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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 98 28
Rank change year-on-year +74 -70 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,575 624 2,209
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.33% 3.80% 7.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.80% 4.12% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,110 439 1,438
10th Percentile £63,744 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,375 £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 20,200 15,157 29,444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.25% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,652 9,416 22,554
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,956 £33,250
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 £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

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 18 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 18 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.

1 495 (31.43%) Azure
2 372 (23.62%) Roadmaps
3 331 (21.02%) Microsoft
4 279 (17.71%) Agile
5 277 (17.59%) AWS
5 277 (17.59%) Security Cleared
6 253 (16.06%) AI
7 231 (14.67%) SC Cleared
8 221 (14.03%) Enterprise Architecture
9 211 (13.40%) TOGAF
10 193 (12.25%) Technical Architecture
11 178 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 172 (10.92%) CI/CD
13 169 (10.73%) DevOps
14 168 (10.67%) Technology Strategy
15 166 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
16 145 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 140 (8.89%) Analytics
17 140 (8.89%) Mentoring
18 134 (8.51%) Presales
19 127 (8.06%) Data Architecture
19 127 (8.06%) Migration
20 125 (7.94%) IT Strategy
21 124 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
22 123 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
23 122 (7.75%) GCP
24 119 (7.56%) Business Strategy
24 119 (7.56%) Data Modelling
25 117 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
26 113 (7.17%) Decision-Making

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 11 (0.70%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.57%) CMS
3 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.063%) Appian
7 1 (0.063%) JBoss
7 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Revit
6 2 (0.13%) ArchiCAD
6 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.063%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
1 11 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
3 9 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.063%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 495 (31.43%) Azure
2 277 (17.59%) AWS
3 122 (7.75%) GCP
4 92 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 84 (5.33%) SaaS
6 72 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.81%) Serverless
8 53 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
9 52 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
10 50 (3.17%) Entra ID
11 38 (2.41%) PaaS
12 35 (2.22%) Snowflake
13 31 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (1.59%) dbt
15 20 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (1.02%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (6.86%) WAN
2 82 (5.21%) LAN
3 66 (4.19%) Broadband
4 58 (3.68%) Network Security
5 40 (2.54%) SD-WAN
6 38 (2.41%) Firewall
7 29 (1.84%) MPLS
8 25 (1.59%) VPN
9 18 (1.14%) BGP
10 16 (1.02%) DNS
11 15 (0.95%) HTTP
11 15 (0.95%) SNMP
12 14 (0.89%) IPsec
12 14 (0.89%) WLAN
13 12 (0.76%) VoIP
13 12 (0.76%) VSAN
14 11 (0.70%) CTI
14 11 (0.70%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.70%) VLAN
15 10 (0.63%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.00%) Metadata
2 24 (1.52%) Power BI
2 24 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.46%) Data Lake
4 21 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.21%) BigQuery
6 16 (1.02%) MongoDB
7 13 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 10 (0.63%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.51%) Tableau
11 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.38%) MySQL
13 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (2.98%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.22%) GitLab
2 35 (2.22%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.59%) Snyk
4 7 (0.44%) Git
5 6 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 1 (0.063%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.063%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.063%) ERwin
8 1 (0.063%) JMeter
8 1 (0.063%) Maven
8 1 (0.063%) Postman
8 1 (0.063%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.063%) Selenium
General
1 349 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 294 (18.67%) Finance
3 238 (15.11%) Public Sector
4 200 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (6.29%) Law
6 91 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
8 70 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (3.49%) Legal
10 53 (3.37%) Games
11 50 (3.17%) Marketing
12 48 (3.05%) Retail
13 33 (2.10%) Banking
14 21 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.76%) Back Office
15 12 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.63%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.44%) Aviation
18 6 (0.38%) Advertising
18 6 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.06%) REST
2 48 (3.05%) SOAP
3 37 (2.35%) Lightning Web Components
4 35 (2.22%) .NET
5 34 (2.16%) Visualforce
6 31 (1.97%) OAuth
7 28 (1.78%) RESTful
8 26 (1.65%) Middleware
9 25 (1.59%) SAML
10 19 (1.21%) OpenID
11 15 (0.95%) LDAP
12 12 (0.76%) Node.js
12 12 (0.76%) OpenAPI
12 12 (0.76%) PySpark
12 12 (0.76%) Swagger
13 9 (0.57%) LangChain
14 7 (0.44%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.44%) ARM Templates
14 7 (0.44%) Kafka
14 7 (0.44%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 102 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 69 (4.38%) Data Centre
3 59 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.16%) Cyberattack
5 32 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 24 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.76%) IoT
12 11 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (0.70%) IVR
12 11 (0.70%) PKI
13 10 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 10 (0.63%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.51%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.51%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.08%) Windows
2 8 (0.51%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (23.62%) Roadmaps
2 279 (17.71%) Agile
3 253 (16.06%) AI
4 221 (14.03%) Enterprise Architecture
5 211 (13.40%) TOGAF
6 193 (12.25%) Technical Architecture
7 178 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 172 (10.92%) CI/CD
9 169 (10.73%) DevOps
10 168 (10.67%) Technology Strategy
11 166 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
12 145 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 140 (8.89%) Analytics
13 140 (8.89%) Mentoring
14 134 (8.51%) Presales
15 127 (8.06%) Data Architecture
15 127 (8.06%) Migration
16 125 (7.94%) IT Strategy
17 124 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
18 123 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (3.43%) Python
2 49 (3.11%) SQL
3 37 (2.35%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.29%) SOQL
4 36 (2.29%) SOSL
5 27 (1.71%) C#
6 22 (1.40%) Bicep
7 20 (1.27%) Java
8 18 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.63%) Scala
11 9 (0.57%) Go
11 9 (0.57%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.25%) Bash
12 4 (0.25%) Ruby
12 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.13%) C
13 2 (0.13%) C++
13 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 277 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.60%) Degree
4 53 (3.37%) CISSP
5 45 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 34 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.65%) CISM
9 25 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.83%) CCNP
13 12 (0.76%) VCAP
13 12 (0.76%) VCDX
13 12 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 11 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.63%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.59%) GRC
2 81 (5.14%) NIST
3 63 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.90%) GDPR
6 26 (1.65%) NCSC
7 22 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.70%) PMO
12 9 (0.57%) QA
13 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.44%) WCAG
15 5 (0.32%) IFRS
16 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.33%) vSphere
5 17 (1.08%) Docker
6 13 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 33 (2.10%) Terraform
2 31 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.83%) Ansible
5 11 (0.70%) CASB
5 11 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.38%) Avamar
6 6 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (0.38%) VxRail
7 5 (0.32%) Endace
7 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.063%) Argo
Vendors
1 331 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.81%) Cisco
3 54 (3.43%) Salesforce
4 51 (3.24%) Databricks
5 47 (2.98%) Palo Alto
6 37 (2.35%) Oracle
7 36 (2.29%) Splunk
8 30 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (1.90%) Google
8 30 (1.90%) SAP
8 30 (1.90%) VMware
9 29 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.78%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.59%) Tenable
12 17 (1.08%) Juniper
13 14 (0.89%) Dell
13 14 (0.89%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.83%) NetApp
14 13 (0.83%) Nimble Storage
15 12 (0.76%) Broadcom