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 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 97 31
Rank change year-on-year +71 -66 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,499 600 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.26% 3.81% 6.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.73% 4.13% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 433 1,531
10th Percentile £63,744 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -4.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £115,000
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 19,397 14,514 32,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 92.19% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,176 8,961 25,140
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,730
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,242
Median % change year-on-year - +8.61% -11.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 June 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 29 June 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.

1 430 (28.69%) Azure
2 321 (21.41%) Roadmaps
3 266 (17.75%) Agile
4 265 (17.68%) AWS
5 264 (17.61%) Microsoft
6 230 (15.34%) Security Cleared
7 219 (14.61%) AI
8 207 (13.81%) TOGAF
9 189 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
10 183 (12.21%) SC Cleared
11 171 (11.41%) DevOps
12 170 (11.34%) CI/CD
13 151 (10.07%) Technology Strategy
14 147 (9.81%) Cybersecurity
15 141 (9.41%) Mentoring
16 137 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 134 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 132 (8.81%) Data Architecture
19 130 (8.67%) GCP
20 124 (8.27%) Analytics
20 124 (8.27%) Data Modelling
21 120 (8.01%) Presales
22 119 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
23 110 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
24 109 (7.27%) Event-Driven
24 109 (7.27%) IT Strategy
25 106 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
26 105 (7.00%) Decision-Making
27 100 (6.67%) Microservices
27 100 (6.67%) 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 9 (0.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.47%) CMS
3 6 (0.40%) Confluence
4 5 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) Apache
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.20%) JBoss
5 3 (0.20%) SAS
5 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.067%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Revit
6 2 (0.13%) ArchiCAD
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.067%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
1 12 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
1 12 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
1 12 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.067%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.067%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 430 (28.69%) Azure
2 265 (17.68%) AWS
3 130 (8.67%) GCP
4 80 (5.34%) SaaS
5 62 (4.14%) Serverless
6 59 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 49 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 47 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (2.47%) PaaS
10 29 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 27 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 16 (1.07%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (1.07%) IaaS
14 15 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (0.87%) Azure AI
16 13 (0.87%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 86 (5.74%) Broadband
2 56 (3.74%) WAN
3 54 (3.60%) Network Security
4 41 (2.74%) SD-WAN
5 37 (2.47%) Firewall
6 30 (2.00%) LAN
7 28 (1.87%) MPLS
8 27 (1.80%) VPN
9 17 (1.13%) BGP
10 15 (1.00%) DNS
10 15 (1.00%) WLAN
11 14 (0.93%) HTTP
11 14 (0.93%) SNMP
12 13 (0.87%) IPsec
13 12 (0.80%) SSL
13 12 (0.80%) VSAN
14 10 (0.67%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.67%) VLAN
15 9 (0.60%) DHCP
15 9 (0.60%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.67%) Metadata
2 24 (1.60%) Power BI
2 24 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.40%) Data Lake
3 21 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.20%) BigQuery
6 16 (1.07%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.60%) Tableau
8 8 (0.53%) Delta Lake
8 8 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.47%) MySQL
9 7 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.40%) Data Vault
11 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 48 (3.20%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.33%) GitLab
3 34 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 25 (1.67%) Snyk
5 7 (0.47%) Git
6 5 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
7 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.067%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.067%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.067%) ERwin
8 1 (0.067%) JMeter
8 1 (0.067%) Postman
8 1 (0.067%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.067%) Selenium
General
1 262 (17.48%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.81%) Public Sector
3 227 (15.14%) Finance
4 154 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (4.60%) Games
7 66 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (4.07%) Law
9 52 (3.47%) Marketing
10 49 (3.27%) Retail
11 47 (3.14%) Legal
12 28 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.60%) Banking
14 22 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.60%) Back Office
18 7 (0.47%) Aviation
18 7 (0.47%) Financial Institution
19 6 (0.40%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.54%) REST
2 52 (3.47%) SOAP
3 38 (2.54%) .NET
4 37 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (2.27%) Visualforce
6 32 (2.13%) OAuth
7 28 (1.87%) Middleware
8 27 (1.80%) SAML
9 24 (1.60%) RESTful
10 22 (1.47%) OpenID
11 18 (1.20%) LDAP
12 12 (0.80%) Node.js
13 11 (0.73%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.60%) OpenAPI
14 9 (0.60%) PySpark
14 9 (0.60%) Swagger
15 8 (0.53%) Spring
16 7 (0.47%) .NET Core
16 7 (0.47%) ARM Templates
17 6 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 94 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.54%) Data Centre
3 55 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.54%) Cyberattack
5 32 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.00%) PKI
12 14 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (0.80%) IoT
14 12 (0.80%) Operational Technology
15 11 (0.73%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
17 9 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 8 (0.53%) Onboarding
18 8 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.13%) Windows
2 9 (0.60%) Linux
3 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (21.41%) Roadmaps
2 266 (17.75%) Agile
3 219 (14.61%) AI
4 207 (13.81%) TOGAF
5 189 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
6 171 (11.41%) DevOps
7 170 (11.34%) CI/CD
8 151 (10.07%) Technology Strategy
9 147 (9.81%) Cybersecurity
10 141 (9.41%) Mentoring
11 137 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 134 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 132 (8.81%) Data Architecture
14 124 (8.27%) Analytics
14 124 (8.27%) Data Modelling
15 120 (8.01%) Presales
16 119 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
17 110 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 109 (7.27%) Event-Driven
18 109 (7.27%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (3.40%) Python
2 50 (3.34%) SQL
3 37 (2.47%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.40%) SOQL
4 36 (2.40%) SOSL
5 30 (2.00%) C#
6 24 (1.60%) Java
7 19 (1.27%) Bicep
7 19 (1.27%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.67%) Go
9 10 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.60%) Scala
11 8 (0.53%) Bash
11 8 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.27%) Ruby
13 2 (0.13%) C++
13 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 230 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 183 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.60%) Degree
4 50 (3.34%) CISSP
5 47 (3.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 42 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 36 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.73%) CISM
9 26 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.87%) CCNP
14 12 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.80%) VCAP
14 12 (0.80%) VCDX
14 12 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.54%) NIST
2 57 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.47%) GRC
5 29 (1.93%) NCSC
6 27 (1.80%) GDPR
7 18 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 11 (0.73%) PMO
10 11 (0.73%) QA
11 9 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.47%) WCAG
14 5 (0.33%) IFRS
15 4 (0.27%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 39 (2.60%) Active Directory
1 39 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
2 24 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.27%) vSphere
4 17 (1.13%) Docker
5 13 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.47%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 30 (2.00%) Terraform
2 27 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.93%) Ansible
5 10 (0.67%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.60%) CASB
7 6 (0.40%) Avamar
7 6 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.40%) VxRail
8 5 (0.33%) Endace
8 5 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 264 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 55 (3.67%) Cisco
3 52 (3.47%) Salesforce
4 46 (3.07%) Palo Alto
5 43 (2.87%) Databricks
6 38 (2.54%) Google
7 37 (2.47%) Oracle
7 37 (2.47%) Splunk
8 31 (2.07%) SAP
9 30 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
10 28 (1.87%) VMware
11 25 (1.67%) Tenable
12 21 (1.40%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.20%) Juniper
14 17 (1.13%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.93%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.87%) Dell
16 13 (0.87%) NetApp
16 13 (0.87%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.80%) Broadcom