Hybrid/Remote Architect Job Trends

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,431 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 103 23
Rank change year-on-year +76 -80 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,651 576 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.27% 3.47% 7.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.73% 3.76% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 390 1,220
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £74,639 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £81,764 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +2.20% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £125,000
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 21,358 15,317 23,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.23% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,271 9,305 17,421
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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.

1 518 (31.37%) Azure
2 409 (24.77%) Roadmaps
3 351 (21.26%) Microsoft
4 295 (17.87%) AWS
5 288 (17.44%) AI
6 286 (17.32%) Security Cleared
7 280 (16.96%) Agile
8 239 (14.48%) SC Cleared
9 226 (13.69%) Enterprise Architecture
10 208 (12.60%) Technical Architecture
11 187 (11.33%) TOGAF
12 184 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 183 (11.08%) Technology Strategy
14 172 (10.42%) CI/CD
15 162 (9.81%) Analytics
16 158 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
17 155 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
18 153 (9.27%) DevOps
19 149 (9.02%) Mentoring
20 147 (8.90%) Presales
21 139 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
22 137 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
23 136 (8.24%) GCP
23 136 (8.24%) IT Strategy
24 135 (8.18%) Data Architecture
25 134 (8.12%) Decision-Making
25 134 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
26 131 (7.93%) Business Strategy
27 130 (7.87%) Data Modelling
28 124 (7.51%) 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 19 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.67%) CMS
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.30%) Confluence
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.061%) Appian
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.061%) Revit
7 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.061%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.061%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 518 (31.37%) Azure
2 295 (17.87%) AWS
3 136 (8.24%) GCP
4 101 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 89 (5.39%) SaaS
6 77 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
8 56 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 56 (3.39%) Serverless
9 53 (3.21%) Entra ID
10 50 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 36 (2.18%) PaaS
12 35 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 33 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
15 26 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
16 25 (1.51%) dbt
17 24 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.60%) WAN
2 87 (5.27%) LAN
3 60 (3.63%) Network Security
4 48 (2.91%) Broadband
5 38 (2.30%) Firewall
5 38 (2.30%) SD-WAN
6 27 (1.64%) MPLS
7 20 (1.21%) VPN
8 16 (0.97%) DNS
9 14 (0.85%) BGP
9 14 (0.85%) HTTP
9 14 (0.85%) IPsec
9 14 (0.85%) WLAN
10 13 (0.79%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.73%) VSAN
12 11 (0.67%) CTI
12 11 (0.67%) SNMP
12 11 (0.67%) VLAN
12 11 (0.67%) VoIP
13 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.24%) Metadata
2 33 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.82%) Power BI
4 24 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.15%) Delta Lake
8 18 (1.09%) Data Vault
8 18 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 16 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.73%) Tableau
11 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.48%) MySQL
14 7 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
17 3 (0.18%) GIS
17 3 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 34 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.51%) Snyk
3 22 (1.33%) GitLab
4 21 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 18 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 10 (0.61%) Git
7 5 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.12%) ERwin
8 2 (0.12%) MLflow
9 1 (0.061%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.061%) JMeter
9 1 (0.061%) Maven
9 1 (0.061%) Postman
9 1 (0.061%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.061%) Selenium
General
1 366 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 334 (20.23%) Finance
3 257 (15.57%) Public Sector
4 198 (11.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (6.00%) Law
6 95 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
8 71 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.15%) Legal
10 45 (2.73%) Banking
11 44 (2.67%) Retail
12 38 (2.30%) Marketing
13 37 (2.24%) Games
14 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.67%) Back Office
17 9 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.48%) Health Technology
19 7 (0.42%) Advertising
19 7 (0.42%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.91%) REST
2 41 (2.48%) .NET
3 33 (2.00%) Middleware
4 32 (1.94%) SOAP
5 27 (1.64%) RESTful
6 24 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 24 (1.45%) OAuth
7 21 (1.27%) LangChain
8 20 (1.21%) PySpark
8 20 (1.21%) SAML
8 20 (1.21%) Visualforce
9 18 (1.09%) LangGraph
10 14 (0.85%) LDAP
11 12 (0.73%) OpenID
12 11 (0.67%) Node.js
12 11 (0.67%) OpenAPI
12 11 (0.67%) Swagger
13 9 (0.55%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.48%) Django
14 8 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 45 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 30 (1.82%) Cyberattack
7 26 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.67%) IVR
13 11 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (0.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.48%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
16 7 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.15%) Windows
2 10 (0.61%) Linux
3 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (24.77%) Roadmaps
2 288 (17.44%) AI
3 280 (16.96%) Agile
4 226 (13.69%) Enterprise Architecture
5 208 (12.60%) Technical Architecture
6 187 (11.33%) TOGAF
7 184 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 183 (11.08%) Technology Strategy
9 172 (10.42%) CI/CD
10 162 (9.81%) Analytics
11 158 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
12 155 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
13 153 (9.27%) DevOps
14 149 (9.02%) Mentoring
15 147 (8.90%) Presales
16 139 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 137 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
18 136 (8.24%) IT Strategy
19 135 (8.18%) Data Architecture
20 134 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 67 (4.06%) Python
2 58 (3.51%) SQL
3 43 (2.60%) C#
4 27 (1.64%) Bicep
5 24 (1.45%) Apex Code
6 22 (1.33%) SOQL
6 22 (1.33%) SOSL
7 21 (1.27%) Java
8 18 (1.09%) Scala
9 14 (0.85%) Go
9 14 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.24%) C
12 4 (0.24%) Ruby
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) C++
14 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.12%) Rust
14 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 286 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 239 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 117 (7.09%) Degree
4 51 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.73%) CISSP
6 41 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 34 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.51%) CISM
10 25 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.85%) SnowPro
13 12 (0.73%) CCNP
13 12 (0.73%) VCAP
13 12 (0.73%) VCDX
13 12 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (0.61%) CCIE
15 9 (0.55%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.75%) GRC
2 76 (4.60%) NIST
3 69 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.82%) GDPR
6 24 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.27%) NCSC
8 15 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.55%) QA
12 8 (0.48%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.42%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.36%) PMO
15 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.30%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.39%) Docker
5 21 (1.27%) vSphere
6 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.42%) vCloud
9 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.36%) Terraform
3 26 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (0.85%) Ansible
5 13 (0.79%) CASB
6 10 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.36%) Avamar
7 6 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.36%) VxRail
8 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.24%) SCCM
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) Endace
Vendors
1 351 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 76 (4.60%) Databricks
3 57 (3.45%) Cisco
4 48 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.85%) Palo Alto
6 41 (2.48%) Oracle
7 39 (2.36%) Google
8 34 (2.06%) VMware
9 33 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.82%) SAP
11 29 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.57%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.51%) Tenable
14 22 (1.33%) Splunk
15 14 (0.85%) Dell
15 14 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.79%) Juniper
16 13 (0.79%) NetApp
16 13 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.73%) Broadcom