Architect/ Architectural Designer: 2024

Less Than 5 Years

The following results are an indication of the UK’s highest mean average ranking salaries in architecture, representing less than 5 years of experience under the title Architect/ Architectural Designer. Submissions are requested as pro rata calculations, based on a 40h working week contract.

Data collection period for this survey: 15th August – 15th October 2024

Survey submissions are now closed, last updated: 15th November 2024

Survey Results: 2024

Architect/ Architectural Designer: Less Than 5 Years

Rank	Practice Name	Location	Annual Salary* (nearest ’00)	Unpaid Overtime (hrs per week)	Employee Benefits (click here)
1	Hopkins Architects	Greater London	54,500	2
2	TODD Architects	Greater London	53,800	4
3	KPF	Greater London	52,000	5
3	Mace	Greater London	52,000	5
3	Zed Pods	Greater London	52,000	0
6	AL_A	Greater London	51,500	0
7	Corstorphine & Wright	Greater London	50,200	5
8	Adam Richards Architects	Greater London	50,000	1
8	ADE Architecture	Greater London	50,000	0
8	Stanton Williams	Greater London	50,000	2
11	Make Architects	Greater London	48,500	3
12	ACME	Greater London	48,000	3
12	Buckley Gray Yeoman	Greater London	48,000	5
12	Heritage Architecture Ltd	Greater London	48,000	0
15	Sergison Bates architects	Greater London	47,000	10
16	BDP Pattern	Greater London	46,400	4
16	HawkinsBrown	Greater London	46,400	7
18	Allford Hall Monaghan Morris	Greater London	46,300	3
19	Haworth Tompkins	Greater London	46,000	2
20	Foster + Partners	Greater London	45,700	7
21	Built Works	Greater London	45,600	0
22	Ridge and Partners	Oxfordshire	45,500	0
23	ColladoCollins	Greater London	45,300	2
24	Medical Architecture	Greater London	45,000	3
24	Waugh Thistleton Architects	Greater London	45,000	1
24	Woods Bagot	Greater London	45,000	9
27	Arup	Greater London	44,800	8
27	Frank Reynolds Architects	Greater London	44,800	2
29	*Henley Halebrown	Greater London	44,600	–
29	Morris+Company	Greater London	44,600	0
29	Ryder Architecture	Greater London	44,600	3
32	HTA Design	Midlothian	44,500	10
32	Mikhail Riches	Greater London	44,500	0
32	Populous	Greater London	44,500	11
32	Vabel	Greater London	44,500	2
36	Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios	Greater London	44,400	3
37	Purcell	Greater London	44,400	3
38	DSDHA	Greater London	44,000	2
38	HTA Design	Greater London	44,000	3
38	Studio Egret West	Greater London	44,000	5
41	Caruso St John Architects	Greater London	43,800	7
41	dRMM	Greater London	43,800	2
43	Maccreanor Lavington	Greater London	43,500	1
44	Grimshaw	Greater London	43,300	6
45	Piercy&Company	Greater London	43,200	1
46	Stanley Bragg Architects	Essex	43,100	4
47	ADAM Architecture	Greater London	43,000	10
47	Asif Khan	Greater London	43,000	0
47	Wright & Wright Architects	Greater London	43,000	4
50	Allies and Morrison	Greater London	42,900	4
51	Footprint Architects	Dorset	42,700	3
52	Transition by Design	Oxfordshire	42,200	0
53	Adamson Associates	Greater London	42,000	5
53	Giles Quarme Architects	Greater London	42,000	15
53	GRID Architects	Greater London	42,000	1
53	Holland Harvey	Greater London	42,000	0
53	Pascall+Watson	Greater London	42,000	0
53	SimpsonHaugh	Greater Manchester	42,000	0
53	Thomas Alexander Design	Greater London	42,000	4
53	White Arkitekter	Greater London	42,000	0
61	KTA Architects	Devon	41,800	0
62	Owers Warwick Architects	Cambridgeshire	41,500	3
62	rg+p	Greater London	41,500	4
62	RM_A	Greater London	41,500	1
65	Zaha Hadid Architects	Greater London	41,200	7
66	Randell Design Group	West Sussex	41,100	0
67	Bond Bryan	West Midlands	41,000	3
67	*dMFK Architects	Greater London	41,000	–
67	Haverstock	Greater London	41,000	3
67	JRA	Greater London	40,500	2
71	Sheppard Robson	Greater London	40,100	3
72	Coffey Architects	Greater London	40,000	*1
