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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 100 23
Rank change year-on-year +74 -77 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,646 582 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.26% 3.54% 7.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.71% 3.85% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,178 395 1,228
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £74,706 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 21,342 15,130 24,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.10% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,304 9,326 17,534
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,857
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.62% -7.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 12 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 12 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.

1 517 (31.41%) Azure
2 406 (24.67%) Roadmaps
3 348 (21.14%) Microsoft
4 290 (17.62%) AWS
4 290 (17.62%) Security Cleared
5 283 (17.19%) AI
6 277 (16.83%) Agile
7 242 (14.70%) SC Cleared
8 229 (13.91%) Enterprise Architecture
9 207 (12.58%) Technical Architecture
10 188 (11.42%) TOGAF
11 184 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 181 (11.00%) Technology Strategy
13 170 (10.33%) CI/CD
14 162 (9.84%) Analytics
15 159 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
16 156 (9.48%) DevOps
17 152 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
18 149 (9.05%) Mentoring
19 148 (8.99%) Presales
20 141 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
21 138 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
22 136 (8.26%) Data Architecture
23 134 (8.14%) IT Strategy
24 133 (8.08%) Decision-Making
24 133 (8.08%) GCP
24 133 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
25 131 (7.96%) Data Modelling
26 129 (7.84%) Business Strategy
27 124 (7.53%) 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 15 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.67%) CMS
3 7 (0.43%) 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 2 (0.12%) SAS
8 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.49%) 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 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.49%) 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
1 517 (31.41%) Azure
2 290 (17.62%) AWS
3 133 (8.08%) GCP
4 103 (6.26%) Power Platform
5 84 (5.10%) SaaS
6 75 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
8 57 (3.46%) Serverless
9 56 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (3.22%) Entra ID
11 51 (3.10%) Snowflake
12 36 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (2.13%) PaaS
14 33 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
16 25 (1.52%) dbt
17 23 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
18 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
19 17 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.68%) WAN
2 87 (5.29%) LAN
3 59 (3.58%) Network Security
4 48 (2.92%) Broadband
5 38 (2.31%) Firewall
5 38 (2.31%) SD-WAN
6 28 (1.70%) MPLS
7 21 (1.28%) VPN
8 16 (0.97%) DNS
9 15 (0.91%) BGP
9 15 (0.91%) HTTP
10 14 (0.85%) IPsec
10 14 (0.85%) WLAN
11 13 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 12 (0.73%) SNMP
12 12 (0.73%) VSAN
13 11 (0.67%) CTI
13 11 (0.67%) VLAN
13 11 (0.67%) VoIP
14 10 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.31%) Metadata
2 33 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.82%) Power BI
4 26 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 25 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.09%) BigQuery
7 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
7 18 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.03%) Data Vault
9 12 (0.73%) Tableau
10 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.49%) MySQL
13 7 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
16 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 34 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.52%) Snyk
3 22 (1.34%) GitLab
4 21 (1.28%) 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
1 367 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 331 (20.11%) Finance
3 254 (15.43%) Public Sector
4 196 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (6.01%) Law
6 95 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
8 71 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.28%) Legal
10 44 (2.67%) Banking
11 43 (2.61%) Retail
12 38 (2.31%) Marketing
13 37 (2.25%) Games
14 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.61%) Back Office
17 8 (0.49%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.49%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.43%) Advertising
18 7 (0.43%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.92%) REST
2 41 (2.49%) .NET
3 32 (1.94%) SOAP
4 29 (1.76%) Middleware
5 26 (1.58%) RESTful
6 24 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
6 24 (1.46%) OAuth
7 20 (1.22%) LangChain
7 20 (1.22%) SAML
7 20 (1.22%) Visualforce
8 19 (1.15%) PySpark
9 18 (1.09%) LangGraph
10 14 (0.85%) LDAP
11 12 (0.73%) OpenID
12 11 (0.67%) Node.js
13 10 (0.61%) OpenAPI
13 10 (0.61%) Swagger
14 9 (0.55%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.49%) Django
15 8 (0.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 46 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 30 (1.82%) Cyberattack
7 26 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.22%) 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 (0.49%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.43%) CMDB
16 7 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
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
1 406 (24.67%) Roadmaps
2 283 (17.19%) AI
3 277 (16.83%) Agile
4 229 (13.91%) Enterprise Architecture
5 207 (12.58%) Technical Architecture
6 188 (11.42%) TOGAF
7 184 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 181 (11.00%) Technology Strategy
9 170 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 162 (9.84%) Analytics
11 159 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
12 156 (9.48%) DevOps
13 152 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
14 149 (9.05%) Mentoring
15 148 (8.99%) Presales
16 141 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 138 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 136 (8.26%) Data Architecture
19 134 (8.14%) IT Strategy
20 133 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 66 (4.01%) Python
2 57 (3.46%) SQL
3 43 (2.61%) C#
4 26 (1.58%) Bicep
5 24 (1.46%) Apex Code
6 22 (1.34%) SOQL
6 22 (1.34%) SOSL
7 21 (1.28%) Java
8 17 (1.03%) 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%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.12%) Rust
14 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 290 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 242 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 116 (7.05%) Degree
4 50 (3.04%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.73%) CISSP
6 41 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 34 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.46%) CISM
10 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.79%) SnowPro
12 12 (0.73%) CCNP
12 12 (0.73%) VCAP
12 12 (0.73%) VCDX
12 12 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.61%) CCIE
14 9 (0.55%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.77%) GRC
2 75 (4.56%) NIST
3 70 (4.25%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.88%) GDPR
6 24 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.22%) NCSC
8 15 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.55%) QA
12 8 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.43%) PMO
13 7 (0.43%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
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 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.40%) Docker
5 21 (1.28%) vSphere
6 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
9 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.31%) Terraform
3 26 (1.58%) 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 2 (0.12%) Endace
11 1 (0.061%) Argo
Vendors
1 348 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.56%) Databricks
3 58 (3.52%) Cisco
4 48 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 40 (2.43%) Oracle
7 35 (2.13%) Google
8 34 (2.07%) VMware
9 31 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.82%) SAP
11 29 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.52%) Tenable
14 22 (1.34%) Splunk
15 14 (0.85%) Dell
15 14 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.85%) Juniper
16 13 (0.79%) NetApp
16 13 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.73%) Broadcom