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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 99 30
Rank change year-on-year +74 -69 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,473 590 2,404
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.29% 3.81% 6.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.76% 4.13% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,021 427 1,587
10th Percentile £63,721 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £69,375
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 18,980 14,273 33,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 92.11% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,861 8,743 26,122
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,000
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 £77,500 £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 21 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 21 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.

1 420 (28.51%) Azure
2 301 (20.43%) Roadmaps
3 262 (17.79%) AWS
4 254 (17.24%) Microsoft
5 249 (16.90%) Agile
6 226 (15.34%) Security Cleared
7 210 (14.26%) AI
8 204 (13.85%) TOGAF
9 185 (12.56%) Enterprise Architecture
10 180 (12.22%) SC Cleared
11 163 (11.07%) DevOps
12 161 (10.93%) CI/CD
13 153 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
14 145 (9.84%) Technology Strategy
15 134 (9.10%) Mentoring
16 131 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 127 (8.62%) GCP
18 126 (8.55%) Data Architecture
19 125 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 122 (8.28%) Data Modelling
21 117 (7.94%) Analytics
22 114 (7.74%) Presales
23 112 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
24 105 (7.13%) Event-Driven
24 105 (7.13%) IT Strategy
24 105 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
25 103 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
26 101 (6.86%) Migration
27 99 (6.72%) Degree
28 97 (6.59%) 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 8 (0.54%) CMS
1 8 (0.54%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.41%) Confluence
3 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.20%) Apache
4 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.20%) JBoss
4 3 (0.20%) SAS
4 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) Revit
5 2 (0.14%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.068%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.068%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.068%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.068%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.068%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 420 (28.51%) Azure
2 262 (17.79%) AWS
3 127 (8.62%) GCP
4 78 (5.30%) SaaS
5 65 (4.41%) Serverless
6 58 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 47 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 43 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (2.24%) PaaS
11 27 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.70%) Snowflake
14 16 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (1.02%) IaaS
16 14 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
17 13 (0.88%) Azure AI
17 13 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (0.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 86 (5.84%) Broadband
2 54 (3.67%) WAN
3 52 (3.53%) Network Security
4 40 (2.72%) SD-WAN
5 36 (2.44%) Firewall
6 29 (1.97%) LAN
7 27 (1.83%) MPLS
8 26 (1.77%) VPN
9 16 (1.09%) BGP
10 15 (1.02%) WLAN
11 14 (0.95%) DNS
12 13 (0.88%) HTTP
12 13 (0.88%) SNMP
13 12 (0.81%) IPsec
13 12 (0.81%) VSAN
14 11 (0.75%) SSL
15 10 (0.68%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
16 9 (0.61%) VLAN
17 8 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.48%) Metadata
2 24 (1.63%) Power BI
2 24 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.36%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 18 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.61%) Tableau
9 7 (0.48%) MySQL
9 7 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.27%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 47 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.38%) GitLab
3 34 (2.31%) SonarQube
4 25 (1.70%) Snyk
5 6 (0.41%) Git
6 5 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.14%) MLflow
7 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.068%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.068%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.068%) ERwin
8 1 (0.068%) JMeter
8 1 (0.068%) Postman
8 1 (0.068%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.068%) Selenium
General
1 258 (17.52%) Social Skills
2 237 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 219 (14.87%) Finance
4 155 (10.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (4.62%) Games
7 60 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
7 60 (4.07%) Law
8 52 (3.53%) Marketing
9 48 (3.26%) Retail
10 46 (3.12%) Legal
11 27 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.70%) Banking
13 22 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.68%) Back Office
15 10 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.48%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.41%) Aviation
17 6 (0.41%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.62%) REST
2 52 (3.53%) SOAP
3 38 (2.58%) .NET
4 37 (2.51%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.31%) Visualforce
6 31 (2.10%) OAuth
7 27 (1.83%) Middleware
8 26 (1.77%) SAML
9 24 (1.63%) RESTful
10 22 (1.49%) OpenID
11 18 (1.22%) LDAP
12 12 (0.81%) Node.js
13 11 (0.75%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.61%) OpenAPI
14 9 (0.61%) Swagger
15 8 (0.54%) Spring
16 7 (0.48%) .NET Core
16 7 (0.48%) PySpark
17 6 (0.41%) ARM Templates
17 6 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 55 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.58%) Cyberattack
5 30 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.09%) PKI
12 14 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (0.81%) IoT
14 11 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 11 (0.75%) Operational Technology
15 10 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
16 8 (0.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 8 (0.54%) Onboarding
17 7 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.95%) Windows
2 8 (0.54%) Linux
3 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (20.43%) Roadmaps
2 249 (16.90%) Agile
3 210 (14.26%) AI
4 204 (13.85%) TOGAF
5 185 (12.56%) Enterprise Architecture
6 163 (11.07%) DevOps
7 161 (10.93%) CI/CD
8 153 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
9 145 (9.84%) Technology Strategy
10 134 (9.10%) Mentoring
11 131 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 126 (8.55%) Data Architecture
13 125 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 122 (8.28%) Data Modelling
15 117 (7.94%) Analytics
16 114 (7.74%) Presales
17 112 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
18 105 (7.13%) Event-Driven
18 105 (7.13%) IT Strategy
18 105 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (3.33%) Python
2 48 (3.26%) SQL
3 37 (2.51%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.44%) SOQL
4 36 (2.44%) SOSL
5 32 (2.17%) C#
6 24 (1.63%) Java
7 18 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.09%) Bicep
9 14 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.68%) Go
12 8 (0.54%) Bash
12 8 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.48%) Scala
14 2 (0.14%) C++
14 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.14%) Ruby
14 2 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 226 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 180 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.72%) Degree
4 50 (3.39%) CISSP
5 48 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 42 (2.85%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.77%) CISM
10 26 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.88%) CCNP
14 12 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.81%) VCAP
14 12 (0.81%) VCDX
14 12 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.68%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.57%) NIST
2 55 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.51%) GRC
5 29 (1.97%) NCSC
6 27 (1.83%) GDPR
7 16 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.75%) PMO
10 10 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 10 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.68%) QA
11 8 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.48%) WCAG
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) SLA
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
2 38 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.22%) vSphere
5 15 (1.02%) Docker
6 13 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.48%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 27 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (1.77%) Terraform
3 20 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 13 (0.88%) Ansible
5 9 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.54%) CASB
7 6 (0.41%) Avamar
7 6 (0.41%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.41%) VxRail
8 5 (0.34%) Endace
8 5 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 254 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.53%) Salesforce
3 47 (3.19%) Cisco
4 45 (3.05%) Palo Alto
5 42 (2.85%) Databricks
6 37 (2.51%) Google
6 37 (2.51%) Splunk
7 35 (2.38%) Oracle
8 31 (2.10%) SAP
9 30 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (1.83%) VMware
11 25 (1.70%) Tenable
12 21 (1.43%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.22%) Juniper
14 17 (1.15%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.95%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.88%) Dell
16 13 (0.88%) NetApp
16 13 (0.88%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.81%) Broadcom