Architect Jobs in the North East

Architect
England > North East

The median Architect salary in the North East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 54 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 29 61 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 3.83% 3.29% 3.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.21% 3.43% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 27 49 17
10th Percentile £61,167 £56,809 £74,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £79,842 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -6.07% +32.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - £103,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 689 1,777 1,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 95.74% 80.09%
Number of salaries quoted 381 1,429 602
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £27,000 £35,920 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £66,389 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,250 £75,150 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North East

Architect
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Architect in the North East

Architect
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in the North East

Architect
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Tyne and Wear +12 26 £65,000 -18.59% 24
Durham +15 3 £72,000 -6.29% 5
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 North East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 14 (48.28%) TOGAF
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) TOGAF Certification
3 12 (41.38%) Agile
4 11 (37.93%) AWS
4 11 (37.93%) Oracle
4 11 (37.93%) Operational Technology
4 11 (37.93%) OCI
4 11 (37.93%) DevOps
5 10 (34.48%) Roadmaps
6 7 (24.14%) Data Centre
7 6 (20.69%) SCADA
7 6 (20.69%) Windows
7 6 (20.69%) Linux
7 6 (20.69%) VMware
7 6 (20.69%) Terraform
8 5 (17.24%) Strategic Roadmap
8 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (17.24%) Information Security
9 4 (13.79%) SaaS
9 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
9 4 (13.79%) Architecture Roadmap
9 4 (13.79%) NCSC
9 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (10.34%) SDLC
10 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
10 3 (10.34%) Cyber Assurance
10 3 (10.34%) IT Strategy
10 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (10.34%) Social Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 11 (37.93%) OCI
3 4 (13.79%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Operational Technology
2 7 (24.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (20.69%) SCADA
4 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Smartphone
4 2 (6.90%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.45%) Learning Management System
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) TOGAF
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
4 10 (34.48%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.24%) Information Security
5 5 (17.24%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (13.79%) Architecture Roadmap
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Cyber Assurance
7 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) IT Strategy
7 3 (10.34%) SDLC
7 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
8 2 (6.90%) Data Management
8 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
8 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) CISM
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) GIAC
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) NCSC
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) VMware