Architect Job Trends in the West Midlands

Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Architect salary in the West Midlands is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 47 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 180 230 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.43% 5.29% 5.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.83% 5.66% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 135 136 129
10th Percentile £57,550 £58,334 £57,410
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,929
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,250 £105,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -2.30%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,702 4,062 3,120
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.49% 93.36% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 1,970 2,649
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 31 December 2025.

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 31 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
Birmingham +3 99 £77,000 +4.41% 62
Staffordshire -5 25 £75,000 +2.74% 47
Solihull +5 16 £87,500 +12.90% 3
Coventry +6 11 £78,750 +16.67% 43
Herefordshire - 9 £80,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Warwickshire -2 2 £110,596 +47.46% 8
Dudley - 2 £80,000 -
Walsall - 1 £72,250 -
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 60 (33.33%) Azure
2 42 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 39 (21.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 38 (21.11%) Microsoft
5 33 (18.33%) Roadmaps
5 33 (18.33%) SC Cleared
6 31 (17.22%) AI
7 29 (16.11%) Degree
7 29 (16.11%) TOGAF
8 24 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (12.78%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (11.11%) AWS
10 20 (11.11%) Data Architecture
10 20 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 19 (10.56%) Agile
11 19 (10.56%) DV Cleared
11 19 (10.56%) IT Strategy
12 18 (10.00%) Information Management
13 17 (9.44%) Project Delivery
13 17 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (8.89%) Power Platform
15 15 (8.33%) Python
15 15 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
16 14 (7.78%) Analytics
16 14 (7.78%) Architectural Design
16 14 (7.78%) Firewall
16 14 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (7.78%) Time Management
17 13 (7.22%) Analytical Thinking
17 13 (7.22%) Architectural Patterns

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) CMS
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.56%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.67%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Maximo
3 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.56%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.33%) Azure
2 20 (11.11%) AWS
3 16 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.11%) GCP
6 10 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.56%) SaaS
7 8 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.44%) IaaS
7 8 (4.44%) PaaS
8 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.22%) GitHub
9 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.67%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.11%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.56%) Bloomreach
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.78%) Firewall
2 8 (4.44%) VPN
3 6 (3.33%) WAN
4 5 (2.78%) LAN
4 5 (2.78%) Network Security
5 4 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.11%) Internet
7 2 (1.11%) SSL
7 2 (1.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.56%) BGP
8 1 (0.56%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.56%) OSPF
8 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) Power BI
2 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.22%) Metadata
3 3 (1.67%) GIS
4 2 (1.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.11%) GitLab
2 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.44%) Finance
3 25 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.89%) Legal
5 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Banking
7 2 (1.11%) Marketing
7 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.56%) Games
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.22%) EDI
2 7 (3.89%) React
3 6 (3.33%) Django
3 6 (3.33%) Node.js
4 2 (1.11%) Kafka
5 1 (0.56%) .NET
5 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.56%) CSS
5 1 (0.56%) HTML
5 1 (0.56%) Middleware
5 1 (0.56%) OAuth
5 1 (0.56%) PySpark
5 1 (0.56%) REST
5 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.67%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.11%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.11%) PKI
5 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.56%) CMDB
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (21.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 33 (18.33%) Roadmaps
3 31 (17.22%) AI
4 29 (16.11%) TOGAF
5 24 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (12.78%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (11.11%) Data Architecture
7 20 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 19 (10.56%) Agile
8 19 (10.56%) IT Strategy
9 18 (10.00%) Information Management
10 17 (9.44%) Project Delivery
10 17 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
12 14 (7.78%) Analytics
12 14 (7.78%) Architectural Design
12 14 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (7.78%) Time Management
13 13 (7.22%) CRM
13 13 (7.22%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (1.67%) Bicep
2 3 (1.67%) C#
2 3 (1.67%) Java
2 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.67%) SQL
3 2 (1.11%) R
4 1 (0.56%) Bash
4 1 (0.56%) Go
4 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.11%) Degree
4 19 (10.56%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.89%) CISSP
6 6 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.78%) CISM
7 5 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.67%) CCNP
9 3 (1.67%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.11%) CCNA
10 2 (1.11%) CITP
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) QA
2 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.67%) NIST
4 2 (1.11%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.89%) Terraform
2 4 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.11%) CASB
4 2 (1.11%) Endace
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 38 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.56%) Adobe
3 9 (5.00%) Apple
3 9 (5.00%) Cisco
3 9 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 7 (3.89%) Sparx
5 5 (2.78%) Juniper
5 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.22%) Databricks
6 4 (2.22%) SAP
7 3 (1.67%) HP
7 3 (1.67%) VMware
8 2 (1.11%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.11%) Google
8 2 (1.11%) Meraki
8 2 (1.11%) Netskope
8 2 (1.11%) Workday
9 1 (0.56%) mParticle
9 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.56%) Tealium