IT Architect Jobs in England

IT Architect
UK > England

The median IT Architect salary in England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 737 768 984
Rank change year-on-year +31 +216 -190
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 99 141 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 51 40 68
10th Percentile £54,814 £59,475 £60,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £65,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £94,250
90th Percentile £116,250 £93,875 £105,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +17.86% -9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured IT Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Architect in England.

Salary trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +116 62 £92,500 +12.12% 5
North of England +61 19 £112,500 +82.19% 1
Yorkshire +91 13 £112,500 +77.17%
South East -13 6 £56,421 -37.31% 3
North West +6 5 £43,742 -27.10%
South West -29 5 £62,500 - 1
West Midlands +8 4 £85,000 - 1
Midlands -8 4 £85,000 -2.86% 1
East of England -3 3 £75,000 - 2
North East - 1 £62,500 - 1
IT Architect
UK

IT Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, IT Architect 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 job ads across the England region featuring IT Architect in the job title.

1 59 (59.60%) Microsoft
2 38 (38.38%) Degree
3 37 (37.37%) Azure
4 31 (31.31%) TOGAF
4 31 (31.31%) IT Strategy
5 30 (30.30%) Agile
6 28 (28.28%) Business Strategy
7 26 (26.26%) Roadmaps
8 24 (24.24%) Finance
9 22 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
9 22 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (20.20%) Migration
10 20 (20.20%) AWS
11 18 (18.18%) Project Management
11 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
12 17 (17.17%) Apache Spark
12 17 (17.17%) GCP
12 17 (17.17%) Kafka
12 17 (17.17%) Data Governance
12 17 (17.17%) Data Strategy
12 17 (17.17%) Apache Ignite
12 17 (17.17%) Project Delivery
12 17 (17.17%) CISSP
12 17 (17.17%) Data Mining
12 17 (17.17%) Hadoop
12 17 (17.17%) Visualisation
12 17 (17.17%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (17.17%) Mathematics
12 17 (17.17%) Technical Architecture
12 17 (17.17%) Data Integration

IT Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (17.17%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.05%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.04%) ArcGIS
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.37%) Azure
2 20 (20.20%) AWS
3 17 (17.17%) GCP
4 12 (12.12%) IaaS
4 12 (12.12%) PaaS
5 10 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.06%) SaaS
7 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.14%) Firewall
2 10 (10.10%) DHCP
2 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 10 (10.10%) Network Security
2 10 (10.10%) VPN
3 5 (5.05%) LAN
3 5 (5.05%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.05%) WAN
3 5 (5.05%) Wireless
4 4 (4.04%) SAN
5 1 (1.01%) 4G
5 1 (1.01%) 5G
5 1 (1.01%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (17.17%) Apache Ignite
2 17 (17.17%) Data Mining
2 17 (17.17%) Hadoop
3 11 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.05%) DB2
4 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.05%) Redis
5 4 (4.04%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (4.04%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 24 (24.24%) Finance
2 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.04%) Legal
3 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.03%) Marketing
4 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.02%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.01%) Law
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.17%) Kafka
2 11 (11.11%) .NET
3 5 (5.05%) Middleware
3 5 (5.05%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (4.04%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (3.03%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.02%) React
7 1 (1.01%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 12 (12.12%) Security Posture
3 10 (10.10%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.05%) NHS
5 5 (5.05%) PMI
5 5 (5.05%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) PKI
7 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.15%) Linux
2 9 (9.09%) Windows
3 5 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.04%) Android
4 4 (4.04%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) IT Strategy
1 31 (31.31%) TOGAF
2 30 (30.30%) Agile
3 28 (28.28%) Business Strategy
4 26 (26.26%) Roadmaps
5 22 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
6 20 (20.20%) Migration
7 18 (18.18%) Project Management
8 17 (17.17%) Data Governance
8 17 (17.17%) Data Integration
8 17 (17.17%) Data Strategy
8 17 (17.17%) Data Visualisation
8 17 (17.17%) Mathematics
8 17 (17.17%) Project Delivery
8 17 (17.17%) Technical Architecture
8 17 (17.17%) Visualisation
9 13 (13.13%) Application Security
9 13 (13.13%) Security Architecture
10 12 (12.12%) Cloud Security
10 12 (12.12%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.05%) SQL
2 4 (4.04%) C
2 4 (4.04%) C++
3 3 (3.03%) Bicep
3 3 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (38.38%) Degree
2 17 (17.17%) CISSP
3 15 (15.15%) TOGAF Certification
4 12 (12.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 12 (12.12%) CCSP
4 12 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.05%) PMI Certification
6 5 (5.05%) RHCA
6 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 13 (13.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.05%) Hyper-V
2 5 (5.05%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Grafana
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
1 5 (5.05%) SCOM
2 3 (3.03%) Ansible
2 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.03%) Puppet
2 3 (3.03%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (59.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.17%) Google
3 11 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (5.05%) Cisco
4 5 (5.05%) Citrix
4 5 (5.05%) IBM
4 5 (5.05%) Juniper
4 5 (5.05%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.05%) SolarWinds
4 5 (5.05%) Sparx
4 5 (5.05%) VMware
5 4 (4.04%) ESRI
6 2 (2.02%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Aderant
7 1 (1.01%) iManage
7 1 (1.01%) Intapp
7 1 (1.01%) OutSystems