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 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 96 29
Rank change year-on-year +70 -67 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,443 586 2,376
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.27% 3.83% 6.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.72% 4.16% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 996 417 1,564
10th Percentile £63,440 £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 18,682 14,102 33,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.10% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,628 8,606 25,946
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
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 £77,938 £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 15 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 15 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.

1 405 (28.07%) Azure
2 289 (20.03%) Roadmaps
3 253 (17.53%) AWS
4 240 (16.63%) Microsoft
5 235 (16.29%) Agile
6 218 (15.11%) Security Cleared
7 201 (13.93%) AI
8 199 (13.79%) TOGAF
9 177 (12.27%) Enterprise Architecture
10 174 (12.06%) SC Cleared
11 155 (10.74%) DevOps
12 154 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
13 148 (10.26%) CI/CD
14 141 (9.77%) Technology Strategy
15 127 (8.80%) Mentoring
16 124 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 121 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 119 (8.25%) GCP
19 117 (8.11%) Data Architecture
20 116 (8.04%) Data Modelling
21 114 (7.90%) Presales
22 112 (7.76%) Analytics
23 104 (7.21%) Migration
24 103 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
25 102 (7.07%) IT Strategy
26 101 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
27 100 (6.93%) Event-Driven
28 99 (6.86%) Degree
28 99 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
29 95 (6.58%) 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 10 (0.69%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.62%) CMS
3 7 (0.49%) Confluence
4 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.28%) JBoss
4 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.21%) Apache
5 3 (0.21%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.069%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.35%) 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%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
1 13 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
1 13 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.28%) 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
1 405 (28.07%) Azure
2 253 (17.53%) AWS
3 119 (8.25%) GCP
4 77 (5.34%) SaaS
5 66 (4.57%) Serverless
6 54 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 46 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 37 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.15%) PaaS
11 26 (1.80%) Snowflake
12 25 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
14 15 (1.04%) IaaS
15 14 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (0.90%) Nutanix
17 12 (0.83%) Azure AI
17 12 (0.83%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 87 (6.03%) Broadband
2 54 (3.74%) WAN
3 51 (3.53%) Network Security
4 40 (2.77%) SD-WAN
5 38 (2.63%) Firewall
6 30 (2.08%) LAN
7 27 (1.87%) MPLS
7 27 (1.87%) VPN
8 16 (1.11%) WLAN
9 15 (1.04%) BGP
10 13 (0.90%) DNS
11 12 (0.83%) HTTP
11 12 (0.83%) 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 (0.49%) FTP
15 7 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.23%) Metadata
2 25 (1.73%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.59%) Power BI
4 21 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.62%) Tableau
10 7 (0.49%) MySQL
11 6 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (0.35%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.28%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.21%) Big Data
14 3 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 44 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 34 (2.36%) GitLab
2 34 (2.36%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.73%) Snyk
4 6 (0.42%) Git
5 5 (0.35%) 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
1 254 (17.60%) Social Skills
2 230 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 208 (14.41%) Finance
4 156 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (4.71%) Games
7 61 (4.23%) Law
8 54 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (3.67%) Marketing
10 45 (3.12%) Retail
11 43 (2.98%) Legal
12 26 (1.80%) Banking
13 25 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.76%) Back Office
17 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
19 6 (0.42%) Health Technology
20 5 (0.35%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.64%) REST
2 51 (3.53%) SOAP
3 37 (2.56%) .NET
4 36 (2.49%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.36%) Visualforce
6 29 (2.01%) OAuth
7 27 (1.87%) Middleware
8 25 (1.73%) SAML
9 23 (1.59%) RESTful
10 22 (1.52%) OpenID
11 18 (1.25%) LDAP
12 12 (0.83%) GraphQL
13 10 (0.69%) Node.js
14 9 (0.62%) Spring
15 8 (0.55%) OpenAPI
15 8 (0.55%) Swagger
16 7 (0.49%) .NET Core
17 6 (0.42%) PySpark
17 6 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
18 5 (0.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.47%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 52 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.63%) Cyberattack
5 29 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.01%) Virtual Team
6 28 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 22 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.25%) PKI
9 14 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (0.76%) IoT
10 11 (0.76%) Low-Code
10 11 (0.76%) Operational Technology
11 10 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (0.55%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.90%) Windows
2 7 (0.49%) Linux
3 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (20.03%) Roadmaps
2 235 (16.29%) Agile
3 201 (13.93%) AI
4 199 (13.79%) TOGAF
5 177 (12.27%) Enterprise Architecture
6 155 (10.74%) DevOps
7 154 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
8 148 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 141 (9.77%) Technology Strategy
10 127 (8.80%) Mentoring
11 124 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 121 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (8.11%) Data Architecture
14 116 (8.04%) Data Modelling
15 114 (7.90%) Presales
16 112 (7.76%) Analytics
17 104 (7.21%) Migration
18 103 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
19 102 (7.07%) IT Strategy
20 101 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (3.12%) Python
1 45 (3.12%) SQL
2 36 (2.49%) Apex Code
2 36 (2.49%) SOQL
2 36 (2.49%) SOSL
3 31 (2.15%) C#
4 24 (1.66%) Java
5 20 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.04%) TypeScript
7 14 (0.97%) Bicep
8 12 (0.83%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.62%) Go
10 8 (0.55%) Bash
10 8 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.42%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) C++
12 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.069%) R
13 1 (0.069%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 218 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 174 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.86%) Degree
4 51 (3.53%) CISSP
5 49 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 42 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.87%) CISM
10 27 (1.87%) DV Cleared
11 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.90%) CCNP
14 12 (0.83%) (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 (5.61%) NIST
2 55 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (3.12%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.49%) GRC
5 29 (2.01%) NCSC
6 25 (1.73%) GDPR
7 16 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.76%) Accessibility
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 (0.49%) WCAG
13 5 (0.35%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.18%) vSphere
5 13 (0.90%) Docker
6 12 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.49%) vCloud
8 6 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (1.46%) Terraform
3 16 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.83%) Ansible
5 9 (0.62%) CASB
6 8 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.42%) Avamar
7 6 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.42%) VxRail
8 5 (0.35%) Endace
9 4 (0.28%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.069%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 240 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.40%) Salesforce
3 46 (3.19%) Cisco
4 44 (3.05%) Palo Alto
5 40 (2.77%) Databricks
6 37 (2.56%) Splunk
7 35 (2.43%) Google
8 31 (2.15%) Oracle
9 30 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
10 29 (2.01%) SAP
11 27 (1.87%) VMware
12 25 (1.73%) Tenable
13 21 (1.46%) ServiceNow
14 18 (1.25%) Juniper
15 17 (1.18%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.97%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.90%) Dell
17 13 (0.90%) NetApp
17 13 (0.90%) Nimble Storage
18 12 (0.83%) Meraki