Original research

The Architecture Exit Report

Name: The Architecture Exit Report — Where Architects Actually Go
Creator: Out of Architecture

Where architects, engineers, and designers actually go after practice — measured from every role posted to our job board since 2018. Most career advice for architects is anecdote. This is the hiring record.

Data as of August 7, 2026 · 2,157 listings · 1,213 employers

Remote work has been quietly disappearing

Remote-eligible roles peaked at 38% in 2022 and fell to 16% by 2025. If you left practice expecting remote work to stay on the table, the market moved underneath you.

2021: 20%; 20 of 100
2022: 38%; 81 of 213
2023: 25%; 63 of 257
2024: 20%; 122 of 599
2025: 16%; 102 of 634

Listings per year

2021100
2022213
2023257
2024599
2025634

2026 is still in progress — 332 listings so far, excluded from the year-on-year figures above.

What architects get hired to do

Every listing sorted by discipline. Treat these as floors, not totals: 87% of titles are specific enough to classify, and the rest count only toward the archive total.

Discipline	Listings	Open now
Design (unspecialised)	274	21
Architecture	197	3
Design Leadership	157	6
Brand & Graphic Design	151	9
Experiential & Environmental	145	17
Construction & Delivery	136	7
3D & Visualization	134	17
Store & Retail Design	108	11
UX & Digital Product Design	105	16
Project & Program Management	104	5
BIM & Computational Design	70	3
Strategy & Research	66	3
Sales & Customer Success	56	4
Marketing & Communications	41	3
Industrial & Product Design	37	15
Interior Design	24	2
Fabrication & Making	23	4
Sustainability	22	1

Where the roles are

Method

Every figure is computed directly from the 2,157 roles posted to the Out of Architecture job board between 2018 and today, and updates automatically as roles are added or close. Disciplines are assigned from job titles, so a listing whose title carries no discipline signal is counted in the totals but not in any discipline. Years still accruing listings are reported separately. Percentages cover completed years only.

158 of these roles are open right now

The same board this report is built from, filtered to roles still accepting applications.

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