Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £83,781 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 54 32
Rank change year-on-year +25 -22 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,102 700 2,045
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.42% 5.43% 6.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.84% 5.77% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 722 526 1,422
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,584 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,315 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,781 £84,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +5.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,188 £98,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,865 £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 16,107 12,129 30,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 94.01% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,572 8,999 24,602
10th Percentile £31,660 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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.

1 342 (31.03%) Azure
2 239 (21.69%) Roadmaps
3 207 (18.78%) AWS
4 189 (17.15%) Microsoft
5 186 (16.88%) Agile
6 165 (14.97%) Security Cleared
7 158 (14.34%) TOGAF
8 153 (13.88%) AI
9 143 (12.98%) DevOps
10 141 (12.79%) Data Modelling
11 137 (12.43%) Enterprise Architecture
12 133 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 129 (11.71%) Data Architecture
14 122 (11.07%) Analytics
15 120 (10.89%) SC Cleared
16 117 (10.62%) Mentoring
17 115 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
18 102 (9.26%) Migration
19 100 (9.07%) GCP
20 96 (8.71%) Technology Strategy
21 92 (8.35%) CI/CD
22 89 (8.08%) Microservices
23 88 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
24 87 (7.89%) Event-Driven
25 85 (7.71%) Technical Architecture
25 85 (7.71%) Technology Roadmap
26 83 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
27 78 (7.08%) Degree
27 78 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
28 76 (6.90%) Broadband

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 13 (1.18%) JBoss
1 13 (1.18%) SharePoint
1 13 (1.18%) WebSphere
2 11 (1.00%) CMS
3 8 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.091%) Apache
8 1 (0.091%) IIS
8 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.091%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.18%) Revit
3 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
1 14 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
3 12 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
3 12 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
8 1 (0.091%) Actimize
8 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.091%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.091%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.091%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 342 (31.03%) Azure
2 207 (18.78%) AWS
3 100 (9.07%) GCP
4 74 (6.72%) SaaS
5 66 (5.99%) Snowflake
6 57 (5.17%) Serverless
7 53 (4.81%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 23 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.72%) IaaS
11 19 (1.72%) PaaS
12 18 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (1.09%) Azure AI
14 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.82%) GitHub
16 8 (0.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.90%) Broadband
2 28 (2.54%) WAN
3 22 (2.00%) Firewall
4 17 (1.54%) SD-WAN
4 17 (1.54%) VPN
5 16 (1.45%) Network Security
6 15 (1.36%) LAN
7 10 (0.91%) MPLS
8 8 (0.73%) DNS
9 7 (0.64%) DHCP
10 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.45%) BGP
11 5 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.45%) HTTP
11 5 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.45%) SNMP
11 5 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.36%) SSL
12 4 (0.36%) VoIP
13 3 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (3.36%) Metadata
3 27 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 17 (1.54%) Power BI
6 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.64%) Tableau
11 5 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.36%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.36%) GIS
12 4 (0.36%) QGIS
12 4 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.27%) DataStage
13 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (4.99%) Jenkins
2 41 (3.72%) SonarQube
3 40 (3.63%) GitLab
4 6 (0.54%) Git
4 6 (0.54%) Snyk
5 5 (0.45%) ERwin
6 4 (0.36%) JIRA
7 3 (0.27%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.091%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.091%) Subversion
General
1 237 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 179 (16.24%) Finance
3 154 (13.97%) Public Sector
4 115 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (5.99%) Games
7 64 (5.81%) Marketing
8 51 (4.63%) Law
9 45 (4.08%) Retail
10 41 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (3.36%) Legal
12 33 (2.99%) Banking
13 24 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.09%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.81%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.45%) Back Office
17 10 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
20 4 (0.36%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.35%) REST
2 61 (5.54%) SOAP
3 46 (4.17%) .NET
4 40 (3.63%) Lightning Web Components
4 40 (3.63%) Visualforce
5 34 (3.09%) Middleware
6 19 (1.72%) GraphQL
7 18 (1.63%) Spring
8 17 (1.54%) Hibernate
8 17 (1.54%) OAuth
8 17 (1.54%) OpenID
9 15 (1.36%) RESTful
10 13 (1.18%) LDAP
10 13 (1.18%) SAML
11 12 (1.09%) Django
11 12 (1.09%) Node.js
12 10 (0.91%) .NET Core
12 10 (0.91%) Web Services
13 8 (0.73%) React
14 7 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (4.99%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 32 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 25 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.09%) Cyberattack
11 17 (1.54%) PKI
12 15 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.36%) IoT
13 14 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.18%) DataPower
14 13 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.09%) Operational Technology
16 7 (0.64%) Security Posture
17 6 (0.54%) Low-Code
17 6 (0.54%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.45%) Windows
2 13 (1.18%) Linux
3 9 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.27%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (21.69%) Roadmaps
2 186 (16.88%) Agile
3 158 (14.34%) TOGAF
4 153 (13.88%) AI
5 143 (12.98%) DevOps
6 141 (12.79%) Data Modelling
7 137 (12.43%) Enterprise Architecture
8 133 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (11.71%) Data Architecture
10 122 (11.07%) Analytics
11 117 (10.62%) Mentoring
12 115 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
13 102 (9.26%) Migration
14 96 (8.71%) Technology Strategy
15 92 (8.35%) CI/CD
16 89 (8.08%) Microservices
17 88 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (7.89%) Event-Driven
19 85 (7.71%) Technical Architecture
19 85 (7.71%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 56 (5.08%) SQL
2 54 (4.90%) Python
3 45 (4.08%) Java
4 40 (3.63%) Apex Code
4 40 (3.63%) C#
4 40 (3.63%) SOQL
4 40 (3.63%) SOSL
5 21 (1.91%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.81%) PowerShell
7 19 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.82%) Bash
9 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.54%) C++
11 4 (0.36%) Bicep
12 3 (0.27%) C
12 3 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.18%) Scala
14 1 (0.091%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 120 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.08%) Degree
4 49 (4.45%) Azure Certification
5 46 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 39 (3.54%) AWS Certification
7 35 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.09%) CISSP
9 28 (2.54%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.27%) CISM
13 11 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.64%) CCNP
16 4 (0.36%) CCSP
17 3 (0.27%) CCIE
17 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
18 2 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 42 (3.81%) NIST
3 27 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.81%) GDPR
6 17 (1.54%) NCSC
7 12 (1.09%) GRC
8 10 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.73%) QA
10 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.45%) PMO
10 5 (0.45%) WCAG
11 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) IFRS
13 1 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.72%) Docker
3 18 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.18%) vCloud
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.091%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (1.91%) Ansible
2 20 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.54%) Terraform
4 16 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.54%) Endace
6 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.18%) CASB
8 1 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.091%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.091%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.091%) Puppet
8 1 (0.091%) Rancher
Vendors
1 189 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.36%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.72%) Splunk
4 37 (3.36%) Google
5 34 (3.09%) Databricks
6 26 (2.36%) Oracle
6 26 (2.36%) SAP
7 23 (2.09%) Cisco
8 16 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.18%) VMware
10 12 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 10 (0.91%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.73%) Meraki
13 7 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.64%) F5
13 7 (0.64%) Juniper
13 7 (0.64%) Okta
14 6 (0.54%) N-able
14 6 (0.54%) Sophos
14 6 (0.54%) Tenable