Senior Architect Jobs in the North West

Senior Architect
England > North West

The median Senior Architect salary in the North West is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 208 242
Rank change year-on-year -66 +34 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 16 91 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.88% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.93% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 64 13
10th Percentile £63,500 - £67,800
25th Percentile £67,000 £56,809 £69,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -12.50% +50.63%
75th Percentile £96,625 £98,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,875 £100,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +28.38% -12.94% -5.56%

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 7,184 9,803 6,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 94.75% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,825 7,500 4,002
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,014
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £40,370
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 £78,500 £80,725
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the North West

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect 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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +5 11 £67,000 -21.18% 22
Lancashire -78 4 £70,000 +14.37% 6
Cheshire +3 1 - - 14
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Architect in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Management Information System
1 9 (56.25%) TOGAF
1 9 (56.25%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (50.00%) Microservices
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
3 6 (37.50%) NIST
3 6 (37.50%) Architectural Design
3 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (37.50%) GDPR
3 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
3 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 6 (37.50%) Docker
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Data Privacy
3 6 (37.50%) HIPAA
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Data Management
3 6 (37.50%) Google
3 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (37.50%) C#
3 6 (37.50%) Java

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Management Information System
2 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (56.25%) TOGAF
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Architectural Design
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) Data Management
3 6 (37.50%) Data Privacy
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (18.75%) Information Security
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
5 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) C#
1 6 (37.50%) Java
1 6 (37.50%) Python
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
1 6 (37.50%) HIPAA
1 6 (37.50%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow