Architect Jobs in the Midlands

Architect
England > Midlands

The median Architect salary in the Midlands is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 50 56
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 616 596 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.32% 6.18% 4.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.64% 6.91% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 388 293 303
10th Percentile £49,625 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £57,388 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £89,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 10,915 8,626 10,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.38% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,220 4,767 7,141
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
West Midlands +27 388 £77,500 +3.33% 51
East Midlands -13 220 £65,000 -10.34% 29
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 134 (21.75%) Azure
2 122 (19.81%) Agile
3 109 (17.69%) Microsoft
4 94 (15.26%) AWS
5 85 (13.80%) Actionable Insight
6 83 (13.47%) Roadmaps
7 77 (12.50%) Social Skills
8 75 (12.18%) TOGAF
9 73 (11.85%) Security Cleared
9 73 (11.85%) Data Modelling
10 64 (10.39%) Data Architecture
10 64 (10.39%) Analytics
11 63 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (9.25%) Architectural Patterns
13 56 (9.09%) Power Platform
13 56 (9.09%) Presales
14 54 (8.77%) Public Cloud
15 53 (8.60%) Finance
16 51 (8.28%) Degree
16 51 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (7.79%) DevOps
18 47 (7.63%) SC Cleared
19 46 (7.47%) GCP
20 44 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
20 44 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
21 43 (6.98%) Mentoring
22 40 (6.49%) Validation
23 39 (6.33%) SaaS
24 38 (6.17%) Requirements Management
25 37 (6.01%) ERP

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 16 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.65%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.16%) Appian
3 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Simulink
2 2 (0.32%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 10 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 134 (21.75%) Azure
2 94 (15.26%) AWS
3 56 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 46 (7.47%) GCP
5 44 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (6.33%) SaaS
7 25 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (4.06%) PaaS
8 24 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (3.73%) IaaS
10 20 (3.25%) PowerApps
11 19 (3.08%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.81%) GitHub
14 4 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 2 (0.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 2 (0.32%) dbt
16 2 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.36%) WAN
2 30 (4.87%) VSAT
3 23 (3.73%) SD-WAN
4 16 (2.60%) Firewall
4 16 (2.60%) VPN
5 15 (2.44%) Wireless
6 10 (1.62%) NGFW
7 9 (1.46%) LAN
8 8 (1.30%) DNS
9 6 (0.97%) BGP
10 5 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.81%) MPLS
10 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.65%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.65%) Internet
11 4 (0.65%) Intranet
11 4 (0.65%) Network Security
11 4 (0.65%) SSL
11 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.87%) Metadata
2 28 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.06%) Power BI
4 18 (2.92%) BigQuery
5 16 (2.60%) Looker
6 11 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.30%) RDBMS
8 7 (1.14%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.97%) GIS
10 5 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.65%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.49%) DB2
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (1.14%) Git
3 6 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.32%) CANoe
4 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.60%) Finance
3 32 (5.19%) Retail
4 30 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.11%) Automotive
11 11 (1.79%) Banking
11 11 (1.79%) Military
12 10 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
13 8 (1.30%) Games
13 8 (1.30%) Police
14 7 (1.14%) Legal
15 3 (0.49%) Law
15 3 (0.49%) Marketing
16 2 (0.32%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.06%) .NET
2 19 (3.08%) JSON
3 14 (2.27%) YAML
4 10 (1.62%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.14%) Web Services
6 6 (0.97%) HTML
6 6 (0.97%) Middleware
6 6 (0.97%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.81%) EDI
7 5 (0.81%) REST
7 5 (0.81%) XML
8 4 (0.65%) CSS
8 4 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.65%) WCF
9 3 (0.49%) Kafka
10 2 (0.32%) Node.js
10 2 (0.32%) React
10 2 (0.32%) RESTful
10 2 (0.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.77%) Public Cloud
2 34 (5.52%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.11%) IoT
7 11 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.14%) PKI
9 6 (0.97%) FMCG
10 5 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.65%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.65%) PropTech
12 3 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.49%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.79%) Windows
2 10 (1.62%) Linux
3 7 (1.14%) Unix
4 6 (0.97%) Solaris
4 6 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (19.81%) Agile
2 85 (13.80%) Actionable Insight
3 83 (13.47%) Roadmaps
4 75 (12.18%) TOGAF
5 73 (11.85%) Data Modelling
6 64 (10.39%) Analytics
6 64 (10.39%) Data Architecture
7 63 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (9.25%) Architectural Patterns
9 56 (9.09%) Presales
10 51 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (7.79%) DevOps
12 44 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
13 43 (6.98%) Mentoring
14 40 (6.49%) Validation
15 38 (6.17%) Requirements Management
16 37 (6.01%) ERP
17 35 (5.68%) Network Architecture
18 34 (5.52%) User Experience
19 33 (5.36%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 32 (5.19%) C#
2 20 (3.25%) JavaScript
2 20 (3.25%) SQL
3 15 (2.44%) MATLAB
4 14 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 14 (2.27%) Python
5 6 (0.97%) Java
6 3 (0.49%) C
6 3 (0.49%) C++
7 2 (0.32%) R
8 1 (0.16%) ABAP
8 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 73 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 51 (8.28%) Degree
3 47 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.06%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.76%) CCNP
8 16 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (2.27%) CCNA
11 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.81%) CCIE
14 4 (0.65%) CISM
14 4 (0.65%) CISSP
14 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.76%) Data Quality
1 17 (2.76%) GDPR
2 14 (2.27%) SLA
3 13 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.81%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.49%) COBIT
5 3 (0.49%) NIST
5 3 (0.49%) QA
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.32%) NCSC
6 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) SEPA
7 1 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (1.79%) Docker
3 10 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (1.62%) vSphere
4 6 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (3.41%) Terraform
2 13 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.81%) CASB
3 5 (0.81%) Stealthwatch
4 3 (0.49%) MOM
4 3 (0.49%) OpenView
4 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 109 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.36%) Google
3 29 (4.71%) Cisco
4 28 (4.55%) SAP
5 16 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.44%) VMware
7 13 (2.11%) Juniper
7 13 (2.11%) Meraki
8 12 (1.95%) Adobe
8 12 (1.95%) Apple
8 12 (1.95%) Pega
9 11 (1.79%) Citrix
10 10 (1.62%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.46%) Guidewire
12 8 (1.30%) Oracle
13 6 (0.97%) Sparx
14 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.81%) Unisys
15 4 (0.65%) IBM
15 4 (0.65%) Mapbox