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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 95 30
Rank change year-on-year +68 -65 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,339 590 2,182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 4.04% 6.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.59% 4.39% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 925 420 1,417
10th Percentile £62,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 17,640 13,451 31,238
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 92.05% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13,016 8,319 24,839
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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.

1 368 (27.48%) Azure
2 250 (18.67%) Roadmaps
3 237 (17.70%) AWS
4 214 (15.98%) Security Cleared
5 203 (15.16%) Agile
6 194 (14.49%) Microsoft
7 181 (13.52%) AI
8 179 (13.37%) TOGAF
9 165 (12.32%) SC Cleared
10 159 (11.87%) Cybersecurity
11 151 (11.28%) Enterprise Architecture
12 149 (11.13%) DevOps
13 124 (9.26%) CI/CD
13 124 (9.26%) Mentoring
14 120 (8.96%) Technology Strategy
15 113 (8.44%) GCP
16 109 (8.14%) Data Modelling
17 106 (7.92%) Migration
18 103 (7.69%) Data Architecture
18 103 (7.69%) Presales
19 102 (7.62%) Analytics
20 97 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
20 97 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
21 94 (7.02%) Microservices
22 92 (6.87%) Event-Driven
23 91 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 90 (6.72%) IT Strategy
25 88 (6.57%) Degree
25 88 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
26 87 (6.50%) Security Architecture

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 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.82%) CMS
3 8 (0.60%) Confluence
4 7 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.52%) JBoss
4 7 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.22%) Apache
6 3 (0.22%) SAS
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.075%) IIS
8 1 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.075%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.22%) Revit
5 2 (0.15%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.075%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 16 (1.19%) Oracle Assets
1 16 (1.19%) Oracle Financials
1 16 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
1 16 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.075%) Actimize
5 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.075%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.075%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.075%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 368 (27.48%) Azure
2 237 (17.70%) AWS
3 113 (8.44%) GCP
4 74 (5.53%) Serverless
5 71 (5.30%) SaaS
6 52 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 41 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 28 (2.09%) PaaS
10 27 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (1.94%) Snowflake
12 22 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (1.19%) IaaS
15 15 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (0.90%) Azure AI
16 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (0.82%) Nutanix
18 10 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
18 10 (0.75%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.12%) Broadband
2 44 (3.29%) WAN
3 42 (3.14%) Network Security
4 39 (2.91%) Firewall
5 33 (2.46%) SD-WAN
6 27 (2.02%) LAN
7 23 (1.72%) VPN
8 22 (1.64%) MPLS
9 12 (0.90%) WLAN
10 10 (0.75%) BGP
10 10 (0.75%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (0.60%) VSAN
13 7 (0.52%) HTTP
13 7 (0.52%) SNMP
13 7 (0.52%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.45%) DNS
14 6 (0.45%) IPsec
14 6 (0.45%) SSL
15 5 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.58%) Metadata
2 29 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.34%) Power BI
4 17 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 15 (1.12%) BigQuery
5 15 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 15 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.52%) Tableau
8 6 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.37%) MySQL
10 4 (0.30%) Big Data
10 4 (0.30%) GIS
10 4 (0.30%) QGIS
10 4 (0.30%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (0.15%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 45 (3.36%) Jenkins
2 34 (2.54%) GitLab
2 34 (2.54%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.87%) Snyk
4 6 (0.45%) Git
5 5 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.15%) MLflow
6 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.075%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.075%) JIRA
7 1 (0.075%) JMeter
7 1 (0.075%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.075%) Postman
7 1 (0.075%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.075%) Selenium
General
1 227 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 203 (15.16%) Public Sector
3 181 (13.52%) Finance
4 148 (11.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (4.93%) Games
7 58 (4.33%) Law
8 57 (4.26%) Marketing
9 43 (3.21%) Legal
10 40 (2.99%) Retail
11 35 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (2.17%) Banking
13 23 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.90%) Back Office
17 10 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
19 6 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
19 6 (0.45%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.00%) REST
2 54 (4.03%) SOAP
3 42 (3.14%) .NET
4 36 (2.69%) Lightning Web Components
4 36 (2.69%) Middleware
5 34 (2.54%) Visualforce
6 24 (1.79%) OAuth
7 22 (1.64%) OpenID
8 21 (1.57%) RESTful
9 20 (1.49%) SAML
10 18 (1.34%) LDAP
11 13 (0.97%) GraphQL
12 10 (0.75%) Spring
13 9 (0.67%) Hibernate
14 8 (0.60%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.60%) Node.js
15 7 (0.52%) Django
15 7 (0.52%) OpenAPI
15 7 (0.52%) Swagger
16 6 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (4.41%) Cloud Native
1 59 (4.41%) Data Centre
2 51 (3.81%) Product Ownership
3 38 (2.84%) Cyberattack
4 32 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.27%) PKI
10 14 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (0.97%) IoT
12 11 (0.82%) Operational Technology
13 10 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.60%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.52%) CMDB
15 7 (0.52%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.97%) Windows
2 9 (0.67%) Linux
3 5 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (18.67%) Roadmaps
2 203 (15.16%) Agile
3 181 (13.52%) AI
4 179 (13.37%) TOGAF
5 159 (11.87%) Cybersecurity
6 151 (11.28%) Enterprise Architecture
7 149 (11.13%) DevOps
8 124 (9.26%) CI/CD
8 124 (9.26%) Mentoring
9 120 (8.96%) Technology Strategy
10 109 (8.14%) Data Modelling
11 106 (7.92%) Migration
12 103 (7.69%) Data Architecture
12 103 (7.69%) Presales
13 102 (7.62%) Analytics
14 97 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
15 94 (7.02%) Microservices
16 92 (6.87%) Event-Driven
17 91 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (3.58%) Python
2 44 (3.29%) SQL
3 36 (2.69%) Apex Code
3 36 (2.69%) SOQL
3 36 (2.69%) SOSL
4 35 (2.61%) C#
5 28 (2.09%) Java
6 21 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 17 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.60%) Bash
9 8 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.52%) Go
11 6 (0.45%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) Scala
13 2 (0.15%) C++
13 2 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.075%) R
14 1 (0.075%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 214 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 88 (6.57%) Degree
4 47 (3.51%) CISSP
5 42 (3.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 41 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 30 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.72%) CISM
11 21 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.90%) CCNP
15 9 (0.67%) CCIE
16 8 (0.60%) VCAP
16 8 (0.60%) VCDX
16 8 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.71%) NIST
2 38 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (2.54%) GRC
4 32 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.79%) NCSC
6 22 (1.64%) GDPR
7 12 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.67%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) QA
11 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.52%) WCAG
13 5 (0.37%) IFRS
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.15%) SLA
15 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
2 29 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.90%) Docker
4 12 (0.90%) vSphere
5 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.52%) vCloud
7 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (1.12%) Ansible
3 12 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.90%) Terraform
4 6 (0.45%) Endace
5 4 (0.30%) Avamar
5 4 (0.30%) CASB
5 4 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (0.30%) VxRail
6 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.075%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 194 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.58%) Salesforce
3 40 (2.99%) Cisco
4 38 (2.84%) Palo Alto
5 37 (2.76%) Databricks
5 37 (2.76%) Splunk
6 36 (2.69%) Google
7 32 (2.39%) Oracle
8 29 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
9 25 (1.87%) Tenable
10 24 (1.79%) SAP
11 22 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.64%) VMware
12 18 (1.34%) Juniper
13 14 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.90%) Dell
14 12 (0.90%) Meraki
15 11 (0.82%) NetApp
15 11 (0.82%) Nimble Storage
16 9 (0.67%) OpenAI