Architect Jobs in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 27 64
Rank change year-on-year -1 +37 -11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,308 6,890 6,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.18% 7.67% 5.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.54% 8.38% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,105 3,431 3,823
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £101,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +4 1,942 £90,000 -2.70% 420
North of England +26 1,094 £78,126 +0.81% 153
South East +3 876 £75,000 -11.76% 134
Midlands +6 642 £75,000 - 85
North West +9 583 £75,000 +0.89% 87
South West -7 522 £75,000 +3.09% 80
Yorkshire +32 450 £79,887 -0.14% 46
West Midlands +24 403 £77,500 +3.33% 42
East Midlands -15 232 £65,000 -10.34% 42
East of England -28 177 £82,500 -2.94% 46
North East +13 61 £79,842 -6.07% 20
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 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 England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,578 (29.73%) Azure
2 1,404 (26.45%) Agile
3 1,347 (25.38%) Social Skills
4 1,229 (23.15%) Roadmaps
5 1,227 (23.12%) Finance
6 1,065 (20.06%) TOGAF
7 1,040 (19.59%) AWS
8 996 (18.76%) Microsoft
9 851 (16.03%) Security Cleared
10 708 (13.34%) Enterprise Architecture
11 707 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
12 679 (12.79%) Degree
13 579 (10.91%) Mentoring
14 540 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
15 538 (10.14%) DevOps
16 533 (10.04%) Strategic Roadmap
17 526 (9.91%) Data Modelling
18 505 (9.51%) GCP
18 505 (9.51%) SC Cleared
19 496 (9.34%) Data Architecture
20 477 (8.99%) Oracle
20 477 (8.99%) ERP
21 474 (8.93%) Data Management
22 466 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
23 458 (8.63%) SAP
24 425 (8.01%) Technical Architecture
25 424 (7.99%) Presales
26 415 (7.82%) Migration
27 406 (7.65%) Microservices
28 400 (7.54%) Analytics

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 300 (5.65%) SAS
2 93 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 58 (1.09%) Apache
5 55 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 50 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.66%) WebLogic
8 23 (0.43%) CMS
9 15 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.26%) IIS
11 10 (0.19%) Drupal
12 7 (0.13%) Confluence
12 7 (0.13%) JBoss
12 7 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.13%) WildFly
13 5 (0.094%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.075%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.24%) Simulink
5 9 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.057%) Revit
7 2 (0.038%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 318 (5.99%) SAP ERP
2 81 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 79 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 65 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.36%) SAP BPC
8 14 (0.26%) Endur
9 12 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 10 (0.19%) SAP PP
11 8 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.13%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.13%) SAP SD
13 5 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
13 5 (0.094%) SAP CX
13 5 (0.094%) SAP WM
14 4 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,578 (29.73%) Azure
2 1,040 (19.59%) AWS
3 505 (9.51%) GCP
4 343 (6.46%) SaaS
5 305 (5.75%) Power Platform
6 299 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
7 262 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
8 204 (3.84%) PaaS
9 180 (3.39%) IaaS
10 141 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (1.87%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 85 (1.60%) Serverless
14 83 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
16 55 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 55 (1.04%) dbt
17 48 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 38 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
19 37 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 305 (5.75%) Broadband
2 235 (4.43%) VSAT
3 177 (3.33%) Firewall
4 159 (3.00%) WAN
5 105 (1.98%) VPN
6 98 (1.85%) DNS
7 93 (1.75%) SD-WAN
8 91 (1.71%) Network Security
9 65 (1.22%) LAN
10 60 (1.13%) TCP/IP
11 53 (1.00%) BGP
12 51 (0.96%) SSL
13 46 (0.87%) Wireless
14 39 (0.73%) DHCP
14 39 (0.73%) Internet
15 31 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
16 30 (0.57%) MPLS
17 27 (0.51%) VLAN
18 26 (0.49%) HTTP
19 21 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 197 (3.71%) Data Lake
3 150 (2.83%) Metadata
4 145 (2.73%) Power BI
5 129 (2.43%) BigQuery
6 127 (2.39%) SQL Server
7 124 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 114 (2.15%) Looker
9 113 (2.13%) NoSQL
10 74 (1.39%) Big Data
11 67 (1.26%) Apache Ignite
12 61 (1.15%) RDBMS
13 49 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
14 48 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
15 47 (0.89%) Apache Arrow
15 47 (0.89%) Dremio
16 40 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
16 40 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
17 34 (0.64%) Oracle Database
18 30 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (1.22%) Git
2 64 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 41 (0.77%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.64%) GitLab
5 26 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.32%) JIRA
8 10 (0.19%) Maven
9 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.094%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.094%) ERwin
11 5 (0.094%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.094%) MLflow
11 5 (0.094%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.075%) Selenium
12 4 (0.075%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.057%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.057%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.057%) TestNG
General
1 1,347 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 1,227 (23.12%) Finance
3 466 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 286 (5.39%) Banking
6 273 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 257 (4.84%) Retail
8 180 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
9 102 (1.92%) Marketing
10 101 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 99 (1.87%) Legal
12 88 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 77 (1.45%) Law
14 67 (1.26%) Retail Banking
