IT Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 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 735 687 748
Rank change year-on-year -48 +61 -97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 45 41 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.074% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.084% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 55
10th Percentile £43,742 £50,025 £56,250
25th Percentile £54,861 £61,313 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £109,063 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £93,875 £92,500
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Architect within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland - 2 £85,000 -
North East - 2 £62,500 -
IT Architect
UK

IT Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Architect in the job title.

1 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (37.78%) Roadmaps
3 15 (33.33%) Degree
4 14 (31.11%) TOGAF
5 12 (26.67%) Agile
5 12 (26.67%) Management Information System
5 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
6 11 (24.44%) IT Strategy
7 10 (22.22%) DHCP
7 10 (22.22%) DNS
7 10 (22.22%) Azure
8 9 (20.00%) Network Security
8 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 9 (20.00%) Microservices
8 9 (20.00%) Firewall
8 9 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (17.78%) Budget Management
9 8 (17.78%) Windows
9 8 (17.78%) PaaS
9 8 (17.78%) IaaS
9 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
10 7 (15.56%) Linux
10 7 (15.56%) CISSP
10 7 (15.56%) Scrum
10 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (15.56%) Business Case
11 6 (13.33%) Customer Experience
11 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
11 6 (13.33%) Finance

IT Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (8.89%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) IaaS
2 8 (17.78%) PaaS
3 6 (13.33%) AWS
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.89%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) DHCP
1 10 (22.22%) DNS
2 9 (20.00%) Firewall
2 9 (20.00%) Network Security
3 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.11%) VPN
4 4 (8.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 5 (11.11%) Redis
2 4 (8.89%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (8.89%) GIS
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing
4 3 (6.67%) Legal
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Middleware
2 4 (8.89%) .NET
3 2 (4.44%) OAuth
3 2 (4.44%) OpenID
3 2 (4.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) EDI
4 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Laravel
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) SOAP
4 1 (2.22%) Web Services
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (11.11%) NHS
3 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.44%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Windows
2 7 (15.56%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) Android
4 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Roadmaps
2 14 (31.11%) TOGAF
3 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 11 (24.44%) IT Strategy
5 9 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (20.00%) Microservices
6 8 (17.78%) Budget Management
7 7 (15.56%) Business Case
7 7 (15.56%) Scrum
8 6 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 6 (13.33%) DevOps
9 5 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (11.11%) Business Strategy
9 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.11%) Data Management
9 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Degree
2 9 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
4 7 (15.56%) CISSP
4 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.44%) CCSP
7 2 (4.44%) CISA
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.44%) HNC
8 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.44%) GDPR
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Grafana
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 5 (11.11%) SCOM
2 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle
3 5 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 4 (8.89%) ESRI
4 4 (8.89%) Sparx
5 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) Apple
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.22%) OutSystems
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.22%) Samsung