IT Architect Jobs in England

IT Architect
UK > England

The median IT Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 756 766 986
Rank change year-on-year +10 +220 -159
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 107 128 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 53 43 72
10th Percentile £54,814 £60,350 £60,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £78,125 £65,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £93,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +77 64 £100,000 +21.21% 5
North of England +26 20 £112,500 +82.19% 1
Yorkshire +78 13 £112,500 +77.17% 1
South West -40 8 £62,500 -
West Midlands -10 6 £85,000 - 1
Midlands -38 6 £85,000 -2.86% 1
South East -40 6 £56,421 -33.62% 2
North West -22 5 £43,742 -27.10%
East of England -9 3 £75,000 - 2
North East - 2 £62,500 -
IT Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 63 (58.88%) Microsoft
2 41 (38.32%) Degree
3 37 (34.58%) Azure
4 35 (32.71%) TOGAF
5 28 (26.17%) Agile
5 28 (26.17%) Finance
5 28 (26.17%) IT Strategy
5 28 (26.17%) Roadmaps
6 26 (24.30%) Business Strategy
7 19 (17.76%) CISSP
7 19 (17.76%) AWS
7 19 (17.76%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (17.76%) Technology Strategy
8 18 (16.82%) Migration
9 16 (14.95%) Management Information System
9 16 (14.95%) Linux
9 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (14.02%) GCP
10 15 (14.02%) Security Architecture
10 15 (14.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (14.02%) Project Delivery
10 15 (14.02%) Active Directory
10 15 (14.02%) Project Management
10 15 (14.02%) Application Security
11 14 (13.08%) Cloud Security
11 14 (13.08%) Security Posture
11 14 (13.08%) CCSP
11 14 (13.08%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (13.08%) Firewall
11 14 (13.08%) Data Mining

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 14 (13.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.67%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.74%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.58%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) AWS
3 15 (14.02%) GCP
4 13 (12.15%) IaaS
4 13 (12.15%) PaaS
5 12 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.54%) SaaS
7 5 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.08%) Firewall
2 10 (9.35%) DHCP
2 10 (9.35%) DNS
2 10 (9.35%) VPN
3 9 (8.41%) Network Security
4 5 (4.67%) LAN
4 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.67%) WAN
4 5 (4.67%) Wireless
5 4 (3.74%) SAN
6 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.76%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (13.08%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (13.08%) Data Mining
2 14 (13.08%) Hadoop
3 9 (8.41%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.67%) DB2
4 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.67%) Redis
5 4 (3.74%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.74%) GIS
6 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (1.87%) JIRA
General
1 28 (26.17%) Finance
2 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.67%) Legal
3 5 (4.67%) Marketing
3 5 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (3.74%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.87%) Law
6 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.87%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.08%) Kafka
2 11 (10.28%) .NET
3 6 (5.61%) Middleware
4 5 (4.67%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.87%) React
8 1 (0.93%) EDI
8 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.93%) JSON
8 1 (0.93%) Laravel
8 1 (0.93%) REST
8 1 (0.93%) SOAP
8 1 (0.93%) Web Services
8 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Management Information System
2 14 (13.08%) Security Posture
3 11 (10.28%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.67%) NHS
5 5 (4.67%) PMI
5 5 (4.67%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.74%) PKI
7 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.95%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Windows
3 5 (4.67%) Android
3 5 (4.67%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.71%) TOGAF
2 28 (26.17%) Agile
2 28 (26.17%) IT Strategy
2 28 (26.17%) Roadmaps
3 26 (24.30%) Business Strategy
4 19 (17.76%) Technology Strategy
5 18 (16.82%) Migration
6 15 (14.02%) Application Security
6 15 (14.02%) Project Delivery
6 15 (14.02%) Project Management
6 15 (14.02%) Security Architecture
7 14 (13.08%) Cloud Security
7 14 (13.08%) Data Governance
7 14 (13.08%) Data Integration
7 14 (13.08%) Data Strategy
7 14 (13.08%) Data Visualisation
7 14 (13.08%) Mathematics
7 14 (13.08%) Security Operations
7 14 (13.08%) Technical Architecture
7 14 (13.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.67%) SQL
2 4 (3.74%) C
2 4 (3.74%) C++
3 3 (2.80%) Bicep
3 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (38.32%) Degree
2 19 (17.76%) CISSP
3 15 (14.02%) TOGAF Certification
4 14 (13.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (13.08%) CCSP
4 14 (13.08%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (4.67%) PMI Certification
8 5 (4.67%) RHCA
9 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.87%) HNC
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 15 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.67%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Grafana
1 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
1 5 (4.67%) SCOM
2 3 (2.80%) Ansible
2 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
2 3 (2.80%) Puppet
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.93%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (58.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.08%) Google
3 11 (10.28%) Oracle
4 7 (6.54%) VMware
5 6 (5.61%) IBM
6 5 (4.67%) Cisco
6 5 (4.67%) Citrix
6 5 (4.67%) Juniper
6 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.74%) ESRI
7 4 (3.74%) Sparx
8 2 (1.87%) SAP
9 1 (0.93%) Aderant
9 1 (0.93%) Apple
9 1 (0.93%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (0.93%) Intapp
9 1 (0.93%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.93%) Samsung