Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 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 29 26 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,482 8,292 8,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.49% 8.36% 5.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% 9.14% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,563 3,847 4,481
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 £112,250 £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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £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 18 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 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
England -2 5,331 £80,000 -5.88% 1,077
UK excluding London -5 3,934 £75,000 -3.23% 678
Work from Home +4 2,499 £80,000 -5.88% 570
London +4 1,946 £90,000 -2.70% 483
North of England +22 1,112 £77,500 - 150
South East +1 883 £75,000 -11.76% 203
Midlands +6 659 £75,000 - 104
North West +9 595 £75,000 +1.80% 77
South West -6 504 £75,000 +3.45% 89
Yorkshire +31 453 £79,842 -0.20% 55
West Midlands +24 415 £77,500 +3.33% 65
Scotland -44 371 £75,000 -4.15% 41
East Midlands -14 237 £65,025 -10.31% 38
East of England -30 179 £85,000 +3.03% 60
Wales -18 130 £63,823 +1.72% 25
Northern Ireland +9 107 £95,000 +31.03% 21
North East +12 64 £79,842 -6.07% 18
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,902 (29.34%) Azure
2 1,588 (24.50%) Agile
3 1,583 (24.42%) Social Skills
4 1,401 (21.61%) Finance
5 1,352 (20.86%) Roadmaps
6 1,348 (20.80%) TOGAF
7 1,305 (20.13%) AWS
8 1,144 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 1,011 (15.60%) Security Cleared
10 829 (12.79%) Actionable Insight
11 794 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
12 771 (11.89%) Degree
13 760 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
14 658 (10.15%) SC Cleared
15 656 (10.12%) Mentoring
16 653 (10.07%) DevOps
17 631 (9.73%) Technical Architecture
18 593 (9.15%) Presales
19 588 (9.07%) GCP
20 572 (8.82%) Data Architecture
21 563 (8.69%) Migration
22 559 (8.62%) Oracle
23 551 (8.50%) SAP
23 551 (8.50%) Data Modelling
23 551 (8.50%) Strategic Roadmap
24 500 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
25 496 (7.65%) Data Management
26 484 (7.47%) ERP
27 482 (7.44%) Analytics
28 479 (7.39%) Validation

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 (4.64%) SAS
2 105 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (0.96%) Apache
5 59 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.82%) WebLogic
7 50 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 24 (0.37%) CMS
9 15 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.22%) IIS
11 10 (0.15%) Drupal
12 8 (0.12%) Confluence
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
13 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.11%) WildFly
14 6 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.077%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.062%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 25 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.046%) Revit
7 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 317 (4.89%) SAP ERP
2 134 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 105 (1.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 91 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 38 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.48%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.29%) SAP BPC
8 18 (0.28%) Endur
9 17 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 15 (0.23%) 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%) Oracle Applications
16 7 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,902 (29.34%) Azure
2 1,305 (20.13%) AWS
3 588 (9.07%) GCP
4 411 (6.34%) SaaS
5 354 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
6 345 (5.32%) Power Platform
7 299 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
8 237 (3.66%) PaaS
9 211 (3.26%) IaaS
10 147 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 110 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 107 (1.65%) Snowflake
13 106 (1.64%) PowerApps
14 96 (1.48%) Serverless
15 86 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 64 (0.99%) dbt
17 55 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
17 55 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (0.76%) Entra ID
19 47 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 404 (6.23%) VSAT
2 307 (4.74%) Broadband
3 203 (3.13%) Firewall
4 182 (2.81%) WAN
5 120 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 108 (1.67%) DNS
6 108 (1.67%) Network Security
7 106 (1.64%) VPN
8 88 (1.36%) LAN
9 71 (1.10%) BGP
10 69 (1.06%) SSL
11 67 (1.03%) TCP/IP
12 58 (0.89%) Wireless
13 42 (0.65%) Internet
14 35 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
15 30 (0.46%) MPLS
16 26 (0.40%) VLAN
17 23 (0.35%) DHCP
18 22 (0.34%) SAN
19 21 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
2 213 (3.29%) Data Lake
3 175 (2.70%) Metadata
4 157 (2.42%) Power BI
5 152 (2.34%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 135 (2.08%) SQL Server
8 132 (2.04%) BigQuery
9 114 (1.76%) Looker
10 99 (1.53%) Big Data
11 83 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 68 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
12 68 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
12 68 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
13 54 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
14 52 (0.80%) Oracle Database
15 51 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
15 51 (0.79%) Dremio
16 48 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
17 37 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 72 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 71 (1.10%) Git
3 54 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 37 (0.57%) GitLab
5 26 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.28%) JIRA
6 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.22%) Maven
8 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
10 6 (0.093%) JUnit
11 5 (0.077%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.077%) MLflow
11 5 (0.077%) Subversion
11 5 (0.077%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.062%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.062%) ERwin
12 4 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.062%) Selenium
12 4 (0.062%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,583 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 1,401 (21.61%) Finance
3 500 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
4 449 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 357 (5.51%) Banking
6 344 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 282 (4.35%) Retail
8 247 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
9 198 (3.05%) Marketing
