Architect Jobs in Manchester

Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Architect salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 41 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 352 374 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.88% 7.54% 5.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 8.23% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 218 120 167
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £54,875
25th Percentile £62,654 £64,850 £66,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £120,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,840 4,545 5,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.58% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,745 2,657 3,712
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,107 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in Manchester.

Salary trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Salford +21 10 £67,700 +0.30% 1
Cheadle +3 10 £50,000 -42.86%
Bolton - 1 £70,000 - 1
Architect
North West

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 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 across the Manchester region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 118 (33.52%) Azure
2 88 (25.00%) Agile
3 67 (19.03%) AWS
4 65 (18.47%) Actionable Insight
5 62 (17.61%) TOGAF
6 59 (16.76%) Roadmaps
6 59 (16.76%) Social Skills
7 57 (16.19%) Microsoft
8 54 (15.34%) Technical Architecture
9 47 (13.35%) Finance
10 46 (13.07%) Data Modelling
11 45 (12.78%) DevOps
11 45 (12.78%) GCP
12 44 (12.50%) Presales
13 42 (11.93%) Migration
14 40 (11.36%) Requirements Management
14 40 (11.36%) Public Cloud
15 38 (10.80%) Validation
15 38 (10.80%) Security Cleared
16 37 (10.51%) Software Engineering
16 37 (10.51%) SaaS
16 37 (10.51%) Network Architecture
16 37 (10.51%) Microservices
16 37 (10.51%) Cybersecurity
17 36 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
18 35 (9.94%) Network Management
18 35 (9.94%) Data Architecture
19 34 (9.66%) Analytics
19 34 (9.66%) Model Validation
20 33 (9.38%) VSAT

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 14 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.14%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 118 (33.52%) Azure
2 67 (19.03%) AWS
3 45 (12.78%) GCP
4 37 (10.51%) SaaS
5 21 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
5 21 (5.97%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.68%) PaaS
7 17 (4.83%) IaaS
8 16 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.42%) GitHub
12 4 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.85%) Serverless
14 2 (0.57%) Azure Event Grid
14 2 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.38%) VSAT
2 27 (7.67%) WAN
3 19 (5.40%) Network Security
3 19 (5.40%) SD-WAN
4 8 (2.27%) LAN
4 8 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.70%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.42%) SSL
7 4 (1.14%) BGP
7 4 (1.14%) DNS
7 4 (1.14%) Firewall
7 4 (1.14%) Multicast
7 4 (1.14%) OSPF
7 4 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.14%) Wireless
7 4 (1.14%) WLAN
8 1 (0.28%) IPsec
8 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (4.26%) Metadata
3 14 (3.98%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.27%) Looker
6 7 (1.99%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.70%) Data Vault
7 6 (1.70%) Power BI
8 5 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.42%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.14%) MySQL
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.85%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (2.56%) Git
2 6 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.70%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.14%) JIRA
3 4 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 59 (16.76%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.35%) Finance
3 22 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.11%) Banking
6 15 (4.26%) Legal
7 8 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.70%) Retail
9 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.25%) .NET
2 10 (2.84%) React
3 7 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (1.70%) OpenID
5 4 (1.14%) Akka
5 4 (1.14%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.85%) Kafka
7 2 (0.57%) Django
7 2 (0.57%) Middleware
7 2 (0.57%) Node.js
7 2 (0.57%) Smart Contracts
8 1 (0.28%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.28%) JDBC
8 1 (0.28%) MACH
8 1 (0.28%) OAuth
8 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.28%) SAML
8 1 (0.28%) SOAP
8 1 (0.28%) Struts
8 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.36%) Public Cloud
2 24 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.83%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.84%) Blog
8 9 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.56%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.99%) PKI
10 6 (1.70%) FMCG
10 6 (1.70%) IoT
10 6 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.70%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.42%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.56%) Linux
2 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.42%) Unix
3 1 (0.28%) HPUX
3 1 (0.28%) Solaris
3 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (25.00%) Agile
2 65 (18.47%) Actionable Insight
3 62 (17.61%) TOGAF
4 59 (16.76%) Roadmaps
5 54 (15.34%) Technical Architecture
6 46 (13.07%) Data Modelling
7 45 (12.78%) DevOps
8 44 (12.50%) Presales
9 42 (11.93%) Migration
10 40 (11.36%) Requirements Management
11 38 (10.80%) Validation
12 37 (10.51%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (10.51%) Microservices
12 37 (10.51%) Network Architecture
12 37 (10.51%) Software Engineering
13 35 (9.94%) Data Architecture
13 35 (9.94%) Network Management
14 34 (9.66%) Analytics
14 34 (9.66%) Model Validation
15 32 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.98%) C#
1 14 (3.98%) SQL
2 8 (2.27%) Java
2 8 (2.27%) Python
3 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.67%) Degree
3 26 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (4.83%) CISSP
6 16 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.98%) CISM
8 11 (3.13%) CCNA
8 11 (3.13%) CCNP
9 10 (2.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (2.27%) CCSK
10 8 (2.27%) CCSP
11 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.70%) CEH
11 6 (1.70%) OCP
11 6 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.11%) GDPR
3 15 (4.26%) NIST
4 7 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.42%) QA
7 3 (0.85%) COBIT
7 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) RACF
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.99%) Terraform
4 6 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.70%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (1.42%) CASB
5 5 (1.42%) ZABBIX
6 3 (0.85%) OpenView
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.82%) Google
3 19 (5.40%) Cisco
4 14 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.41%) Oracle
6 11 (3.13%) Adobe
6 11 (3.13%) Apple
6 11 (3.13%) Meraki
7 7 (1.99%) Databricks
7 7 (1.99%) Thales
8 5 (1.42%) Sparx
8 5 (1.42%) Tanium
9 4 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.14%) HP
9 4 (1.14%) IBM
9 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.85%) BMC
10 3 (0.85%) Remedy
10 3 (0.85%) SAP
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce