Technical Architect Jobs in Manchester

Technical Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Technical Architect salary in Manchester is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 189 210
Rank change year-on-year +54 +21 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 7 29 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.56% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.60% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £73,500 £65,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £83,750 £69,650 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,450 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% +22.32% -21.88%
75th Percentile £101,500 £85,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £105,800 £88,375 £112,250
North West median annual salary £90,000 £76,450 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.72% +22.32% -21.88%

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 1,943 4,853 4,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.55% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 3,746 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,017 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,375 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (42.86%) Low Latency
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Online Betting
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform

Technical 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 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (14.29%) Games
1 1 (14.29%) Law
1 1 (14.29%) Online Betting
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Low Latency
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow