Architect Jobs in Merseyside

Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Architect salary in Merseyside is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 16 10
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2 111 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.45% 8.18% 14.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 8.62% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1 29 11
10th Percentile - £55,000 £46,298
25th Percentile £73,750 £62,250 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% +21.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,875
90th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £73,543 £72,500
% change year-on-year -18.41% +1.44% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 367 1,288 843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.66% 94.92% 80.13%
Number of salaries quoted 184 907 414
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,825
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,125 £77,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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
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 May 2025. 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 -27 2 £77,500 +18.32% 68
Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle