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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 105 26
Rank change year-on-year +81 -79 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,820 584 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.33% 3.53% 7.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.81% 3.80% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 386 988
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 £108,125 £125,000
UK median annual salary £88,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 23,294 15,382 21,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.90% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16,189 8,750 13,539
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 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 29 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.

1 527 (28.96%) Azure
2 464 (25.49%) Roadmaps
3 366 (20.11%) Microsoft
4 344 (18.90%) AI
5 320 (17.58%) AWS
6 302 (16.59%) Security Cleared
7 283 (15.55%) Agile
8 252 (13.85%) SC Cleared
9 223 (12.25%) Enterprise Architecture
10 220 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
11 219 (12.03%) Technical Architecture
12 213 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 199 (10.93%) Technology Strategy
14 181 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 178 (9.78%) TOGAF
16 176 (9.67%) Analytics
17 174 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
18 172 (9.45%) CI/CD
19 168 (9.23%) Data Architecture
20 167 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
21 154 (8.46%) IT Strategy
22 151 (8.30%) Decision-Making
22 151 (8.30%) Presales
23 146 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
24 143 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
25 142 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
25 142 (7.80%) Migration
26 139 (7.64%) GCP
27 138 (7.58%) Data Modelling
27 138 (7.58%) 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 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.38%) CMS
4 5 (0.27%) Apache
4 5 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.055%) Appian
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Weka
8 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 15 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.055%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.055%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.055%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.055%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 527 (28.96%) Azure
2 320 (17.58%) AWS
3 139 (7.64%) GCP
4 109 (5.99%) SaaS
5 105 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (3.63%) Entra ID
8 64 (3.52%) Snowflake
9 63 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
10 59 (3.24%) Serverless
11 55 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 43 (2.36%) PaaS
14 39 (2.14%) Amazon Bedrock
15 35 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
17 30 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 27 (1.48%) Azure Databricks
19 26 (1.43%) dbt
20 25 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.38%) WAN
2 80 (4.40%) LAN
3 62 (3.41%) Network Security
4 34 (1.87%) Firewall
5 30 (1.65%) SD-WAN
6 23 (1.26%) Broadband
6 23 (1.26%) MPLS
7 20 (1.10%) VPN
8 16 (0.88%) DNS
8 16 (0.88%) Unified Communications
9 15 (0.82%) BGP
10 14 (0.77%) HTTP
10 14 (0.77%) IPsec
11 13 (0.71%) WLAN
12 11 (0.60%) CTI
12 11 (0.60%) DHCP
12 11 (0.60%) SSL
12 11 (0.60%) VLAN
12 11 (0.60%) VoIP
13 10 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.00%) Metadata
2 37 (2.03%) Power BI
3 28 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 26 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 22 (1.21%) Delta Lake
7 20 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 20 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 12 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.66%) Tableau
10 11 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (0.60%) MySQL
11 9 (0.49%) Metadata Repository
12 8 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.27%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 42 (2.31%) Claude Code
2 25 (1.37%) Snyk
3 10 (0.55%) Git
3 10 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.11%) ERwin
5 2 (0.11%) GitLab
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 1 (0.055%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.055%) JIRA
6 1 (0.055%) JMeter
6 1 (0.055%) Maven
6 1 (0.055%) Postman
6 1 (0.055%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.055%) Selenium
6 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 416 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 409 (22.47%) Finance
3 295 (16.21%) Public Sector
4 179 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (5.66%) Law
5 103 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 97 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 92 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
8 79 (4.34%) Banking
9 57 (3.13%) Legal
10 46 (2.53%) Retail
11 21 (1.15%) Back Office
12 16 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 16 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.77%) Marketing
15 12 (0.66%) Games
15 12 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.44%) French Language
17 7 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.75%) Middleware
2 47 (2.58%) Terraform
3 38 (2.09%) .NET
4 35 (1.92%) RESTful
5 29 (1.59%) REST
6 27 (1.48%) LangChain
7 24 (1.32%) LangGraph
8 22 (1.21%) OAuth
9 21 (1.15%) PySpark
10 19 (1.04%) OpenAPI
10 19 (1.04%) SAML
10 19 (1.04%) Swagger
11 15 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.77%) LDAP
13 13 (0.71%) SOAP
14 10 (0.55%) Kafka
14 10 (0.55%) OpenID
14 10 (0.55%) XML
15 8 (0.44%) Django
15 8 (0.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 129 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.63%) Data Centre
3 50 (2.75%) AI Agents
4 43 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 36 (1.98%) Hedge funds
6 35 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 33 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 24 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.26%) Cyberattack
10 22 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.66%) IVR
13 12 (0.66%) Low-Code
14 11 (0.60%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
15 10 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 10 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
16 9 (0.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.04%) Windows
2 17 (0.93%) Linux
3 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (25.49%) Roadmaps
2 344 (18.90%) AI
3 283 (15.55%) Agile
4 223 (12.25%) Enterprise Architecture
5 220 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
6 219 (12.03%) Technical Architecture
7 213 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 199 (10.93%) Technology Strategy
9 181 (9.95%) Mentoring
10 178 (9.78%) TOGAF
11 176 (9.67%) Analytics
12 174 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
13 172 (9.45%) CI/CD
14 168 (9.23%) Data Architecture
15 167 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 154 (8.46%) IT Strategy
17 151 (8.30%) Decision-Making
17 151 (8.30%) Presales
18 146 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
19 143 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 70 (3.85%) Python
2 56 (3.08%) SQL
3 49 (2.69%) C#
4 34 (1.87%) Bicep
5 26 (1.43%) Java
6 20 (1.10%) Scala
7 15 (0.82%) Go
8 14 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.71%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.27%) Rust
12 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.22%) C
12 4 (0.22%) Ruby
13 3 (0.16%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.16%) X++
14 2 (0.11%) ABAP
14 2 (0.11%) C++
14 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 302 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 252 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.48%) Degree
4 64 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.69%) CISSP
5 49 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 40 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 38 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (1.76%) CISM
10 29 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.88%) SnowPro
13 15 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.55%) VCAP
16 10 (0.55%) VCDX
17 9 (0.49%) CIPD
18 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.16%) GRC
2 79 (4.34%) NIST
3 74 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.03%) GDPR
6 34 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.37%) NCSC
8 16 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 15 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.44%) QA
12 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.33%) PMO
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.27%) IFRS
15 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (1.76%) Active Directory
1 32 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
2 31 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.32%) Docker
4 22 (1.21%) vSphere
5 13 (0.71%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.27%) vCloud
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.055%) iptables
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.82%) CASB
4 10 (0.55%) Ansible
4 10 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.38%) 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 (0.27%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.22%) SCCM
9 1 (0.055%) Argo
Vendors
1 366 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.95%) Databricks
3 61 (3.35%) Oracle
4 58 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.69%) Cisco
6 42 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 41 (2.25%) Google
8 36 (1.98%) VMware
9 34 (1.87%) SAP
10 29 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.37%) Tenable
13 16 (0.88%) Juniper
14 14 (0.77%) NetApp
15 12 (0.66%) Adobe
15 12 (0.66%) Dell
15 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.66%) Genesys
16 11 (0.60%) Avaya