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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 39 59
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 568 584 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.84% 7.39% 5.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.17% 8.30% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 325 157 243
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £53,975
25th Percentile £62,250 £60,063 £64,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £91,963
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £117,500
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 9,209 7,038 9,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 89.02% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 4,099 5,482
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,525
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 2 May 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 2 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
Manchester +13 353 £75,000 - 64
Merseyside -5 102 £72,500 -6.45% 7
Cheshire +3 46 £74,271 +10.51% 9
Lancashire +6 40 £75,000 +22.77% 13
Cumbria 0 23 £67,500 +6.30% 4
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 North West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 165 (29.05%) Azure
2 127 (22.36%) Actionable Insight
3 126 (22.18%) Agile
4 125 (22.01%) TOGAF
5 101 (17.78%) AWS
6 98 (17.25%) Social Skills
7 95 (16.73%) Roadmaps
8 92 (16.20%) Technical Architecture
9 79 (13.91%) Microsoft
10 78 (13.73%) Security Cleared
11 74 (13.03%) Requirements Management
12 73 (12.85%) Validation
13 72 (12.68%) Network Architecture
14 69 (12.15%) Network Management
14 69 (12.15%) Model Validation
15 68 (11.97%) Finance
16 67 (11.80%) VSAT
16 67 (11.80%) Presales
16 67 (11.80%) Mentoring
17 64 (11.27%) SaaS
18 63 (11.09%) Public Cloud
19 59 (10.39%) GCP
20 58 (10.21%) Data Modelling
21 57 (10.04%) SC Cleared
21 57 (10.04%) DevOps
22 55 (9.68%) Migration
23 54 (9.51%) Coaching
24 53 (9.33%) Data Architecture
25 51 (8.98%) Analytics
25 51 (8.98%) Problem-Solving

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 14 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.41%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.53%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.35%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.58%) SAP BPC
3 9 (1.58%) SAP PP
4 7 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.88%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.88%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.70%) SAP APO
7 4 (0.70%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.70%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.70%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.53%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (29.05%) Azure
2 101 (17.78%) AWS
3 64 (11.27%) SaaS
4 59 (10.39%) GCP
5 28 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 21 (3.70%) PaaS
9 17 (2.99%) IaaS
10 12 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.88%) GitHub
13 5 (0.88%) Serverless
14 3 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.35%) Azure Event Grid
15 2 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (0.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.80%) VSAT
2 36 (6.34%) WAN
3 28 (4.93%) SD-WAN
4 20 (3.52%) Network Security
5 12 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.58%) LAN
6 9 (1.58%) SSL
7 8 (1.41%) BGP
7 8 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (1.41%) DNS
8 7 (1.23%) Firewall
9 5 (0.88%) Wireless
10 4 (0.70%) Multicast
10 4 (0.70%) OSPF
10 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.70%) WLAN
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 21 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 19 (3.35%) Metadata
4 10 (1.76%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.76%) RDBMS
4 10 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.58%) SAP BW
6 8 (1.41%) Looker
6 8 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.23%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.23%) Power BI
8 6 (1.06%) DB2
9 5 (0.88%) MySQL
9 5 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.58%) Git
2 6 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.70%) JIRA
3 4 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 98 (17.25%) Social Skills
2 68 (11.97%) Finance
3 47 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.23%) Retail
6 20 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (3.17%) Legal
8 17 (2.99%) Banking
9 9 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.70%) Law
12 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.58%) .NET
2 11 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (1.76%) React
4 8 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.06%) OpenID
6 5 (0.88%) SAP TM
7 4 (0.70%) Akka
7 4 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.70%) EDI
7 4 (0.70%) Node.js
8 3 (0.53%) Kafka
9 2 (0.35%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.35%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.35%) Django
9 2 (0.35%) Middleware
9 2 (0.35%) SAP Basis
9 2 (0.35%) Smart Contracts
9 2 (0.35%) Vue
10 1 (0.18%) JSON
10 1 (0.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.09%) Public Cloud
2 38 (6.69%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 14 (2.46%) PKI
9 11 (1.94%) FMCG
9 11 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.76%) Blog
10 10 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.41%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.23%) IoT
14 6 (1.06%) Mainframe
15 5 (0.88%) Blockchain
15 5 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
16 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
16 4 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.82%) Linux
2 9 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Unix
4 3 (0.53%) VME
5 1 (0.18%) HPUX
5 1 (0.18%) Solaris
5 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (22.36%) Actionable Insight
2 126 (22.18%) Agile
3 125 (22.01%) TOGAF
4 95 (16.73%) Roadmaps
5 92 (16.20%) Technical Architecture
6 74 (13.03%) Requirements Management
7 73 (12.85%) Validation
8 72 (12.68%) Network Architecture
9 69 (12.15%) Model Validation
9 69 (12.15%) Network Management
10 67 (11.80%) Mentoring
10 67 (11.80%) Presales
11 58 (10.21%) Data Modelling
12 57 (10.04%) DevOps
13 55 (9.68%) Migration
14 54 (9.51%) Coaching
15 53 (9.33%) Data Architecture
16 51 (8.98%) Analytics
16 51 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
17 49 (8.63%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.23%) JavaScript
2 21 (3.70%) SQL
3 17 (2.99%) C#
4 9 (1.58%) Java
4 9 (1.58%) Python
5 4 (0.70%) Bicep
6 3 (0.53%) COBOL
6 3 (0.53%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 2 (0.35%) ABAP
8 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.04%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.69%) Degree
4 34 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 26 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 24 (4.23%) CISSP
8 21 (3.70%) CISM
9 17 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (2.64%) CCSK
10 15 (2.64%) CCSP
11 13 (2.29%) CCNP
12 12 (2.11%) CCNA
13 11 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (1.06%) CEH
15 6 (1.06%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (0.88%) OCP
16 5 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.87%) NIST
3 19 (3.35%) GDPR
4 8 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.06%) COBIT
6 6 (1.06%) SLA
7 5 (0.88%) QA
8 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (3.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.18%) RACF
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.11%) Terraform
4 6 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.06%) OpenView
4 6 (1.06%) Stealthwatch
5 5 (0.88%) CASB
5 5 (0.88%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.16%) Google
3 27 (4.75%) SAP
4 22 (3.87%) Cisco
5 21 (3.70%) Oracle
6 17 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.94%) Adobe
7 11 (1.94%) Apple
7 11 (1.94%) Meraki
8 10 (1.76%) Sparx
9 7 (1.23%) Databricks
9 7 (1.23%) HP
9 7 (1.23%) IBM
9 7 (1.23%) Thales
10 6 (1.06%) BMC
10 6 (1.06%) Remedy
11 5 (0.88%) Tanium
12 4 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (0.70%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.53%) Micro Focus