Architectural Design Job Trends in Manchester

Architectural Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 125 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +19
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 6 34 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.23% 1.20% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.30% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £68,000 £59,168 £45,875
25th Percentile £68,750 £59,688 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,889 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +8.06% +27.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £77,000 £98,750 -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,779 £66,757
% change year-on-year +11.50% -5.96% +48.35%

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 2,219 2,622 2,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 83.23% 92.75% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 1,234 1,611
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,150 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.62% +0.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,988 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +0.42%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Architect
2 4 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Solution Architect
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 4 (66.67%) TOGAF Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Data Privacy
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Certification
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) VMware