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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 92 27
Rank change year-on-year +68 -65 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,596 620 2,091
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.35% 3.77% 7.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.82% 4.08% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 431 1,346
10th Percentile £64,370 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,375 £69,188
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 £107,625 £107,500 £119,375
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 20,416 15,183 27,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.20% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,769 9,436 20,549
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,903 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
% change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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.

1 501 (31.39%) Azure
2 384 (24.06%) Roadmaps
3 336 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 278 (17.42%) Agile
4 278 (17.42%) Security Cleared
5 277 (17.36%) AWS
6 255 (15.98%) AI
7 231 (14.47%) SC Cleared
8 220 (13.78%) Enterprise Architecture
9 204 (12.78%) Technical Architecture
9 204 (12.78%) TOGAF
10 179 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 175 (10.96%) CI/CD
12 171 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
13 165 (10.34%) DevOps
14 160 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
15 146 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 145 (9.09%) Analytics
17 141 (8.83%) Mentoring
17 141 (8.83%) Presales
18 128 (8.02%) Business Strategy
18 128 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
19 127 (7.96%) Data Architecture
19 127 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
20 126 (7.89%) IT Strategy
20 126 (7.89%) Migration
21 125 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
22 123 (7.71%) Data Modelling
23 120 (7.52%) GCP
24 115 (7.21%) Decision-Making

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 10 (0.63%) CMS
1 10 (0.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.31%) Confluence
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.19%) Apache
4 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.19%) SAS
5 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.063%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 11 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.19%) Revit
5 2 (0.13%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.063%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 11 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.063%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 501 (31.39%) Azure
2 277 (17.36%) AWS
3 120 (7.52%) GCP
4 89 (5.58%) Power Platform
5 80 (5.01%) SaaS
6 69 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
8 60 (3.76%) Serverless
9 52 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
10 50 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 40 (2.51%) Snowflake
12 38 (2.38%) PaaS
13 33 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 31 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (1.57%) dbt
16 23 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
17 19 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
19 16 (1.00%) IaaS
19 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 115 (7.21%) WAN
2 88 (5.51%) LAN
3 66 (4.14%) Broadband
4 58 (3.63%) Network Security
5 40 (2.51%) SD-WAN
6 38 (2.38%) Firewall
7 30 (1.88%) MPLS
8 25 (1.57%) VPN
9 18 (1.13%) BGP
10 16 (1.00%) DNS
10 16 (1.00%) HTTP
11 15 (0.94%) SNMP
12 14 (0.88%) IPsec
12 14 (0.88%) WLAN
13 12 (0.75%) VoIP
13 12 (0.75%) VSAN
14 11 (0.69%) CTI
14 11 (0.69%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.69%) VLAN
15 10 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.20%) Metadata
2 25 (1.57%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.50%) Power BI
4 23 (1.44%) Data Lake
5 21 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.19%) BigQuery
6 19 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 13 (0.81%) Delta Lake
9 12 (0.75%) Data Vault
9 12 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.50%) Tableau
11 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.38%) MySQL
13 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.19%) GitLab
2 35 (2.19%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.57%) Snyk
4 9 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.50%) Git
6 5 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 1 (0.063%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.063%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.063%) ERwin
8 1 (0.063%) JMeter
8 1 (0.063%) Maven
8 1 (0.063%) Postman
8 1 (0.063%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.063%) Selenium
General
1 355 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 300 (18.80%) Finance
3 244 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 203 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (6.20%) Law
6 94 (5.89%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (3.32%) Games
10 50 (3.13%) Legal
10 50 (3.13%) Marketing
11 47 (2.94%) Retail
12 34 (2.13%) Banking
13 20 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.63%) Back Office
16 9 (0.56%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.44%) Aviation
18 6 (0.38%) Advertising
18 6 (0.38%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.95%) REST
2 47 (2.94%) SOAP
3 37 (2.32%) .NET
3 37 (2.32%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (2.13%) Visualforce
5 30 (1.88%) OAuth
6 27 (1.69%) RESTful
7 25 (1.57%) SAML
8 24 (1.50%) Middleware
9 18 (1.13%) OpenID
10 17 (1.07%) LDAP
11 14 (0.88%) PySpark
12 12 (0.75%) Node.js
13 11 (0.69%) LangChain
13 11 (0.69%) OpenAPI
13 11 (0.69%) Swagger
14 9 (0.56%) LangGraph
15 8 (0.50%) .NET Core
16 7 (0.44%) ARM Templates
16 7 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 58 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.13%) Cyberattack
5 32 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 26 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.07%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (0.75%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.69%) IVR
14 10 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.63%) IoT
14 10 (0.63%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.56%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.56%) PKI
15 9 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.00%) Windows
2 9 (0.56%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (24.06%) Roadmaps
2 278 (17.42%) Agile
3 255 (15.98%) AI
4 220 (13.78%) Enterprise Architecture
5 204 (12.78%) Technical Architecture
5 204 (12.78%) TOGAF
6 179 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 175 (10.96%) CI/CD
8 171 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
9 165 (10.34%) DevOps
10 160 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
11 146 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 145 (9.09%) Analytics
13 141 (8.83%) Mentoring
13 141 (8.83%) Presales
14 128 (8.02%) Business Strategy
14 128 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
15 127 (7.96%) Data Architecture
15 127 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 126 (7.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (3.51%) Python
2 49 (3.07%) SQL
3 37 (2.32%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.26%) SOQL
4 36 (2.26%) SOSL
5 31 (1.94%) C#
6 24 (1.50%) Bicep
7 18 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.07%) Java
9 12 (0.75%) Scala
10 11 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.63%) Go
11 10 (0.63%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.25%) Bash
12 4 (0.25%) Ruby
12 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.19%) C
14 2 (0.13%) C++
14 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 278 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 108 (6.77%) Degree
4 48 (3.01%) CISSP
5 44 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 31 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.50%) CISM
10 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.81%) CCNP
13 12 (0.75%) VCAP
13 12 (0.75%) VCDX
13 12 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.63%) CCIE
14 10 (0.63%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.02%) GRC
2 79 (4.95%) NIST
3 65 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.75%) GDPR
6 24 (1.50%) NCSC
7 22 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.56%) PMO
11 9 (0.56%) QA
12 8 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.44%) WCAG
14 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.31%) IFRS
16 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 35 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.32%) vSphere
5 20 (1.25%) Docker
6 12 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.13%) Terraform
3 25 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.81%) CASB
5 12 (0.75%) Ansible
6 10 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.38%) Avamar
7 6 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.38%) VxRail
8 5 (0.31%) Endace
8 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.063%) Argo
Vendors
1 336 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.76%) Cisco
3 56 (3.51%) Databricks
4 55 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 37 (2.32%) Oracle
7 36 (2.26%) Splunk
8 31 (1.94%) SAP
9 29 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.82%) VMware
10 27 (1.69%) Google
10 27 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.57%) Tenable
12 17 (1.07%) Juniper
13 15 (0.94%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.88%) Dell
15 13 (0.81%) NetApp
15 13 (0.81%) Nimble Storage
16 12 (0.75%) Broadcom