Architect Jobs in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 27 49
Rank change year-on-year -83 +22 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 382 1,107 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.26% 6.28% 6.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.53% 6.61% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 273 680 344
10th Percentile £54,139 £56,809 £56,219
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £78,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -0.96% +4.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £100,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 10,815 16,750 15,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 94.99% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,780 12,957 8,065
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -88 256 £60,000 -20.00% 153
Yorkshire -47 97 £80,000 +0.20% 85
North East +10 31 £65,000 -18.59% 33
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 136 (35.60%) Agile
2 130 (34.03%) Roadmaps
3 121 (31.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 120 (31.41%) ERP
5 118 (30.89%) Manufacturing
6 114 (29.84%) CAD
6 114 (29.84%) PLM
7 113 (29.58%) Enterprise Architecture
8 98 (25.65%) Social Skills
9 87 (22.77%) TOGAF
10 83 (21.73%) Business Strategy
11 73 (19.11%) Azure
12 69 (18.06%) Finance
13 67 (17.54%) Strategic Roadmap
14 66 (17.28%) SAP
15 62 (16.23%) JIRA
16 61 (15.97%) Confluence
17 60 (15.71%) Customer Requirements
18 58 (15.18%) Business Analysis
18 58 (15.18%) Siemens
19 56 (14.66%) Demand Management
20 54 (14.14%) DevOps
20 54 (14.14%) Firewall
21 50 (13.09%) Management Information System
22 48 (12.57%) AWS
23 42 (10.99%) Microservices
24 40 (10.47%) Risk Management
24 40 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
25 39 (10.21%) Security Architecture
26 38 (9.95%) Microsoft

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 61 (15.97%) Confluence
2 5 (1.31%) SAS
3 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.52%) Apache
4 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 73 (19.11%) Azure
2 48 (12.57%) AWS
3 31 (8.12%) GCP
4 23 (6.02%) SaaS
5 19 (4.97%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.66%) OCI
7 11 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (1.83%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.83%) PaaS
9 6 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.57%) IaaS
9 6 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.57%) Serverless
10 5 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.31%) GitHub
11 4 (1.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (14.14%) Firewall
2 37 (9.69%) WAN
3 34 (8.90%) LAN
4 16 (4.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (3.14%) VPN
6 10 (2.62%) DNS
7 8 (2.09%) Network Security
8 7 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.57%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.52%) DHCP
11 2 (0.52%) DMZ
11 2 (0.52%) FCoE
11 2 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.52%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.52%) Multicast
11 2 (0.52%) NAS
11 2 (0.52%) SAN
11 2 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.33%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.97%) Data Lake
3 11 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.62%) Power BI
5 9 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.09%) Big Data
7 7 (1.83%) MySQL
8 6 (1.57%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.31%) Tableau
10 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.52%) Flink
12 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 62 (16.23%) JIRA
2 7 (1.83%) Git
3 5 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 118 (30.89%) Manufacturing
2 98 (25.65%) Social Skills
3 69 (18.06%) Finance
4 37 (9.69%) Banking
5 26 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.57%) Marketing
10 6 (1.57%) Retail
11 5 (1.31%) Back Office
11 5 (1.31%) Law
12 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Local Government
13 2 (0.52%) Electronics
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
13 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.88%) .NET
2 4 (1.05%) Middleware
2 4 (1.05%) REST
3 3 (0.79%) LDAP
4 2 (0.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.52%) Kafka
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.52%) React
5 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.26%) EDI
5 1 (0.26%) jQuery
5 1 (0.26%) JSON
5 1 (0.26%) RESTful
5 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.26%) SOAP
5 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.09%) Management Information System
2 33 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.28%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.45%) Operational Technology
5 17 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.19%) Cloud Native
7 15 (3.93%) Security Posture
7 15 (3.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 14 (3.66%) Social Media
9 10 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.83%) SCADA
12 5 (1.31%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.31%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.81%) Windows
2 14 (3.66%) Windows Vista
3 9 (2.36%) Linux
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.52%) Solaris
6 1 (0.26%) Android
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (35.60%) Agile
2 130 (34.03%) Roadmaps
3 120 (31.41%) ERP
4 114 (29.84%) CAD
4 114 (29.84%) PLM
5 113 (29.58%) Enterprise Architecture
6 87 (22.77%) TOGAF
7 83 (21.73%) Business Strategy
8 67 (17.54%) Strategic Roadmap
9 60 (15.71%) Customer Requirements
10 58 (15.18%) Business Analysis
11 56 (14.66%) Demand Management
12 54 (14.14%) DevOps
13 42 (10.99%) Microservices
14 40 (10.47%) Risk Management
15 39 (10.21%) Security Architecture
16 37 (9.69%) Mentoring
17 35 (9.16%) Information Security
17 35 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
18 34 (8.90%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.54%) SQL
2 17 (4.45%) Java
3 15 (3.93%) Python
4 11 (2.88%) C#
5 6 (1.57%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.31%) Bicep
6 5 (1.31%) R
7 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.52%) Scala
9 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.26%) VB
9 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (31.68%) BPSS Clearance
2 40 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (8.90%) Degree
4 27 (7.07%) CISSP
5 24 (6.28%) CCNA
5 24 (6.28%) JNCIA
6 21 (5.50%) TOGAF Certification
7 18 (4.71%) DBS Check
8 17 (4.45%) CISM
8 17 (4.45%) Master's Degree
8 17 (4.45%) Security Cleared
9 15 (3.93%) Azure Certification
9 15 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (3.66%) CEH
10 14 (3.66%) CISA
11 13 (3.40%) SC Cleared
12 9 (2.36%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.33%) GDPR
2 26 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (6.81%) NIST
3 11 (2.88%) NCSC
4 10 (2.62%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.31%) Basel II
5 5 (1.31%) Basel III
5 5 (1.31%) Dodd-Frank
5 5 (1.31%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.31%) IFRS
5 5 (1.31%) IFRS 9
5 5 (1.31%) QA
6 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (4.45%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.52%) KVM
5 2 (0.52%) NFS
5 2 (0.52%) SRDF
5 2 (0.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.52%) Xen
6 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.14%) Terraform
3 4 (1.05%) Ansible
3 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.52%) Puppet
5 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.26%) Istio
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (17.28%) SAP
2 58 (15.18%) Siemens
3 38 (9.95%) Microsoft
4 35 (9.16%) Cisco
5 30 (7.85%) Aruba
6 29 (7.59%) Fortinet
6 29 (7.59%) Juniper
7 25 (6.54%) Oracle
8 23 (6.02%) Palo Alto
9 14 (3.66%) VMware
10 12 (3.14%) Google
11 8 (2.09%) Databricks
12 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.31%) Meraki
14 3 (0.79%) Alteryx
14 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.79%) Sparx
15 2 (0.52%) EMC
15 2 (0.52%) IBM
15 2 (0.52%) NetApp