Architectural Design Job Trends in Merseyside

Architectural Design
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 6 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.83% - 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 15
10th Percentile £74,500 - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile £95,000 - £46,250
90th Percentile - - £46,625
North West median annual salary £78,750 £70,996 £54,500
% change year-on-year +10.92% +30.27% -14.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 457 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 74.17% 92.51% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 317 178 603
10th Percentile £28,250 - £27,200
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,000 £61,250 £58,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,475 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Merseyside over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in Merseyside

Architectural Design
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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 - 6 £90,000 - 2
Architectural Design
North West

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Leaflet
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OpenLayers
1 1 (16.67%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Design
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Spatial Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform