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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 104 26
Rank change year-on-year +79 -78 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,798 587 1,630
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.22% 3.50% 7.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.70% 3.76% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 389 975
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
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 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -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 23,358 15,599 21,120
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.05% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 16,151 8,737 13,136
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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.

1 520 (28.92%) Azure
2 461 (25.64%) Roadmaps
3 362 (20.13%) Microsoft
4 340 (18.91%) AI
5 313 (17.41%) AWS
6 295 (16.41%) Security Cleared
7 283 (15.74%) Agile
8 245 (13.63%) SC Cleared
9 221 (12.29%) Technical Leadership
10 214 (11.90%) Technical Architecture
11 213 (11.85%) Enterprise Architecture
12 210 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 192 (10.68%) Technology Strategy
14 177 (9.84%) Analytics
15 171 (9.51%) CI/CD
15 171 (9.51%) Mentoring
16 170 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
17 168 (9.34%) Data Architecture
18 167 (9.29%) TOGAF
19 166 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
20 149 (8.29%) Decision-Making
21 148 (8.23%) Architectural Patterns
21 148 (8.23%) IT Strategy
22 146 (8.12%) Presales
23 144 (8.01%) Infrastructure as Code
24 143 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
24 143 (7.95%) Migration
25 139 (7.73%) Data Modelling
26 138 (7.68%) GCP
27 133 (7.40%) DevOps

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 20 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.39%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.22%) Confluence
6 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.056%) Appian
7 1 (0.056%) JBoss
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) Notion
6 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Weka
8 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.056%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.056%) Infor LN
9 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.056%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 520 (28.92%) Azure
2 313 (17.41%) AWS
3 138 (7.68%) GCP
4 107 (5.95%) SaaS
5 104 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (3.73%) Entra ID
8 65 (3.62%) Snowflake
9 63 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
10 58 (3.23%) Serverless
11 51 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
13 44 (2.45%) PaaS
14 37 (2.06%) Amazon Bedrock
15 34 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
17 29 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 27 (1.50%) Azure Databricks
18 27 (1.50%) dbt
19 24 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.39%) WAN
2 79 (4.39%) LAN
3 60 (3.34%) Network Security
4 32 (1.78%) Firewall
5 30 (1.67%) SD-WAN
6 23 (1.28%) Broadband
6 23 (1.28%) MPLS
7 20 (1.11%) VPN
8 16 (0.89%) DNS
8 16 (0.89%) Unified Communications
9 15 (0.83%) BGP
10 14 (0.78%) HTTP
10 14 (0.78%) IPsec
11 13 (0.72%) WLAN
12 11 (0.61%) CTI
12 11 (0.61%) DHCP
12 11 (0.61%) SSL
12 11 (0.61%) VLAN
12 11 (0.61%) VoIP
13 10 (0.56%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.01%) Metadata
2 38 (2.11%) Power BI
3 27 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 22 (1.22%) Delta Lake
6 20 (1.11%) Data Vault
7 19 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 12 (0.67%) Tableau
9 11 (0.61%) MySQL
10 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
11 8 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.28%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (2.34%) Claude Code
2 22 (1.22%) Snyk
3 10 (0.56%) Git
3 10 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.17%) GitLab
6 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.11%) ERwin
6 2 (0.11%) JIRA
6 2 (0.11%) MLflow
7 1 (0.056%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.056%) JMeter
7 1 (0.056%) Maven
7 1 (0.056%) Postman
7 1 (0.056%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.056%) Selenium
7 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 412 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 411 (22.86%) Finance
3 288 (16.02%) Public Sector
4 168 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (5.67%) Law
6 100 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 97 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 95 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
9 83 (4.62%) Banking
10 57 (3.17%) Legal
11 48 (2.67%) Retail
12 23 (1.28%) Back Office
13 17 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.78%) Marketing
15 14 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.67%) Games
18 9 (0.50%) French Language
18 9 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.73%) Middleware
1 49 (2.73%) Terraform
2 38 (2.11%) .NET
3 36 (2.00%) RESTful
4 29 (1.61%) REST
5 26 (1.45%) LangChain
6 24 (1.33%) LangGraph
7 22 (1.22%) OAuth
8 21 (1.17%) OpenAPI
8 21 (1.17%) PySpark
8 21 (1.17%) Swagger
9 18 (1.00%) SAML
10 17 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (0.72%) LDAP
11 13 (0.72%) SOAP
12 10 (0.56%) Kafka
12 10 (0.56%) OpenID
13 9 (0.50%) XML
14 8 (0.44%) Django
14 8 (0.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 64 (3.56%) Data Centre
3 50 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 43 (2.39%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 35 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 33 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (0.83%) Cyberattack
12 13 (0.72%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.67%) IVR
13 12 (0.67%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
15 8 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.00%) Windows
2 17 (0.95%) Linux
3 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (25.64%) Roadmaps
2 340 (18.91%) AI
3 283 (15.74%) Agile
4 221 (12.29%) Technical Leadership
5 214 (11.90%) Technical Architecture
6 213 (11.85%) Enterprise Architecture
7 210 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 192 (10.68%) Technology Strategy
9 177 (9.84%) Analytics
10 171 (9.51%) CI/CD
10 171 (9.51%) Mentoring
11 170 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
12 168 (9.34%) Data Architecture
13 167 (9.29%) TOGAF
14 166 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 149 (8.29%) Decision-Making
16 148 (8.23%) Architectural Patterns
16 148 (8.23%) IT Strategy
17 146 (8.12%) Presales
18 144 (8.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.00%) Python
2 60 (3.34%) SQL
3 51 (2.84%) C#
4 36 (2.00%) Bicep
5 26 (1.45%) Java
6 20 (1.11%) Scala
7 15 (0.83%) Go
8 14 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 10 (0.56%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.28%) Rust
12 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.22%) C
12 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.22%) Ruby
13 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.17%) X++
14 2 (0.11%) ABAP
14 2 (0.11%) C++
14 2 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 295 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 245 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 108 (6.01%) Degree
4 66 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 53 (2.95%) TOGAF Certification
6 45 (2.50%) CISSP
7 41 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 40 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.72%) CISM
11 28 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.89%) SnowPro
14 15 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.56%) VCAP
17 10 (0.56%) VCDX
18 9 (0.50%) CIPD
19 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.06%) GRC
2 76 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.84%) NIST
4 63 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.06%) GDPR
6 36 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.33%) NCSC
8 15 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.44%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.44%) QA
11 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.33%) PMO
13 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.17%) SLA
16 2 (0.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
2 30 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.39%) Docker
4 22 (1.22%) vSphere
5 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.28%) vCloud
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) iptables
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.83%) CASB
4 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.50%) Ansible
5 9 (0.50%) Grafana
6 6 (0.33%) Avamar
6 6 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.33%) VxRail
7 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.22%) SCCM
9 1 (0.056%) Argo
Vendors
1 362 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.01%) Databricks
3 62 (3.45%) Oracle
4 57 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 48 (2.67%) Cisco
6 40 (2.22%) Google
7 39 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 34 (1.89%) SAP
8 34 (1.89%) VMware
9 26 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
9 26 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.22%) Tenable
12 16 (0.89%) Juniper
13 14 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.78%) NetApp
14 12 (0.67%) Adobe
14 12 (0.67%) Dell
14 12 (0.67%) Genesys
15 11 (0.61%) Avaya