Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Architect salary in Birmingham is £75,400 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 23 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 227 174 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.38% 8.63% 7.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.89% 9.23% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 173 130 134
10th Percentile £52,325 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,375 £64,813 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,400 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% +0.67% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,125 £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £76,750 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% - +3.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,554 1,885 2,992
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 93.46% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,079 1,441 2,317
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Birmingham region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 68 (29.96%) Azure
2 48 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 48 (21.15%) Agile
3 42 (18.50%) Data Architecture
4 41 (18.06%) Data Modelling
5 37 (16.30%) Architectural Patterns
6 33 (14.54%) Analytics
7 30 (13.22%) AWS
7 30 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (13.22%) Data Design
7 30 (13.22%) Metadata
8 28 (12.33%) Management Information System
9 27 (11.89%) Roadmaps
10 26 (11.45%) Data Management
11 25 (11.01%) Mentoring
11 25 (11.01%) Power Platform
12 24 (10.57%) WAN
13 23 (10.13%) Information Management
13 23 (10.13%) SD-WAN
13 23 (10.13%) CI/CD
14 22 (9.69%) DevOps
14 22 (9.69%) GCP
14 22 (9.69%) Public Cloud
15 21 (9.25%) Cisco
16 20 (8.81%) Presales
16 20 (8.81%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (8.37%) Social Skills
17 19 (8.37%) Degree
18 18 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
18 18 (7.93%) Data Engineering

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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.96%) Azure
2 30 (13.22%) AWS
3 25 (11.01%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.69%) GCP
5 20 (8.81%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (7.49%) IaaS
6 17 (7.49%) PaaS
7 16 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.29%) SaaS
9 11 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.88%) dbt
10 2 (0.88%) Serverless
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 1 (0.44%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.57%) WAN
2 23 (10.13%) SD-WAN
3 12 (5.29%) Firewall
4 11 (4.85%) Wireless
5 10 (4.41%) NGFW
5 10 (4.41%) VPN
6 5 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.88%) Internet
9 1 (0.44%) Broadband
9 1 (0.44%) GPON
9 1 (0.44%) LAN
9 1 (0.44%) MPLS
9 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.44%) VoIP
9 1 (0.44%) WLAN
9 1 (0.44%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.22%) Metadata
2 16 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.52%) BigQuery
3 8 (3.52%) Looker
4 5 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.32%) DB2
6 3 (1.32%) Power BI
7 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.88%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (2.64%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.32%) Git
General
1 19 (8.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.05%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.61%) Finance
4 10 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.76%) Banking
6 4 (1.76%) Legal
6 4 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.32%) Marketing
7 3 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (0.44%) Back Office
8 1 (0.44%) Billing
8 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.85%) JSON
2 10 (4.41%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.41%) YAML
3 6 (2.64%) Middleware
4 5 (2.20%) EDI
5 2 (0.88%) .NET
5 2 (0.88%) Django
5 2 (0.88%) HTML
5 2 (0.88%) Node.js
5 2 (0.88%) React
5 2 (0.88%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.44%) Kafka
6 1 (0.44%) Spring
6 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.44%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.33%) Management Information System
2 22 (9.69%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.85%) Private Cloud
4 10 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.64%) FMCG
7 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.32%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.32%) IoT
8 3 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.88%) NHS
9 2 (0.88%) PropTech
10 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.64%) Linux
1 6 (2.64%) Solaris
1 6 (2.64%) Ubuntu
1 6 (2.64%) Unix
1 6 (2.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.15%) Agile
2 42 (18.50%) Data Architecture
3 41 (18.06%) Data Modelling
4 37 (16.30%) Architectural Patterns
5 33 (14.54%) Analytics
6 30 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (13.22%) Data Design
7 27 (11.89%) Roadmaps
8 26 (11.45%) Data Management
9 25 (11.01%) Mentoring
10 23 (10.13%) CI/CD
10 23 (10.13%) Information Management
11 22 (9.69%) DevOps
12 20 (8.81%) Presales
13 18 (7.93%) Data Engineering
13 18 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (7.05%) IT Strategy
15 15 (6.61%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (6.17%) Coaching
16 14 (6.17%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.41%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.96%) C#
3 8 (3.52%) SQL
4 5 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.32%) Python
6 2 (0.88%) R
7 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.44%) Java
7 1 (0.44%) SOQL
7 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (8.37%) Degree
2 15 (6.61%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (6.17%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.73%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.29%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.85%) CCNP
7 10 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.41%) CCNA
8 7 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.76%) CISM
11 4 (1.76%) CISSP
11 4 (1.76%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.32%) CCSK
12 3 (1.32%) CCSP
13 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.44%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.96%) Accessibility
1 9 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.52%) GDPR
3 3 (1.32%) NIST
4 2 (0.88%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) SEPA
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (4.41%) vSphere
3 4 (1.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.85%) Terraform
2 5 (2.20%) CASB
2 5 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.20%) Stealthwatch
3 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.25%) Cisco
3 12 (5.29%) Adobe
3 12 (5.29%) Apple
3 12 (5.29%) Google
3 12 (5.29%) Meraki
4 11 (4.85%) Citrix
4 11 (4.85%) VMware
5 10 (4.41%) Fortinet
5 10 (4.41%) Juniper
6 8 (3.52%) SAP
7 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.76%) Oracle
9 3 (1.32%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.32%) IBM
10 2 (0.88%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.44%) Databricks
11 1 (0.44%) DocuSign