Senior Architect Jobs in Manchester

Senior Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Architect salary in Manchester is £67,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 162 194
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 10 62 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.44% 1.18% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.25% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5 39 11
10th Percentile £62,800 - £67,500
25th Percentile - £56,809 £69,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £85,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +18.88% +38.68%
75th Percentile £105,500 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,950 - £105,000
North West median annual salary £67,000 £70,000 £75,750
% change year-on-year -4.29% -7.59% +46.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,048 4,955 4,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.40% 92.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 3,811 2,615
10th Percentile £31,375 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,101 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Manchester

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in Manchester.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in Manchester

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in Manchester

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Senior Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (70.00%) TOGAF
2 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (50.00%) NIST
3 5 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) GDPR
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Docker
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 5 (50.00%) HIPAA
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (50.00%) C#
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Google

Senior Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 7 (70.00%) TOGAF
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Data Management
3 5 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Business Transformation
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) GDPR
1 5 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow