Enterprise Architecture Job Trends in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +41
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 8 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.62% 0.70% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.79% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £71,200 £80,800 -
25th Percentile £73,000 £83,500 £60,878
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £85,750 £66,757
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +28.45% -13.86%
75th Percentile £82,000 £87,250 £72,635
90th Percentile £84,400 - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £63,277 £79,632
% change year-on-year +10.63% -20.54% +20.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture 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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 509 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.44% 89.30% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 428 256 397
10th Percentile £27,850 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Enterprise Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 6 - - 1
Warrington +1 1 £84,000 -2.89% 2
Enterprise Architecture
North West

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Architect
2 6 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (62.50%) AWS Architect
3 5 (62.50%) AWS Solution Architect
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Architect
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 5 (62.50%) GCP Architect
3 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Business Transformation
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Design Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Information Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) IT Governance
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Alteryx
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks