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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 96 29
Rank change year-on-year +71 -67 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,553 639 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.32% 3.88% 7.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.79% 4.20% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,096 446 1,499
10th Percentile £63,744 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £68,875
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 £107,750 £116,250
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 19,942 15,207 31,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.34% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 14,507 9,447 24,016
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 10 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 10 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.

1 479 (30.84%) Azure
2 356 (22.92%) Roadmaps
3 312 (20.09%) Microsoft
4 285 (18.35%) Agile
5 283 (18.22%) AWS
6 264 (17.00%) Security Cleared
7 244 (15.71%) AI
8 223 (14.36%) Enterprise Architecture
9 215 (13.84%) SC Cleared
10 212 (13.65%) TOGAF
11 178 (11.46%) CI/CD
11 178 (11.46%) DevOps
12 173 (11.14%) Technology Strategy
13 166 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 157 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
14 157 (10.11%) Technical Architecture
15 151 (9.72%) Mentoring
16 145 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (8.95%) Analytics
18 138 (8.89%) Data Architecture
19 133 (8.56%) GCP
20 131 (8.44%) Presales
21 130 (8.37%) Data Modelling
22 129 (8.31%) IT Strategy
23 127 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
24 123 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
25 120 (7.73%) Migration
26 113 (7.28%) Decision-Making
27 112 (7.21%) Event-Driven
28 109 (7.02%) Problem-Solving

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 10 (0.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.52%) CMS
3 6 (0.39%) Confluence
4 5 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) Apache
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.13%) JBoss
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.064%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.64%) 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 (0.064%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.064%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
1 11 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
1 11 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
1 11 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.064%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.064%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.064%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 479 (30.84%) Azure
2 283 (18.22%) AWS
3 133 (8.56%) GCP
4 92 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 82 (5.28%) SaaS
6 70 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.93%) Serverless
8 51 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
9 49 (3.16%) Entra ID
10 37 (2.38%) PaaS
11 34 (2.19%) Snowflake
12 33 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 30 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
15 17 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (1.09%) dbt
16 16 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.73%) WAN
2 75 (4.83%) Broadband
3 62 (3.99%) LAN
4 58 (3.73%) Network Security
5 42 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 38 (2.45%) Firewall
7 29 (1.87%) MPLS
7 29 (1.87%) VPN
8 18 (1.16%) BGP
9 16 (1.03%) DNS
10 15 (0.97%) HTTP
10 15 (0.97%) SNMP
10 15 (0.97%) WLAN
11 14 (0.90%) IPsec
12 13 (0.84%) SSL
13 12 (0.77%) VoIP
13 12 (0.77%) VSAN
14 11 (0.71%) CTI
14 11 (0.71%) VLAN
15 10 (0.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.70%) Metadata
2 24 (1.55%) Power BI
2 24 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.48%) Data Lake
4 22 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.03%) MongoDB
8 14 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.64%) Delta Lake
10 9 (0.58%) Data Vault
10 9 (0.58%) Tableau
11 7 (0.45%) MySQL
11 7 (0.45%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.26%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.19%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 48 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 35 (2.25%) GitLab
2 35 (2.25%) SonarQube
3 25 (1.61%) Snyk
4 7 (0.45%) Git
5 5 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 1 (0.064%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.064%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.064%) ERwin
8 1 (0.064%) JMeter
8 1 (0.064%) Maven
8 1 (0.064%) Postman
8 1 (0.064%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.064%) Selenium
8 1 (0.064%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 268 (17.26%) Finance
3 249 (16.03%) Public Sector
4 182 (11.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (6.12%) Law
6 91 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (3.86%) Games
10 51 (3.28%) Legal
10 51 (3.28%) Marketing
11 49 (3.16%) Retail
12 29 (1.87%) Banking
13 21 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.64%) Back Office
16 8 (0.52%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.45%) Aviation
18 6 (0.39%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.31%) REST
2 51 (3.28%) SOAP
3 37 (2.38%) .NET
3 37 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (2.19%) Visualforce
5 32 (2.06%) OAuth
6 27 (1.74%) Middleware
7 26 (1.67%) RESTful
7 26 (1.67%) SAML
8 20 (1.29%) OpenID
9 16 (1.03%) LDAP
10 12 (0.77%) Node.js
11 11 (0.71%) PySpark
12 10 (0.64%) OpenAPI
12 10 (0.64%) Swagger
13 8 (0.52%) GraphQL
13 8 (0.52%) Kafka
14 7 (0.45%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.45%) ARM Templates
14 7 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 104 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.38%) Data Centre
3 57 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.32%) Cyberattack
5 33 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (0.90%) PKI
12 13 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.77%) IoT
14 11 (0.71%) IVR
14 11 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 9 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
17 8 (0.52%) Onboarding
17 8 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.09%) Windows
2 9 (0.58%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (22.92%) Roadmaps
2 285 (18.35%) Agile
3 244 (15.71%) AI
4 223 (14.36%) Enterprise Architecture
5 212 (13.65%) TOGAF
6 178 (11.46%) CI/CD
6 178 (11.46%) DevOps
7 173 (11.14%) Technology Strategy
8 166 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 157 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
9 157 (10.11%) Technical Architecture
10 151 (9.72%) Mentoring
11 145 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 139 (8.95%) Analytics
13 138 (8.89%) Data Architecture
14 131 (8.44%) Presales
15 130 (8.37%) Data Modelling
16 129 (8.31%) IT Strategy
17 127 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
18 123 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (3.35%) Python
2 51 (3.28%) SQL
3 37 (2.38%) Apex Code
4 36 (2.32%) SOQL
4 36 (2.32%) SOSL
5 28 (1.80%) C#
6 23 (1.48%) Java
7 21 (1.35%) Bicep
8 18 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.64%) Go
10 10 (0.64%) Scala
11 9 (0.58%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.39%) Bash
12 6 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.26%) Ruby
14 2 (0.13%) C++
14 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 264 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 215 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.63%) Degree
4 51 (3.28%) CISSP
5 45 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 43 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.67%) CISM
11 24 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.84%) CCNP
15 12 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.77%) VCAP
15 12 (0.77%) VCDX
15 12 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.64%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.28%) NIST
2 68 (4.38%) GRC
3 62 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.87%) GDPR
6 27 (1.74%) NCSC
7 22 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 11 (0.71%) PMO
10 11 (0.71%) QA
11 8 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.45%) WCAG
13 5 (0.32%) IFRS
14 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.26%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.29%) vSphere
5 17 (1.09%) Docker
6 13 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.45%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 33 (2.12%) Terraform
2 28 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (0.90%) Ansible
5 11 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.64%) CASB
7 6 (0.39%) Avamar
7 6 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (0.39%) VxRail
8 5 (0.32%) Endace
8 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.064%) Argo
Vendors
1 312 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.93%) Cisco
3 54 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 47 (3.03%) Databricks
4 47 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 39 (2.51%) Google
6 38 (2.45%) Oracle
7 36 (2.32%) Splunk
8 31 (2.00%) SAP
9 30 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
10 29 (1.87%) VMware
11 27 (1.74%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.61%) Tenable
13 23 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.16%) Juniper
15 14 (0.90%) Dell
15 14 (0.90%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.84%) NetApp
16 13 (0.84%) Nimble Storage
17 12 (0.77%) Broadcom