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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 44 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 566 560 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.83% 7.02% 5.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.15% 7.87% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 325 166 244
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £54,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,063 £65,543
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £109,775
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 9,207 7,117 9,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.21% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 4,116 5,478
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +15 353 £75,000 -3.23% 63
Merseyside -1 102 £72,500 -4.92% 5
Cheshire +5 46 £74,271 +10.51% 6
Lancashire +6 39 £76,563 +25.33% 10
Cumbria -3 22 £67,500 +6.30% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 167 (29.51%) Azure
2 127 (22.44%) TOGAF
2 127 (22.44%) Actionable Insight
3 123 (21.73%) Agile
4 101 (17.84%) AWS
4 101 (17.84%) Social Skills
5 94 (16.61%) Technical Architecture
6 93 (16.43%) Roadmaps
7 78 (13.78%) Security Cleared
8 76 (13.43%) Microsoft
9 74 (13.07%) Requirements Management
10 73 (12.90%) Validation
11 71 (12.54%) Network Architecture
12 69 (12.19%) Network Management
12 69 (12.19%) Model Validation
13 68 (12.01%) SaaS
14 67 (11.84%) VSAT
14 67 (11.84%) Finance
15 66 (11.66%) Presales
16 65 (11.48%) Mentoring
17 63 (11.13%) Public Cloud
18 59 (10.42%) GCP
19 58 (10.25%) Data Modelling
20 57 (10.07%) SC Cleared
21 56 (9.89%) Migration
21 56 (9.89%) DevOps
22 52 (9.19%) Coaching
22 52 (9.19%) Data Architecture
23 51 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
24 49 (8.66%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (2.47%) 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 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.59%) SAP BPC
3 9 (1.59%) SAP PP
4 7 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.88%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.88%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.71%) SAP APO
7 4 (0.71%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.71%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.71%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.71%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 167 (29.51%) Azure
2 101 (17.84%) AWS
3 68 (12.01%) SaaS
4 59 (10.42%) GCP
5 28 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (4.06%) PaaS
6 23 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.36%) IaaS
8 12 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.88%) GitHub
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.53%) Serverless
13 2 (0.35%) Azure Event Grid
13 2 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.84%) VSAT
2 35 (6.18%) WAN
3 27 (4.77%) SD-WAN
4 19 (3.36%) Network Security
5 12 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.59%) LAN
6 9 (1.59%) SSL
7 8 (1.41%) BGP
7 8 (1.41%) DNS
8 7 (1.24%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.06%) Firewall
10 5 (0.88%) Wireless
11 4 (0.71%) Multicast
11 4 (0.71%) OSPF
11 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.71%) WLAN
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.60%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (3.89%) NoSQL
3 21 (3.71%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.18%) Metadata
5 10 (1.77%) BigQuery
5 10 (1.77%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.59%) SAP BW
7 8 (1.41%) Looker
7 8 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.24%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.24%) Power BI
9 6 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.06%) DB2
10 5 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.59%) Git
2 6 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.71%) JIRA
3 4 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
General
1 101 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 67 (11.84%) Finance
3 47 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.06%) Retail
6 20 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (3.18%) Banking
7 18 (3.18%) Legal
8 9 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.53%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.59%) .NET
2 11 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (1.77%) React
4 8 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.06%) OpenID
6 5 (0.88%) SAP TM
7 4 (0.71%) Akka
7 4 (0.71%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.71%) EDI
7 4 (0.71%) 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%) OAuth
10 1 (0.18%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.13%) Public Cloud
2 38 (6.71%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 14 (2.47%) PKI
8 11 (1.94%) FMCG
8 11 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.77%) Blog
9 10 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.59%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.24%) IoT
12 6 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.06%) Mainframe
13 5 (0.88%) Blockchain
14 4 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.47%) Linux
2 9 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.18%) HPUX
4 1 (0.18%) Solaris
4 1 (0.18%) VME
4 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (22.44%) Actionable Insight
1 127 (22.44%) TOGAF
2 123 (21.73%) Agile
3 94 (16.61%) Technical Architecture
4 93 (16.43%) Roadmaps
5 74 (13.07%) Requirements Management
6 73 (12.90%) Validation
7 71 (12.54%) Network Architecture
8 69 (12.19%) Model Validation
8 69 (12.19%) Network Management
9 66 (11.66%) Presales
10 65 (11.48%) Mentoring
11 58 (10.25%) Data Modelling
12 56 (9.89%) DevOps
12 56 (9.89%) Migration
13 52 (9.19%) Coaching
13 52 (9.19%) Data Architecture
14 51 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (8.66%) Enterprise Architecture
15 49 (8.66%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (4.06%) JavaScript
2 22 (3.89%) SQL
3 18 (3.18%) C#
4 10 (1.77%) Java
5 9 (1.59%) Python
6 4 (0.71%) Bicep
7 2 (0.35%) ABAP
8 1 (0.18%) COBOL
8 1 (0.18%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.07%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.36%) Degree
4 32 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 24 (4.24%) CISSP
8 21 (3.71%) CISM
9 17 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (2.65%) CCSK
10 15 (2.65%) CCSP
11 11 (1.94%) CCNA
11 11 (1.94%) CCNP
12 10 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (1.06%) CEH
14 6 (1.06%) OCP
14 6 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.89%) NIST
3 19 (3.36%) GDPR
4 8 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.24%) 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 (3.18%) 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 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.12%) Terraform
4 6 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.06%) OpenView
5 5 (0.88%) CASB
5 5 (0.88%) Stealthwatch
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 76 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.18%) Google
3 28 (4.95%) SAP
4 21 (3.71%) Cisco
4 21 (3.71%) Oracle
5 17 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.77%) Adobe
6 10 (1.77%) Apple
6 10 (1.77%) Meraki
6 10 (1.77%) Sparx
7 7 (1.24%) Databricks
7 7 (1.24%) HP
7 7 (1.24%) IBM
7 7 (1.24%) Thales
8 6 (1.06%) BMC
8 6 (1.06%) Remedy
9 5 (0.88%) Tanium
10 4 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (0.71%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.35%) MuleSoft