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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 99 26
Rank change year-on-year +75 -73 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,784 585 1,628
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.19% 3.48% 7.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.66% 3.74% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 390 979
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £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 23,281 15,632 21,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 93.07% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 8,758 13,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -4.22% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -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 8 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 8 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.

1 511 (28.64%) Azure
2 456 (25.56%) Roadmaps
3 357 (20.01%) Microsoft
4 333 (18.67%) AI
5 309 (17.32%) AWS
6 293 (16.42%) Security Cleared
7 278 (15.58%) Agile
8 243 (13.62%) SC Cleared
9 218 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
10 213 (11.94%) Technical Architecture
11 211 (11.83%) Enterprise Architecture
12 209 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 189 (10.59%) Technology Strategy
14 177 (9.92%) Analytics
15 170 (9.53%) Mentoring
16 168 (9.42%) TOGAF
17 166 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
17 166 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
18 164 (9.19%) CI/CD
18 164 (9.19%) Data Architecture
19 148 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
19 148 (8.30%) Decision-Making
20 146 (8.18%) Presales
21 145 (8.13%) IT Strategy
22 143 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
23 142 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
24 139 (7.79%) Migration
25 138 (7.74%) Data Modelling
26 135 (7.57%) GCP
27 131 (7.34%) 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 (1.12%) 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 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.056%) Infor CloudSuite
8 1 (0.056%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.056%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 511 (28.64%) Azure
2 309 (17.32%) AWS
3 135 (7.57%) GCP
4 108 (6.05%) SaaS
5 104 (5.83%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (3.76%) Entra ID
8 63 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
9 61 (3.42%) Snowflake
10 53 (2.97%) Serverless
11 51 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 43 (2.41%) PaaS
14 37 (2.07%) Amazon Bedrock
15 34 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
16 29 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (1.51%) Azure Databricks
17 27 (1.51%) dbt
18 25 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 24 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.44%) WAN
2 79 (4.43%) LAN
3 58 (3.25%) Network Security
4 31 (1.74%) Firewall
5 30 (1.68%) SD-WAN
6 23 (1.29%) Broadband
6 23 (1.29%) MPLS
7 20 (1.12%) VPN
8 16 (0.90%) DNS
8 16 (0.90%) Unified Communications
9 15 (0.84%) BGP
10 14 (0.78%) HTTP
10 14 (0.78%) IPsec
11 13 (0.73%) WLAN
12 11 (0.62%) CTI
12 11 (0.62%) DHCP
12 11 (0.62%) SSL
12 11 (0.62%) VLAN
12 11 (0.62%) VoIP
13 10 (0.56%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.04%) Metadata
2 38 (2.13%) Power BI
3 27 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.23%) Delta Lake
7 20 (1.12%) Data Vault
7 20 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 19 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.67%) MySQL
9 12 (0.67%) Tableau
10 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
11 8 (0.45%) 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 (2.35%) Claude Code
2 18 (1.01%) Snyk
3 10 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.45%) Git
5 4 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.11%) ERwin
7 2 (0.11%) JIRA
7 2 (0.11%) MLflow
8 1 (0.056%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.056%) JMeter
8 1 (0.056%) Maven
8 1 (0.056%) Postman
8 1 (0.056%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.056%) Selenium
8 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 412 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 409 (22.93%) Finance
3 286 (16.03%) Public Sector
4 165 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (5.72%) Law
6 99 (5.55%) Presentation Skills
7 96 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 93 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
9 83 (4.65%) Banking
10 55 (3.08%) Legal
11 49 (2.75%) Retail
12 25 (1.40%) Back Office
13 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.78%) Marketing
15 14 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.67%) Games
18 10 (0.56%) French Language
19 9 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.75%) Middleware
1 49 (2.75%) Terraform
2 36 (2.02%) RESTful
3 35 (1.96%) .NET
4 29 (1.63%) REST
5 26 (1.46%) LangChain
6 24 (1.35%) LangGraph
7 22 (1.23%) OAuth
7 22 (1.23%) OpenAPI
7 22 (1.23%) Swagger
8 21 (1.18%) PySpark
9 18 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
9 18 (1.01%) SAML
10 13 (0.73%) LDAP
10 13 (0.73%) SOAP
11 10 (0.56%) Kafka
11 10 (0.56%) OpenID
12 9 (0.50%) XML
13 8 (0.45%) Django
13 8 (0.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 60 (3.36%) Data Centre
3 50 (2.80%) AI Agents
4 43 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 37 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.02%) Hedge funds
7 35 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 23 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.84%) Cyberattack
13 12 (0.67%) IVR
13 12 (0.67%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.67%) Onboarding
13 12 (0.67%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
15 8 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.01%) 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
1 456 (25.56%) Roadmaps
2 333 (18.67%) AI
3 278 (15.58%) Agile
4 218 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
5 213 (11.94%) Technical Architecture
6 211 (11.83%) Enterprise Architecture
7 209 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 189 (10.59%) Technology Strategy
9 177 (9.92%) Analytics
10 170 (9.53%) Mentoring
11 168 (9.42%) TOGAF
12 166 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
12 166 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 164 (9.19%) CI/CD
13 164 (9.19%) Data Architecture
14 148 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
14 148 (8.30%) Decision-Making
15 146 (8.18%) Presales
16 145 (8.13%) IT Strategy
17 143 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.04%) Python
2 56 (3.14%) SQL
3 49 (2.75%) C#
4 36 (2.02%) Bicep
5 24 (1.35%) Java
6 20 (1.12%) Scala
7 16 (0.90%) Go
8 13 (0.73%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.73%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.34%) Rust
11 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.22%) C
11 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.17%) Ruby
12 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.17%) X++
13 2 (0.11%) ABAP
13 2 (0.11%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 293 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 243 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.11%) Degree
4 66 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 54 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (2.47%) CISSP
7 40 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.68%) CISM
11 28 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.40%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.90%) SnowPro
14 14 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.73%) 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 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.88%) GRC
2 76 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 68 (3.81%) NIST
4 62 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.07%) GDPR
6 36 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.35%) NCSC
8 15 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.45%) QA
11 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.34%) 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 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.40%) Docker
4 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.23%) vSphere
5 13 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.62%) 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 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.84%) CASB
4 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.50%) Ansible
5 9 (0.50%) Grafana
6 6 (0.34%) Avamar
6 6 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.34%) VxRail
7 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.22%) SCCM
9 1 (0.056%) Argo
Vendors
1 357 (20.01%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.82%) Databricks
3 64 (3.59%) Oracle
4 58 (3.25%) ServiceNow
5 47 (2.63%) Cisco
6 40 (2.24%) Google
7 35 (1.96%) Palo Alto
8 34 (1.91%) SAP
9 33 (1.85%) VMware
10 26 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 25 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 22 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (1.01%) Tenable
14 16 (0.90%) Juniper
15 14 (0.78%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.78%) NetApp
16 12 (0.67%) Adobe
16 12 (0.67%) Dell
16 12 (0.67%) Genesys
17 11 (0.62%) Avaya