Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 31 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,934 4,358 3,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.49% 7.39% 4.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.79% 8.29% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,105 1,546 1,669
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,418
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.58%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +22 1,112 £77,500 - 155
South East +1 883 £75,000 -11.76% 208
Midlands +6 659 £75,000 - 108
North West +9 595 £75,000 +1.80% 79
South West -6 504 £75,000 +3.45% 92
Yorkshire +31 453 £79,842 -0.20% 57
West Midlands +24 415 £77,500 +3.33% 66
Scotland -44 371 £75,000 -4.15% 42
East Midlands -14 237 £65,025 -10.31% 41
East of England -30 179 £85,000 +3.03% 62
Wales -18 130 £63,823 +1.72% 26
Northern Ireland +9 107 £95,000 +31.03% 22
North East +12 64 £79,842 -6.07% 19
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,048 (26.64%) Azure
2 864 (21.96%) TOGAF
3 858 (21.81%) Agile
4 797 (20.26%) AWS
5 788 (20.03%) Social Skills
6 727 (18.48%) Security Cleared
7 717 (18.23%) Roadmaps
8 689 (17.51%) Actionable Insight
9 639 (16.24%) Microsoft
10 599 (15.23%) Finance
11 523 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 478 (12.15%) Technical Architecture
13 465 (11.82%) Degree
14 444 (11.29%) SC Cleared
15 419 (10.65%) Mentoring
16 400 (10.17%) Validation
17 387 (9.84%) Requirements Management
18 383 (9.74%) Network Management
19 375 (9.53%) DevOps
20 373 (9.48%) Network Architecture
21 368 (9.35%) Presales
21 368 (9.35%) Model Validation
22 360 (9.15%) Enterprise Architecture
23 358 (9.10%) Data Architecture
24 344 (8.74%) VSAT
25 330 (8.39%) Migration
26 321 (8.16%) Public Cloud
27 318 (8.08%) GCP
28 307 (7.80%) Microservices
28 307 (7.80%) Data Modelling

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 77 (1.96%) SAS
2 53 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.02%) WebLogic
4 19 (0.48%) CMS
5 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.15%) Apache
7 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.13%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.076%) Confluence
10 3 (0.076%) WordPress
11 2 (0.051%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.051%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.025%) Appian
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.46%) Simulink
3 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.051%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.051%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.025%) Revit
Business Applications
1 86 (2.19%) SAP ERP
2 84 (2.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 36 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 35 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
8 9 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.18%) SAP MM
9 7 (0.18%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.15%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.13%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.10%) SAP APO
13 3 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
14 2 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
14 2 (0.051%) SAP SCM
15 1 (0.025%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (26.64%) Azure
2 797 (20.26%) AWS
3 318 (8.08%) GCP
4 256 (6.51%) SaaS
5 223 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
6 195 (4.96%) Power Platform
7 147 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
8 107 (2.72%) PaaS
9 97 (2.47%) IaaS
10 87 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (1.47%) Serverless
13 54 (1.37%) PowerApps
14 49 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (1.09%) Snowflake
16 41 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (0.74%) Power Automate
18 27 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
19 25 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
20 23 (0.58%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 344 (8.74%) VSAT
2 118 (3.00%) WAN
3 94 (2.39%) Firewall
4 93 (2.36%) SD-WAN
5 82 (2.08%) Broadband
6 76 (1.93%) Network Security
7 74 (1.88%) DNS
8 61 (1.55%) TCP/IP
9 56 (1.42%) BGP
10 53 (1.35%) SSL
11 49 (1.25%) VPN
12 35 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
13 29 (0.74%) Wireless
14 26 (0.66%) LAN
15 16 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (0.36%) Internet
16 14 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
16 14 (0.36%) VLAN
17 12 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (2.77%) BigQuery
3 102 (2.59%) NoSQL
4 98 (2.49%) Looker
5 88 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 86 (2.19%) Metadata
7 85 (2.16%) Power BI
8 81 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 58 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 55 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (1.40%) RDBMS
11 52 (1.32%) Big Data
12 49 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
13 41 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 24 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
15 22 (0.56%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.48%) DB2
17 18 (0.46%) Data Vault
18 16 (0.41%) GIS
19 12 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (1.17%) Visual Studio
2 43 (1.09%) Git
3 25 (0.64%) GitLab
4 21 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 20 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.18%) JIRA
7 7 (0.18%) Maven
8 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.076%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.076%) JUnit
9 3 (0.076%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.076%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.051%) CANoe
10 2 (0.051%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.051%) ERwin
10 2 (0.051%) MLflow
10 2 (0.051%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.025%) MSI
General
1 788 (20.03%) Social Skills
2 599 (15.23%) Finance
3 286 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 187 (4.75%) Public Sector
6 157 (3.99%) Retail
7 144 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
8 123 (3.13%) Banking
9 110 (2.80%) Marketing
10 108 (2.75%) Law
11 89 (2.26%) Legal
