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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 99 23
Rank change year-on-year +73 -76 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,645 589 1,940
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.28% 3.57% 7.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.74% 3.88% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,175 407 1,204
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,000 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £67,500
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,700 £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 21,266 15,177 24,186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.06% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,298 9,387 17,778
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 7 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 7 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.

1 522 (31.73%) Azure
2 406 (24.68%) Roadmaps
3 351 (21.34%) Microsoft
4 292 (17.75%) Security Cleared
5 287 (17.45%) AWS
6 283 (17.20%) Agile
7 275 (16.72%) AI
8 242 (14.71%) SC Cleared
9 230 (13.98%) Enterprise Architecture
10 207 (12.58%) Technical Architecture
11 197 (11.98%) TOGAF
12 183 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 178 (10.82%) Technology Strategy
14 176 (10.70%) CI/CD
15 165 (10.03%) DevOps
16 162 (9.85%) Analytics
17 161 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
18 152 (9.24%) Mentoring
19 149 (9.06%) Presales
20 148 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
21 144 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
22 137 (8.33%) Data Architecture
22 137 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
23 134 (8.15%) Data Modelling
24 133 (8.09%) IT Strategy
25 132 (8.02%) Business Strategy
25 132 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
26 130 (7.90%) Decision-Making
26 130 (7.90%) GCP
27 128 (7.78%) 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 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.18%) Apache
5 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.18%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.061%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.061%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
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
2 9 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.30%) 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
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
8 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 522 (31.73%) Azure
2 287 (17.45%) AWS
3 130 (7.90%) GCP
4 98 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 83 (5.05%) SaaS
6 74 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
8 58 (3.53%) Serverless
9 55 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
9 55 (3.34%) Entra ID
10 49 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 38 (2.31%) PaaS
12 37 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 33 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
15 25 (1.52%) dbt
16 23 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 111 (6.75%) WAN
2 88 (5.35%) LAN
3 59 (3.59%) Network Security
4 57 (3.47%) Broadband
5 39 (2.37%) Firewall
5 39 (2.37%) SD-WAN
6 28 (1.70%) MPLS
7 21 (1.28%) VPN
8 16 (0.97%) DNS
9 15 (0.91%) BGP
9 15 (0.91%) HTTP
10 14 (0.85%) IPsec
10 14 (0.85%) WLAN
11 12 (0.73%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.73%) SNMP
11 12 (0.73%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.73%) VoIP
11 12 (0.73%) VSAN
12 11 (0.67%) CTI
12 11 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.32%) Metadata
2 32 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.70%) Power BI
4 27 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 25 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 19 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
7 18 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.03%) Data Vault
9 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.67%) Tableau
10 9 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.49%) MySQL
12 7 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.30%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 40 (2.43%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.70%) GitLab
3 27 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 25 (1.52%) Snyk
5 15 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 9 (0.55%) Git
7 5 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.12%) MLflow
9 1 (0.061%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.061%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.061%) ERwin
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
1 366 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 325 (19.76%) Finance
3 251 (15.26%) Public Sector
4 200 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (5.96%) Law
6 96 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.16%) Legal
10 46 (2.80%) Retail
11 44 (2.67%) Games
12 43 (2.61%) Marketing
13 41 (2.49%) Banking
14 20 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.67%) Back Office
17 9 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.49%) Health Technology
19 7 (0.43%) Advertising
20 6 (0.36%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.47%) REST
2 40 (2.43%) SOAP
3 39 (2.37%) .NET
4 30 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
5 29 (1.76%) Middleware
6 28 (1.70%) OAuth
7 26 (1.58%) RESTful
7 26 (1.58%) Visualforce
8 24 (1.46%) SAML
9 19 (1.16%) PySpark
10 18 (1.09%) LDAP
11 17 (1.03%) LangChain
12 16 (0.97%) OpenID
13 15 (0.91%) LangGraph
14 11 (0.67%) Node.js
14 11 (0.67%) OpenAPI
14 11 (0.67%) Swagger
15 8 (0.49%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.49%) XML
16 7 (0.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 66 (4.01%) Data Centre
3 54 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 32 (1.95%) Cyberattack
6 31 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.28%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.91%) 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 (1.09%) Windows
2 9 (0.55%) Linux
3 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (24.68%) Roadmaps
2 283 (17.20%) Agile
3 275 (16.72%) AI
4 230 (13.98%) Enterprise Architecture
5 207 (12.58%) Technical Architecture
6 197 (11.98%) TOGAF
7 183 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 178 (10.82%) Technology Strategy
9 176 (10.70%) CI/CD
10 165 (10.03%) DevOps
11 162 (9.85%) Analytics
12 161 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
13 152 (9.24%) Mentoring
14 149 (9.06%) Presales
15 148 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
16 144 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 137 (8.33%) Data Architecture
17 137 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 134 (8.15%) Data Modelling
19 133 (8.09%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 65 (3.95%) Python
2 58 (3.53%) SQL
3 41 (2.49%) C#
4 30 (1.82%) Apex Code
5 28 (1.70%) SOQL
5 28 (1.70%) SOSL
6 26 (1.58%) Bicep
7 20 (1.22%) Java
8 18 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.03%) 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%) Rust
15 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 292 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 242 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.87%) Degree
4 48 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 47 (2.86%) CISSP
6 41 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 32 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.46%) CISM
10 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.79%) CCNP
12 13 (0.79%) SnowPro
13 12 (0.73%) VCAP
13 12 (0.73%) VCDX
13 12 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (0.61%) CCIE
15 9 (0.55%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.78%) GRC
2 77 (4.68%) NIST
3 72 (4.38%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.76%) GDPR
6 23 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.34%) NCSC
8 15 (0.91%) 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 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.30%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
2 36 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.28%) vSphere
5 20 (1.22%) Docker
6 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 44 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 37 (2.25%) Terraform
3 27 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.79%) Ansible
4 13 (0.79%) CASB
5 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.36%) Avamar
6 6 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.36%) VxRail
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.18%) SCCM
9 2 (0.12%) Endace
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
Vendors
1 351 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.38%) Databricks
3 58 (3.53%) Cisco
4 52 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 40 (2.43%) Oracle
7 33 (2.01%) VMware
8 32 (1.95%) Google
8 32 (1.95%) SAP
9 31 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (1.70%) Splunk
12 26 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.52%) Tenable
14 14 (0.85%) Dell
14 14 (0.85%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.85%) Juniper
15 13 (0.79%) NetApp
15 13 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
16 12 (0.73%) Broadcom