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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 55 32
Rank change year-on-year +29 -23 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,100 698 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.39% 5.40% 6.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 5.76% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 721 520 1,420
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,168 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,840 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +4.80% -5.88%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,474 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,773 £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 16,140 12,123 30,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.78% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,576 8,988 24,807
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.96% -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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 9 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 9 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.

1 336 (30.55%) Azure
2 234 (21.27%) Roadmaps
3 201 (18.27%) AWS
4 192 (17.45%) Microsoft
5 174 (15.82%) Agile
6 166 (15.09%) Security Cleared
7 156 (14.18%) TOGAF
8 153 (13.91%) AI
9 141 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 139 (12.64%) Data Modelling
11 136 (12.36%) DevOps
12 127 (11.55%) Data Architecture
13 121 (11.00%) SC Cleared
14 119 (10.82%) Analytics
14 119 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 116 (10.55%) Mentoring
16 115 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
17 101 (9.18%) Migration
18 100 (9.09%) GCP
19 98 (8.91%) Technology Strategy
20 92 (8.36%) Microservices
21 89 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
22 88 (8.00%) CI/CD
23 84 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
24 83 (7.55%) Event-Driven
25 79 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 79 (7.18%) Technical Architecture
25 79 (7.18%) Technology Roadmap
26 77 (7.00%) Degree
27 76 (6.91%) IT Strategy

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 (0.55%) 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%) Oracle EBS
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
1 336 (30.55%) Azure
2 201 (18.27%) AWS
3 100 (9.09%) GCP
4 73 (6.64%) SaaS
5 64 (5.82%) Snowflake
6 59 (5.36%) Serverless
7 51 (4.64%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 23 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.91%) PaaS
12 20 (1.82%) IaaS
13 18 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (1.09%) Azure AI
15 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (0.73%) dbt
16 8 (0.73%) GitHub
16 8 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.36%) Broadband
2 27 (2.45%) WAN
3 22 (2.00%) Firewall
4 19 (1.73%) Network Security
5 17 (1.55%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.55%) VPN
6 15 (1.36%) LAN
7 10 (0.91%) MPLS
8 8 (0.73%) DNS
9 6 (0.55%) DHCP
10 5 (0.45%) BGP
10 5 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.45%) HTTP
10 5 (0.45%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.45%) SNMP
10 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.36%) SSL
11 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.27%) VoIP
12 3 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (3.18%) Metadata
3 27 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 15 (1.36%) Power BI
6 13 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 7 (0.64%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.45%) Tableau
11 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.36%) GIS
11 4 (0.36%) QGIS
11 4 (0.36%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.27%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.18%) Big Data
13 2 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (4.45%) Jenkins
2 36 (3.27%) SonarQube
3 35 (3.18%) GitLab
4 7 (0.64%) Git
4 7 (0.64%) Snyk
5 3 (0.27%) ERwin
5 3 (0.27%) JIRA
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.091%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.091%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.091%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.091%) Subversion
General
1 239 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 177 (16.09%) Finance
3 152 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 106 (9.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (5.55%) Games
7 59 (5.36%) Marketing
8 51 (4.64%) Law
9 42 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (3.82%) Retail
10 38 (3.45%) Legal
11 31 (2.82%) Banking
12 26 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.45%) Back Office
16 10 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.36%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.91%) REST
2 56 (5.09%) SOAP
3 47 (4.27%) .NET
4 35 (3.18%) Lightning Web Components
4 35 (3.18%) Visualforce
5 34 (3.09%) Middleware
6 19 (1.73%) GraphQL
7 18 (1.64%) Spring
8 17 (1.55%) Hibernate
8 17 (1.55%) OAuth
8 17 (1.55%) OpenID
9 15 (1.36%) RESTful
10 13 (1.18%) LDAP
10 13 (1.18%) SAML
11 10 (0.91%) .NET Core
12 7 (0.64%) OpenAPI
12 7 (0.64%) Swagger
13 6 (0.55%) Django
13 6 (0.55%) Node.js
14 5 (0.45%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.36%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.27%) Public Cloud
3 36 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 25 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.18%) Cyberattack
9 17 (1.55%) PKI
10 14 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.27%) IoT
11 13 (1.18%) DataPower
12 12 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.09%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.64%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.55%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.45%) Windows
2 12 (1.09%) Linux
3 9 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.18%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (21.27%) Roadmaps
2 174 (15.82%) Agile
3 156 (14.18%) TOGAF
4 153 (13.91%) AI
5 141 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
6 139 (12.64%) Data Modelling
7 136 (12.36%) DevOps
8 127 (11.55%) Data Architecture
9 119 (10.82%) Analytics
9 119 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 116 (10.55%) Mentoring
11 115 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
12 101 (9.18%) Migration
13 98 (8.91%) Technology Strategy
14 92 (8.36%) Microservices
15 89 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
16 88 (8.00%) CI/CD
17 84 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (7.55%) Event-Driven
19 79 (7.18%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 55 (5.00%) SQL
2 47 (4.27%) Python
3 45 (4.09%) Java
4 41 (3.73%) C#
5 35 (3.18%) Apex Code
5 35 (3.18%) SOQL
5 35 (3.18%) SOSL
6 21 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 20 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 19 (1.73%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.82%) Bash
10 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.36%) Bicep
11 4 (0.36%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.18%) C
13 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.18%) Scala
14 1 (0.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 166 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 121 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.00%) Degree
4 47 (4.27%) Azure Certification
4 47 (4.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 40 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 35 (3.18%) CISSP
7 33 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.64%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.36%) CISM
13 12 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.64%) CCNP
15 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.45%) CCSP
17 3 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.27%) CCIE
18 2 (0.18%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.00%) NIST
2 43 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.82%) GDPR
5 19 (1.73%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.55%) NCSC
7 13 (1.18%) GRC
8 10 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.73%) QA
10 6 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.45%) PMO
11 5 (0.45%) WCAG
12 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.27%) IFRS
14 1 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.64%) Docker
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 20 (1.82%) Ansible
2 19 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (1.36%) Terraform
5 6 (0.55%) 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
1 192 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.91%) Salesforce
3 36 (3.27%) Splunk
4 35 (3.18%) Google
5 31 (2.82%) Databricks
6 27 (2.45%) Oracle
7 26 (2.36%) SAP
8 23 (2.09%) Cisco
9 16 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.18%) VMware
11 10 (0.91%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (0.73%) Meraki
13 7 (0.64%) F5
13 7 (0.64%) Juniper
13 7 (0.64%) Okta
13 7 (0.64%) Tenable
14 6 (0.55%) Barracuda Networks
14 6 (0.55%) Sophos