10 156 (2.41%) Law
11 112 (1.73%) Legal
12 105 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 99 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 94 (1.45%) Retail Banking
15 75 (1.16%) Aerospace
16 63 (0.97%) Investment Banking
17 59 (0.91%) Games
18 57 (0.88%) Front Office
19 51 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
20 46 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (4.64%) .NET
2 99 (1.53%) Kafka
3 88 (1.36%) Web Services
4 87 (1.34%) Middleware
5 85 (1.31%) Spring Boot
6 67 (1.03%) HTML
7 65 (1.00%) REST
8 59 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
8 59 (0.91%) React
9 53 (0.82%) JSON
10 52 (0.80%) CSS
10 52 (0.80%) gRPC
10 52 (0.80%) Protocol Buffers
11 51 (0.79%) XML
12 49 (0.76%) NumPy
12 49 (0.76%) Pandas
13 48 (0.74%) SciPy
14 45 (0.69%) .NET Framework
14 45 (0.69%) AngularJS
15 43 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 439 (6.77%) Public Cloud
2 349 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 256 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 221 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 167 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
6 138 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 136 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 129 (1.99%) PKI
9 123 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 82 (1.27%) IoT
11 75 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 64 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (0.97%) PMI
14 60 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 53 (0.82%) Equities
16 52 (0.80%) Derivative
17 51 (0.79%) Fixed Income
17 51 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 51 (0.79%) Hedge funds
17 51 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 315 (4.86%) Linux
2 160 (2.47%) Windows
3 58 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (0.74%) Unix
5 42 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 41 (0.63%) Android
7 37 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.35%) VMS
10 11 (0.17%) SUSE
10 11 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.15%) Solaris
12 8 (0.12%) VME
13 7 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.093%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.077%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.046%) CentOS
17 2 (0.031%) AIX
18 1 (0.015%) HPUX
18 1 (0.015%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,588 (24.50%) Agile
2 1,352 (20.86%) Roadmaps
3 1,348 (20.80%) TOGAF
4 829 (12.79%) Actionable Insight
5 794 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
6 760 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
7 656 (10.12%) Mentoring
8 653 (10.07%) DevOps
9 631 (9.73%) Technical Architecture
10 593 (9.15%) Presales
11 572 (8.82%) Data Architecture
12 563 (8.69%) Migration
13 551 (8.50%) Data Modelling
13 551 (8.50%) Strategic Roadmap
14 496 (7.65%) Data Management
15 484 (7.47%) ERP
16 482 (7.44%) Analytics
17 479 (7.39%) Validation
18 464 (7.16%) Microservices
19 461 (7.11%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 347 (5.35%) SQL
2 337 (5.20%) Python
3 327 (5.04%) Java
4 276 (4.26%) C#
5 239 (3.69%) JavaScript
6 94 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 86 (1.33%) C
8 69 (1.06%) C++
9 62 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 44 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 30 (0.46%) Scala
12 23 (0.35%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.35%) R
13 20 (0.31%) Bicep
13 20 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.26%) Bash
14 17 (0.26%) VB
15 16 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 16 (0.25%) Ruby
16 15 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,011 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 771 (11.89%) Degree
3 658 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 278 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 216 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 208 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 194 (2.99%) CISSP
8 186 (2.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 172 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 164 (2.53%) DV Cleared
11 123 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 115 (1.77%) CISM
13 106 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 99 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 96 (1.48%) Master's Degree
16 78 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 71 (1.10%) CCNP
18 69 (1.06%) CCSP
18 69 (1.06%) PMI Certification
19 61 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 176 (2.72%) GDPR
3 122 (1.88%) QA
4 112 (1.73%) NIST
5 91 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.73%) COBIT
7 36 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.48%) SLA
10 30 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (0.19%) PMO
13 10 (0.15%) NCSC
14 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
15 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 6 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.093%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 188 (2.90%) Docker
2 125 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.51%) vSphere
6 26 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.19%) KVM
11 11 (0.17%) vCloud
12 10 (0.15%) Firmware
13 5 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.046%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.046%) Xen
15 2 (0.031%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.031%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.015%) HDFS
16 1 (0.015%) LXC
16 1 (0.015%) RACF
Systems Management
1 274 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 201 (3.10%) Terraform
3 91 (1.40%) Ansible
4 47 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 44 (0.68%) Puppet
6 32 (0.49%) OpenView
7 24 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 24 (0.37%) Stealthwatch
8 16 (0.25%) CASB
9 15 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.15%) Grafana
10 10 (0.15%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.12%) Kiali
12 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.093%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.093%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.093%) Endace
13 6 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,144 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 559 (8.62%) Oracle
3 551 (8.50%) SAP
4 386 (5.95%) Google
5 300 (4.63%) Anaplan
6 299 (4.61%) Hyperion
7 159 (2.45%) Cisco
8 150 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 133 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 131 (2.02%) Databricks
11 108 (1.67%) Sparx
12 97 (1.50%) VMware
13 83 (1.28%) Juniper
14 66 (1.02%) IBM
15 63 (0.97%) Citrix
16 55 (0.85%) Apple
17 54 (0.83%) Adobe
18 50 (0.77%) HP
19 46 (0.71%) Meraki
20 40 (0.62%) BMC