Head of Architecture Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Head of Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Architecture salary for remote or hybrid work is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 578 658
Rank change year-on-year +192 +80 +170
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Architecture 11 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.041% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.043% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £105,000 £80,000 £67,506
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £117,500 - £103,753
90th Percentile £132,500 £107,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £117,500 £90,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +30.56% -10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Head of Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Head of Architecture in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Head of Architecture trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Head of Architecture
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Head of Architecture.

Head of Architecture salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Architecture Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Head of Architecture job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Head of Architecture in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Finance
2 9 (81.82%) Data Architecture
2 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
3 8 (72.73%) Architecture Roadmap
4 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) Data Management
6 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
6 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (36.36%) ArchiMate
6 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (36.36%) People Management
6 4 (36.36%) Use Case
6 4 (36.36%) Avaloq
6 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) Databricks
6 4 (36.36%) Data Strategy
6 4 (36.36%) ER Studio
6 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) Product Backlog
6 4 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
8 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
8 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (9.09%) Serverless
8 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking

Head of Architecture Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) ER Studio
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Data Architecture
1 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
2 8 (72.73%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) ArchiMate
4 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Data Management
4 4 (36.36%) Data Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) People Management
4 4 (36.36%) Product Backlog
4 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (36.36%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Management
5 1 (9.09%) FinOps
5 1 (9.09%) Logistics
5 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Avaloq
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft