Architect Jobs in the South West

Architect
England > South West

The median Architect salary in the South West is £80,000 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 111 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -78 -6 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 73 522 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.07% 5.34% 8.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 5.56% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 39 285 162
10th Percentile £62,000 £52,500 £46,577
25th Percentile £70,048 £61,250 £56,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +1.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £109,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,296 9,393 5,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 96.17% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 6,889 3,677
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,945 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in the South West

Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South 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
Bristol -50 38 £80,000 - 121
Wiltshire -20 13 £68,525 -5.48% 91
Gloucestershire +53 9 £95,000 +21.37% 163
Somerset -10 7 £76,250 +38.64% 107
Dorset +20 4 £52,500 -40.00% 77
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 South West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 30 (41.10%) Finance
2 27 (36.99%) Roadmaps
3 26 (35.62%) Agile
3 26 (35.62%) Security Cleared
3 26 (35.62%) Azure
4 24 (32.88%) AWS
5 19 (26.03%) Degree
6 18 (24.66%) SC Cleared
6 18 (24.66%) Containerisation
7 17 (23.29%) DevOps
8 15 (20.55%) TOGAF
9 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
9 14 (19.18%) Microservices
10 13 (17.81%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (16.44%) Management Information System
11 12 (16.44%) Project Management
11 12 (16.44%) CISSP
11 12 (16.44%) Mentoring
12 11 (15.07%) Security Architecture
12 11 (15.07%) Risk Management
12 11 (15.07%) Information Security
13 10 (13.70%) Analytics
13 10 (13.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven
14 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
14 9 (12.33%) Adaptive Web Design
14 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
14 9 (12.33%) Banking

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.37%) Luigi
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Windchill
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) Azure
2 24 (32.88%) AWS
3 8 (10.96%) Serverless
4 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (9.59%) PaaS
5 6 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.22%) Apigee
5 6 (8.22%) GCP
6 5 (6.85%) SaaS
7 4 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.74%) OCI
9 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.37%) IaaS
10 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) Firewall
2 3 (4.11%) Internet
3 2 (2.74%) DNS
3 2 (2.74%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) WAN
4 1 (1.37%) LAN
4 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Data Lake
1 5 (6.85%) MySQL
2 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.37%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.37%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.37%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.37%) GIS
4 1 (1.37%) Metadata
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Git
1 3 (4.11%) GitLab
2 2 (2.74%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (41.10%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.85%) Retail
7 4 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.37%) Electronics
10 1 (1.37%) Marketing
10 1 (1.37%) Publishing
10 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
1 6 (8.22%) React
1 6 (8.22%) React Native
2 4 (5.48%) Kafka
3 3 (4.11%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.11%) Laravel
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.11%) RESTful
3 3 (4.11%) Symfony
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) EDI
4 1 (1.37%) HTML
4 1 (1.37%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) Web Services
4 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.22%) DataPower
5 4 (5.48%) IoT
6 3 (4.11%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.74%) FMCG
7 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.37%) Life Science
8 1 (1.37%) NHS
8 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Android
1 7 (9.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.37%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Roadmaps
2 26 (35.62%) Agile
3 18 (24.66%) Containerisation
4 17 (23.29%) DevOps
5 15 (20.55%) TOGAF
6 14 (19.18%) Microservices
7 13 (17.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 12 (16.44%) Mentoring
8 12 (16.44%) Project Management
9 11 (15.07%) Information Security
9 11 (15.07%) Risk Management
9 11 (15.07%) Security Architecture
10 10 (13.70%) Analytics
10 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven
11 9 (12.33%) Adaptive Web Design
11 9 (12.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) Java
2 5 (6.85%) SQL
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 3 (4.11%) PHP
5 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) VB
6 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.03%) Degree
3 18 (24.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (16.44%) CISSP
5 10 (13.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
7 5 (6.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
9 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.74%) CEH
10 2 (2.74%) CISM
10 2 (2.74%) GIAC
10 2 (2.74%) ISSAP
10 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.74%) MBA
10 2 (2.74%) Postgraduate
10 2 (2.74%) SANS
11 1 (1.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) NIST
2 5 (6.85%) GDPR
3 4 (5.48%) JSP 440
3 4 (5.48%) NIST 800
4 3 (4.11%) GMP
4 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.74%) COBIT
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.37%) GRC
6 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Ansible
2 4 (5.48%) Terraform
3 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.37%) SCCM
4 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) IBM
3 6 (8.22%) Apple
4 5 (6.85%) Oracle
5 4 (5.48%) VMware
6 3 (4.11%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Sparx
7 2 (2.74%) Databricks
7 2 (2.74%) Informatica
7 2 (2.74%) PTC
7 2 (2.74%) SAP
8 1 (1.37%) Ariba
8 1 (1.37%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.37%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.37%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.37%) McAfee
8 1 (1.37%) Meraki
8 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.37%) Symantec