Enterprise Architect Jobs in the North West

Enterprise Architect
England > North West

The median Enterprise Architect salary in the North West is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 248 188
Rank change year-on-year -28 -60 +113
Permanent jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 13 43 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.16% 0.44% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.46% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7 43 18
10th Percentile £71,560 £72,303 £56,219
25th Percentile £79,000 £74,901 £57,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £61,089
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +39.14% -25.95%
75th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £106,000 £104,013 £99,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,322 9,328 6,990
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 94.60% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,119 7,169 4,082
10th Percentile £27,449 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architect in the North West

Enterprise Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Enterprise Architect in the North West

Enterprise Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Architect in the North West

Enterprise Architect
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 Enterprise Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +38 6 £115,000 +20.89% 6
Cheshire +4 5 £80,000 +8.78%
Lancashire -67 2 £81,103 -1.65% 6
Enterprise Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Enterprise 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 West region featuring Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) TOGAF
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
1 10 (76.92%) Roadmaps
1 10 (76.92%) Business Strategy
2 7 (53.85%) Architecture Roadmap
3 6 (46.15%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (46.15%) Architectural Design
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) ArchiMate
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) AWS
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Product Backlog
4 5 (38.46%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Adaptive Web Design
4 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (30.77%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Debt
5 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
6 3 (23.08%) OpenStack
6 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Logical Data Model

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (23.08%) OpenStack
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Vault
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Tableau
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Business Strategy
1 10 (76.92%) Roadmaps
1 10 (76.92%) TOGAF
2 7 (53.85%) Architecture Roadmap
3 6 (46.15%) ArchiMate
3 6 (46.15%) Architectural Design
3 6 (46.15%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Thought Leadership
4 5 (38.46%) Adaptive Web Design
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Product Backlog
5 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Debt
5 4 (30.77%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) Master Data Management
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Sparx
2 1 (7.69%) Aruba
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Dell
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) VMware