Architect Jobs in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect salary in the North West is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 June 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 736 671 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.52% 9.21% 5.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.86% 10.29% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 403 151 229
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £53,236
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,142
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,723 6,524 9,433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 89.55% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,015 3,992 5,412
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,300 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.94% +0.50% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the North West.

Salary trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the North West

Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Manchester +4 449 £75,000 - 58
Merseyside -4 118 £80,000 +10.34% 9
Lancashire +20 89 £70,000 -17.65% 18
Cheshire +1 47 £73,543 +9.90% 5
Cumbria -13 26 £71,250 +12.20% 5
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 North West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 198 (26.90%) Agile
2 180 (24.46%) Azure
3 140 (19.02%) Mentoring
4 127 (17.26%) TOGAF
5 126 (17.12%) AWS
6 121 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (14.40%) Social Skills
8 104 (14.13%) Actionable Insight
9 96 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 95 (12.91%) Microsoft
11 93 (12.64%) Software Engineering
12 88 (11.96%) Technical Architecture
13 86 (11.68%) DevOps
14 84 (11.41%) Finance
15 81 (11.01%) Data Engineering
16 78 (10.60%) User Experience
17 72 (9.78%) Presales
18 70 (9.51%) Requirements Management
18 70 (9.51%) Security Cleared
18 70 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 68 (9.24%) Migration
19 68 (9.24%) Network Architecture
20 67 (9.10%) Validation
21 66 (8.97%) Public Cloud
22 65 (8.83%) Network Management
23 64 (8.70%) Machine Learning
24 63 (8.56%) Data Modelling
24 63 (8.56%) VSAT
24 63 (8.56%) Model Validation
25 62 (8.42%) Cyberattack

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.09%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.22%) SAP PP
4 8 (1.09%) SAP BPC
5 6 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.68%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.68%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.54%) SAP APO
7 4 (0.54%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.54%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.54%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.14%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (24.46%) Azure
2 126 (17.12%) AWS
3 58 (7.88%) SaaS
4 51 (6.93%) GCP
5 33 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.26%) Power Platform
8 14 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.49%) PaaS
10 8 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (0.95%) GitHub
11 7 (0.95%) IaaS
11 7 (0.95%) Kong
12 4 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.54%) Serverless
13 3 (0.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.41%) dbt
14 2 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.56%) VSAT
2 39 (5.30%) WAN
3 31 (4.21%) SD-WAN
4 24 (3.26%) Network Security
5 13 (1.77%) DNS
6 12 (1.63%) Cisco Firepower
6 12 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.09%) BGP
7 8 (1.09%) LAN
7 8 (1.09%) SSL
8 5 (0.68%) DHCP
8 5 (0.68%) Firewall
9 4 (0.54%) Multicast
9 4 (0.54%) OSPF
9 4 (0.54%) SAN
9 4 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.54%) Wireless
9 4 (0.54%) WLAN
10 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (3.26%) Metadata
3 21 (2.85%) Relational Database
4 18 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 14 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
6 11 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.49%) Data Vault
6 11 (1.49%) Power BI
7 10 (1.36%) BigQuery
7 10 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 8 (1.09%) Looker
8 8 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 8 (1.09%) SAP BW
9 6 (0.82%) DB2
9 6 (0.82%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.82%) Tableau
10 5 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Git
2 6 (0.82%) JIRA
2 6 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
General
1 106 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 84 (11.41%) Finance
3 70 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 23 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (2.99%) Retail
7 16 (2.17%) Legal
8 9 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.95%) Banking
10 7 (0.95%) Marketing
11 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Law
13 2 (0.27%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.53%) .NET
2 16 (2.17%) React
3 13 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (1.36%) Node.js
4 10 (1.36%) Spring Boot
5 8 (1.09%) Django
6 5 (0.68%) Kafka
6 5 (0.68%) SAP TM
7 4 (0.54%) Akka
7 4 (0.54%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.54%) EDI
8 2 (0.27%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Camel
8 2 (0.27%) IBM Integration Bus
8 2 (0.27%) J2EE
8 2 (0.27%) Middleware
8 2 (0.27%) SOAP
8 2 (0.27%) Spring
8 2 (0.27%) Spring Integration
8 2 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.97%) Public Cloud
2 62 (8.42%) Cyberattack
3 43 (5.84%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 24 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.45%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 14 (1.90%) PKI
11 11 (1.49%) FMCG
11 11 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.36%) Blog
12 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.95%) IoT
14 6 (0.82%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.68%) NHS
16 4 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
16 4 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
16 4 (0.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.72%) Linux
2 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.41%) VME
4 2 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) HPUX
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (26.90%) Agile
2 140 (19.02%) Mentoring
3 127 (17.26%) TOGAF
4 121 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (14.13%) Actionable Insight
6 96 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 93 (12.64%) Software Engineering
8 88 (11.96%) Technical Architecture
9 86 (11.68%) DevOps
10 81 (11.01%) Data Engineering
11 78 (10.60%) User Experience
12 72 (9.78%) Presales
13 70 (9.51%) Requirements Management
14 68 (9.24%) Migration
14 68 (9.24%) Network Architecture
15 67 (9.10%) Validation
16 65 (8.83%) Network Management
17 64 (8.70%) Machine Learning
18 63 (8.56%) Data Modelling
18 63 (8.56%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (3.80%) JavaScript
2 16 (2.17%) SQL
3 14 (1.90%) Python
4 13 (1.77%) C#
5 7 (0.95%) Java
6 4 (0.54%) Bicep
7 3 (0.41%) COBOL
7 3 (0.41%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 1 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 70 (9.51%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.66%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.39%) Degree
4 39 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (4.21%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.26%) CISSP
8 21 (2.85%) CISM
9 18 (2.45%) CCNP
10 17 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (2.31%) CCNA
11 15 (2.04%) CCSK
11 15 (2.04%) CCSP
12 11 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.82%) CEH
15 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 22 (2.99%) NIST
3 19 (2.58%) GDPR
4 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.82%) COBIT
6 6 (0.82%) SLA
7 5 (0.68%) QA
8 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (2.72%) Docker
2 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (2.04%) Terraform
4 11 (1.49%) Stealthwatch
5 6 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.82%) OpenView
6 5 (0.68%) CASB
6 5 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.30%) Google
3 28 (3.80%) SAP
4 25 (3.40%) Cisco
5 19 (2.58%) Oracle
6 17 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.17%) Adobe
7 16 (2.17%) Apple
7 16 (2.17%) Meraki
8 10 (1.36%) Sparx
9 9 (1.22%) IBM
10 7 (0.95%) HP
10 7 (0.95%) Thales
11 6 (0.82%) BMC
11 6 (0.82%) Remedy
12 5 (0.68%) Databricks
12 5 (0.68%) Tanium
13 4 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.54%) Palo Alto