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 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 102 26
Rank change year-on-year +77 -76 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,820 590 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.30% 3.50% 7.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.78% 3.76% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 390 994
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 £108,875 £125,000
UK median annual salary £88,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 23,396 15,692 21,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.02% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16,235 8,814 13,546
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 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -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 2 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 2 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.

1 527 (28.96%) Azure
2 467 (25.66%) Roadmaps
3 366 (20.11%) Microsoft
4 344 (18.90%) AI
5 322 (17.69%) AWS
6 302 (16.59%) Security Cleared
7 285 (15.66%) Agile
8 251 (13.79%) SC Cleared
9 223 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
10 219 (12.03%) Enterprise Architecture
11 218 (11.98%) Technical Architecture
12 213 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 199 (10.93%) Technology Strategy
14 182 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 176 (9.67%) Analytics
16 175 (9.62%) TOGAF
17 174 (9.56%) CI/CD
18 173 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
19 168 (9.23%) Data Architecture
19 168 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
20 154 (8.46%) IT Strategy
21 152 (8.35%) Decision-Making
22 148 (8.13%) Presales
23 146 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
24 143 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
24 143 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
24 143 (7.86%) Migration
25 140 (7.69%) GCP
26 138 (7.58%) Data Modelling
27 137 (7.53%) 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 21 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.38%) CMS
4 5 (0.27%) Apache
4 5 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.16%) 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 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) Notion
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
Business Applications
1 15 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.055%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.055%) Infor LN
9 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.055%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.055%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 527 (28.96%) Azure
2 322 (17.69%) AWS
3 140 (7.69%) GCP
4 110 (6.04%) SaaS
5 106 (5.82%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 64 (3.52%) Snowflake
9 63 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
10 59 (3.24%) Serverless
11 55 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 43 (2.36%) PaaS
14 39 (2.14%) Amazon Bedrock
15 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
17 29 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 27 (1.48%) Azure Databricks
19 26 (1.43%) dbt
20 24 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.38%) WAN
2 80 (4.40%) LAN
3 61 (3.35%) Network Security
4 33 (1.81%) Firewall
5 30 (1.65%) SD-WAN
6 23 (1.26%) Broadband
6 23 (1.26%) MPLS
7 20 (1.10%) VPN
8 16 (0.88%) DNS
8 16 (0.88%) Unified Communications
9 15 (0.82%) BGP
10 14 (0.77%) HTTP
10 14 (0.77%) IPsec
11 13 (0.71%) WLAN
12 11 (0.60%) CTI
12 11 (0.60%) DHCP
12 11 (0.60%) SSL
12 11 (0.60%) VLAN
12 11 (0.60%) VoIP
13 10 (0.55%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.89%) Metadata
2 37 (2.03%) Power BI
3 28 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 22 (1.21%) Delta Lake
7 20 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 20 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 12 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.66%) Tableau
10 11 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (0.60%) MySQL
11 9 (0.49%) Metadata Repository
12 8 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.27%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 42 (2.31%) Claude Code
2 25 (1.37%) Snyk
3 10 (0.55%) Git
3 10 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.27%) 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 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 409 (22.47%) Finance
3 295 (16.21%) Public Sector
4 179 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (5.66%) Law
6 101 (5.55%) Presentation Skills
7 98 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 93 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
9 81 (4.45%) Banking
10 57 (3.13%) Legal
11 47 (2.58%) Retail
12 23 (1.26%) Back Office
13 17 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.77%) Marketing
15 14 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.66%) Games
18 9 (0.49%) French Language
19 7 (0.38%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.75%) Middleware
2 47 (2.58%) Terraform
3 39 (2.14%) .NET
4 36 (1.98%) RESTful
5 29 (1.59%) REST
6 27 (1.48%) LangChain
7 24 (1.32%) LangGraph
8 22 (1.21%) OAuth
9 21 (1.15%) PySpark
10 20 (1.10%) OpenAPI
10 20 (1.10%) Swagger
11 19 (1.04%) SAML
12 15 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.77%) LDAP
14 13 (0.71%) SOAP
15 10 (0.55%) Kafka
15 10 (0.55%) OpenID
16 9 (0.49%) Django
17 8 (0.44%) XML
18 7 (0.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 128 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.63%) Data Centre
3 51 (2.80%) AI Agents
4 43 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 36 (1.98%) Hedge funds
6 35 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 33 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 24 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.15%) Cyberattack
11 19 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.71%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.66%) IVR
15 11 (0.60%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
16 10 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 10 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
17 8 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.04%) Windows
2 18 (0.99%) Linux
3 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (25.66%) Roadmaps
2 344 (18.90%) AI
3 285 (15.66%) Agile
4 223 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
5 219 (12.03%) Enterprise Architecture
6 218 (11.98%) Technical Architecture
7 213 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 199 (10.93%) Technology Strategy
9 182 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 176 (9.67%) Analytics
11 175 (9.62%) TOGAF
12 174 (9.56%) CI/CD
13 173 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
14 168 (9.23%) Data Architecture
14 168 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 154 (8.46%) IT Strategy
16 152 (8.35%) Decision-Making
17 148 (8.13%) Presales
18 146 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
19 143 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 72 (3.96%) Python
2 57 (3.13%) SQL
3 51 (2.80%) C#
4 34 (1.87%) Bicep
5 26 (1.43%) Java
6 20 (1.10%) Scala
7 15 (0.82%) Go
8 14 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 10 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.27%) Rust
11 4 (0.22%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.22%) C
11 4 (0.22%) Ruby
12 3 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.16%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.16%) X++
13 2 (0.11%) ABAP
13 2 (0.11%) SOQL
13 2 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 302 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 251 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.48%) Degree
4 65 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 50 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
6 49 (2.69%) CISSP
7 40 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 39 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (1.76%) CISM
11 29 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.32%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.88%) SnowPro
14 15 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.55%) VCAP
17 10 (0.55%) VCDX
18 9 (0.49%) CIPD
19 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.16%) GRC
2 77 (4.23%) NIST
3 76 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.09%) GDPR
6 35 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.37%) NCSC
8 16 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 15 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.44%) QA
12 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.33%) PMO
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.27%) IFRS
15 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.37%) Docker
5 22 (1.21%) vSphere
6 13 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.27%) vCloud
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.055%) iptables
10 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.82%) CASB
4 10 (0.55%) Ansible
4 10 (0.55%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.38%) 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 (0.27%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.22%) SCCM
9 1 (0.055%) Argo
Vendors
1 366 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.95%) Databricks
3 60 (3.30%) Oracle
4 57 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 48 (2.64%) Cisco
6 42 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 41 (2.25%) Google
8 35 (1.92%) VMware
9 34 (1.87%) SAP
10 29 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 26 (1.43%) Salesforce
13 25 (1.37%) Tenable
14 16 (0.88%) Juniper
15 14 (0.77%) NetApp
16 12 (0.66%) Adobe
16 12 (0.66%) Dell
16 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.66%) Genesys
17 11 (0.60%) Nimble Storage