RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 published: The annual RIBA Business Benchmarking survey provides vital business knowledge about how your practice compares to others.
RIBA writes:
…. RIBA’s annual Business Benchmarking report tracks the business of architecture among RIBA Chartered Practices. Key trends revealed in the 2025 RIBA Business Benchmarking report include:
- Total revenue generated by RIBA Chartered Practices grew to reach an estimated £5 billion.
- RIBA Chartered Practice revenue from international work grew by over £500 million.
- Profitability, long stagnant, has finally improved this year.
- Average pay continues to rise for most categories of staff, but only modestly.
RIBA Chartered Practices can also download the full report and explore the data.
Overview
The annual RIBA Business Benchmarking full report provides vital business knowledge about how your practice compares to others, across a broad range of business metrics. It allows you to identify areas of strength, weakness and opportunity, and make evidence-based business decisions. The full report offers an in-depth evaluation of how well your practice is performing in the following areas:
- Staff salaries
- Practice revenue, expenditure and profit
- Charge out rates and billable hours
- Work types and sectors
- Business policies
The findings also provide robust data about the business of architecture, informing and supporting RIBA’s policy positions, and helping to shape the future of the profession. All RIBA Chartered Practices benefit from and are required to complete the RIBA Business Benchmarking survey by 30 August each year. Information is collected and analysed in complete confidence by our project partners at The Fees Bureau and Purple Frog.
Access the Full Report
If you are not yet a RIBA Chartered Practice and would like access to this year’s full Benchmarking Report, please telephone +44 (0)20 7307 3800 or email membership.development@riba.org. The full report provides the detailed findings, analysed by practice size and region.
