.67%) Genesys
16 11 (0.61%) Avaya