Architectural Design Jobs in Manchester

Architectural Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 184 193
Rank change year-on-year +54 +9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 27 42 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.24% 0.78% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.92% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14 36 21
10th Percentile £70,029 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,097 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,496 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% +10.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £98,474 £84,973 £73,250
90th Percentile - £85,250 £73,750
North West median annual salary £41,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -36.92% - -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,073 4,571 4,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.44% 85.09% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 3,465 2,488
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Manchester

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in Manchester.

Salary trend for Architectural Design in Manchester

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in Manchester

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) GCP
2 13 (48.15%) Azure
3 10 (37.04%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DHCP
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
1 5 (18.52%) NAS
1 5 (18.52%) SAN
1 5 (18.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (7.41%) Tableau
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 14 (51.85%) Banking
2 13 (48.15%) Finance
3 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Online Betting
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (29.63%) Lead
4 7 (25.93%) Senior
5 5 (18.52%) AWS Architect
5 5 (18.52%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) AWS Solution Architect
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps Architect
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Senior Architect
5 5 (18.52%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 5 (18.52%) TOGAF Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Science Leader
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Node.js
1 7 (25.93%) Playwright
1 7 (25.93%) React
1 7 (25.93%) Spring Boot
2 6 (22.22%) Middleware
3 5 (18.52%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 2 (7.41%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) .NET
5 1 (3.70%) EDI
5 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Management Information System
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 11 (40.74%) Roadmaps
4 10 (37.04%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (37.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 9 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
5 9 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps
7 7 (25.93%) BDD
7 7 (25.93%) Code Quality
7 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (25.93%) Knowledge Management
7 7 (25.93%) Microservices
7 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) TDD
7 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) SQL
3 10 (37.04%) Python
4 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
5 5 (18.52%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Azure Certification
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) GDPR
2 5 (18.52%) HIPAA
2 5 (18.52%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Google
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 5 (18.52%) VMware