Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 26 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,435 8,424 8,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.48% 8.31% 5.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% 9.08% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,551 3,946 4,491
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,180 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £71,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
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 £80,627 £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%

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 12 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 12 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 -1 5,301 £80,000 -5.88% 957
UK excluding London -6 3,890 £75,000 -3.23% 561
Work from Home +3 2,486 £80,000 -5.88% 545
London +3 1,942 £90,000 -2.35% 416
North of England +23 1,091 £78,126 +0.81% 150
South East +1 874 £75,000 -11.76% 135
Midlands +4 641 £75,000 - 88
North West +7 581 £75,000 +1.80% 85
South West -8 521 £75,000 +3.45% 77
Yorkshire +27 449 £79,887 -0.14% 46
West Midlands +29 403 £77,500 +3.33% 44
Scotland -46 369 £75,400 -3.64% 40
East Midlands -18 231 £65,000 -10.34% 43
East of England -26 177 £82,500 -2.94% 45
Wales -18 125 £65,000 +3.60% 21
Northern Ireland +9 101 £95,000 +31.03% 17
North East +12 61 £79,842 -6.07% 19
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,868 (29.03%) Azure
2 1,578 (24.52%) Agile
3 1,576 (24.49%) Social Skills
4 1,417 (22.02%) Finance
5 1,383 (21.49%) Roadmaps
6 1,347 (20.93%) TOGAF
7 1,283 (19.94%) AWS
8 1,141 (17.73%) Microsoft
9 1,036 (16.10%) Security Cleared
10 830 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
11 794 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
12 766 (11.90%) Degree
13 753 (11.70%) Enterprise Architecture
14 665 (10.33%) SC Cleared
15 655 (10.18%) Mentoring
16 640 (9.95%) Technical Architecture
17 628 (9.76%) DevOps
18 584 (9.08%) GCP
19 579 (9.00%) Data Architecture
20 571 (8.87%) Presales
21 562 (8.73%) Data Modelling
22 559 (8.69%) Oracle
23 556 (8.64%) Strategic Roadmap
24 548 (8.52%) SAP
25 545 (8.47%) Migration
26 512 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
27 494 (7.68%) Data Management
28 488 (7.58%) ERP
29 480 (7.46%) Analytics
30 478 (7.43%) Microservices

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 (4.68%) SAS
2 102 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 60 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 58 (0.90%) Apache
5 56 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.82%) WebLogic
7 51 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.36%) CMS
9 15 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.22%) IIS
11 10 (0.16%) Drupal
12 7 (0.11%) Confluence
12 7 (0.11%) JBoss
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.11%) WildFly
13 5 (0.078%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.062%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.047%) Revit
7 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 318 (4.94%) SAP ERP
2 133 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 108 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 90 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 39 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.48%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.30%) SAP BPC
8 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.25%) Endur
9 16 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 13 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
12 12 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 9 (0.14%) SAP SD
14 9 (0.14%) SAP WM
15 8 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 7 (0.11%) Elite 3E
16 7 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,868 (29.03%) Azure
2 1,283 (19.94%) AWS
3 584 (9.08%) GCP
4 420 (6.53%) SaaS
5 358 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 342 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 295 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
8 246 (3.82%) PaaS
9 220 (3.42%) IaaS
10 150 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 109 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
12 105 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 105 (1.63%) Snowflake
13 96 (1.49%) Serverless
14 85 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 60 (0.93%) dbt
16 57 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
19 49 (0.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 404 (6.28%) VSAT
2 306 (4.76%) Broadband
3 201 (3.12%) Firewall
4 177 (2.75%) WAN
5 123 (1.91%) DNS
6 116 (1.80%) SD-WAN
7 108 (1.68%) VPN
8 105 (1.63%) Network Security
9 88 (1.37%) LAN
10 85 (1.32%) TCP/IP
11 71 (1.10%) BGP
12 69 (1.07%) SSL
13 56 (0.87%) Wireless
14 41 (0.64%) Internet
15 39 (0.61%) DHCP
16 33 (0.51%) HTTP
17 32 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
18 30 (0.47%) MPLS
19 27 (0.42%) VLAN
20 21 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
2 218 (3.39%) Data Lake
3 178 (2.77%) Metadata
4 154 (2.39%) Power BI
5 148 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 133 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 132 (2.05%) BigQuery
9 114 (1.77%) Looker
10 101 (1.57%) Big Data
11 81 (1.26%) RDBMS
12 68 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
13 67 (1.04%) Apache Ignite
14 54 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 50 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (0.73%) Apache Arrow
16 47 (0.73%) Dremio
17 46 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
17 46 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
18 41 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (1.10%) Git
2 70 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 53 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 35 (0.54%) GitLab
5 26 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.26%) JIRA
8 14 (0.22%) Maven
9 10 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.093%) JUnit
12 5 (0.078%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.078%) ERwin
12 5 (0.078%) MLflow
12 5 (0.078%) Subversion
12 5 (0.078%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.062%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.062%) Selenium
13 4 (0.062%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,576 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 1,417 (22.02%) Finance
3 512 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
4 458 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 358 (5.56%) Banking
6 344 (5.35%) Public Sector
7 274 (4.26%) Retail
8 245 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
