Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Architect salary in the West Midlands is £79,842 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 44 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 373 303 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.33% 5.97% 6.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.65% 6.63% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 256 156 345
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,550
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,938 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,598 4,571 8,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 90.05% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,468 3,109 5,288
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,600 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Birmingham +5 226 £80,000 +6.67% 16
Warwickshire +49 64 £77,500 -11.43% 5
Staffordshire -9 21 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Solihull -10 17 £62,500 -28.37% 2
Shropshire - 5 - -
Coventry -7 3 - - 1
Stourbridge - 1 £75,000 -
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 West Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 98 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 93 (24.93%) Azure
3 74 (19.84%) Agile
4 52 (13.94%) Roadmaps
5 51 (13.67%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (13.67%) Finance
6 48 (12.87%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (11.80%) Architectural Patterns
7 44 (11.80%) Presales
8 42 (11.26%) AWS
9 39 (10.46%) Degree
10 35 (9.38%) DevOps
11 34 (9.12%) Analytics
12 31 (8.31%) Social Skills
13 30 (8.04%) Power Platform
14 29 (7.77%) Mentoring
14 29 (7.77%) SaaS
15 28 (7.51%) Security Cleared
15 28 (7.51%) WAN
15 28 (7.51%) Data Modelling
16 26 (6.97%) Data Centre
16 26 (6.97%) CRM
16 26 (6.97%) SC Cleared
17 25 (6.70%) Cisco
17 25 (6.70%) CI/CD
17 25 (6.70%) SD-WAN
18 24 (6.43%) Data Architecture
19 23 (6.17%) Marketing
19 23 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
19 23 (6.17%) Apple

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 19 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.54%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.54%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 93 (24.93%) Azure
2 48 (12.87%) Dynamics 365
3 42 (11.26%) AWS
4 30 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.77%) SaaS
6 19 (5.09%) GCP
6 19 (5.09%) IaaS
6 19 (5.09%) PaaS
7 16 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.68%) Power Automate
8 10 (2.68%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.07%) dbt
10 3 (0.80%) Boomi
11 2 (0.54%) Kong
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.51%) WAN
2 25 (6.70%) SD-WAN
3 16 (4.29%) Firewall
4 12 (3.22%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (2.41%) DNS
6 8 (2.14%) VPN
7 7 (1.88%) Wireless
8 4 (1.07%) Intranet
9 3 (0.80%) DHCP
9 3 (0.80%) LAN
9 3 (0.80%) VoIP
10 2 (0.54%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.54%) Internet
10 2 (0.54%) Network Security
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.27%) MPLS
11 1 (0.27%) NGFW
11 1 (0.27%) PBX
11 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (2.95%) Metadata
3 9 (2.41%) Power BI
4 8 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.34%) Looker
7 4 (1.07%) Big Data
8 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) DB2
8 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.27%) MS Access
9 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.41%) Git
2 6 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.61%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (13.67%) Finance
2 31 (8.31%) Social Skills
3 23 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (6.17%) Marketing
4 15 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.02%) Retail
5 14 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (3.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.34%) Legal
8 4 (1.07%) Banking
9 3 (0.80%) Automotive
9 3 (0.80%) Law
9 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Billing
10 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.68%) JSON
2 8 (2.14%) Middleware
3 7 (1.88%) YAML
4 6 (1.61%) .NET
4 6 (1.61%) EDI
5 4 (1.07%) Django
5 4 (1.07%) Node.js
5 4 (1.07%) React
5 4 (1.07%) XML
6 3 (0.80%) HTML
6 3 (0.80%) REST
6 3 (0.80%) Web Services
7 2 (0.54%) FreeSWITCH
7 2 (0.54%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.54%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.54%) WCF
7 2 (0.54%) WebRTC
8 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.97%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.09%) Public Cloud
3 17 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.61%) FMCG
5 6 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.34%) Replication
6 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.07%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.80%) Educational Technology
8 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.80%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.80%) IoT
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.54%) PMI
9 2 (0.54%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.83%) Windows
2 11 (2.95%) Linux
3 9 (2.41%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.14%) Solaris
4 8 (2.14%) Unix
5 6 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.54%) VME
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (19.84%) Agile
2 52 (13.94%) Roadmaps
3 51 (13.67%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (11.80%) Architectural Patterns
4 44 (11.80%) Presales
5 35 (9.38%) DevOps
6 34 (9.12%) Analytics
7 29 (7.77%) Mentoring
8 28 (7.51%) Data Modelling
9 26 (6.97%) CRM
10 25 (6.70%) CI/CD
11 24 (6.43%) Data Architecture
12 23 (6.17%) Design Patterns
13 22 (5.90%) Data Management
13 22 (5.90%) Software Licensing
13 22 (5.90%) Time Management
14 21 (5.63%) ERP
14 21 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (5.09%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (5.09%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.75%) SQL
2 12 (3.22%) C#
3 9 (2.41%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.34%) Python
5 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.54%) COBOL
6 2 (0.54%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 2 (0.54%) SOQL
7 1 (0.27%) R
7 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (10.46%) Degree
2 28 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.97%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (5.36%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.36%) CCNP
6 19 (5.09%) CCNA
7 13 (3.49%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.80%) CCIE
13 3 (0.80%) CCSK
13 3 (0.80%) CCSP
13 3 (0.80%) CISM
13 3 (0.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.41%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.14%) SLA
3 5 (1.34%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.34%) GDPR
4 3 (0.80%) NIST
5 2 (0.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.80%) Docker
3 2 (0.54%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (3.22%) Stealthwatch
2 10 (2.68%) Terraform
3 5 (1.34%) CASB
4 4 (1.07%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 98 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.70%) Cisco
3 23 (6.17%) Apple
4 22 (5.90%) Adobe
5 18 (4.83%) SAP
6 17 (4.56%) Meraki
7 15 (4.02%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.95%) Pega
9 8 (2.14%) Guidewire
10 7 (1.88%) Google
11 6 (1.61%) Dell
11 6 (1.61%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.61%) VMware
12 5 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.34%) Juniper
12 5 (1.34%) NetApp
12 5 (1.34%) Unisys
13 4 (1.07%) Cognizant
13 4 (1.07%) NEC
14 3 (0.80%) BeyondTrust