Architectural Design Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Architectural Design
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 71 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 -31 +31
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 4 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.51% 0.81% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.89% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £45,834 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £50,834 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,779 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -35.61% +2.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,695 £103,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £81,278 -
North East median annual salary £72,500 £62,779 £71,000
% change year-on-year +15.49% -11.58% +80.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 645 672 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 81.65% 90.57% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 462 313 281
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,824 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,375 £89,500 £77,500
North East median annual salary £45,497 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -9.01% +2.04% -2.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 4 £72,500 +15.49% 2
Architectural Design
North East

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Aruba
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto