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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 98 26
Rank change year-on-year +73 -72 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,814 592 1,748
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.32% 3.58% 7.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.80% 3.86% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 396 997
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,688 £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 £112,700 £109,375 £125,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +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 23,243 15,331 22,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.81% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,172 8,912 13,883
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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.

1 532 (29.33%) Azure
2 464 (25.58%) Roadmaps
3 371 (20.45%) Microsoft
4 346 (19.07%) AI
5 321 (17.70%) AWS
6 302 (16.65%) Security Cleared
7 288 (15.88%) Agile
8 251 (13.84%) SC Cleared
9 223 (12.29%) Enterprise Architecture
10 219 (12.07%) Technical Architecture
11 218 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
12 211 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 200 (11.03%) Technology Strategy
14 180 (9.92%) Mentoring
15 178 (9.81%) Data Architecture
16 177 (9.76%) TOGAF
17 176 (9.70%) Analytics
18 173 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
19 171 (9.43%) CI/CD
20 167 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
21 154 (8.49%) Decision-Making
22 153 (8.43%) IT Strategy
23 151 (8.32%) Presales
24 148 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
25 145 (7.99%) Migration
26 144 (7.94%) Data Modelling
27 143 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
28 142 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
29 139 (7.66%) GCP
30 137 (7.55%) 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 22 (1.21%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.39%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.055%) Appian
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.055%) 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%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Weka
8 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.055%) Notion
Business Applications
1 15 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.055%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.055%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.055%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.055%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.055%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 532 (29.33%) Azure
2 321 (17.70%) AWS
3 139 (7.66%) GCP
4 110 (6.06%) SaaS
5 106 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (3.75%) Snowflake
8 66 (3.64%) Entra ID
9 63 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
10 59 (3.25%) Serverless
11 54 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
13 43 (2.37%) PaaS
14 39 (2.15%) Amazon Bedrock
15 35 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
16 34 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 32 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (1.49%) Azure Databricks
19 26 (1.43%) dbt
20 25 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.40%) WAN
2 80 (4.41%) LAN
3 62 (3.42%) Network Security
4 34 (1.87%) Firewall
5 30 (1.65%) SD-WAN
6 23 (1.27%) Broadband
6 23 (1.27%) MPLS
7 20 (1.10%) VPN
8 16 (0.88%) DNS
8 16 (0.88%) Unified Communications
9 15 (0.83%) BGP
10 14 (0.77%) HTTP
10 14 (0.77%) 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 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.07%) Metadata
2 37 (2.04%) Power BI
3 32 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 26 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 22 (1.21%) Delta Lake
7 20 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 20 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 12 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.66%) Tableau
10 11 (0.61%) MySQL
11 9 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
12 8 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.28%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 42 (2.32%) Claude Code
2 25 (1.38%) Snyk
3 10 (0.55%) Git
3 10 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.11%) ERwin
5 2 (0.11%) GitLab
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 1 (0.055%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.055%) JIRA
6 1 (0.055%) JMeter
6 1 (0.055%) Maven
6 1 (0.055%) Postman
6 1 (0.055%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.055%) Selenium
6 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 419 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 409 (22.55%) Finance
3 298 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 179 (9.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (5.73%) Law
6 102 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
7 96 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 95 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
9 78 (4.30%) Banking
10 57 (3.14%) Legal
11 45 (2.48%) Retail
12 20 (1.10%) Back Office
13 16 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 15 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.83%) Marketing
14 15 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.66%) Games
16 11 (0.61%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.39%) Advertising
17 7 (0.39%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.76%) Middleware
2 47 (2.59%) Terraform
3 39 (2.15%) .NET
4 34 (1.87%) RESTful
5 29 (1.60%) REST
6 27 (1.49%) LangChain
7 24 (1.32%) LangGraph
8 22 (1.21%) OAuth
9 21 (1.16%) PySpark
10 19 (1.05%) SAML
11 18 (0.99%) OpenAPI
11 18 (0.99%) Swagger
12 14 (0.77%) LDAP
13 13 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.72%) SOAP
14 10 (0.55%) Kafka
14 10 (0.55%) OpenID
14 10 (0.55%) XML
15 8 (0.44%) Django
15 8 (0.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 129 (7.11%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 50 (2.76%) AI Agents
4 43 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 36 (1.98%) Hedge funds
6 35 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 33 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 24 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.27%) Cyberattack
11 22 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.66%) IVR
14 12 (0.66%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.61%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
16 10 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 10 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
17 9 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.05%) Windows
2 17 (0.94%) Linux
3 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (25.58%) Roadmaps
2 346 (19.07%) AI
3 288 (15.88%) Agile
4 223 (12.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 219 (12.07%) Technical Architecture
6 218 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
7 211 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 200 (11.03%) Technology Strategy
9 180 (9.92%) Mentoring
10 178 (9.81%) Data Architecture
11 177 (9.76%) TOGAF
12 176 (9.70%) Analytics
13 173 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
14 171 (9.43%) CI/CD
15 167 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 154 (8.49%) Decision-Making
17 153 (8.43%) IT Strategy
18 151 (8.32%) Presales
19 148 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
20 145 (7.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 70 (3.86%) Python
2 61 (3.36%) SQL
3 49 (2.70%) C#
4 34 (1.87%) Bicep
5 26 (1.43%) Java
6 20 (1.10%) Scala
7 15 (0.83%) Go
8 14 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 13 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.28%) Rust
12 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.22%) C
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%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.11%) SOQL
14 2 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 302 (16.65%) Security Cleared
2 251 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 119 (6.56%) Degree
4 64 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 48 (2.65%) CISSP
7 40 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 37 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (1.76%) CISM
11 31 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.38%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.88%) SnowPro
14 15 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.55%) VCAP
17 10 (0.55%) VCDX
18 9 (0.50%) CIPD
19 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.18%) GRC
2 79 (4.36%) NIST
3 78 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (2.04%) GDPR
6 34 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.38%) NCSC
8 16 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 15 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.44%) QA
12 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.33%) PMO
14 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.28%) IFRS
15 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
2 32 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.32%) Docker
5 22 (1.21%) vSphere
6 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.28%) vCloud
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.055%) iptables
10 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.83%) CASB
4 10 (0.55%) Ansible
4 10 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.39%) 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 (0.055%) Argo
Vendors
1 371 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.18%) Databricks
3 58 (3.20%) Oracle
4 57 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.70%) Cisco
6 42 (2.32%) Palo Alto
7 41 (2.26%) Google
8 36 (1.98%) VMware
9 34 (1.87%) SAP
10 29 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.38%) Tenable
13 16 (0.88%) Juniper
14 14 (0.77%) NetApp
15 12 (0.66%) Adobe
15 12 (0.66%) Dell
15 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.66%) Genesys
16 11 (0.61%) Avaya