Enterprise Architecture Jobs in the North West

Enterprise Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 213 142
Rank change year-on-year +16 -71 +113
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 96 74 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.24% 0.72% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.89% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 26 43 39
10th Percentile £44,000 £60,639 £57,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £62,500 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,543 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +5.06% -
75th Percentile £84,813 £84,510 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £94,593 £80,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £81,500
% change year-on-year - -1.84% -4.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Enterprise Architecture 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 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the North West

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Enterprise Architecture in the North West

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the North West

Enterprise Architecture
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 Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cumbria - 58 £70,000 - 1
Manchester +53 29 £63,000 -4.55% 57
Cheshire +3 7 £80,000 +8.78% 26
Merseyside +27 1 £77,500 -6.06% 12
Lancashire -70 1 £100,000 +25.11% 25
Enterprise Architecture
England

Enterprise Architecture
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 58 (60.42%) Confluence
2 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.79%) Azure
2 11 (11.46%) AWS
3 8 (8.33%) GCP
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.04%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.04%) SaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.04%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (61.46%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) ESLint
2 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.04%) Storybook
2 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 58 (60.42%) Manufacturing
2 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Finance
4 5 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.04%) Automotive
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Publishing
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (87.50%) Architect
2 74 (77.08%) Solutions Architect
3 68 (70.83%) Lead
4 61 (63.54%) Lead Architect
5 58 (60.42%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.33%) Senior
6 8 (8.33%) Senior Architect
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 6 (6.25%) AWS Architect
8 6 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
8 6 (6.25%) TOGAF Architect
9 5 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.21%) DevOps Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (3.13%) Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Applications Support
11 3 (3.13%) Business Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Support Team Leader
11 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) .NET
1 2 (2.08%) REST
2 1 (1.04%) EDI
2 1 (1.04%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.04%) Jest
2 1 (1.04%) JSON
2 1 (1.04%) JWT
2 1 (1.04%) Kafka
2 1 (1.04%) Loki
2 1 (1.04%) MassTransit
2 1 (1.04%) Material-UI
2 1 (1.04%) MediatR
2 1 (1.04%) Middleware
2 1 (1.04%) Next.js
2 1 (1.04%) OAuth
2 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.04%) React
2 1 (1.04%) React Native
2 1 (1.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Android
2 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (70.83%) Agile
2 67 (69.79%) Business Strategy
3 59 (61.46%) ERP
4 58 (60.42%) CAD
4 58 (60.42%) PLM
5 25 (26.04%) TOGAF
6 17 (17.71%) Roadmaps
7 10 (10.42%) ITIL
8 9 (9.38%) Architectural Design
8 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.38%) Data Management
9 8 (8.33%) Budget Management
9 8 (8.33%) DevOps
9 8 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
10 7 (7.29%) Microservices
11 6 (6.25%) Architecture Roadmap
11 6 (6.25%) CI/CD
11 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.25%) Zachman Framework
12 5 (5.21%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) SQL
2 6 (6.25%) C#
3 5 (5.21%) Java
3 5 (5.21%) Python
4 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.04%) VB
4 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (58.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (15.63%) Degree
3 9 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 9 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.04%) MBA
7 1 (1.04%) MCP
7 1 (1.04%) MCSA
7 1 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) GDPR
1 5 (5.21%) HIPAA
1 5 (5.21%) NIST
2 4 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.04%) Ansible
2 1 (1.04%) Grafana
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.04%) SCCM
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (62.50%) SAP
2 58 (60.42%) Siemens
3 9 (9.38%) Google
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.04%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) McAfee
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Sparx
6 1 (1.04%) Symantec
6 1 (1.04%) VMware