Architectural Design Jobs in the South West

Architectural Design
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 240 221
Rank change year-on-year +87 -19 +25
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 26 51 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.73% 0.52% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.64% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14 38 17
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £48,400
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £55,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +108.14% -21.07% +1.82%
75th Percentile £140,677 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile - £91,000 £84,841
England median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £77,500
% change year-on-year +0.09% +3.14% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Architectural Design 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,300 7,971 6,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.04% 81.38% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 5,719 3,481
10th Percentile £27,225 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Dorset +49 14 £47,500 -39.31% 4
Bristol +43 8 £122,773 +63.70% 6
Gloucestershire +72 2 - - 9
Wiltshire +38 1 - - 3
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) GCP
3 7 (26.92%) AWS
4 6 (23.08%) npm
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) VPN
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (15.38%) DHCP
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) MPLS
2 4 (15.38%) Network Security
2 4 (15.38%) PBX
2 4 (15.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (15.38%) VPLS
3 1 (3.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.85%) InfiniBand
3 1 (3.85%) LAN
3 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (7.69%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
1 6 (23.08%) Cypress.io
1 6 (23.08%) Git
1 6 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
1 6 (23.08%) webpack
2 3 (11.54%) NetBeans
3 2 (7.69%) JUnit
3 2 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 15 (57.69%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 6 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (23.08%) Law
4 4 (15.38%) Marketing
5 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Lead
2 11 (42.31%) Java Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) Software Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) Lead Java Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Architect
6 4 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) Network Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Senior
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) RESTful
1 8 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 6 (23.08%) Jest
2 6 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.54%) JavaFX
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 2 (7.69%) CSS
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) REST
4 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) Distributed Applications
2 6 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Microservices
2 11 (42.31%) Software Engineering
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven
3 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) API Design
6 6 (23.08%) Change Management
6 6 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (23.08%) Information Architecture
6 6 (23.08%) Micro Frontends
6 6 (23.08%) Operational Stability
6 6 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (23.08%) Release Automation
6 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Community of Practice
8 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) CCNA
3 4 (15.38%) CCNP
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Def Stans
1 3 (11.54%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco
1 4 (15.38%) Citrix
1 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
1 4 (15.38%) HP
1 4 (15.38%) Meraki
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 4 (15.38%) SolarWinds
1 4 (15.38%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA