Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £75,000 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 37 34 72
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 375 423 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.38% 7.22% 4.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.69% 8.04% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 135 154 168
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,625 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £83,500 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,500 £93,250
South East median annual salary £75,000 £83,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.18% +11.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,590 5,264 6,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 89.80% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,107 4,126
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £29,781
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,212 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -13 205 £75,000 - 26
Buckinghamshire -3 120 £72,500 -12.12% 17
Oxfordshire +5 50 £80,000 -15.79% 10
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 109 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 100 (26.67%) Degree
3 94 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (23.47%) Azure
5 86 (22.93%) Microsoft
5 86 (22.93%) Security Cleared
6 75 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 70 (18.67%) Agile
8 67 (17.87%) AWS
9 64 (17.07%) TOGAF
10 61 (16.27%) Presales
11 58 (15.47%) Actionable Insight
12 51 (13.60%) Line Management
13 46 (12.27%) SC Cleared
13 46 (12.27%) Technical Architecture
13 46 (12.27%) Coaching
14 44 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
15 42 (11.20%) Network Management
16 40 (10.67%) Prototyping
16 40 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 38 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
18 37 (9.87%) Network Architecture
19 35 (9.33%) Finance
19 35 (9.33%) Data Modelling
20 34 (9.07%) Validation
20 34 (9.07%) Requirements Management
20 34 (9.07%) VSAT
20 34 (9.07%) Model Validation
21 32 (8.53%) Physics
21 32 (8.53%) Business Development

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.33%) Drupal
4 4 (1.07%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.80%) WordPress
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.07%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (23.47%) Azure
2 67 (17.87%) AWS
3 27 (7.20%) GCP
3 27 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.93%) SaaS
6 9 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.40%) PowerApps
6 9 (2.40%) Serverless
7 7 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.33%) OCI
9 4 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.80%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.53%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.07%) VSAT
2 32 (8.53%) WAN
3 30 (8.00%) SD-WAN
4 22 (5.87%) Firewall
5 15 (4.00%) Wireless
6 10 (2.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (2.40%) Network Security
8 7 (1.87%) Intranet
9 6 (1.60%) VPN
10 5 (1.33%) Internet
10 5 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.07%) BGP
11 4 (1.07%) DNS
11 4 (1.07%) SSL
12 3 (0.80%) LAN
13 1 (0.27%) DMZ
13 1 (0.27%) MPLS
13 1 (0.27%) VLAN
13 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.27%) BigQuery
2 16 (4.27%) Looker
3 10 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.87%) Power BI
5 6 (1.60%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.07%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.07%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.07%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.80%) OLAP
8 3 (0.80%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.80%) Tableau
9 2 (0.53%) Big Data
9 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (4.27%) GitLab
1 16 (4.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 109 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (9.33%) Finance
5 23 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (4.00%) Retail
7 11 (2.93%) Marketing
8 10 (2.67%) Billing
8 10 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.40%) Legal
10 8 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.87%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.60%) Automotive
13 3 (0.80%) Law
13 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.27%) Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.13%) Web Services
2 4 (1.07%) .NET
2 4 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.07%) REST
2 4 (1.07%) SOAP
2 4 (1.07%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.53%) Kafka
3 2 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (0.53%) React
4 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.27%) ADO
4 1 (0.27%) EDI
4 1 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.73%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.87%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.87%) PKI
7 7 (1.87%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.07%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.27%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.27%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.27%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.33%) Kali Linux
1 5 (1.33%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 70 (18.67%) Agile
4 64 (17.07%) TOGAF
5 61 (16.27%) Presales
6 58 (15.47%) Actionable Insight
7 51 (13.60%) Line Management
8 46 (12.27%) Coaching
8 46 (12.27%) Technical Architecture
9 42 (11.20%) Network Management
10 40 (10.67%) Prototyping
11 38 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (9.87%) Network Architecture
13 35 (9.33%) Data Modelling
14 34 (9.07%) Model Validation
14 34 (9.07%) Requirements Management
14 34 (9.07%) Validation
15 32 (8.53%) Business Development
15 32 (8.53%) Physics
16 31 (8.27%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.93%) Python
1 26 (6.93%) SQL
2 19 (5.07%) C#
3 16 (4.27%) Fortran
4 12 (3.20%) C++
5 6 (1.60%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.07%) Scala
7 3 (0.80%) Java
8 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (26.67%) Degree
2 86 (22.93%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.27%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.87%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (5.60%) DV Cleared
6 19 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.73%) CCNA
7 14 (3.73%) CCNP
8 13 (3.47%) CISSP
9 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (2.13%) CCSK
11 8 (2.13%) CCSP
12 7 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.27%) ISACA
15 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.93%) GDPR
2 24 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.27%) NIST
4 13 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 8 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.33%) COBIT
6 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (2.40%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (1.33%) CASB
2 5 (1.33%) Suricata
3 3 (0.80%) OpenView
4 2 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.53%) Terraform
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 86 (22.93%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.73%) Cisco
3 23 (6.13%) Google
4 16 (4.27%) Adobe
4 16 (4.27%) Apple
5 15 (4.00%) Juniper
6 14 (3.73%) Meraki
6 14 (3.73%) MuleSoft
7 13 (3.47%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.67%) Oracle
9 6 (1.60%) Databricks
10 5 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.33%) Sparx
10 5 (1.33%) Splunk
11 3 (0.80%) BMC
11 3 (0.80%) HP
11 3 (0.80%) Remedy
11 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.53%) NetApp