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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 825 1028
Rank change year-on-year +32 +203 -193
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 103 150 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 52 41 93
10th Percentile £54,833 £60,000 £56,350
25th Percentile £61,813 £78,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £84,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +20.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £87,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% +25.00% -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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 14 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 14 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 +32 99 £82,500 -1.79% 18
London +101 66 £92,500 +12.12% 7
UK excluding London -28 35 £77,500 -11.43% 12
Work from Home +63 32 £81,250 -1.52% 2
North of England +42 16 £112,500 +82.19% 2
Yorkshire +100 13 £112,500 +77.17%
South East -9 6 £56,421 -37.31% 3
South West -26 6 £62,500 - 4
East of England +3 3 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands +1 2 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Midlands -1 2 £85,000 +1.49% 3
North West -1 2 £43,742 -27.10% 2
Scotland - 2 £85,000 -
North East - 1 £62,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 64 (62.14%) Microsoft
2 44 (42.72%) Azure
3 43 (41.75%) Degree
4 39 (37.86%) IT Strategy
5 36 (34.95%) Agile
6 35 (33.98%) Business Strategy
7 32 (31.07%) TOGAF
8 29 (28.16%) Technology Strategy
9 28 (27.18%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (27.18%) AWS
9 28 (27.18%) Migration
10 27 (26.21%) Roadmaps
11 25 (24.27%) Technical Architecture
11 25 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
12 24 (23.30%) Data Governance
12 24 (23.30%) Data Strategy
12 24 (23.30%) Mathematics
12 24 (23.30%) Project Management
13 23 (22.33%) Data Mining
13 23 (22.33%) Google
13 23 (22.33%) Hadoop
13 23 (22.33%) Visualisation
13 23 (22.33%) Data Integration
13 23 (22.33%) Apache Ignite
13 23 (22.33%) Project Delivery
13 23 (22.33%) Data Visualisation
13 23 (22.33%) Kafka
13 23 (22.33%) Apache Spark
13 23 (22.33%) GCP
14 21 (20.39%) Finance

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 23 (22.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.85%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.88%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (42.72%) Azure
2 28 (27.18%) AWS
3 23 (22.33%) GCP
4 12 (11.65%) IaaS
4 12 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.65%) PaaS
5 6 (5.83%) SaaS
6 5 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.85%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.59%) Firewall
2 10 (9.71%) VPN
3 8 (7.77%) Network Security
4 7 (6.80%) DHCP
4 7 (6.80%) DNS
4 7 (6.80%) WAN
5 5 (4.85%) LAN
5 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.85%) Wireless
6 2 (1.94%) PBX
6 2 (1.94%) SAN
6 2 (1.94%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.97%) 4G
7 1 (0.97%) 5G
7 1 (0.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.18%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (22.33%) Apache Ignite
2 23 (22.33%) Data Mining
2 23 (22.33%) Hadoop
3 15 (14.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.85%) DB2
4 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.85%) Redis
5 4 (3.88%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.88%) GIS
6 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 25 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (20.39%) Finance
3 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.94%) Banking
5 2 (1.94%) Law
5 2 (1.94%) Legal
5 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.94%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.97%) Games
6 1 (0.97%) Marketing
6 1 (0.97%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.33%) Kafka
2 11 (10.68%) .NET
3 5 (4.85%) Middleware
3 5 (4.85%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.94%) OAuth
6 2 (1.94%) OpenID
6 2 (1.94%) React
6 2 (1.94%) SAML
7 1 (0.97%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.56%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.65%) Security Posture
3 10 (9.71%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.80%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.85%) PMI
5 5 (4.85%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.85%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.88%) PKI
7 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.94%) NHS
9 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Linux
2 9 (8.74%) Windows
3 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Android
4 4 (3.88%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.86%) IT Strategy
2 36 (34.95%) Agile
3 35 (33.98%) Business Strategy
4 32 (31.07%) TOGAF
5 29 (28.16%) Technology Strategy
6 28 (27.18%) Migration
7 27 (26.21%) Roadmaps
8 25 (24.27%) Technical Architecture
9 24 (23.30%) Data Governance
9 24 (23.30%) Data Strategy
9 24 (23.30%) Mathematics
9 24 (23.30%) Project Management
10 23 (22.33%) Data Integration
10 23 (22.33%) Data Visualisation
10 23 (22.33%) Project Delivery
10 23 (22.33%) Visualisation
11 13 (12.62%) Security Architecture
12 12 (11.65%) DevOps
12 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Management
13 11 (10.68%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.85%) SQL
2 4 (3.88%) C
2 4 (3.88%) C++
3 3 (2.91%) Bicep
3 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (41.75%) Degree
2 17 (16.50%) CISSP
3 15 (14.56%) TOGAF Certification
4 12 (11.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 12 (11.65%) CCSP
4 12 (11.65%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.85%) PMI Certification
6 5 (4.85%) RHCA
6 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) CISA
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (1.94%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
2 5 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.85%) Grafana
1 5 (4.85%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.85%) Prometheus
1 5 (4.85%) SCOM
2 4 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.91%) Ansible
3 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.91%) Puppet
3 3 (2.91%) Terraform
4 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 64 (62.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.33%) Google
3 11 (10.68%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) Cisco
4 5 (4.85%) Citrix
4 5 (4.85%) IBM
4 5 (4.85%) Juniper
4 5 (4.85%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.85%) SolarWinds
4 5 (4.85%) Sparx
4 5 (4.85%) VMware
5 4 (3.88%) ESRI
6 2 (1.94%) Darktrace
6 2 (1.94%) Forcepoint
6 2 (1.94%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.97%) Aderant
7 1 (0.97%) iManage
7 1 (0.97%) Intapp