12 75 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 69 (1.75%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 38 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (0.84%) Games
17 27 (0.69%) Automotive
18 26 (0.66%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.61%) Military
20 21 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.55%) .NET
2 62 (1.58%) Spring Boot
3 52 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
4 46 (1.17%) Kafka
5 37 (0.94%) OpenID
6 36 (0.92%) REST
6 36 (0.92%) Web Services
7 35 (0.89%) OAuth
8 34 (0.86%) JSON
9 32 (0.81%) Middleware
9 32 (0.81%) React
10 31 (0.79%) .NET Framework
10 31 (0.79%) Node.js
11 28 (0.71%) SAML
12 27 (0.69%) YAML
13 22 (0.56%) RESTful
14 21 (0.53%) AngularJS
14 21 (0.53%) Spring
14 21 (0.53%) XML
15 20 (0.51%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 321 (8.16%) Public Cloud
2 265 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 143 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 130 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 122 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 87 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 86 (2.19%) PKI
8 85 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 63 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 58 (1.47%) IoT
11 48 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (0.99%) Security Posture
13 37 (0.94%) PMI
14 34 (0.86%) Mobile App
14 34 (0.86%) Private Cloud
15 31 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 28 (0.71%) Credit Risk
17 23 (0.58%) Blockchain
18 21 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
19 20 (0.51%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 180 (4.58%) Linux
2 80 (2.03%) Windows
3 41 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (0.89%) Unix
5 21 (0.53%) Android
6 18 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.20%) Solaris
8 8 (0.20%) VME
9 7 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.15%) Mesosphere
11 5 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.051%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) HPUX
13 1 (0.025%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (21.96%) TOGAF
2 858 (21.81%) Agile
3 717 (18.23%) Roadmaps
4 689 (17.51%) Actionable Insight
5 523 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
6 478 (12.15%) Technical Architecture
7 419 (10.65%) Mentoring
8 400 (10.17%) Validation
9 387 (9.84%) Requirements Management
10 383 (9.74%) Network Management
11 375 (9.53%) DevOps
12 373 (9.48%) Network Architecture
13 368 (9.35%) Model Validation
13 368 (9.35%) Presales
14 360 (9.15%) Enterprise Architecture
15 358 (9.10%) Data Architecture
16 330 (8.39%) Migration
17 307 (7.80%) Data Modelling
17 307 (7.80%) Microservices
18 301 (7.65%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 189 (4.80%) SQL
2 172 (4.37%) Python
3 147 (3.74%) C#
3 147 (3.74%) Java
4 98 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 54 (1.37%) C++
6 53 (1.35%) C
7 43 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 41 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 23 (0.58%) MATLAB
10 16 (0.41%) Kotlin
11 14 (0.36%) Fortran
12 12 (0.31%) Ruby
13 11 (0.28%) R
13 11 (0.28%) Scala
14 10 (0.25%) Go
15 8 (0.20%) COBOL
15 8 (0.20%) Embedded C
15 8 (0.20%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 7 (0.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 727 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 465 (11.82%) Degree
3 444 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 144 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 122 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
5 122 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 119 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 116 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 99 (2.52%) CISSP
9 88 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 76 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 74 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 65 (1.65%) CISM
13 59 (1.50%) CCNP
14 52 (1.32%) CCNA
15 48 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 44 (1.12%) CCSP
17 41 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
18 40 (1.02%) PMI Certification
19 37 (0.94%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 149 (3.79%) GDPR
3 77 (1.96%) NIST
4 51 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (1.02%) QA
6 32 (0.81%) COBIT
7 23 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (0.51%) SLA
10 19 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.18%) ISO 13485
11 7 (0.18%) ISO 26262
12 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.10%) GRC
13 4 (0.10%) NCSC
13 4 (0.10%) SEPA
14 3 (0.076%) HMG Infosec
14 3 (0.076%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.076%) PMO
System Software
1 100 (2.54%) Docker
2 38 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.58%) Active Directory
5 21 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
7 13 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.31%) vSphere
9 11 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.051%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.051%) KVM
12 2 (0.051%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.051%) Xen
13 1 (0.025%) HDFS
13 1 (0.025%) RACF
Systems Management
1 167 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.31%) Terraform
3 39 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (0.74%) OpenView
5 28 (0.71%) Ansible
6 25 (0.64%) Puppet
7 24 (0.61%) Stealthwatch
8 15 (0.38%) CASB
9 9 (0.23%) Grafana
9 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.15%) Endace
10 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 5 (0.13%) Suricata
11 5 (0.13%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.076%) MOM
12 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 639 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.69%) Google
3 184 (4.68%) Oracle
4 161 (4.09%) SAP
5 117 (2.97%) Cisco
6 84 (2.14%) Sparx
7 75 (1.91%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.91%) Hyperion
8 68 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 53 (1.35%) Apple
9 53 (1.35%) Databricks
10 50 (1.27%) VMware
11 49 (1.25%) Juniper
12 47 (1.19%) Adobe
13 45 (1.14%) Meraki
14 40 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 30 (0.76%) HP
16 29 (0.74%) BMC
16 29 (0.74%) Remedy
17 27 (0.69%) IBM