Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Architect salary in Birmingham is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 84 256 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.36% 8.78% 9.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.73% 9.29% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 67 195 118
10th Percentile £61,997 £52,325 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,300 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £89,166 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £95,000
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,248 2,756 1,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 94.55% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 704 2,232 1,343
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,125
90th Percentile £83,375 £84,964 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.73% -4.76% +5.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Birmingham

Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Architect in Birmingham

Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 50 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 48 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 35 (41.67%) Cisco
3 35 (41.67%) Juniper
4 34 (40.48%) WAN
5 24 (28.57%) Network Management
6 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 18 (21.43%) Azure
7 13 (15.48%) MPLS
7 13 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (13.10%) Finance
9 11 (13.10%) IPsec
9 11 (13.10%) BGP
9 11 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
9 11 (13.10%) CCNP
9 11 (13.10%) CCNA
9 11 (13.10%) Network Design
9 11 (13.10%) JNCIS
9 11 (13.10%) Junos
9 11 (13.10%) Serverless
9 11 (13.10%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (11.90%) Migration
10 10 (11.90%) AWS
10 10 (11.90%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (11.90%) LAN
11 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Azure
2 11 (13.10%) Serverless
3 10 (11.90%) AWS
4 7 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (7.14%) SaaS
6 5 (5.95%) GCP
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.57%) OCI
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.38%) IaaS
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub
9 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (40.48%) WAN
2 13 (15.48%) MPLS
3 11 (13.10%) BGP
3 11 (13.10%) IPsec
3 11 (13.10%) Junos
4 10 (11.90%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (11.90%) LAN
5 7 (8.33%) ATM
5 7 (8.33%) Frame Relay
5 7 (8.33%) SDH
6 4 (4.76%) Network Security
6 4 (4.76%) VoIP
7 2 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.38%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.19%) DNS
8 1 (1.19%) Firewall
8 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.19%) DB2
2 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.19%) MySQL
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Git
General
1 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
2 11 (13.10%) Influencing Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.57%) Advertising
5 3 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (1.19%) Legal
6 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) REST
2 1 (1.19%) .NET
2 1 (1.19%) Middleware
2 1 (1.19%) Node.js
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) PropTech
2 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Clustering
3 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.19%) NHS
3 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.57%) Network Management
2 13 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (13.10%) Network Design
5 10 (11.90%) Migration
5 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (9.52%) DevOps
7 8 (9.52%) TOGAF
8 7 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (7.14%) API Management
9 6 (7.14%) B2B
9 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.14%) Microservices
10 5 (5.95%) Data Management
10 5 (5.95%) Data Migration
10 5 (5.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.57%) Python
2 2 (2.38%) Java
2 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.38%) SQL
3 1 (1.19%) Bash
3 1 (1.19%) Bicep
3 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 48 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) CCNA
3 11 (13.10%) CCNP
3 11 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (13.10%) JNCIS
4 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.19%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.57%) NCSC
2 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
1 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (41.67%) Cisco
1 35 (41.67%) Juniper
2 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.95%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle
5 3 (3.57%) SAP
6 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.38%) SevOne
6 2 (2.38%) VMware
7 1 (1.19%) Databricks
7 1 (1.19%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.19%) IBM
7 1 (1.19%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.19%) Meraki
7 1 (1.19%) PeopleSoft