Architectural Design Job Trends in Birmingham

Architectural Design
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 106 127
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 +6
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 12 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.61% 0.87% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.92% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £56,500 £62,834 £66,488
25th Percentile £60,063 £68,334 £74,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £87,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% -8.05% +11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £98,750 £95,375
90th Percentile £80,500 £108,500 £100,400
West Midlands median annual salary £70,932 £78,700 £78,273
% change year-on-year -9.87% +0.55% +7.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,500 1,623 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 76.18% 94.36% 87.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 777 1,453
10th Percentile £31,275 £37,500 £31,383
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £84,687
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in Birmingham

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) IaaS
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (50.00%) PaaS
2 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 6 (50.00%) Legal
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) IT Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) API Management
2 6 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (33.33%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Case Management
3 4 (33.33%) CRM
3 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Document Management
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Information Security
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google