Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 30 73
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 382 422 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.36% 7.40% 4.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.67% 8.25% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 138 153 171
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £83,250 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,742 5,115 7,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.64% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,606 3,071 4,135
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,080 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Berkshire -10 213 £75,000 - 32
Buckinghamshire -7 119 £72,500 -12.12% 20
Oxfordshire +7 50 £80,000 -15.79% 7
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 110 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 102 (26.70%) Degree
3 96 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (23.04%) Microsoft
4 88 (23.04%) Azure
5 87 (22.77%) Security Cleared
6 75 (19.63%) Mentoring
7 73 (19.11%) Agile
8 68 (17.80%) AWS
9 63 (16.49%) TOGAF
9 63 (16.49%) Presales
10 57 (14.92%) Actionable Insight
11 51 (13.35%) Line Management
12 46 (12.04%) SC Cleared
12 46 (12.04%) Coaching
13 45 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
14 44 (11.52%) Technical Architecture
15 41 (10.73%) Network Management
16 40 (10.47%) Prototyping
16 40 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 38 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
18 36 (9.42%) Finance
19 35 (9.16%) Data Modelling
19 35 (9.16%) Network Architecture
20 34 (8.90%) Physics
21 33 (8.64%) Business Development
21 33 (8.64%) Requirements Management
21 33 (8.64%) VSAT
21 33 (8.64%) WAN
21 33 (8.64%) Validation

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.31%) Drupal
4 4 (1.05%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.79%) WordPress
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.05%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (23.04%) Azure
2 68 (17.80%) AWS
3 27 (7.07%) GCP
4 26 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.88%) SaaS
7 9 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.36%) PowerApps
7 9 (2.36%) Serverless
8 7 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.31%) OCI
11 4 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.79%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.52%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.64%) VSAT
1 33 (8.64%) WAN
2 31 (8.12%) SD-WAN
3 22 (5.76%) Firewall
4 15 (3.93%) Wireless
5 11 (2.88%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.36%) Network Security
7 7 (1.83%) Intranet
8 6 (1.57%) VPN
9 5 (1.31%) Internet
9 5 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.31%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.05%) BGP
10 4 (1.05%) DNS
10 4 (1.05%) SSL
11 3 (0.79%) LAN
12 1 (0.26%) DMZ
12 1 (0.26%) MPLS
12 1 (0.26%) VLAN
12 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.19%) BigQuery
2 16 (4.19%) Looker
3 10 (2.62%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (1.83%) Power BI
5 6 (1.57%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.05%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.79%) OLAP
8 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.79%) Tableau
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 17 (4.45%) GitLab
1 17 (4.45%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.26%) JIRA
General
1 110 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 45 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.42%) Finance
5 23 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.93%) Retail
7 11 (2.88%) Marketing
8 10 (2.62%) Billing
8 10 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.36%) Legal
10 8 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.57%) Automotive
13 3 (0.79%) Law
13 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.26%) Banking
15 1 (0.26%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.57%) Web Services
2 4 (1.05%) .NET
2 4 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.05%) REST
2 4 (1.05%) SOAP
2 4 (1.05%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.52%) Kafka
3 2 (0.52%) React
4 1 (0.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.26%) ADO
4 1 (0.26%) EDI
4 1 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.81%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.93%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.40%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.83%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.83%) PKI
7 7 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.52%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.26%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.26%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.26%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.26%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.31%) Kali Linux
1 5 (1.31%) Linux
2 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (19.63%) Mentoring
3 73 (19.11%) Agile
4 63 (16.49%) Presales
4 63 (16.49%) TOGAF
5 57 (14.92%) Actionable Insight
6 51 (13.35%) Line Management
7 46 (12.04%) Coaching
8 44 (11.52%) Technical Architecture
9 41 (10.73%) Network Management
10 40 (10.47%) Prototyping
11 38 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (9.16%) Data Modelling
12 35 (9.16%) Network Architecture
13 34 (8.90%) Physics
14 33 (8.64%) Business Development
14 33 (8.64%) Model Validation
14 33 (8.64%) Requirements Management
14 33 (8.64%) Validation
15 32 (8.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.07%) Python
1 27 (7.07%) SQL
2 21 (5.50%) C#
3 17 (4.45%) Fortran
4 13 (3.40%) C++
5 6 (1.57%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.05%) Scala
7 3 (0.79%) Java
8 2 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (26.70%) Degree
2 87 (22.77%) Security Cleared
3 46 (12.04%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.97%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.93%) CCNA
7 15 (3.93%) CCNP
8 12 (3.14%) CISSP
8 12 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.62%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.83%) CCSK
10 7 (1.83%) CCSP
10 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.26%) ISACA
13 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.54%) GDPR
2 24 (6.28%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.93%) NIST
4 12 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.31%) COBIT
6 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (2.62%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (1.31%) CASB
2 5 (1.31%) Suricata
3 3 (0.79%) OpenView
4 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.52%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.85%) Cisco
3 23 (6.02%) Google
4 17 (4.45%) Adobe
4 17 (4.45%) Apple
5 15 (3.93%) Juniper
5 15 (3.93%) Meraki
6 12 (3.14%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.62%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.62%) Oracle
9 6 (1.57%) Databricks
10 5 (1.31%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.31%) Sparx
10 5 (1.31%) Splunk
11 3 (0.79%) BMC
11 3 (0.79%) HP
11 3 (0.79%) Remedy
11 3 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.52%) VMware