72	HKR Architects	Greater London	40,000	20
72	LOM	Greater London	40,000	0
72	Mae	Greater London	40,000	2
72	McGuinness Architects	Greater London	40,000	0
72	PCH Associates	Suffolk	40,000	0
72	PLP Architecture	Greater London	40,000	0
72	shedkm	Merseyside	40,000	0
72	WATG	Greater London	40,000	3
81	RCKa	Greater London	39,700	3
82	Found Associates	Greater London	39,500	0
82	Keppie Design	Glasgow City	39,500	0
82	Levitt Bernstein	Greater London	39,500	1
85	apt	Greater London	39,400	1
86	Arcadis	Greater Manchester	39,300	1
87	Matthew Allchurch Architects	Greater London	38,900	2
88	Johanna Molineus Architects	Greater London	38,500	0
88	Office S&M Architects	Greater London	38,500	0
88	Pollard Thomas Edwards	Greater London	38,500	3
88	tp bennett	Greater London	38,500	6
88	Whittam Cox Architects	Greater London	38,500	1
88	Willmore Iles Architects	Somerset	38,500	0
94	Maber Architects	Nottinghamshire	38,200	2
95	Bennetts Associates	Greater London	38,000	0
95	Buckley Gray Yeoman	Somerset	38,000	2
95	Corstorphine & Wright	West Midlands	38,000	1
95	Craftworks	Greater London	38,000	2
95	Holden Ford	Greater London	38,000	0
95	Ridge and Partners	Berkshire	38,000	8
95	Stride Treglown	Gloucestershire	38,000	2
102	ADP	Greater London	37,800	3
103	Assael Architecture	Greater London	37,500	10
103	lapd Architects	Oxfordshire	37,500	0
103	Maber Architects	West Midlands	37,500	1
106	BPTW	Greater London	37,400	2
107	BDP	Somerset	37,300	0
108	Jonathan Tuckey Design	Greater London	37,000	2
108	Mott Macdonald	Greater Manchester	37,000	0
108	Richard Parr Associates	Gloucestershire	37,000	0
111	Robert Potter and Partners	Glasgow City	36,700	0
112	CJCT Studios	West Yorkshire	36,600	0
113	ADP	Oxfordshire	36,500	0
113	AtkinsRealis	Glasgow City	36,500	1
113	Project London	Greater London	36,500	0
113	Stride Treglown	Greater Manchester	36,500	0
113	WT Architecture	West Lothian	36,500	2
118	Fathom Architects	Greater London	36,300	6
119	10 Design	City of Edinburgh	36,000	0
119	EPR Architects	Greater London	36,000	4
119	HTA Design	City of Edinburgh	36,000	3
119	Just H Architects	Greater Manchester	36,000	3
119	reForm Architects	Greater London	36,000	0
119	RPP Architects	Antrim	36,000	0
125	BDP	West Midlands	35,500	3
125	Enjoy Design	West Yorkshire	35,500	2
127	24/Three Consultants	Nottinghamshire	35,000	0
127	Architype	City of Edinburgh	35,000	6
127	Howells	West Midlands	35,000	5
127	IID Architects	Greater London	35,000	3
127	Jan Kattein Architects	Greater London	35,000	3
127	Jmarchitects	Greater Manchester	35,000	0
127	KPP Architects	West Yorkshire	35,000	7
127	STUDIO/Gather	Cornwall	35,000	0
127	Weston Williamson + Partners	Greater London	35,000	5
136	Ryder Architecture	Glasgow City	34,500	5
137	Accord Architecture	Hampshire	34,000	0
137	Howard Fairbairn MKH	Surrey	34,000	0
137	Jmarchitects	City of Edinburgh	34,000	4
140	Cartwright Pickard	Greater Manchester	33,800	5
141	John Gilbert Architects	Glasgow City	33,700	1
142	PagePark	Glasgow City	33,600	3
143	Convery Prenty Shields Architects	Glasgow City	33,500	1
144	HLM Architects	Glasgow City	33,000	5
144	Reiach and Hall Architects	City of Edinburgh	33,000	2
146	Stephen George + Partners	Leicestershire	32,600	7
147	Levitt Bernstein	Greater Manchester	32,500	0
148	Broadway Malyan	West Midlands	32,000	0
148	HLM Architects	Glamorgan	32,000	0
150	Seven Architecture	Greater Manchester	31,500	4
151	Jmarchitects	Glasgow City	31,000	0
152	Benoy	Greater London	30,000	5
152	Kaner Olette Architects	Kent	30,000	2
152	Oberlanders Architects	City of Edinburgh	30,000	1
–	LIVING WAGE	LDN	28,808	[40 hr week]	RIBA Required
155	Stallan-Brand	Glasgow City	28,800	1
156	Smith Scott Mullan Associates	City of Edinburgh	27,000	1
–	LIVING WAGE	UK	26,208	[40 hr week]	RIBA Required
	*data submitted by practice

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