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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 102 23
Rank change year-on-year +76 -79 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,639 590 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.22% 3.57% 7.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.68% 3.88% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 403 1,228
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,937 £66,250 £66,250
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 £98,474 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £125,000
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 21,352 15,220 23,923
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,315 9,405 17,571
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 August 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 August 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.

1 524 (31.97%) Azure
2 404 (24.65%) Roadmaps
3 349 (21.29%) Microsoft
4 290 (17.69%) Security Cleared
5 288 (17.57%) AWS
6 278 (16.96%) AI
7 276 (16.84%) Agile
8 242 (14.77%) SC Cleared
9 230 (14.03%) Enterprise Architecture
10 207 (12.63%) Technical Architecture
11 189 (11.53%) TOGAF
12 183 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 179 (10.92%) Technology Strategy
14 170 (10.37%) CI/CD
15 164 (10.01%) Analytics
16 163 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
17 156 (9.52%) DevOps
18 151 (9.21%) Mentoring
19 149 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
20 147 (8.97%) Presales
21 138 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
21 138 (8.42%) Data Architecture
21 138 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
22 133 (8.11%) Data Modelling
22 133 (8.11%) GCP
22 133 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
22 133 (8.11%) IT Strategy
23 131 (7.99%) Business Strategy
23 131 (7.99%) Decision-Making
24 126 (7.69%) Migration

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 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.67%) CMS
3 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.31%) Confluence
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.18%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.061%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.12%) Shopify
7 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.061%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 524 (31.97%) Azure
2 288 (17.57%) AWS
3 133 (8.11%) GCP
4 100 (6.10%) Power Platform
5 85 (5.19%) SaaS
6 74 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.84%) Cloud Computing
8 57 (3.48%) Serverless
9 56 (3.42%) Entra ID
10 55 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (2.99%) Snowflake
12 37 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 36 (2.20%) PaaS
14 33 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (1.77%) Anthropic Claude
16 25 (1.53%) dbt
17 23 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
19 18 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
20 17 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.71%) WAN
2 87 (5.31%) LAN
3 60 (3.66%) Network Security
4 50 (3.05%) Broadband
5 39 (2.38%) Firewall
6 38 (2.32%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.65%) MPLS
8 20 (1.22%) VPN
9 16 (0.98%) DNS
10 15 (0.92%) BGP
10 15 (0.92%) HTTP
11 14 (0.85%) IPsec
11 14 (0.85%) WLAN
12 12 (0.73%) Kerberos
12 12 (0.73%) SNMP
12 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
12 12 (0.73%) VSAN
13 11 (0.67%) CTI
13 11 (0.67%) VLAN
13 11 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.45%) Metadata
2 32 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.77%) Power BI
4 27 (1.65%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 19 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.10%) Delta Lake
7 18 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.04%) Data Vault
9 12 (0.73%) Tableau
10 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.49%) MySQL
13 7 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.31%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 3 (0.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 34 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.53%) Snyk
3 22 (1.34%) GitLab
4 21 (1.28%) SonarQube
5 15 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 10 (0.61%) Git
7 5 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.12%) ERwin
8 2 (0.12%) MLflow
9 1 (0.061%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.061%) JMeter
9 1 (0.061%) Maven
9 1 (0.061%) Postman
9 1 (0.061%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.061%) Selenium
General
1 365 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 325 (19.83%) Finance
3 251 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 196 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (6.10%) Law
6 95 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
7 91 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (3.23%) Legal
10 45 (2.75%) Retail
11 41 (2.50%) Banking
12 38 (2.32%) Games
13 37 (2.26%) Marketing
14 19 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 14 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.61%) Back Office
17 9 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.49%) Health Technology
19 7 (0.43%) Advertising
19 7 (0.43%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.11%) REST
2 40 (2.44%) .NET
3 34 (2.07%) SOAP
4 29 (1.77%) Middleware
5 28 (1.71%) OAuth
5 28 (1.71%) RESTful
6 24 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 24 (1.46%) SAML
7 20 (1.22%) Visualforce
8 19 (1.16%) PySpark
9 18 (1.10%) LDAP
10 17 (1.04%) LangChain
11 16 (0.98%) OpenID
12 15 (0.92%) LangGraph
13 11 (0.67%) Node.js
13 11 (0.67%) OpenAPI
13 11 (0.67%) Swagger
14 9 (0.55%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.49%) Kafka
15 8 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 117 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 66 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 48 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 32 (1.95%) Cyberattack
6 31 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.28%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 13 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.67%) IVR
14 11 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
15 10 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
17 8 (0.49%) IoT
17 8 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.10%) Windows
2 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (24.65%) Roadmaps
2 278 (16.96%) AI
3 276 (16.84%) Agile
4 230 (14.03%) Enterprise Architecture
5 207 (12.63%) Technical Architecture
6 189 (11.53%) TOGAF
7 183 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 179 (10.92%) Technology Strategy
9 170 (10.37%) CI/CD
10 164 (10.01%) Analytics
11 163 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
12 156 (9.52%) DevOps
13 151 (9.21%) Mentoring
14 149 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
15 147 (8.97%) Presales
16 138 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 138 (8.42%) Data Architecture
16 138 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 133 (8.11%) Data Modelling
17 133 (8.11%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 65 (3.97%) Python
2 58 (3.54%) SQL
3 43 (2.62%) C#
4 26 (1.59%) Bicep
5 24 (1.46%) Apex Code
6 22 (1.34%) SOQL
6 22 (1.34%) SOSL
7 21 (1.28%) Java
8 18 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.04%) Scala
10 14 (0.85%) Go
11 12 (0.73%) JavaScript
12 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.24%) C
13 4 (0.24%) Ruby
14 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.12%) Bash
15 2 (0.12%) C++
15 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 242 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.02%) Degree
4 50 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 48 (2.93%) CISSP
6 41 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
7 34 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.53%) CISM
12 24 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.79%) CCNP
13 13 (0.79%) SnowPro
14 12 (0.73%) VCAP
14 12 (0.73%) VCDX
14 12 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (0.61%) CCIE
16 9 (0.55%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.80%) GRC
2 78 (4.76%) NIST
3 72 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.89%) GDPR
6 24 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.34%) NCSC
8 15 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.55%) QA
12 8 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.43%) PMO
13 7 (0.43%) WCAG
14 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.31%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 36 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.34%) Docker
5 21 (1.28%) vSphere
6 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 46 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.32%) Terraform
3 28 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.79%) Ansible
4 13 (0.79%) CASB
5 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.37%) Avamar
6 6 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.37%) VxRail
7 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.18%) SCCM
9 2 (0.12%) Endace
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
Vendors
1 349 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.39%) Databricks
3 58 (3.54%) Cisco
4 47 (2.87%) Palo Alto
5 46 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.38%) Oracle
7 34 (2.07%) Google
8 33 (2.01%) VMware
9 31 (1.89%) SAP
10 30 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.59%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.53%) Tenable
14 22 (1.34%) Splunk
15 14 (0.85%) Dell
15 14 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.85%) Juniper
16 13 (0.79%) NetApp
16 13 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.73%) Broadcom