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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 102 23
Rank change year-on-year +75 -79 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,661 579 1,946
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.28% 3.49% 7.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.74% 3.79% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,183 392 1,207
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £74,850 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,431 £82,132 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +2.66% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 21,451 15,271 23,811
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.17% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,322 9,301 17,327
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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 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 15 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.

1 524 (31.55%) Azure
2 413 (24.86%) Roadmaps
3 352 (21.19%) Microsoft
4 296 (17.82%) AWS
5 288 (17.34%) AI
6 286 (17.22%) Security Cleared
7 282 (16.98%) Agile
8 239 (14.39%) SC Cleared
9 225 (13.55%) Enterprise Architecture
10 208 (12.52%) Technical Architecture
11 187 (11.26%) TOGAF
12 185 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 183 (11.02%) Technology Strategy
14 173 (10.42%) CI/CD
15 162 (9.75%) Analytics
16 160 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
17 157 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
18 153 (9.21%) DevOps
19 150 (9.03%) Mentoring
20 146 (8.79%) Presales
21 140 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
22 138 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
23 137 (8.25%) Data Architecture
23 137 (8.25%) IT Strategy
24 136 (8.19%) Decision-Making
24 136 (8.19%) GCP
25 134 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
26 131 (7.89%) Business Strategy
27 130 (7.83%) Data Modelling
28 124 (7.47%) 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 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.66%) 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 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.060%) Appian
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.60%) 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 (0.060%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.060%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.060%) Revit
7 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
1 12 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
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 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.060%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 524 (31.55%) Azure
2 296 (17.82%) AWS
3 136 (8.19%) GCP
4 101 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 92 (5.54%) SaaS
6 77 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
8 56 (3.37%) Serverless
9 55 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (3.19%) Entra ID
11 50 (3.01%) Snowflake
12 37 (2.23%) PaaS
13 36 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
14 32 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
16 25 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (1.51%) dbt
17 21 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.02%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.56%) WAN
2 87 (5.24%) LAN
3 61 (3.67%) Network Security
4 48 (2.89%) Broadband
5 38 (2.29%) Firewall
5 38 (2.29%) SD-WAN
6 27 (1.63%) MPLS
7 20 (1.20%) VPN
8 16 (0.96%) DNS
9 14 (0.84%) BGP
9 14 (0.84%) HTTP
9 14 (0.84%) IPsec
9 14 (0.84%) WLAN
10 13 (0.78%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.72%) VSAN
12 11 (0.66%) CTI
12 11 (0.66%) SNMP
12 11 (0.66%) VLAN
12 11 (0.66%) VoIP
13 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.21%) Metadata
2 34 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.87%) Power BI
4 25 (1.51%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.20%) Delta Lake
6 20 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 18 (1.08%) Data Vault
9 16 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.72%) Tableau
11 11 (0.66%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.54%) MySQL
13 7 (0.42%) 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%) Big Data
16 3 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 33 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.51%) Snyk
3 22 (1.32%) GitLab
4 21 (1.26%) SonarQube
5 18 (1.08%) Claude Code
6 10 (0.60%) 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 (0.060%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.060%) JMeter
9 1 (0.060%) Maven
9 1 (0.060%) Postman
9 1 (0.060%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.060%) Selenium
General
1 368 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 338 (20.35%) Finance
3 257 (15.47%) Public Sector
4 198 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (5.96%) Law
6 95 (5.72%) Presentation Skills
7 91 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
8 73 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (3.25%) Legal
10 45 (2.71%) Banking
11 43 (2.59%) Retail
12 37 (2.23%) Games
12 37 (2.23%) Marketing
13 18 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 15 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.66%) Back Office
16 9 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.48%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.42%) Advertising
18 7 (0.42%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.89%) REST
2 41 (2.47%) .NET
3 34 (2.05%) Middleware
4 32 (1.93%) SOAP
5 27 (1.63%) RESTful
6 24 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
6 24 (1.44%) OAuth
7 21 (1.26%) LangChain
7 21 (1.26%) PySpark
8 20 (1.20%) SAML
8 20 (1.20%) Visualforce
9 18 (1.08%) LangGraph
10 14 (0.84%) LDAP
11 12 (0.72%) OpenID
12 11 (0.66%) Node.js
12 11 (0.66%) OpenAPI
12 11 (0.66%) Swagger
13 9 (0.54%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.48%) Django
14 8 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.91%) Data Centre
3 46 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 30 (1.81%) Cyberattack
7 26 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.08%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.66%) IVR
13 11 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.60%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.48%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
16 7 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.14%) Windows
2 10 (0.60%) Linux
3 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (24.86%) Roadmaps
2 288 (17.34%) AI
3 282 (16.98%) Agile
4 225 (13.55%) Enterprise Architecture
5 208 (12.52%) Technical Architecture
6 187 (11.26%) TOGAF
7 185 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 183 (11.02%) Technology Strategy
9 173 (10.42%) CI/CD
10 162 (9.75%) Analytics
11 160 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
12 157 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
13 153 (9.21%) DevOps
14 150 (9.03%) Mentoring
15 146 (8.79%) Presales
16 140 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 138 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 137 (8.25%) Data Architecture
18 137 (8.25%) IT Strategy
19 136 (8.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (4.15%) Python
2 59 (3.55%) SQL
3 44 (2.65%) C#
4 27 (1.63%) Bicep
5 24 (1.44%) Apex Code
6 22 (1.32%) Java
6 22 (1.32%) SOQL
6 22 (1.32%) SOSL
7 18 (1.08%) Scala
8 16 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.90%) Go
10 12 (0.72%) JavaScript
11 10 (0.60%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 286 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 239 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 118 (7.10%) Degree
4 51 (3.07%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.77%) CISSP
6 42 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 34 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.57%) CISM
9 26 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.84%) SnowPro
14 12 (0.72%) VCAP
14 12 (0.72%) VCDX
14 12 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (0.66%) CCNP
16 10 (0.60%) CCIE
17 9 (0.54%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.72%) GRC
2 77 (4.64%) NIST
3 69 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.87%) GDPR
6 23 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.26%) NCSC
8 15 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 12 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.54%) 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 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.38%) Docker
5 21 (1.26%) vSphere
6 12 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.66%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.42%) vCloud
9 1 (0.060%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.41%) Terraform
3 26 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.78%) Ansible
4 13 (0.78%) CASB
5 10 (0.60%) 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 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) Endace
Vendors
1 352 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 77 (4.64%) Databricks
3 57 (3.43%) Cisco
4 48 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 47 (2.83%) Palo Alto
6 42 (2.53%) Oracle
7 39 (2.35%) Google
8 35 (2.11%) VMware
9 33 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.87%) SAP
11 29 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.57%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.51%) Tenable
14 22 (1.32%) Splunk
15 14 (0.84%) Dell
15 14 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.78%) Juniper
16 13 (0.78%) NetApp
16 13 (0.78%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.72%) Broadcom