Architectural Design Job Trends in Chester

Architectural Design
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 1.21% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% - 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £83,745
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £87,283
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £90,822
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £85,000 - £68,642
% change year-on-year - - -8.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 28 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 51.52% 93.33% 76.84%
Number of salaries quoted 68 22 115
10th Percentile £36,460 £27,875 £26,500
25th Percentile £42,313 £33,000 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +7.95%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,250 £65,000
Cheshire median annual salary £45,000 £48,306 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.84% +1.70% -

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Chester

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft