Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £81,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 55 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,012 706 1,956
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.00% 5.46% 6.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.40% 5.79% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 647 525 1,421
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,168 £57,500
25th Percentile £71,504 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,142 £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 15,820 12,189 29,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 94.33% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,976 8,902 24,313
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,996
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £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 £93,250
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 26 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 26 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.

1 320 (31.62%) Azure
2 229 (22.63%) Roadmaps
3 203 (20.06%) AWS
4 177 (17.49%) Agile
5 169 (16.70%) Microsoft
6 155 (15.32%) Security Cleared
7 149 (14.72%) TOGAF
8 139 (13.74%) Data Modelling
9 136 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (13.34%) DevOps
11 134 (13.24%) AI
12 125 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
13 119 (11.76%) Analytics
14 117 (11.56%) Data Architecture
15 111 (10.97%) SC Cleared
16 109 (10.77%) Mentoring
17 102 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
18 98 (9.68%) GCP
19 95 (9.39%) Migration
20 88 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
21 86 (8.50%) Event-Driven
22 84 (8.30%) CI/CD
22 84 (8.30%) Microservices
22 84 (8.30%) Technology Roadmap
23 83 (8.20%) Technology Strategy
24 80 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
25 78 (7.71%) Technical Architecture
26 77 (7.61%) Broadband
27 76 (7.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
28 74 (7.31%) SaaS

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 (1.28%) JBoss
1 13 (1.28%) WebSphere
2 11 (1.09%) CMS
2 11 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.59%) Confluence
5 4 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.30%) SAS
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.099%) Apache
8 1 (0.099%) IIS
8 1 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.099%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.20%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.20%) Revit
3 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.099%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
2 12 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
4 10 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
5 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.20%) Shopify
9 1 (0.099%) Actimize
9 1 (0.099%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.099%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 320 (31.62%) Azure
2 203 (20.06%) AWS
3 98 (9.68%) GCP
4 74 (7.31%) SaaS
5 59 (5.83%) Snowflake
6 55 (5.43%) Serverless
7 47 (4.64%) Power Platform
8 43 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 20 (1.98%) IaaS
10 20 (1.98%) PaaS
11 19 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.99%) GitHub
15 9 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
15 9 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (0.79%) dbt
16 8 (0.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 77 (7.61%) Broadband
2 28 (2.77%) WAN
3 18 (1.78%) Firewall
3 18 (1.78%) SD-WAN
4 16 (1.58%) VPN
5 14 (1.38%) LAN
6 12 (1.19%) Network Security
7 11 (1.09%) MPLS
8 7 (0.69%) DHCP
8 7 (0.69%) DNS
9 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.49%) BGP
10 5 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.49%) HTTP
10 5 (0.49%) SNMP
11 4 (0.40%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.40%) SSL
11 4 (0.40%) VoIP
12 3 (0.30%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (3.66%) Metadata
3 22 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 21 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.68%) Power BI
6 16 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.19%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.79%) Tableau
10 7 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.49%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.40%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.40%) DataStage
13 4 (0.40%) GIS
13 4 (0.40%) QGIS
13 4 (0.40%) QlikView
13 4 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 42 (4.15%) SonarQube
3 41 (4.05%) GitLab
4 6 (0.59%) ERwin
5 5 (0.49%) Git
6 4 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.40%) JIRA
6 4 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.099%) Subversion
General
1 230 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 162 (16.01%) Finance
3 136 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 98 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 78 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (6.62%) Games
7 65 (6.42%) Marketing
8 50 (4.94%) Law
9 48 (4.74%) Retail
10 37 (3.66%) Legal
10 37 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (3.56%) Banking
12 22 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.08%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.58%) Back Office
15 10 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.69%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.40%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.92%) REST
2 62 (6.13%) SOAP
3 43 (4.25%) .NET
4 41 (4.05%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (4.05%) Visualforce
5 31 (3.06%) Middleware
6 19 (1.88%) GraphQL
7 18 (1.78%) Spring
8 17 (1.68%) Hibernate
9 16 (1.58%) OAuth
9 16 (1.58%) OpenID
10 14 (1.38%) Node.js
10 14 (1.38%) RESTful
11 12 (1.19%) Django
11 12 (1.19%) LDAP
11 12 (1.19%) SAML
12 10 (0.99%) .NET Core
12 10 (0.99%) Web Services
13 9 (0.89%) React
14 7 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (3.36%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.77%) Virtual Team
7 27 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.78%) PKI
10 16 (1.58%) IoT
11 15 (1.48%) Cyberattack
11 15 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.28%) DataPower
14 12 (1.19%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
16 6 (0.59%) Security Posture
17 5 (0.49%) Data Structures
17 5 (0.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.48%) Windows
2 13 (1.28%) Linux
3 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.30%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (22.63%) Roadmaps
2 177 (17.49%) Agile
3 149 (14.72%) TOGAF
4 139 (13.74%) Data Modelling
5 136 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 135 (13.34%) DevOps
7 134 (13.24%) AI
8 125 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
9 119 (11.76%) Analytics
10 117 (11.56%) Data Architecture
11 109 (10.77%) Mentoring
12 102 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
13 95 (9.39%) Migration
14 88 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (8.50%) Event-Driven
16 84 (8.30%) CI/CD
16 84 (8.30%) Microservices
16 84 (8.30%) Technology Roadmap
17 83 (8.20%) Technology Strategy
18 80 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (5.63%) Python
2 48 (4.74%) SQL
3 46 (4.55%) Java
4 41 (4.05%) Apex Code
4 41 (4.05%) SOQL
4 41 (4.05%) SOSL
5 40 (3.95%) C#
6 21 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 20 (1.98%) JavaScript
8 19 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.89%) Bash
10 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.59%) C++
12 4 (0.40%) Bicep
13 3 (0.30%) C
13 3 (0.30%) Go
14 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.20%) Scala
15 1 (0.099%) R
Qualifications
1 155 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.92%) Degree
4 51 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 49 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 36 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (3.06%) CISSP
9 29 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (2.57%) DV Cleared
12 22 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.38%) CISM
14 11 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.69%) CCNP
15 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.40%) CCSP
16 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.30%) CCIE
18 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.25%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.26%) NIST
3 27 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.78%) GDPR
5 17 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.68%) NCSC
6 11 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.79%) QA
8 6 (0.59%) GRC
9 5 (0.49%) PMO
9 5 (0.49%) WCAG
10 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.98%) Docker
3 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.20%) vCloud
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.099%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (2.17%) Ansible
2 20 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.88%) Terraform
4 14 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.59%) Endace
6 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.20%) CASB
8 1 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.099%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.099%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.099%) Puppet
8 1 (0.099%) Rancher
Vendors
1 169 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.74%) Salesforce
3 42 (4.15%) Splunk
4 37 (3.66%) Google
5 29 (2.87%) SAP
6 27 (2.67%) Databricks
7 25 (2.47%) Oracle
8 22 (2.17%) Cisco
9 12 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.99%) VMware
11 8 (0.79%) Fortinet
11 8 (0.79%) Meraki
12 7 (0.69%) F5
12 7 (0.69%) Juniper
12 7 (0.69%) Okta
13 6 (0.59%) Informatica
13 6 (0.59%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.49%) Adobe
14 5 (0.49%) IBM
14 5 (0.49%) Zscaler