Architectural Design Job Trends in the North West

Architectural Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 165 157
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +49
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 9 51 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.15% 0.96% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 1.07% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 13
10th Percentile £68,000 £38,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £43,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,779 £66,757
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -5.96% +41.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £76,500 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £81,250 £79,250
% change year-on-year -4.62% +2.52% +2.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,152 4,771 3,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.27% 90.14% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,379 2,510
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +0.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,033 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,842
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the North West

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Manchester -4 6 £72,500 -3.33% 5
Cheshire - 3 £70,000 - 2
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Architect
2 8 (88.89%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Architect
3 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Solution Architect
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 4 (44.44%) Senior Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 4 (44.44%) TOGAF Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) IT Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Data Privacy
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Data Management
4 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (33.33%) API Management
6 2 (22.22%) API Design
6 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) HIPAA
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) VMware