9 195 (3.03%) Marketing
10 159 (2.47%) Law
11 115 (1.79%) Legal
12 104 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 101 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 90 (1.40%) Retail Banking
15 74 (1.15%) Aerospace
16 59 (0.92%) Investment Banking
17 58 (0.90%) Games
18 53 (0.82%) Front Office
19 49 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
20 45 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (4.77%) .NET
2 102 (1.59%) Kafka
3 88 (1.37%) Web Services
4 87 (1.35%) HTML
4 87 (1.35%) Spring Boot
5 84 (1.31%) Middleware
6 66 (1.03%) REST
7 59 (0.92%) OpenID
8 58 (0.90%) React
9 57 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
10 56 (0.87%) JSON
11 53 (0.82%) XML
12 52 (0.81%) CSS
13 49 (0.76%) SAML
14 48 (0.75%) gRPC
14 48 (0.75%) Protocol Buffers
15 46 (0.71%) .NET Framework
16 45 (0.70%) NumPy
16 45 (0.70%) Pandas
17 44 (0.68%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 438 (6.81%) Public Cloud
2 357 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 256 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 219 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 168 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 138 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.02%) PKI
8 99 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 80 (1.24%) IoT
10 74 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 64 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 63 (0.98%) PMI
13 59 (0.92%) Security Posture
14 53 (0.82%) Cyberattack
15 51 (0.79%) Private Cloud
16 49 (0.76%) Equities
17 48 (0.75%) Derivative
18 47 (0.73%) Fixed Income
18 47 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 312 (4.85%) Linux
2 158 (2.46%) Windows
3 58 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (0.79%) Unix
5 42 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 39 (0.61%) Android
7 37 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.36%) VMS
10 12 (0.19%) SUSE
10 12 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.14%) Solaris
12 8 (0.12%) VME
13 6 (0.093%) Mesosphere
14 5 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.078%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.047%) CentOS
16 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 1 (0.016%) HPUX
17 1 (0.016%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,578 (24.52%) Agile
2 1,383 (21.49%) Roadmaps
3 1,347 (20.93%) TOGAF
4 830 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
5 794 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
6 753 (11.70%) Enterprise Architecture
7 655 (10.18%) Mentoring
8 640 (9.95%) Technical Architecture
9 628 (9.76%) DevOps
10 579 (9.00%) Data Architecture
11 571 (8.87%) Presales
12 562 (8.73%) Data Modelling
13 556 (8.64%) Strategic Roadmap
14 545 (8.47%) Migration
15 494 (7.68%) Data Management
16 488 (7.58%) ERP
17 480 (7.46%) Analytics
18 478 (7.43%) Microservices
18 478 (7.43%) Validation
19 462 (7.18%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 348 (5.41%) SQL
2 331 (5.14%) Python
3 319 (4.96%) Java
4 277 (4.30%) C#
5 235 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 96 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 85 (1.32%) C
8 67 (1.04%) C++
9 58 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 44 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 30 (0.47%) Scala
12 23 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.36%) R
13 20 (0.31%) Bicep
14 18 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.26%) Bash
16 16 (0.25%) Go
16 16 (0.25%) Ruby
17 15 (0.23%) VB
18 13 (0.20%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,036 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 766 (11.90%) Degree
3 665 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 278 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 227 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 209 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 195 (3.03%) CISSP
8 183 (2.84%) DV Cleared
9 177 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 166 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
11 126 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 122 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 116 (1.80%) CISM
14 102 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 97 (1.51%) Master's Degree
16 77 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 69 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 68 (1.06%) CCSP
19 66 (1.03%) CCNP
20 57 (0.89%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 177 (2.75%) GDPR
3 127 (1.97%) QA
4 111 (1.72%) NIST
5 94 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.73%) COBIT
7 36 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (0.47%) SLA
10 21 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.17%) PMO
12 9 (0.14%) NCSC
13 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.093%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 186 (2.89%) Docker
2 122 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.54%) vSphere
6 26 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.19%) KVM
10 12 (0.19%) vCloud
11 10 (0.16%) Firmware
12 5 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.047%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.047%) Xen
14 2 (0.031%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.031%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.016%) HDFS
15 1 (0.016%) LXC
15 1 (0.016%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 274 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 219 (3.40%) Terraform
3 90 (1.40%) Ansible
4 46 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 44 (0.68%) Puppet
6 32 (0.50%) OpenView
7 23 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.33%) Stealthwatch
9 16 (0.25%) CASB
10 15 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.16%) Grafana
11 10 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.12%) Kiali
13 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.093%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.093%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.093%) Endace
14 6 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,141 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 559 (8.69%) Oracle
3 548 (8.52%) SAP
4 388 (6.03%) Google
5 300 (4.66%) Anaplan
5 300 (4.66%) Hyperion
6 154 (2.39%) Cisco
7 152 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 133 (2.07%) Databricks
9 123 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.72%) Sparx
11 99 (1.54%) VMware
12 82 (1.27%) Juniper
13 66 (1.03%) Citrix
13 66 (1.03%) IBM
14 52 (0.81%) Apple
14 52 (0.81%) HP
15 50 (0.78%) Adobe
16 43 (0.67%) Meraki
17 41 (0.64%) BMC