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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 105 23
Rank change year-on-year +79 -82 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,684 576 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.35% 3.48% 7.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.81% 3.76% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,197 392 1,201
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £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 £112,500 £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 21,560 15,304 23,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.41% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,389 9,283 17,118
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,329
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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 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 20 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 (30.76%) Azure
2 423 (25.12%) Roadmaps
3 354 (21.02%) Microsoft
4 300 (17.81%) AI
4 300 (17.81%) AWS
5 288 (17.10%) Security Cleared
6 283 (16.81%) Agile
7 241 (14.31%) SC Cleared
8 226 (13.42%) Enterprise Architecture
9 206 (12.23%) Technical Architecture
10 191 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 187 (11.10%) Technology Strategy
12 184 (10.93%) TOGAF
13 173 (10.27%) CI/CD
14 165 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
15 164 (9.74%) Analytics
16 162 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
17 151 (8.97%) Mentoring
18 148 (8.79%) DevOps
19 147 (8.73%) Presales
20 144 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
21 143 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
22 141 (8.37%) Data Architecture
23 140 (8.31%) Decision-Making
23 140 (8.31%) IT Strategy
24 136 (8.08%) GCP
24 136 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
25 133 (7.90%) Business Strategy
26 129 (7.66%) Data Modelling
26 129 (7.66%) 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 22 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.65%) CMS
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.30%) Apache
4 5 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.059%) Appian
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.59%) 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 (0.059%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.059%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.059%) Revit
7 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
3 9 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.12%) Shopify
8 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.059%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.059%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 518 (30.76%) Azure
2 300 (17.81%) AWS
3 136 (8.08%) GCP
4 101 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 97 (5.76%) SaaS
6 78 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
8 58 (3.44%) Serverless
9 54 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (3.15%) Entra ID
10 53 (3.15%) Snowflake
11 37 (2.20%) PaaS
12 35 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
12 35 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
14 24 (1.43%) Amazon Bedrock
14 24 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (1.43%) dbt
15 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.47%) WAN
2 87 (5.17%) LAN
3 60 (3.56%) Network Security
4 48 (2.85%) Broadband
5 39 (2.32%) Firewall
6 38 (2.26%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.60%) MPLS
8 20 (1.19%) VPN
9 16 (0.95%) DNS
10 15 (0.89%) BGP
11 14 (0.83%) HTTP
11 14 (0.83%) IPsec
11 14 (0.83%) WLAN
12 13 (0.77%) Unified Communications
13 12 (0.71%) VSAN
14 11 (0.65%) CTI
14 11 (0.65%) SNMP
14 11 (0.65%) VLAN
14 11 (0.65%) VoIP
15 10 (0.59%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.28%) Metadata
2 34 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.84%) Power BI
4 27 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.19%) Delta Lake
6 20 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.13%) MongoDB
8 18 (1.07%) Data Vault
9 15 (0.89%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.71%) Tableau
11 9 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (0.53%) MySQL
11 9 (0.53%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.18%) QGIS
15 3 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.48%) Snyk
3 22 (1.31%) GitLab
4 21 (1.25%) Claude Code
4 21 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.59%) Git
6 5 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.12%) ERwin
7 2 (0.12%) MLflow
8 1 (0.059%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.059%) JMeter
8 1 (0.059%) Maven
8 1 (0.059%) Postman
8 1 (0.059%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.059%) Selenium
General
1 373 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 344 (20.43%) Finance
3 264 (15.68%) Public Sector
4 201 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (5.94%) Law
6 98 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
7 93 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
8 77 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (3.15%) Legal
10 52 (3.09%) Banking
11 43 (2.55%) Retail
12 37 (2.20%) Games
12 37 (2.20%) Marketing
13 16 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 15 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.71%) Back Office
16 10 (0.59%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.48%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.42%) Advertising
18 7 (0.42%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.85%) REST
2 42 (2.49%) .NET
3 41 (2.43%) Terraform
4 33 (1.96%) Middleware
5 32 (1.90%) SOAP
6 28 (1.66%) RESTful
7 24 (1.43%) LangChain
7 24 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
8 23 (1.37%) OAuth
9 21 (1.25%) LangGraph
10 20 (1.19%) PySpark
10 20 (1.19%) Visualforce
11 19 (1.13%) SAML
12 13 (0.77%) LDAP
13 12 (0.71%) OpenAPI
13 12 (0.71%) Swagger
14 11 (0.65%) Node.js
14 11 (0.65%) OpenID
15 9 (0.53%) .NET Core
16 8 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 48 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 30 (1.78%) Cyberattack
6 30 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.25%) Hedge funds
10 20 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.65%) IVR
13 11 (0.65%) Low-Code
13 11 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (0.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.59%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.48%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.13%) Windows
2 11 (0.65%) Linux
3 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (25.12%) Roadmaps
2 300 (17.81%) AI
3 283 (16.81%) Agile
4 226 (13.42%) Enterprise Architecture
5 206 (12.23%) Technical Architecture
6 191 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 187 (11.10%) Technology Strategy
8 184 (10.93%) TOGAF
9 173 (10.27%) CI/CD
10 165 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
11 164 (9.74%) Analytics
12 162 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
13 151 (8.97%) Mentoring
14 148 (8.79%) DevOps
15 147 (8.73%) Presales
16 144 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 143 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
18 141 (8.37%) Data Architecture
19 140 (8.31%) Decision-Making
19 140 (8.31%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 68 (4.04%) Python
2 61 (3.62%) SQL
3 45 (2.67%) C#
4 26 (1.54%) Bicep
5 24 (1.43%) Apex Code
6 23 (1.37%) Java
7 22 (1.31%) SOQL
7 22 (1.31%) SOSL
8 18 (1.07%) Scala
9 15 (0.89%) Go
9 15 (0.89%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.24%) C
12 4 (0.24%) Ruby
13 3 (0.18%) Rust
13 3 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.12%) ABAP
14 2 (0.12%) C++
14 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 288 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 241 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 116 (6.89%) Degree
4 52 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.67%) CISSP
6 42 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 37 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.60%) CISM
9 27 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.83%) SnowPro
13 13 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 12 (0.71%) VCAP
14 12 (0.71%) VCDX
15 11 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.65%) CCIE
15 11 (0.65%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.64%) GRC
2 78 (4.63%) NIST
3 68 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.78%) GDPR
6 23 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.25%) NCSC
8 15 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.53%) QA
12 8 (0.48%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.36%) PMO
13 6 (0.36%) WCAG
14 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.30%) IFRS
14 5 (0.30%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.84%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.37%) Docker
5 22 (1.31%) vSphere
6 13 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.42%) vCloud
9 1 (0.059%) Firmware
9 1 (0.059%) iptables
Systems Management
1 48 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.83%) CASB
4 13 (0.77%) Ansible
5 10 (0.59%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.36%) Avamar
6 6 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.36%) VxRail
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.24%) SCCM
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) Endace
Vendors
1 354 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.81%) Databricks
3 57 (3.38%) Cisco
4 48 (2.85%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.79%) Palo Alto
6 43 (2.55%) Oracle
7 39 (2.32%) Google
8 36 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.14%) VMware
9 34 (2.02%) SAP
10 29 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.48%) Tenable
13 22 (1.31%) Splunk
14 15 (0.89%) Juniper
15 14 (0.83%) Dell
15 14 (0.83%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.77%) NetApp
16 13 (0.77%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.71%) Broadcom