Technical Architect Jobs in the North West

Technical Architect
England > North West

The median Technical Architect salary in the North West is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 248 235
Rank change year-on-year -23 -13 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 9 37 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.12% 0.38% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.40% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 9
10th Percentile £73,500 £62,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,450 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% +22.32% -21.88%
75th Percentile £101,500 £85,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £105,800 £88,750 £109,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%

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 7,072 9,270 7,060
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 94.66% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 7,118 4,113
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,385 £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 £69,000
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%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical 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 Technical Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 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 +33 7 £90,000 +17.72% 4
Cheshire +21 2 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics

Technical 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Online Betting
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) VB
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) MCSA
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) McAfee
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec
2 1 (11.11%) VMware