Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -55 +5 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 642 1,406 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.94% 7.02% 6.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.17% 7.27% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 410 923 1,177
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,809 £61,250
25th Percentile £69,063 £67,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 15,411 19,350 21,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 96.63% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,804 12,159 17,546
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.00% +2.16%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025, 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.

1 263 (40.97%) Azure
2 188 (29.28%) Agile
3 178 (27.73%) Roadmaps
4 172 (26.79%) AWS
5 139 (21.65%) TOGAF
6 127 (19.78%) Security Cleared
7 122 (19.00%) DevOps
8 114 (17.76%) AI
8 114 (17.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 107 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 105 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 99 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (15.26%) SC Cleared
13 97 (15.11%) Microsoft
14 94 (14.64%) CI/CD
15 92 (14.33%) Analytics
16 89 (13.86%) Data Modelling
17 85 (13.24%) SaaS
18 79 (12.31%) Degree
18 79 (12.31%) Mentoring
18 79 (12.31%) SQL
19 78 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 76 (11.84%) Microservices
21 74 (11.53%) Python
22 71 (11.06%) GCP
23 70 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
23 70 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
24 68 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
25 67 (10.44%) Data Architecture
26 66 (10.28%) 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 5 (0.78%) Confluence
2 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.47%) JBoss
2 3 (0.47%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.16%) CMS
4 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.78%) Shopify
4 4 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.31%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.31%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.16%) Magento
7 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 263 (40.97%) Azure
2 172 (26.79%) AWS
3 85 (13.24%) SaaS
4 71 (11.06%) GCP
5 46 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 44 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (6.85%) PaaS
7 42 (6.54%) IaaS
8 29 (4.52%) Serverless
9 26 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 26 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (3.27%) OCI
11 20 (3.12%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.96%) Azure AI
13 18 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (2.65%) Power Automate
14 17 (2.65%) Snowflake
15 15 (2.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 15 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.76%) Firewall
2 35 (5.45%) VPN
2 35 (5.45%) WAN
3 23 (3.58%) SD-WAN
4 20 (3.12%) DNS
4 20 (3.12%) Network Security
5 19 (2.96%) Broadband
6 18 (2.80%) LAN
7 15 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.40%) Junos
9 4 (0.62%) DHCP
10 3 (0.47%) BGP
10 3 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.47%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.47%) InfiniBand
10 3 (0.47%) SNMP
10 3 (0.47%) VoIP
10 3 (0.47%) Wireless
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.31%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.54%) Data Lake
1 42 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (4.36%) Power BI
3 24 (3.74%) Metadata
4 18 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.34%) MySQL
6 14 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (1.71%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.56%) Data Vault
8 10 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.25%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (0.93%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (4.21%) Git
1 27 (4.21%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.80%) GitLab
3 15 (2.34%) JIRA
3 15 (2.34%) SonarQube
4 9 (1.40%) MSBuild
4 9 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (1.40%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.93%) ER Studio
5 6 (0.93%) ERwin
6 4 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 208 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.18%) Finance
3 79 (12.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (9.81%) Public Sector
6 49 (7.63%) Retail
7 34 (5.30%) Marketing
8 32 (4.98%) Banking
9 29 (4.52%) Law
10 28 (4.36%) Legal
11 25 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (2.49%) Games
14 14 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (2.18%) Manufacturing
15 13 (2.02%) Back Office
16 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.78%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.62%) Local Government
19 3 (0.47%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.39%) .NET
2 35 (5.45%) REST
3 34 (5.30%) Node.js
4 33 (5.14%) React
5 24 (3.74%) React Native
5 24 (3.74%) SOAP
6 20 (3.12%) Lightning Web Components
7 18 (2.80%) Visualforce
8 15 (2.34%) Middleware
9 14 (2.18%) gRPC
10 13 (2.02%) Kafka
11 12 (1.87%) JSON
12 11 (1.71%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.71%) Django
13 10 (1.56%) CSS
13 10 (1.56%) HTML
13 10 (1.56%) RESTful
13 10 (1.56%) Web Services
14 9 (1.40%) Bootstrap
14 9 (1.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.28%) Data Centre
2 46 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 34 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (4.98%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.74%) Mobile App
6 24 (3.74%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.65%) Virtual Team
10 15 (2.34%) NHS
11 10 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.56%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.25%) IoT
13 8 (1.25%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.09%) CMDB
14 7 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.56%) Linux
2 6 (0.93%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) OpenWrt
3 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.16%) Android
4 1 (0.16%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (29.28%) Agile
2 178 (27.73%) Roadmaps
3 139 (21.65%) TOGAF
4 122 (19.00%) DevOps
5 114 (17.76%) AI
5 114 (17.76%) Enterprise Architecture
6 107 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 105 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (14.64%) CI/CD
10 92 (14.33%) Analytics
11 89 (13.86%) Data Modelling
12 79 (12.31%) Mentoring
13 78 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 76 (11.84%) Microservices
15 70 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
15 70 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 68 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (10.44%) Data Architecture
18 66 (10.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 79 (12.31%) SQL
2 74 (11.53%) Python
3 57 (8.88%) C#
4 37 (5.76%) Java
5 22 (3.43%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.27%) Bicep
6 21 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.12%) Apex Code
8 17 (2.65%) SOQL
9 15 (2.34%) SOSL
10 11 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.93%) C++
12 4 (0.62%) Go
13 3 (0.47%) C
14 1 (0.16%) ABAP
14 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.16%) R
14 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 127 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 79 (12.31%) Degree
4 62 (9.66%) Azure Certification
5 46 (7.17%) AWS Certification
6 33 (5.14%) TOGAF Certification
7 30 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (4.36%) DV Cleared
9 20 (3.12%) DBS Check
9 20 (3.12%) Master's Degree
10 19 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (2.49%) CISSP
13 14 (2.18%) CCNP
14 11 (1.71%) CCNA
15 10 (1.56%) CISM
15 10 (1.56%) SAP Certification
16 9 (1.40%) JNCIA
17 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.70%) NIST
2 37 (5.76%) GDPR
3 36 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.89%) NCSC
5 16 (2.49%) HIPAA
5 16 (2.49%) QA
6 9 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.31%) COBIT
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 39 (6.07%) Docker
2 21 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.47%) GPFS
4 3 (0.47%) Lustre
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (0.16%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 38 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.74%) Terraform
3 16 (2.49%) Ansible
3 16 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.47%) Grafana
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.31%) Endace
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) Autotask
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 97 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.01%) Databricks
3 34 (5.30%) Google
4 29 (4.52%) SAP
5 27 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.74%) Cisco
7 22 (3.43%) Oracle
8 20 (3.12%) Palo Alto
9 18 (2.80%) Adobe
9 18 (2.80%) Apple
10 17 (2.65%) Workday
11 16 (2.49%) Meraki
12 15 (2.34%) ServiceNow
12 15 (2.34%) Splunk
13 12 (1.87%) Juniper
14 7 (1.09%) Ariba
14 7 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.09%) VMware
15 6 (0.93%) Informatica
16 5 (0.78%) IBM