Architectural Design Job Trends in the East Midlands

Architectural Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 145 92
Rank change year-on-year +16 -53 +59
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 4 2 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.16% 0.070% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.083% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £36,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £37,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +106.67% -46.43% -26.32%
75th Percentile £89,375 £38,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £94,250 - £90,000
England median annual salary £75,535 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.44% +3.13% +4.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,970 2,422 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.84% 84.27% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 1,052 1,039
10th Percentile £25,900 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -8.15% +3.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the East Midlands

Architectural Design
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire +18 2 £77,500 - 1
Derbyshire -14 1 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 1 £95,000 - 2
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) HND
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Mentor Graphics
1 1 (25.00%) Xilinx