Technical Architecture Jobs in the North West

Technical Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 191 201
Rank change year-on-year -74 +10 +32
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 16 104 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 1.05% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 1.27% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 20
10th Percentile - £55,000 £40,929
25th Percentile £38,750 £55,938 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £70,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +17.13% -16.58%
75th Percentile £46,250 £86,250 £75,938
90th Percentile £56,161 - £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical 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 7,697 8,168 7,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.86% 82.81% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 6,196 3,942
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,831
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 £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical 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 Technical Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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 +12 16 £42,500 -43.63% 18
Technical Architecture
England

Technical 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 7 (43.75%) CMS
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
Business Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Magento
1 7 (43.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DMZ
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Lead
2 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Lead Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) Head of Payments
5 1 (6.25%) Head of Technology
5 1 (6.25%) IT Architect
5 1 (6.25%) IT Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) EDI
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
1 9 (56.25%) TOGAF
2 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
2 7 (43.75%) Requirements Gathering
2 7 (43.75%) Requirements Workshops
2 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Adaptive Web Design
3 6 (37.50%) ArchiMate
3 6 (37.50%) Architecture Roadmap
4 5 (31.25%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CISM
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft