Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 53 37
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 960 769 1,880
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.69% 5.54% 6.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.07% 5.85% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 606 537 1,409
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,168 £57,500
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,097 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 15,824 13,152 28,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 94.81% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,722 8,976 23,963
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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.

1 310 (32.29%) Azure
2 220 (22.92%) Roadmaps
3 198 (20.63%) AWS
4 172 (17.92%) Agile
5 157 (16.35%) Microsoft
6 147 (15.31%) Security Cleared
7 146 (15.21%) Data Modelling
8 140 (14.58%) TOGAF
9 137 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 129 (13.44%) DevOps
11 127 (13.23%) AI
12 120 (12.50%) Data Architecture
13 118 (12.29%) Analytics
14 117 (12.19%) Enterprise Architecture
15 113 (11.77%) Mentoring
16 103 (10.73%) SC Cleared
17 100 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
18 94 (9.79%) GCP
19 92 (9.58%) Migration
20 90 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
21 85 (8.85%) CI/CD
21 85 (8.85%) Event-Driven
21 85 (8.85%) Microservices
22 82 (8.54%) Technology Roadmap
23 80 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
24 77 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 77 (8.02%) Technical Architecture
25 75 (7.81%) Broadband
26 74 (7.71%) Data Management
26 74 (7.71%) Stakeholder Management

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 (1.35%) JBoss
1 13 (1.35%) WebSphere
2 10 (1.04%) CMS
2 10 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.52%) Confluence
5 4 (0.42%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.42%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.31%) SAS
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.10%) Apache
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.21%) Revit
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
9 1 (0.10%) Actimize
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.10%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.10%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 310 (32.29%) Azure
2 198 (20.63%) AWS
3 94 (9.79%) GCP
4 73 (7.60%) SaaS
5 56 (5.83%) Serverless
6 55 (5.73%) Snowflake
7 48 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 41 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.08%) PaaS
11 19 (1.98%) IaaS
12 18 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.04%) GitHub
15 9 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (0.94%) dbt
16 8 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (0.83%) Google Workspace
17 7 (0.73%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (7.81%) Broadband
2 23 (2.40%) WAN
3 15 (1.56%) Firewall
3 15 (1.56%) VPN
4 14 (1.46%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.04%) LAN
5 10 (1.04%) MPLS
6 9 (0.94%) Network Security
7 7 (0.73%) DHCP
7 7 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.63%) DNS
8 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.52%) BGP
9 5 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (0.52%) HTTP
9 5 (0.52%) SNMP
10 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.42%) SSL
10 4 (0.42%) VoIP
11 3 (0.31%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (4.17%) Metadata
3 23 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 18 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 16 (1.67%) Power BI
6 14 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 9 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.83%) Data Vault
9 8 (0.83%) Tableau
10 6 (0.63%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.52%) GIS
11 5 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.42%) QGIS
12 4 (0.42%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 57 (5.94%) Jenkins
2 41 (4.27%) SonarQube
3 40 (4.17%) GitLab
4 6 (0.63%) ERwin
5 5 (0.52%) Git
6 4 (0.42%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.42%) JIRA
6 4 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.10%) Subversion
General
1 225 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 158 (16.46%) Finance
3 131 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 89 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 81 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (6.88%) Marketing
7 65 (6.77%) Games
8 51 (5.31%) Retail
9 48 (5.00%) Law
10 36 (3.75%) Legal
11 33 (3.44%) Banking
11 33 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.08%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.77%) Back Office
15 10 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.73%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.29%) REST
2 62 (6.46%) SOAP
3 42 (4.38%) .NET
4 40 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 40 (4.17%) Visualforce
5 31 (3.23%) Middleware
6 19 (1.98%) GraphQL
7 18 (1.88%) Spring
8 17 (1.77%) Hibernate
9 15 (1.56%) Node.js
9 15 (1.56%) OAuth
9 15 (1.56%) OpenID
10 14 (1.46%) RESTful
11 12 (1.25%) Django
11 12 (1.25%) LDAP
11 12 (1.25%) SAML
12 11 (1.15%) React
13 10 (1.04%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.04%) Web Services
14 7 (0.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.92%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.77%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.77%) PKI
9 16 (1.67%) IoT
10 15 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.35%) DataPower
13 12 (1.25%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.83%) Cyberattack
15 7 (0.73%) Reference Data
16 6 (0.63%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.35%) Linux
1 13 (1.35%) Windows
2 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.31%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (22.92%) Roadmaps
2 172 (17.92%) Agile
3 146 (15.21%) Data Modelling
4 140 (14.58%) TOGAF
5 137 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 129 (13.44%) DevOps
7 127 (13.23%) AI
8 120 (12.50%) Data Architecture
9 118 (12.29%) Analytics
10 117 (12.19%) Enterprise Architecture
11 113 (11.77%) Mentoring
12 100 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
13 92 (9.58%) Migration
14 90 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (8.85%) CI/CD
15 85 (8.85%) Event-Driven
15 85 (8.85%) Microservices
16 82 (8.54%) Technology Roadmap
17 80 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
18 77 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 57 (5.94%) Python
2 48 (5.00%) Java
3 45 (4.69%) SQL
4 44 (4.58%) C#
5 40 (4.17%) Apex Code
5 40 (4.17%) SOQL
5 40 (4.17%) SOSL
6 23 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 19 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.94%) Bash
9 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.63%) C++
11 4 (0.42%) Bicep
12 3 (0.31%) C
12 3 (0.31%) Go
13 2 (0.21%) Scala
14 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.10%) PHP
14 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 147 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 103 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.77%) Degree
4 50 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 49 (5.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 38 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (3.13%) CISSP
10 29 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (2.71%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.46%) CISM
14 10 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.42%) CCNP
16 4 (0.42%) CCSP
16 4 (0.42%) DBS Check
17 2 (0.21%) PMP
17 2 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.38%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (2.71%) NIST
4 17 (1.77%) GDPR
4 17 (1.77%) NCSC
5 16 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.83%) QA
8 5 (0.52%) PMO
9 4 (0.42%) WCAG
10 3 (0.31%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.08%) Docker
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (2.29%) Ansible
2 21 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.98%) Terraform
4 13 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.63%) Endace
6 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.21%) CASB
7 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.10%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.10%) Grafana
8 1 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 157 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.90%) Salesforce
3 41 (4.27%) Splunk
4 38 (3.96%) Google
5 30 (3.13%) SAP
6 24 (2.50%) Databricks
7 23 (2.40%) Oracle
8 17 (1.77%) Cisco
9 13 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.83%) F5
11 7 (0.73%) Juniper
11 7 (0.73%) Okta
11 7 (0.73%) VMware
12 6 (0.63%) Informatica
13 5 (0.52%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.52%) IBM
13 5 (0.52%) Sparx
14 4 (0.42%) Meraki
14 4 (0.42%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.42%) Workday