Hybrid/Remote Architectural Design Job Trends

Architectural Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 309 316
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +47
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 63 155 164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.82% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.90% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 40 84 126
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,052 £59,792 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £67,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.07% -18.79% +3.13%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,938 £94,688
90th Percentile £88,000 £105,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Architectural Design
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Architectural Design salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Architectural Design
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 2 (3.17%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (3.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (49.21%) AWS
2 26 (41.27%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) GCP
4 8 (12.70%) GitHub
4 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (11.11%) Serverless
6 6 (9.52%) SaaS
7 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.94%) IaaS
7 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.35%) PaaS
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.76%) OCI
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.17%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) HTTP
2 4 (6.35%) BGP
2 4 (6.35%) Firewall
3 3 (4.76%) DNS
4 2 (3.17%) VPN
5 1 (1.59%) OSPF
5 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
2 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) Metadata
3 2 (3.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (3.17%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.17%) ERwin
3 2 (3.17%) Git
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.75%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Law
5 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
6 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.76%) Legal
8 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (63.49%) Architect
2 20 (31.75%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (20.63%) Lead
3 13 (20.63%) Senior
4 9 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Development Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Development Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Architect
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Solution Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Lead Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.94%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) REST
2 5 (7.94%) Node.js
3 4 (6.35%) .NET
4 3 (4.76%) Sequelize
4 3 (4.76%) TypeORM
5 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.17%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.17%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.17%) Middleware
5 2 (3.17%) React
5 2 (3.17%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.17%) Spring
5 2 (3.17%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.59%) CSS
6 1 (1.59%) HTML
6 1 (1.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 10 (15.87%) Public Cloud
4 5 (7.94%) CMDB
5 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.76%) e-Learning
5 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Sports Betting
6 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.17%) Derivative
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Agile
2 21 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 21 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 18 (28.57%) DevOps
3 18 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.40%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (22.22%) AI
6 14 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 14 (22.22%) TOGAF
7 11 (17.46%) Microservices
7 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (14.29%) Data Architecture
9 9 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (14.29%) SOA
9 9 (14.29%) SOLID
9 9 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
10 8 (12.70%) Data Privacy
10 8 (12.70%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Java
2 10 (15.87%) C#
3 9 (14.29%) SQL
4 8 (12.70%) Python
5 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.17%) Bicep
7 2 (3.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.94%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CISM
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) GDPR
1 6 (9.52%) HIPAA
1 6 (9.52%) NIST
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Argo
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Conga
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce