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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 55 32
Rank change year-on-year +26 -23 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,105 700 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.42% 5.45% 6.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.84% 5.80% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 723 522 1,422
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,251 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,377 £69,125 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £84,258 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +5.32% -5.88%
75th Percentile £96,875 £98,681 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,725 £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -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 16,148 12,068 30,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 93.94% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,600 8,956 24,621
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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.

1 340 (30.77%) Azure
2 240 (21.72%) Roadmaps
3 207 (18.73%) AWS
4 189 (17.10%) Microsoft
5 187 (16.92%) Agile
6 166 (15.02%) Security Cleared
7 158 (14.30%) TOGAF
8 153 (13.85%) AI
9 142 (12.85%) DevOps
10 140 (12.67%) Data Modelling
11 137 (12.40%) Enterprise Architecture
12 133 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (11.58%) Data Architecture
14 121 (10.95%) Analytics
14 121 (10.95%) SC Cleared
15 117 (10.59%) Mentoring
16 116 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
17 102 (9.23%) Migration
18 100 (9.05%) GCP
19 97 (8.78%) Technology Strategy
20 93 (8.42%) CI/CD
21 91 (8.24%) Microservices
22 90 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
23 88 (7.96%) Event-Driven
24 85 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
24 85 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
25 83 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
26 78 (7.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 77 (6.97%) Degree
28 76 (6.88%) Broadband

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 13 (1.18%) JBoss
1 13 (1.18%) SharePoint
1 13 (1.18%) WebSphere
2 11 (1.00%) CMS
3 8 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.090%) Apache
8 1 (0.090%) IIS
8 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.090%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.18%) Revit
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.090%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
1 14 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
3 12 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
3 12 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
8 1 (0.090%) Actimize
8 1 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.090%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.090%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.090%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 340 (30.77%) Azure
2 207 (18.73%) AWS
3 100 (9.05%) GCP
4 73 (6.61%) SaaS
5 65 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 59 (5.34%) Serverless
7 52 (4.71%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (2.26%) Entra ID
10 23 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.81%) PaaS
13 19 (1.72%) IaaS
14 18 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (1.09%) Azure AI
16 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
17 9 (0.81%) GitHub
18 8 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
18 8 (0.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.88%) Broadband
2 28 (2.53%) WAN
3 22 (1.99%) Firewall
4 17 (1.54%) Network Security
4 17 (1.54%) SD-WAN
4 17 (1.54%) VPN
5 15 (1.36%) LAN
6 10 (0.90%) MPLS
7 8 (0.72%) DNS
8 7 (0.63%) DHCP
9 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.45%) BGP
10 5 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.45%) HTTP
10 5 (0.45%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.45%) SNMP
10 5 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.36%) SSL
11 4 (0.36%) VoIP
12 3 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (3.26%) Metadata
3 27 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 16 (1.45%) Power BI
6 14 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.54%) Tableau
10 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.36%) GIS
10 4 (0.36%) QGIS
10 4 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.27%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.18%) QlikView
12 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 41 (3.71%) SonarQube
3 40 (3.62%) GitLab
4 7 (0.63%) Git
4 7 (0.63%) Snyk
5 4 (0.36%) ERwin
5 4 (0.36%) JIRA
6 2 (0.18%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.090%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.090%) Subversion
General
1 238 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 180 (16.29%) Finance
3 154 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 116 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 77 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (5.97%) Games
7 64 (5.79%) Marketing
8 51 (4.62%) Law
9 43 (3.89%) Retail
10 41 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (3.44%) Legal
12 33 (2.99%) Banking
13 25 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.81%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.45%) Back Office
17 10 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (0.63%) Financial Institution
20 4 (0.36%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.33%) REST
2 61 (5.52%) SOAP
3 46 (4.16%) .NET
4 40 (3.62%) Lightning Web Components
4 40 (3.62%) Visualforce
5 34 (3.08%) Middleware
6 19 (1.72%) GraphQL
7 18 (1.63%) Spring
8 17 (1.54%) Hibernate
8 17 (1.54%) OAuth
8 17 (1.54%) OpenID
9 15 (1.36%) RESTful
10 13 (1.18%) LDAP
10 13 (1.18%) SAML
11 12 (1.09%) Django
11 12 (1.09%) Node.js
12 10 (0.90%) .NET Core
12 10 (0.90%) Web Services
13 8 (0.72%) React
14 7 (0.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.35%) Public Cloud
3 37 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.08%) Cyberattack
9 17 (1.54%) PKI
10 15 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.36%) IoT
11 14 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.18%) DataPower
12 13 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.09%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.63%) Security Posture
15 6 (0.54%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.54%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.45%) Windows
2 13 (1.18%) Linux
3 9 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.27%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (21.72%) Roadmaps
2 187 (16.92%) Agile
3 158 (14.30%) TOGAF
4 153 (13.85%) AI
5 142 (12.85%) DevOps
6 140 (12.67%) Data Modelling
7 137 (12.40%) Enterprise Architecture
8 133 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (11.58%) Data Architecture
10 121 (10.95%) Analytics
11 117 (10.59%) Mentoring
12 116 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
13 102 (9.23%) Migration
14 97 (8.78%) Technology Strategy
15 93 (8.42%) CI/CD
16 91 (8.24%) Microservices
17 90 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
18 88 (7.96%) Event-Driven
19 85 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
19 85 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 55 (4.98%) Python
1 55 (4.98%) SQL
2 46 (4.16%) Java
3 40 (3.62%) Apex Code
3 40 (3.62%) C#
3 40 (3.62%) SOQL
3 40 (3.62%) SOSL
4 21 (1.90%) TypeScript
5 20 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 19 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.81%) Bash
8 8 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.54%) C++
10 4 (0.36%) Bicep
11 3 (0.27%) C
11 3 (0.27%) Go
12 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.090%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.97%) Degree
4 48 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 46 (4.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 39 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 35 (3.17%) CISSP
8 34 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.53%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.36%) CISM
13 12 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.63%) CCNP
14 7 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.45%) CCSP
16 3 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.27%) CCIE
17 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.89%) Accessibility
1 43 (3.89%) NIST
2 28 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.81%) GDPR
4 17 (1.54%) NCSC
5 13 (1.18%) GRC
6 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.72%) QA
8 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.45%) PMO
8 5 (0.45%) WCAG
9 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.27%) IFRS
11 1 (0.090%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.63%) Docker
4 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.18%) vCloud
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.090%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (1.90%) Ansible
2 19 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (1.45%) Terraform
4 6 (0.54%) Endace
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.18%) CASB
7 1 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.090%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.090%) Puppet
7 1 (0.090%) Rancher
Vendors
1 189 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.34%) Salesforce
3 41 (3.71%) Splunk
4 36 (3.26%) Google
5 32 (2.90%) Databricks
6 27 (2.44%) Oracle
7 26 (2.35%) SAP
8 23 (2.08%) Cisco
9 16 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.18%) VMware
11 10 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (0.72%) Meraki
13 7 (0.63%) F5
13 7 (0.63%) Juniper
13 7 (0.63%) Okta
13 7 (0.63%) Tenable
14 6 (0.54%) Barracuda Networks
14 6 (0.54%) Sophos