IT Architect
UK

The median IT Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 807 1051
Rank change year-on-year +10 +244 -230
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 99 147 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 54 41 88
10th Percentile £54,814 £60,000 £59,025
25th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £62,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.86% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £93,750 £102,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £88,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.49% +26.79% -3.45%

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 94,762 90,274 156,976
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 91.49% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,687 56,956 84,572
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 £70,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Architect over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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 +24 95 £82,500 - 14
London +84 59 £92,500 +12.12% 5
UK excluding London -6 38 £75,000 -15.49% 11
Work from Home +56 32 £81,250 -1.52% 3
North of England +73 19 £112,500 +82.19% 1
Yorkshire +89 13 £112,500 +77.17%
South East -7 6 £56,421 -37.31% 4
North West +7 5 £43,742 -27.10% 1
South West -18 5 £62,500 - 1
East of England +11 3 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands +5 3 £85,000 - 1
Midlands -15 3 £85,000 -2.86% 2
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 2
North East - 1 £62,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 featuring IT Architect in the job title.

1 60 (60.61%) Microsoft
2 38 (38.38%) Azure
3 37 (37.37%) Degree
4 32 (32.32%) TOGAF
5 31 (31.31%) IT Strategy
6 30 (30.30%) Agile
7 28 (28.28%) Business Strategy
8 26 (26.26%) Roadmaps
9 22 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
9 22 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (22.22%) AWS
9 22 (22.22%) Finance
9 22 (22.22%) Migration
10 19 (19.19%) Technical Architecture
11 18 (18.18%) Project Management
11 18 (18.18%) CISSP
11 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
12 17 (17.17%) Kafka
12 17 (17.17%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (17.17%) Data Governance
12 17 (17.17%) Apache Spark
12 17 (17.17%) GCP
12 17 (17.17%) Project Delivery
12 17 (17.17%) Data Strategy
12 17 (17.17%) Apache Ignite
12 17 (17.17%) Data Mining
12 17 (17.17%) Google
12 17 (17.17%) Mathematics
12 17 (17.17%) Hadoop
12 17 (17.17%) Visualisation

IT 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 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 38 (38.38%) Azure
2 22 (22.22%) AWS
3 17 (17.17%) GCP
4 12 (12.12%) IaaS
4 12 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (12.12%) PaaS
5 6 (6.06%) SaaS
6 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.02%) Mimecast
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 7 (7.07%) WAN
4 5 (5.05%) LAN
4 5 (5.05%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.05%) Wireless
5 4 (4.04%) SAN
6 2 (2.02%) PBX
6 2 (2.02%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.01%) 4G
7 1 (1.01%) 5G
7 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 22 (22.22%) Finance
2 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.03%) Legal
4 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.02%) Banking
5 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.02%) Marketing
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%) OAuth
6 2 (2.02%) OpenID
6 2 (2.02%) React
6 2 (2.02%) SAML
7 1 (1.01%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 13 (13.13%) 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 32 (32.32%) TOGAF
2 31 (31.31%) IT Strategy
3 30 (30.30%) Agile
4 28 (28.28%) Business Strategy
5 26 (26.26%) Roadmaps
6 22 (22.22%) Migration
6 22 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
7 19 (19.19%) Technical Architecture
8 18 (18.18%) Project Management
9 17 (17.17%) Data Governance
9 17 (17.17%) Data Integration
9 17 (17.17%) Data Strategy
9 17 (17.17%) Data Visualisation
9 17 (17.17%) Mathematics
9 17 (17.17%) Project Delivery
9 17 (17.17%) Visualisation
10 14 (14.14%) Security Architecture
11 12 (12.12%) Application Security
11 12 (12.12%) DevOps
11 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
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 37 (37.37%) Degree
2 18 (18.18%) CISSP
3 15 (15.15%) TOGAF Certification
4 13 (13.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 13 (13.13%) CCSP
4 13 (13.13%) 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 2 (2.02%) CISA
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.02%) GDPR
2 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.02%) NIST
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 4 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.03%) Ansible
3 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.03%) Puppet
3 3 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (60.61%) 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%) Darktrace
6 2 (2.02%) Forcepoint
6 2 (2.02%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.02%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Aderant
7 1 (1.01%) iManage
7 1 (1.01%) Intapp