Architectural Design Job Trends in Bristol

Architectural Design
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 95 115
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +36
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 1 10 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.041% 0.82% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.88% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 23
10th Percentile - £67,850 £35,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £90,801 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £122,773 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.84% +63.70% +7.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £140,677 £91,934
90th Percentile - - £96,539
South West median annual salary £64,350 £82,069 £75,000
% change year-on-year -21.59% +9.42% +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,517 1,137 2,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 62.56% 92.89% 91.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 638 1,845
10th Percentile £29,200 £31,250 £33,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +2.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £86,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.85%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Bristol

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks