Senior Architect Job Trends in the North West

Senior Architect
England > North West

The median Senior Architect salary in the North West is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 212 191
Rank change year-on-year +58 -21 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 99 23 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.78% 0.45% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.51% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47 9 38
10th Percentile £65,000 £67,000 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £61,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% -2.14% -12.10%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,650 £94,750
England median annual salary £84,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +6.45% -6.06%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 11,894 4,542 7,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 88.35% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,831 2,290 4,546
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the North West

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the North West

Senior 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 Senior Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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 +8 71 £80,000 +16.79% 75
Lancashire +28 22 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Cheshire +10 6 £81,250 - 11
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Senior Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 27 (27.27%) AI
2 23 (23.23%) Data Architecture
3 17 (17.17%) IT Strategy
3 17 (17.17%) Technology Strategy
4 16 (16.16%) Cloud Security
5 15 (15.15%) Azure
6 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.13%) Security Architecture
8 12 (12.12%) Application Security
8 12 (12.12%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (12.12%) DevSecOps
8 12 (12.12%) GRC
8 12 (12.12%) Palo Alto
8 12 (12.12%) SDLC
8 12 (12.12%) Security Testing
8 12 (12.12%) Serverless
8 12 (12.12%) Snyk
8 12 (12.12%) Tenable
8 12 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
8 12 (12.12%) Validation
8 12 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (10.10%) Migration
9 10 (10.10%) Roadmaps
10 9 (9.09%) Databricks
11 8 (8.08%) Data Modelling
11 8 (8.08%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (7.07%) AWS
12 7 (7.07%) Data Quality
12 7 (7.07%) Master Data Management

Senior Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (15.15%) Azure
2 12 (12.12%) Serverless
3 7 (7.07%) AWS
3 7 (7.07%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.02%) GCP
4 2 (2.02%) OCI
4 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Power BI
2 5 (5.05%) Metadata
3 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.02%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (2.02%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.12%) Snyk
General
1 18 (18.18%) Finance
2 17 (17.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.05%) Marketing
4 5 (5.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Retail
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.01%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) AI
2 23 (23.23%) Data Architecture
3 17 (17.17%) IT Strategy
3 17 (17.17%) Technology Strategy
4 16 (16.16%) Cloud Security
5 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.13%) Security Architecture
7 12 (12.12%) Application Security
7 12 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (12.12%) DevSecOps
7 12 (12.12%) SDLC
7 12 (12.12%) Security Testing
7 12 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
7 12 (12.12%) Validation
8 10 (10.10%) Migration
8 10 (10.10%) Roadmaps
9 8 (8.08%) Data Modelling
9 8 (8.08%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (7.07%) Master Data Management
11 6 (6.06%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.02%) Python
1 2 (2.02%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) GRC
2 7 (7.07%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) CrowdStrike
1 12 (12.12%) Palo Alto
1 12 (12.12%) Tenable
2 9 (9.09%) Databricks
3 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft