Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 26 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,498 8,334 8,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.50% 8.43% 5.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.86% 9.21% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,558 3,813 4,496
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,180 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,038 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,668 90,468 156,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.50% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,568 57,123 85,131
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,325 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.24% +6.65% +5.26%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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
England -2 5,339 £80,000 -5.88% 982
UK excluding London -6 3,960 £75,000 -3.23% 590
Work from Home 0 2,496 £80,000 -5.88% 499
London +4 1,935 £90,000 -2.70% 411
North of England +20 1,120 £77,500 - 146
South East 0 886 £75,000 -11.76% 139
Midlands +1 664 £75,000 - 99
North West +8 600 £75,000 +3.45% 83
South West -7 508 £75,000 +3.45% 82
Yorkshire +27 455 £79,842 -0.20% 47
West Midlands +24 417 £76,750 +2.33% 60
Scotland -49 373 £75,000 -4.15% 36
East Midlands -17 240 £65,000 -10.34% 37
East of England -30 179 £78,273 -5.12% 48
Wales -17 132 £63,823 +1.72% 25
Northern Ireland +9 109 £95,000 +31.03% 21
North East +11 65 £79,842 -6.07% 16
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,898 (29.21%) Azure
2 1,586 (24.41%) Agile
3 1,577 (24.27%) Social Skills
4 1,405 (21.62%) Finance
5 1,372 (21.11%) TOGAF
6 1,344 (20.68%) Roadmaps
7 1,320 (20.31%) AWS
8 1,141 (17.56%) Microsoft
9 1,015 (15.62%) Security Cleared
10 829 (12.76%) Actionable Insight
11 799 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 766 (11.79%) Degree
13 757 (11.65%) Enterprise Architecture
14 658 (10.13%) SC Cleared
14 658 (10.13%) DevOps
15 655 (10.08%) Mentoring
16 642 (9.88%) Technical Architecture
17 593 (9.13%) Presales
18 592 (9.11%) GCP
19 579 (8.91%) Data Architecture
20 563 (8.66%) Migration
21 562 (8.65%) Data Modelling
22 558 (8.59%) Oracle
23 550 (8.46%) SAP
24 547 (8.42%) Strategic Roadmap
25 503 (7.74%) Data Management
26 499 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
27 493 (7.59%) Analytics
28 491 (7.56%) Validation
29 484 (7.45%) ERP

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 301 (4.63%) SAS
2 101 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.02%) Apache
5 59 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.82%) WebLogic
7 48 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.35%) CMS
9 15 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.22%) IIS
11 10 (0.15%) Drupal
12 8 (0.12%) Confluence
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
13 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.11%) WildFly
14 6 (0.092%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.077%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.062%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 35 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.046%) Revit
7 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 317 (4.88%) SAP ERP
2 134 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 105 (1.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 91 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 38 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.48%) Teamcenter
7 20 (0.31%) SAP BPC
8 18 (0.28%) Endur
8 18 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 18 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.23%) SAP MM
10 13 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
11 12 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
11 12 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 11 (0.17%) SAP PP
13 9 (0.14%) SAP SD
13 9 (0.14%) SAP WM
14 8 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
15 7 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
15 7 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,898 (29.21%) Azure
2 1,320 (20.31%) AWS
3 592 (9.11%) GCP
4 411 (6.33%) SaaS
5 353 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 348 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 296 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
8 231 (3.55%) PaaS
9 207 (3.19%) IaaS
10 143 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 112 (1.72%) Snowflake
12 110 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
13 106 (1.63%) PowerApps
14 93 (1.43%) Serverless
15 86 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 68 (1.05%) dbt
17 55 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
18 52 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
19 47 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
19 47 (0.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 416 (6.40%) VSAT
2 308 (4.74%) Broadband
3 205 (3.15%) Firewall
4 182 (2.80%) WAN
5 120 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 112 (1.72%) DNS
7 111 (1.71%) Network Security
8 104 (1.60%) VPN
9 88 (1.35%) LAN
10 71 (1.09%) BGP
11 68 (1.05%) SSL
12 67 (1.03%) TCP/IP
13 58 (0.89%) Wireless
14 42 (0.65%) Internet
15 35 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
16 30 (0.46%) MPLS
17 26 (0.40%) DHCP
17 26 (0.40%) VLAN
18 24 (0.37%) SAN
19 21 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
2 215 (3.31%) Data Lake
3 176 (2.71%) Metadata
4 168 (2.59%) Power BI
5 154 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 143 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 134 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 133 (2.05%) BigQuery
9 115 (1.77%) Looker
10 99 (1.52%) Big Data
11 85 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 69 (1.06%) Apache Ignite
13 68 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
13 68 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
14 59 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
15 55 (0.85%) Apache Arrow
15 55 (0.85%) Dremio
16 54 (0.83%) Oracle Database
17 45 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
18 37 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (1.11%) Git
1 72 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 53 (0.82%) Visual Studio
3 37 (0.57%) GitLab
4 26 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.28%) JIRA
5 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (0.22%) Maven
7 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
9 6 (0.092%) JUnit
10 5 (0.077%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.077%) MLflow
10 5 (0.077%) Subversion
10 5 (0.077%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.062%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.062%) ERwin
11 4 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.062%) Selenium
11 4 (0.062%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,577 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 1,405 (21.62%) Finance
3 499 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 447 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 360 (5.54%) Banking
6 345 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 290 (4.46%) Retail
8 260 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 207 (3.19%) Marketing
10 158 (2.43%) Law
11 111 (1.71%) Legal
12 103 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 93 (1.43%) Retail Banking
15 75 (1.15%) Aerospace
16 67 (1.03%) Investment Banking
17 61 (0.94%) Front Office
18 58 (0.89%) Games
19 51 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
20 46 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (4.57%) .NET
2 97 (1.49%) Kafka
3 88 (1.35%) Middleware
4 86 (1.32%) Web Services
5 85 (1.31%) Spring Boot
6 65 (1.00%) REST
7 64 (0.98%) HTML
8 59 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
9 57 (0.88%) React
10 56 (0.86%) gRPC
10 56 (0.86%) Protocol Buffers
11 53 (0.82%) NumPy
11 53 (0.82%) Pandas
12 52 (0.80%) SciPy
13 51 (0.78%) XML
14 50 (0.77%) CSS
14 50 (0.77%) JSON
15 44 (0.68%) .NET Framework
15 44 (0.68%) AngularJS
16 43 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 437 (6.73%) Public Cloud
2 349 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 258 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 220 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 167 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
6 137 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 136 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 128 (1.97%) PKI
9 123 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 84 (1.29%) IoT
11 74 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 64 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (0.97%) PMI
14 60 (0.92%) Security Posture
15 57 (0.88%) Equities
16 56 (0.86%) Derivative
17 55 (0.85%) Fixed Income
17 55 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 55 (0.85%) Hedge funds
18 50 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 317 (4.88%) Linux
2 159 (2.45%) Windows
3 58 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (0.74%) Unix
5 42 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 40 (0.62%) Android
7 37 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.35%) VMS
10 11 (0.17%) SUSE
10 11 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.15%) Solaris
12 8 (0.12%) VME
13 7 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.092%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.077%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.046%) CentOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
18 1 (0.015%) HPUX
18 1 (0.015%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,586 (24.41%) Agile
2 1,372 (21.11%) TOGAF
3 1,344 (20.68%) Roadmaps
4 829 (12.76%) Actionable Insight
5 799 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
6 757 (11.65%) Enterprise Architecture
7 658 (10.13%) DevOps
8 655 (10.08%) Mentoring
9 642 (9.88%) Technical Architecture
10 593 (9.13%) Presales
11 579 (8.91%) Data Architecture
12 563 (8.66%) Migration
13 562 (8.65%) Data Modelling
14 547 (8.42%) Strategic Roadmap
15 503 (7.74%) Data Management
16 493 (7.59%) Analytics
17 491 (7.56%) Validation
18 484 (7.45%) ERP
19 473 (7.28%) Network Architecture
20 464 (7.14%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 344 (5.29%) SQL
2 342 (5.26%) Python
3 330 (5.08%) Java
4 271 (4.17%) C#
5 242 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 90 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 84 (1.29%) C
8 67 (1.03%) C++
9 66 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 44 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 31 (0.48%) Scala
12 23 (0.35%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.35%) R
13 21 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 20 (0.31%) Bicep
15 17 (0.26%) Bash
15 17 (0.26%) VB
16 16 (0.25%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.25%) Ruby
17 15 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,015 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 766 (11.79%) Degree
3 658 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 278 (4.28%) Azure Certification
5 218 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 209 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 194 (2.99%) CISSP
8 186 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 173 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
10 164 (2.52%) DV Cleared
11 124 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 115 (1.77%) CISM
13 107 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 98 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 97 (1.49%) Master's Degree
16 78 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 72 (1.11%) CCNP
18 69 (1.06%) CCSP
18 69 (1.06%) PMI Certification
19 61 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (3.34%) Data Quality
2 177 (2.72%) GDPR
3 123 (1.89%) QA
4 112 (1.72%) NIST
5 91 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.72%) COBIT
7 36 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 31 (0.48%) SLA
10 21 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 12 (0.18%) PMO
12 10 (0.15%) NCSC
13 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
14 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
15 6 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.092%) GRC
15 6 (0.092%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 189 (2.91%) Docker
2 127 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 81 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.48%) vSphere
6 27 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.18%) KVM
11 11 (0.17%) vCloud
12 9 (0.14%) Firmware
13 4 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.046%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.046%) Xen
15 2 (0.031%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.031%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.015%) HDFS
16 1 (0.015%) LXC
Systems Management
1 275 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 197 (3.03%) Terraform
3 93 (1.43%) Ansible
4 46 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 45 (0.69%) Puppet
6 32 (0.49%) OpenView
7 24 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 24 (0.37%) Stealthwatch
8 16 (0.25%) CASB
9 15 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.15%) Grafana
10 10 (0.15%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.12%) Kiali
12 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.092%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.092%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.092%) Endace
13 6 (0.092%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.092%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,141 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 558 (8.59%) Oracle
3 550 (8.46%) SAP
4 384 (5.91%) Google
5 300 (4.62%) Anaplan
6 299 (4.60%) Hyperion
7 160 (2.46%) Cisco
8 148 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 130 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 127 (1.95%) Databricks
11 108 (1.66%) Sparx
12 95 (1.46%) VMware
13 83 (1.28%) Juniper
14 67 (1.03%) IBM
15 58 (0.89%) Citrix
16 55 (0.85%) Apple
17 54 (0.83%) Adobe
18 51 (0.78%) HP
19 46 (0.71%) Meraki
20 40 (0.62%) BMC