Architect Jobs in Merseyside

Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Architect salary in Merseyside is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 16 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 102 133 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.88% 12.21% 4.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 15.27% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 32
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,779 £53,236
25th Percentile £56,813 £61,250 £55,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,625 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £87,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 1,224 871 1,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 79.98% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 852 450 711
10th Percentile £25,050 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,162 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,367 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,665 £74,257
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Merseyside over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool -3 94 £65,500 -14.10% 5
Wirral - 6 £80,000 -
Birkenhead - 2 £74,136 -
Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Merseyside region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 62 (60.78%) Actionable Insight
2 54 (52.94%) TOGAF
3 36 (35.29%) Technical Architecture
4 35 (34.31%) Validation
4 35 (34.31%) Model Validation
5 34 (33.33%) Requirements Management
5 34 (33.33%) VSAT
5 34 (33.33%) Network Management
5 34 (33.33%) Network Architecture
6 31 (30.39%) Security Cleared
7 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
8 22 (21.57%) Azure
9 21 (20.59%) Presales
10 17 (16.67%) AWS
11 16 (15.69%) Project Management
11 16 (15.69%) Microsoft
11 16 (15.69%) Social Skills
12 14 (13.73%) Agile
13 12 (11.76%) Public Cloud
13 12 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (10.78%) Migration
14 11 (10.78%) Business Case
15 10 (9.80%) Analytics
16 9 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (7.84%) Commercial Awareness
17 8 (7.84%) Contract Negotiation
17 8 (7.84%) Thought Leadership
17 8 (7.84%) IT Strategy
17 8 (7.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 8 (7.84%) Presentation Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (3.92%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.98%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.57%) Azure
2 17 (16.67%) AWS
3 12 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.84%) SaaS
5 7 (6.86%) GCP
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (33.33%) VSAT
2 4 (3.92%) BGP
2 4 (3.92%) DNS
2 4 (3.92%) SSL
2 4 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.98%) WAN
3 1 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
2 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.98%) Power BI
4 1 (0.98%) Tableau
General
1 16 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.96%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.92%) ARM Templates
1 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.86%) PKI
3 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Linux
1 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) Actionable Insight
2 54 (52.94%) TOGAF
3 36 (35.29%) Technical Architecture
4 35 (34.31%) Model Validation
4 35 (34.31%) Validation
5 34 (33.33%) Network Architecture
5 34 (33.33%) Network Management
5 34 (33.33%) Requirements Management
6 21 (20.59%) Presales
7 16 (15.69%) Project Management
8 14 (13.73%) Agile
9 11 (10.78%) Business Case
9 11 (10.78%) Migration
10 10 (9.80%) Analytics
11 9 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.84%) Commercial Awareness
12 8 (7.84%) Contract Negotiation
12 8 (7.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (7.84%) IT Strategy
12 8 (7.84%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.92%) Bicep
2 1 (0.98%) C#
2 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.92%) Degree
4 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) COBIT
2 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (3.92%) Terraform
2 3 (2.94%) OpenView
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Google
3 5 (4.90%) Sparx
4 4 (3.92%) Oracle
5 3 (2.94%) BMC
5 3 (2.94%) HP
5 3 (2.94%) Remedy
5 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) Cisco
6 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.98%) Juniper
6 1 (0.98%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.98%) Salesforce