Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 55 30
Rank change year-on-year +28 -25 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,186 683 2,196
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.59% 5.06% 6.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.04% 5.51% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 785 513 1,416
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,525 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 16,841 12,392 31,156
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 91.74% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,152 9,073 24,954
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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.

1 343 (28.92%) Azure
2 238 (20.07%) Roadmaps
3 200 (16.86%) AWS
4 189 (15.94%) Microsoft
5 180 (15.18%) Security Cleared
6 177 (14.92%) Agile
7 166 (14.00%) TOGAF
8 156 (13.15%) AI
9 150 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
10 138 (11.64%) DevOps
11 135 (11.38%) SC Cleared
12 130 (10.96%) Data Modelling
13 124 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
14 122 (10.29%) Data Architecture
15 121 (10.20%) Mentoring
16 118 (9.95%) Analytics
17 116 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (9.02%) Technology Strategy
19 102 (8.60%) Migration
20 101 (8.52%) GCP
21 95 (8.01%) CI/CD
22 93 (7.84%) Microservices
23 92 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
24 87 (7.34%) Event-Driven
25 84 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
26 83 (7.00%) IT Strategy
27 81 (6.83%) Degree
28 79 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
29 78 (6.58%) Technology Roadmap
30 77 (6.49%) Decision-Making

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 14 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.10%) CMS
3 11 (0.93%) JBoss
3 11 (0.93%) WebSphere
4 8 (0.67%) Confluence
5 7 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.42%) GeoServer
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.25%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.084%) IIS
9 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.084%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.17%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.17%) Revit
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.084%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
1 14 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
1 14 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
3 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.084%) Actimize
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.084%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.084%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 343 (28.92%) Azure
2 200 (16.86%) AWS
3 101 (8.52%) GCP
4 66 (5.56%) SaaS
5 62 (5.23%) Serverless
6 56 (4.72%) Snowflake
7 50 (4.22%) Power Platform
8 47 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (2.61%) Entra ID
10 25 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.60%) PaaS
13 18 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (1.43%) IaaS
15 15 (1.26%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (1.01%) Azure AI
16 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (0.84%) iPaaS
18 8 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
18 8 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.07%) Broadband
2 30 (2.53%) WAN
3 26 (2.19%) Network Security
4 25 (2.11%) Firewall
5 19 (1.60%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.60%) VPN
6 18 (1.52%) LAN
7 13 (1.10%) MPLS
8 8 (0.67%) DNS
9 7 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.51%) DHCP
10 6 (0.51%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.51%) WLAN
11 5 (0.42%) BGP
11 5 (0.42%) HTTP
11 5 (0.42%) SNMP
11 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.34%) SSL
12 4 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (3.29%) Metadata
3 26 (2.19%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.10%) Power BI
6 10 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.42%) GIS
9 5 (0.42%) QGIS
10 4 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.34%) Tableau
11 3 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.25%) Big Data
11 3 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.17%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 46 (3.88%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.95%) SonarQube
3 34 (2.87%) GitLab
4 13 (1.10%) Snyk
5 8 (0.67%) Git
6 3 (0.25%) JIRA
6 3 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.084%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.084%) JMeter
8 1 (0.084%) MLflow
8 1 (0.084%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.084%) Postman
8 1 (0.084%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.084%) Selenium
8 1 (0.084%) Subversion
General
1 242 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 175 (14.76%) Public Sector
3 173 (14.59%) Finance
4 122 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (5.23%) Games
7 61 (5.14%) Marketing
8 53 (4.47%) Law
9 43 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (3.29%) Legal
10 39 (3.29%) Retail
11 30 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (2.45%) Banking
13 23 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.10%) Back Office
16 10 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.51%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.34%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.31%) REST
2 53 (4.47%) SOAP
3 46 (3.88%) .NET
4 35 (2.95%) Middleware
5 34 (2.87%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.87%) Visualforce
6 18 (1.52%) OAuth
6 18 (1.52%) OpenID
7 17 (1.43%) GraphQL
8 16 (1.35%) Spring
9 15 (1.26%) Hibernate
10 14 (1.18%) LDAP
10 14 (1.18%) SAML
11 13 (1.10%) RESTful
12 10 (0.84%) .NET Core
13 7 (0.59%) Django
14 6 (0.51%) Node.js
14 6 (0.51%) OpenAPI
14 6 (0.51%) Swagger
14 6 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 35 (2.95%) Data Centre
3 35 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.78%) Cyberattack
5 32 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 29 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.28%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.43%) PKI
10 15 (1.26%) IoT
11 14 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.93%) DataPower
13 11 (0.93%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.51%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.51%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.35%) Windows
2 11 (0.93%) Linux
3 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (20.07%) Roadmaps
2 177 (14.92%) Agile
3 166 (14.00%) TOGAF
4 156 (13.15%) AI
5 150 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 138 (11.64%) DevOps
7 130 (10.96%) Data Modelling
8 124 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
9 122 (10.29%) Data Architecture
10 121 (10.20%) Mentoring
11 118 (9.95%) Analytics
12 116 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 107 (9.02%) Technology Strategy
14 102 (8.60%) Migration
15 95 (8.01%) CI/CD
16 93 (7.84%) Microservices
17 92 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (7.34%) Event-Driven
19 84 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
20 83 (7.00%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 49 (4.13%) SQL
2 42 (3.54%) Python
3 38 (3.20%) C#
4 37 (3.12%) Java
5 34 (2.87%) Apex Code
5 34 (2.87%) SOQL
5 34 (2.87%) SOSL
6 20 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.35%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.76%) Bash
10 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.42%) Bicep
12 4 (0.34%) C++
13 3 (0.25%) Go
14 2 (0.17%) C
14 2 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.084%) R
Qualifications
1 180 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 135 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.83%) Degree
4 43 (3.63%) TOGAF Certification
5 41 (3.46%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.46%) CISSP
6 35 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 25 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.60%) CISM
10 18 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.59%) CCNP
12 7 (0.59%) CCSP
13 5 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.34%) VCAP
14 4 (0.34%) VCDX
14 4 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.38%) NIST
2 39 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.94%) GDPR
5 20 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.60%) GRC
6 19 (1.60%) NCSC
7 11 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.59%) PMO
9 7 (0.59%) QA
9 7 (0.59%) WCAG
10 4 (0.34%) IFRS
10 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.17%) SLA
13 1 (0.084%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.084%) PERC
13 1 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
2 24 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.43%) Docker
4 11 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.51%) vSphere
6 5 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.34%) vCloud
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (1.52%) Ansible
3 17 (1.43%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.01%) Terraform
5 6 (0.51%) Endace
6 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.17%) Avamar
7 2 (0.17%) CASB
7 2 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.17%) VxRail
8 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.084%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.084%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.084%) Puppet
8 1 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 189 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 42 (3.54%) Salesforce
3 35 (2.95%) Splunk
4 34 (2.87%) Google
5 29 (2.45%) Databricks
6 27 (2.28%) Oracle
7 25 (2.11%) Cisco
8 23 (1.94%) SAP
9 18 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.35%) VMware
11 14 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.10%) Tenable
13 11 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.84%) Meraki
15 8 (0.67%) Juniper
16 7 (0.59%) Adobe
16 7 (0.59%) Dell
16 7 (0.59%) Okta
17 6 (0.51%) N-able