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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 101 23
Rank change year-on-year +75 -78 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,651 575 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.26% 3.46% 7.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.72% 3.75% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,180 388 1,220
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £74,419 £65,563 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £81,764 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +2.20% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -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 21,376 15,314 23,957
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.18% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,297 9,319 17,469
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,050
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 August 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 13 August 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.

1 519 (31.44%) Azure
2 407 (24.65%) Roadmaps
3 351 (21.26%) Microsoft
4 295 (17.87%) AWS
5 288 (17.44%) Security Cleared
6 287 (17.38%) AI
7 282 (17.08%) Agile
8 241 (14.60%) SC Cleared
9 229 (13.87%) Enterprise Architecture
10 207 (12.54%) Technical Architecture
11 188 (11.39%) TOGAF
12 184 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 181 (10.96%) Technology Strategy
14 170 (10.30%) CI/CD
15 162 (9.81%) Analytics
16 159 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
17 156 (9.45%) DevOps
17 156 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
18 151 (9.15%) Mentoring
19 147 (8.90%) Presales
20 141 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
21 139 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
22 135 (8.18%) GCP
22 135 (8.18%) IT Strategy
23 134 (8.12%) Data Architecture
23 134 (8.12%) Decision-Making
24 133 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
25 130 (7.87%) Business Strategy
26 129 (7.81%) Data Modelling
27 124 (7.51%) Migration

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 19 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.67%) CMS
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.30%) Confluence
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.061%) Appian
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.061%) Revit
7 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.12%) Shopify
7 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.061%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 519 (31.44%) Azure
2 295 (17.87%) AWS
3 135 (8.18%) GCP
4 103 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 89 (5.39%) SaaS
6 79 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
8 57 (3.45%) Serverless
9 56 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (3.21%) Entra ID
11 49 (2.97%) Snowflake
12 35 (2.12%) PaaS
13 34 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 33 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
16 25 (1.51%) dbt
16 25 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
17 23 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.66%) WAN
2 87 (5.27%) LAN
3 59 (3.57%) Network Security
4 48 (2.91%) Broadband
5 38 (2.30%) Firewall
5 38 (2.30%) SD-WAN
6 28 (1.70%) MPLS
7 21 (1.27%) VPN
8 16 (0.97%) DNS
9 15 (0.91%) BGP
9 15 (0.91%) HTTP
10 14 (0.85%) IPsec
10 14 (0.85%) WLAN
11 13 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 12 (0.73%) SNMP
12 12 (0.73%) VSAN
13 11 (0.67%) CTI
13 11 (0.67%) VLAN
13 11 (0.67%) VoIP
14 10 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.18%) Metadata
2 33 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.82%) Power BI
4 24 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
7 18 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.03%) Data Vault
9 16 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.73%) Tableau
11 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.48%) MySQL
14 7 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
17 3 (0.18%) GIS
17 3 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 34 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.51%) Snyk
3 22 (1.33%) GitLab
4 21 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 18 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 10 (0.61%) Git
7 5 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.12%) ERwin
8 2 (0.12%) MLflow
9 1 (0.061%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.061%) JMeter
9 1 (0.061%) Maven
9 1 (0.061%) Postman
9 1 (0.061%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.061%) Selenium
General
1 369 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 333 (20.17%) Finance
3 256 (15.51%) Public Sector
4 197 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (6.06%) Law
6 95 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
8 71 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.27%) Legal
10 45 (2.73%) Banking
11 44 (2.67%) Retail
12 38 (2.30%) Marketing
13 37 (2.24%) Games
14 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.67%) Back Office
17 9 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.48%) Health Technology
19 7 (0.42%) Advertising
19 7 (0.42%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.91%) REST
2 41 (2.48%) .NET
3 33 (2.00%) Middleware
4 32 (1.94%) SOAP
5 27 (1.64%) RESTful
6 24 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 24 (1.45%) OAuth
7 20 (1.21%) LangChain
7 20 (1.21%) SAML
7 20 (1.21%) Visualforce
8 19 (1.15%) PySpark
9 18 (1.09%) LangGraph
10 14 (0.85%) LDAP
11 12 (0.73%) OpenID
12 11 (0.67%) Node.js
12 11 (0.67%) OpenAPI
12 11 (0.67%) Swagger
13 9 (0.55%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.48%) Django
14 8 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 45 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 30 (1.82%) Cyberattack
7 26 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.67%) IVR
13 11 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.48%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
16 7 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.15%) Windows
2 10 (0.61%) Linux
3 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (24.65%) Roadmaps
2 287 (17.38%) AI
3 282 (17.08%) Agile
4 229 (13.87%) Enterprise Architecture
5 207 (12.54%) Technical Architecture
6 188 (11.39%) TOGAF
7 184 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 181 (10.96%) Technology Strategy
9 170 (10.30%) CI/CD
10 162 (9.81%) Analytics
11 159 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
12 156 (9.45%) DevOps
12 156 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
13 151 (9.15%) Mentoring
14 147 (8.90%) Presales
15 141 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 139 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 135 (8.18%) IT Strategy
18 134 (8.12%) Data Architecture
18 134 (8.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 66 (4.00%) Python
2 57 (3.45%) SQL
3 43 (2.60%) C#
4 26 (1.57%) Bicep
5 24 (1.45%) Apex Code
6 22 (1.33%) SOQL
6 22 (1.33%) SOSL
7 21 (1.27%) Java
8 17 (1.03%) Scala
9 14 (0.85%) Go
9 14 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.24%) C
12 4 (0.24%) Ruby
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) C++
14 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.12%) Rust
14 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 288 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 241 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 116 (7.03%) Degree
4 50 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.73%) CISSP
6 41 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 34 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.45%) CISM
10 24 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.79%) SnowPro
12 12 (0.73%) CCNP
12 12 (0.73%) VCAP
12 12 (0.73%) VCDX
12 12 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.61%) CCIE
14 9 (0.55%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.75%) GRC
2 75 (4.54%) NIST
3 68 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.88%) GDPR
6 24 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.21%) NCSC
8 15 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.55%) QA
12 8 (0.48%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.42%) PMO
13 7 (0.42%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.30%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.39%) Docker
5 21 (1.27%) vSphere
6 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.42%) vCloud
9 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.30%) Terraform
3 26 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (0.85%) Ansible
5 13 (0.79%) CASB
6 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.36%) Avamar
7 6 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.36%) VxRail
8 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.24%) SCCM
10 2 (0.12%) Endace
11 1 (0.061%) Argo
Vendors
1 351 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.54%) Databricks
3 58 (3.51%) Cisco
4 48 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.85%) Palo Alto
6 41 (2.48%) Oracle
7 39 (2.36%) Google
8 34 (2.06%) VMware
9 31 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
10 29 (1.76%) SAP
11 26 (1.57%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.51%) Tenable
13 22 (1.33%) Splunk
14 14 (0.85%) Dell
14 14 (0.85%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.85%) Juniper
15 13 (0.79%) NetApp
15 13 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
16 12 (0.73%) Broadcom