Architect Job Trends in the Midlands

Architect
England > Midlands

The median Architect salary in the Midlands is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 66 36
Rank change year-on-year +26 -30 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 455 224 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.14% 3.86% 4.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.35% 4.23% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 334 163 390
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £76,470
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.92% +1.96%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £87,431 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.62% +2.50% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 13,588 5,296 10,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 91.20% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,486 3,386 6,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,335 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
West Midlands +26 371 £82,500 +6.45% 43
East Midlands -9 84 £60,000 -16.38% 15
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 August 2026, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 84 (18.46%) Azure
2 65 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 64 (14.07%) AWS
4 62 (13.63%) AI
5 53 (11.65%) Microsoft
6 52 (11.43%) Agile
6 52 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 45 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (8.13%) TOGAF
9 36 (7.91%) Data Architecture
9 36 (7.91%) SAP
9 36 (7.91%) Security Cleared
10 35 (7.69%) Decision-Making
11 34 (7.47%) CI/CD
12 33 (7.25%) SC Cleared
12 33 (7.25%) Security Architecture
13 32 (7.03%) IT Strategy
13 32 (7.03%) Technology Strategy
14 31 (6.81%) Analytics
14 31 (6.81%) Data Governance
15 30 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (6.15%) Cloud Security
16 28 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (5.71%) Integration Patterns
18 25 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
19 24 (5.27%) Architecture Governance
19 24 (5.27%) GCP
19 24 (5.27%) SaaS
19 24 (5.27%) Technology Roadmap
20 23 (5.05%) Data Modelling

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (0.22%) SAS
1 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Revit
2 1 (0.22%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 20 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 84 (18.46%) Azure
2 64 (14.07%) AWS
3 24 (5.27%) GCP
3 24 (5.27%) SaaS
4 18 (3.96%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.30%) Serverless
6 13 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.42%) iPaaS
7 11 (2.42%) PaaS
8 10 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.76%) Azure AKS
9 8 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (1.76%) Boomi
9 8 (1.76%) IaaS
9 8 (1.76%) Lucidchart
9 8 (1.76%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.76%) Workato
10 6 (1.32%) dbt
10 6 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.64%) Network Security
2 9 (1.98%) VPN
3 3 (0.66%) Firewall
4 2 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) LAN
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.22%) VoIP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.64%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.32%) Metadata
3 5 (1.10%) Power BI
4 4 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.22%) GIS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.22%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Snyk
2 5 (1.10%) Yeoman
3 1 (0.22%) Git
3 1 (0.22%) JIRA
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 53 (11.65%) Social Skills
2 51 (11.21%) Finance
3 27 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.54%) Legal
8 6 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.88%) Automotive
9 4 (0.88%) Games
10 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.44%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.98%) REST
1 9 (1.98%) SOAP
2 5 (1.10%) .NET
2 5 (1.10%) Middleware
3 2 (0.44%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.44%) JSON
3 2 (0.44%) WPF
3 2 (0.44%) XML
4 1 (0.22%) Blazor
4 1 (0.22%) Django
4 1 (0.22%) EDI
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.20%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (0.66%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.66%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.44%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.44%) NHS
10 2 (0.44%) Online Gambling
10 2 (0.44%) PMI
10 2 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.44%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.88%) Windows
2 2 (0.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 62 (13.63%) AI
3 52 (11.43%) Agile
3 52 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 45 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (8.13%) TOGAF
6 36 (7.91%) Data Architecture
7 35 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 34 (7.47%) CI/CD
9 33 (7.25%) Security Architecture
10 32 (7.03%) IT Strategy
10 32 (7.03%) Technology Strategy
11 31 (6.81%) Analytics
11 31 (6.81%) Data Governance
12 30 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (6.15%) Cloud Security
13 28 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (5.71%) Integration Patterns
15 25 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (5.27%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.20%) Python
2 9 (1.98%) Bicep
3 8 (1.76%) C#
4 6 (1.32%) SQL
5 5 (1.10%) Java
5 5 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.88%) R
7 3 (0.66%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.44%) Go
8 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.22%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 36 (7.91%) Security Cleared
2 33 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.08%) CISSP
5 13 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 12 (2.64%) CCSP
6 12 (2.64%) CISM
7 9 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.54%) Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.66%) CIPD
10 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.44%) RIBA
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) CCA
11 1 (0.22%) CCNA
11 1 (0.22%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.40%) GDPR
3 19 (4.18%) GRC
4 16 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.42%) NIST
6 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) QA
8 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) GxP
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.32%) Docker
4 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.42%) Terraform
3 3 (0.66%) MOM
4 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.91%) SAP
3 12 (2.64%) Databricks
4 10 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
4 10 (2.20%) Palo Alto
4 10 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.20%) Tenable
4 10 (2.20%) VMware
5 9 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.76%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.10%) Workday
8 3 (0.66%) Cisco
8 3 (0.66%) Epicor
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle
9 2 (0.44%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe
10 1 (0.22%) Denodo
10 1 (0.22%) HP
10 1 (0.22%) Okta
10 1 (0.22%) YouTube