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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 100 28
Rank change year-on-year +76 -72 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,602 621 2,133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.39% 3.77% 7.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.86% 4.09% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,134 432 1,384
10th Percentile £63,957 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £118,750
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 20,389 15,199 27,973
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.21% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,786 9,441 21,248
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 July 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 July 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.

1 504 (31.46%) Azure
2 385 (24.03%) Roadmaps
3 337 (21.04%) Microsoft
4 283 (17.67%) AWS
5 282 (17.60%) Agile
6 279 (17.42%) Security Cleared
7 259 (16.17%) AI
8 232 (14.48%) SC Cleared
9 221 (13.80%) Enterprise Architecture
10 207 (12.92%) TOGAF
11 203 (12.67%) Technical Architecture
12 178 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 176 (10.99%) CI/CD
14 170 (10.61%) DevOps
14 170 (10.61%) Technology Strategy
15 163 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
16 148 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 143 (8.93%) Analytics
18 141 (8.80%) Mentoring
19 138 (8.61%) Presales
20 128 (7.99%) Data Architecture
20 128 (7.99%) Migration
20 128 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
21 127 (7.93%) Business Strategy
22 126 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
22 126 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
23 125 (7.80%) GCP
23 125 (7.80%) IT Strategy
24 122 (7.62%) Data Modelling
25 116 (7.24%) WAN

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 10 (0.62%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.56%) CMS
3 5 (0.31%) Confluence
4 4 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Apache
5 3 (0.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.062%) Appian
7 1 (0.062%) JBoss
7 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 11 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.19%) Revit
5 2 (0.12%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.12%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.062%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 11 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.062%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.062%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.062%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 504 (31.46%) Azure
2 283 (17.67%) AWS
3 125 (7.80%) GCP
4 91 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 83 (5.18%) SaaS
6 71 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
7 61 (3.81%) Serverless
8 53 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (3.12%) Entra ID
10 39 (2.43%) Snowflake
11 38 (2.37%) PaaS
12 32 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (1.56%) dbt
15 23 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (1.00%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 116 (7.24%) WAN
2 89 (5.56%) LAN
3 66 (4.12%) Broadband
4 58 (3.62%) Network Security
5 41 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 39 (2.43%) Firewall
7 29 (1.81%) MPLS
8 25 (1.56%) VPN
9 18 (1.12%) BGP
10 16 (1.00%) DNS
11 15 (0.94%) HTTP
11 15 (0.94%) SNMP
12 14 (0.87%) IPsec
12 14 (0.87%) WLAN
13 12 (0.75%) VoIP
13 12 (0.75%) VSAN
14 11 (0.69%) CTI
14 11 (0.69%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.69%) VLAN
15 10 (0.62%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.12%) Metadata
2 24 (1.50%) Power BI
2 24 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.44%) Data Lake
4 21 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.19%) BigQuery
6 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.75%) Delta Lake
7 12 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.69%) Data Vault
9 8 (0.50%) Tableau
10 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.37%) MySQL
12 5 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (2.93%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.18%) GitLab
2 35 (2.18%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.56%) Snyk
4 9 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.50%) Git
6 5 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.12%) MLflow
8 1 (0.062%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.062%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.062%) ERwin
8 1 (0.062%) JMeter
8 1 (0.062%) Maven
8 1 (0.062%) Postman
8 1 (0.062%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.062%) Selenium
General
1 358 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 305 (19.04%) Finance
3 245 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 204 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 101 (6.30%) Law
6 94 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (3.43%) Legal
10 53 (3.31%) Games
11 50 (3.12%) Marketing
12 49 (3.06%) Retail
13 36 (2.25%) Banking
14 21 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.75%) Back Office
17 10 (0.62%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.44%) Aviation
19 6 (0.37%) Advertising
19 6 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.00%) REST
2 48 (3.00%) SOAP
3 37 (2.31%) .NET
3 37 (2.31%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (2.12%) Visualforce
5 30 (1.87%) OAuth
6 28 (1.75%) RESTful
7 26 (1.62%) Middleware
8 25 (1.56%) SAML
9 18 (1.12%) OpenID
10 16 (1.00%) LDAP
11 13 (0.81%) PySpark
12 12 (0.75%) LangChain
12 12 (0.75%) Node.js
12 12 (0.75%) OpenAPI
12 12 (0.75%) Swagger
13 10 (0.62%) LangGraph
14 8 (0.50%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.44%) ARM Templates
15 7 (0.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 106 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.31%) Data Centre
3 59 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.12%) Cyberattack
5 32 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 26 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (0.75%) AI Agents
12 12 (0.75%) IoT
13 11 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.69%) IVR
14 10 (0.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.62%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.56%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.56%) PKI
16 8 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.00%) Windows
2 9 (0.56%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (24.03%) Roadmaps
2 282 (17.60%) Agile
3 259 (16.17%) AI
4 221 (13.80%) Enterprise Architecture
5 207 (12.92%) TOGAF
6 203 (12.67%) Technical Architecture
7 178 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 176 (10.99%) CI/CD
9 170 (10.61%) DevOps
9 170 (10.61%) Technology Strategy
10 163 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
11 148 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 143 (8.93%) Analytics
13 141 (8.80%) Mentoring
14 138 (8.61%) Presales
15 128 (7.99%) Data Architecture
15 128 (7.99%) Migration
15 128 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 127 (7.93%) Business Strategy
17 126 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (3.56%) Python
2 50 (3.12%) SQL
3 37 (2.31%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.25%) SOQL
4 36 (2.25%) SOSL
5 30 (1.87%) C#
6 23 (1.44%) Bicep
7 20 (1.25%) Java
8 18 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.69%) Scala
9 11 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.56%) Go
10 9 (0.56%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.25%) Bash
11 4 (0.25%) Ruby
11 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.12%) C
12 2 (0.12%) C++
12 2 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 279 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 232 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 107 (6.68%) Degree
4 49 (3.06%) CISSP
5 44 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.62%) TOGAF Certification
7 32 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.50%) CISM
11 21 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.81%) CCNP
14 12 (0.75%) VCAP
14 12 (0.75%) VCDX
14 12 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.62%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.99%) GRC
2 79 (4.93%) NIST
3 64 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 53 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.81%) GDPR
6 24 (1.50%) NCSC
7 22 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.62%) PMO
12 9 (0.56%) QA
13 8 (0.50%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.44%) WCAG
15 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.31%) IFRS
17 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
17 4 (0.25%) NIST 800
18 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
2 36 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.31%) vSphere
5 20 (1.25%) Docker
6 13 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 36 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.12%) Terraform
3 24 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.81%) Ansible
4 13 (0.81%) CASB
5 11 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.37%) Avamar
6 6 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.37%) VxRail
7 5 (0.31%) Endace
7 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.062%) Argo
Vendors
1 337 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.81%) Cisco
3 55 (3.43%) Databricks
3 55 (3.43%) Salesforce
4 47 (2.93%) Palo Alto
5 37 (2.31%) Oracle
6 36 (2.25%) Splunk
7 32 (2.00%) Google
8 30 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (1.87%) SAP
8 30 (1.87%) VMware
9 28 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 28 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.56%) Tenable
11 17 (1.06%) Juniper
12 15 (0.94%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.87%) Dell
14 13 (0.81%) NetApp
14 13 (0.81%) Nimble Storage
15 12 (0.75%) Broadcom