15 64 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 59 (1.11%) Investment Banking
17 53 (1.00%) Front Office
18 49 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
19 42 (0.79%) Financial Institution
20 38 (0.72%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (5.05%) .NET
2 79 (1.49%) HTML
3 77 (1.45%) Kafka
4 76 (1.43%) Middleware
5 66 (1.24%) Web Services
6 59 (1.11%) Spring Boot
7 56 (1.06%) REST
8 53 (1.00%) OpenID
9 51 (0.96%) React
10 50 (0.94%) JSON
11 48 (0.90%) gRPC
11 48 (0.90%) Protocol Buffers
12 44 (0.83%) NumPy
12 44 (0.83%) Pandas
12 44 (0.83%) SciPy
12 44 (0.83%) XML
13 40 (0.75%) CSS
13 40 (0.75%) SAML
14 39 (0.73%) .NET Core
15 38 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 356 (6.71%) Public Cloud
2 244 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 212 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 177 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 163 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 98 (1.85%) PKI
7 98 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 76 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 69 (1.30%) IoT
10 64 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (1.15%) PMI
12 59 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 55 (1.04%) Security Posture
14 49 (0.92%) Equities
15 48 (0.90%) Derivative
16 47 (0.89%) Fixed Income
16 47 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 47 (0.89%) Hedge funds
16 47 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 268 (5.05%) Linux
2 141 (2.66%) Windows
3 44 (0.83%) Unix
4 43 (0.81%) Ubuntu
5 39 (0.73%) Android
6 38 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.45%) VMS
10 12 (0.23%) SUSE
10 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.15%) VME
13 5 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.094%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.019%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.019%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,404 (26.45%) Agile
2 1,229 (23.15%) Roadmaps
3 1,065 (20.06%) TOGAF
4 708 (13.34%) Enterprise Architecture
5 707 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
6 579 (10.91%) Mentoring
7 540 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
8 538 (10.14%) DevOps
9 533 (10.04%) Strategic Roadmap
10 526 (9.91%) Data Modelling
11 496 (9.34%) Data Architecture
12 477 (8.99%) ERP
13 474 (8.93%) Data Management
14 425 (8.01%) Technical Architecture
15 424 (7.99%) Presales
16 415 (7.82%) Migration
17 406 (7.65%) Microservices
18 400 (7.54%) Analytics
19 374 (7.05%) Change Management
20 368 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 290 (5.46%) SQL
2 272 (5.12%) Python
3 249 (4.69%) C#
4 236 (4.45%) Java
5 217 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 90 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 65 (1.22%) C
8 57 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 44 (0.83%) C++
9 44 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 25 (0.47%) Scala
11 22 (0.41%) R
12 18 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 17 (0.32%) Bicep
14 16 (0.30%) Bash
14 16 (0.30%) Ruby
15 14 (0.26%) Go
15 14 (0.26%) VB
16 12 (0.23%) Perl
16 12 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 851 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 679 (12.79%) Degree
3 505 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 224 (4.22%) Azure Certification
5 183 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 180 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 178 (3.35%) AWS Certification
8 164 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 158 (2.98%) CISSP
10 142 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
11 118 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 95 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 88 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 86 (1.62%) CISM
15 78 (1.47%) Master's Degree
16 67 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 64 (1.21%) PMI Certification
18 60 (1.13%) CCSP
19 58 (1.09%) CCNP
20 51 (0.96%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.24%) GDPR
3 94 (1.77%) NIST
4 77 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.07%) QA
6 32 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.57%) COBIT
7 30 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 30 (0.57%) SLA
8 20 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 10 (0.19%) PMO
11 9 (0.17%) NCSC
12 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
12 7 (0.13%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.11%) GRC
13 6 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.075%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.057%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 157 (2.96%) Docker
2 92 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.66%) vSphere
5 33 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 17 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.23%) vCloud
11 10 (0.19%) Firmware
11 10 (0.19%) KVM
12 5 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.038%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) HDFS
15 1 (0.019%) LXC
15 1 (0.019%) OpenAM
15 1 (0.019%) RACF
Systems Management
1 236 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 204 (3.84%) Terraform
3 77 (1.45%) Ansible
4 44 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.72%) Puppet
6 21 (0.40%) OpenView
6 21 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
7 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.30%) CASB
9 11 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.17%) Grafana
10 9 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.11%) Endace
12 6 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.11%) Kibana
13 5 (0.094%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.094%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 996 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 477 (8.99%) Oracle
3 458 (8.63%) SAP
4 328 (6.18%) Google
5 300 (5.65%) Anaplan
5 300 (5.65%) Hyperion
6 135 (2.54%) Cisco
7 125 (2.35%) Databricks
8 115 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 101 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 84 (1.58%) Sparx
11 80 (1.51%) VMware
12 72 (1.36%) Juniper
13 63 (1.19%) Citrix
14 52 (0.98%) Apple
15 50 (0.94%) Adobe
16 43 (0.81%) IBM
17 42 (0.79%) Meraki
18 41 (0.77%) HP
19 30 (0.57%) BMC