Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Architect salary in Birmingham is £69,692 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 98 242 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.99% 8.72% 8.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.37% 9.24% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 78 186 117
10th Percentile £61,243 £52,325 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,300 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,692 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,499 £93,750 £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 1,329 2,618 1,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 94.38% 93.17%
Number of salaries quoted 777 2,127 1,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £81,425
West Midlands median annual salary £52,443 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.89% -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 17 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 17 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 59 (60.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (58.16%) SC Cleared
3 42 (42.86%) Cisco
3 42 (42.86%) Juniper
4 38 (38.78%) WAN
5 28 (28.57%) Network Management
6 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
7 20 (20.41%) Azure
8 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 14 (14.29%) AWS
8 14 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 13 (13.27%) MPLS
10 12 (12.24%) Finance
10 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (11.22%) Serverless
11 11 (11.22%) Junos
11 11 (11.22%) DevOps
11 11 (11.22%) IPsec
11 11 (11.22%) BGP
11 11 (11.22%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (11.22%) CCNP
11 11 (11.22%) CCNA
11 11 (11.22%) Network Design
11 11 (11.22%) JNCIS
12 10 (10.20%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (10.20%) LAN
12 10 (10.20%) Migration
12 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills

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 1 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.04%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.41%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) AWS
3 11 (11.22%) Serverless
4 8 (8.16%) SaaS
5 7 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.12%) GCP
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.08%) IaaS
7 4 (4.08%) PaaS
8 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.06%) OCI
9 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (38.78%) WAN
2 13 (13.27%) MPLS
3 11 (11.22%) BGP
3 11 (11.22%) IPsec
3 11 (11.22%) Junos
4 10 (10.20%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (10.20%) LAN
5 6 (6.12%) ATM
5 6 (6.12%) Frame Relay
5 6 (6.12%) SDH
6 4 (4.08%) Network Security
6 4 (4.08%) VoIP
7 2 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.04%) DNS
7 2 (2.04%) Ethernet
7 2 (2.04%) VPN
8 1 (1.02%) Firewall
8 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.04%) Power BI
2 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.02%) DB2
3 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.02%) MySQL
3 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Finance
2 12 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.06%) Advertising
5 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.04%) Marketing
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Law
7 1 (1.02%) Legal
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) REST
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) Middleware
3 1 (1.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.06%) PropTech
3 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.02%) Clustering
4 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.02%) IoT
4 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.02%) NHS
4 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.57%) Network Management
2 14 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 14 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (11.22%) DevOps
4 11 (11.22%) Network Design
5 10 (10.20%) Migration
5 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (9.18%) Microservices
6 9 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (8.16%) Analytics
7 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.16%) TOGAF
8 7 (7.14%) Business Strategy
8 7 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (6.12%) API Management
9 6 (6.12%) Design Patterns
9 6 (6.12%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.06%) Python
1 3 (3.06%) SQL
2 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.02%) Bash
3 1 (1.02%) Bicep
3 1 (1.02%) Java
3 1 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (60.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (58.16%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.22%) CCNA
3 11 (11.22%) CCNP
3 11 (11.22%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (11.22%) JNCIS
4 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) SLA
2 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) NCSC
2 3 (3.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (42.86%) Cisco
1 42 (42.86%) Juniper
2 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 4 (4.08%) Oracle
5 3 (3.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) Databricks
6 2 (2.04%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.04%) JD Edwards
6 2 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.04%) SevOne
6 2 (2.04%) VMware
7 1 (1.02%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) Meraki