Architectural Design Job Trends in Leeds

Architectural Design
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +30
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 9 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.68% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.53% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £80,125 - -
25th Percentile £80,313 £54,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £58,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -12.96% -17.93%
75th Percentile £82,813 £63,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,375 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £81,250 £58,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.30% -16.07% -15.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 943 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.48% 87.80% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 704 543 883
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,264 £53,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year +6.16% -4.40% +0.80%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (77.78%) SAP ERP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) OCI
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) QA Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) ERP
2 8 (88.89%) Mentoring
2 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (77.78%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (77.78%) Process Improvement
3 7 (77.78%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle