Architect Jobs in West Yorkshire

Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Architect salary in West Yorkshire is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 14 37
Rank change year-on-year -35 +23 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 66 306 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.88% 10.15% 7.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.38% 10.56% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 52 174 165
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,750 £58,000
25th Percentile £70,072 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £103,025 £97,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £79,842 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.20% -0.20% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,227 2,897 4,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 96.12% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 658 2,131 2,281
10th Percentile £28,350 £28,000 £31,569
25th Percentile £40,188 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,548 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year -2.69% -10.24% +9.18%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Leeds -18 48 £90,000 +12.50% 41
Halifax -7 15 £71,991 -24.07%
Huddersfield +4 1 - - 1
Pontefract - 1 £65,000 -
Architect
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 36 (54.55%) Finance
2 33 (50.00%) Agile
3 31 (46.97%) Banking
4 27 (40.91%) Product Ownership
5 24 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (36.36%) Microservices
5 24 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
6 22 (33.33%) DevOps
7 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
7 19 (28.79%) Risk Management
8 17 (25.76%) API Design
9 16 (24.24%) GCP
9 16 (24.24%) Domain-Driven Design
10 15 (22.73%) ETL
10 15 (22.73%) IT Strategy
10 15 (22.73%) Containerisation
11 14 (21.21%) Technology Strategy
11 14 (21.21%) Integration Patterns
11 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
11 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (19.70%) Management Information System
12 13 (19.70%) Data Architecture
12 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (19.70%) NoSQL
12 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
13 12 (18.18%) TOGAF
14 10 (15.15%) Change Management
14 10 (15.15%) Customer Engagement
14 10 (15.15%) Azure

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (7.58%) SAS
2 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.52%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) GCP
2 10 (15.15%) Azure
3 7 (10.61%) AWS
4 5 (7.58%) SaaS
5 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) IaaS
7 1 (1.52%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.52%) PaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.52%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) DHCP
2 1 (1.52%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) LAN
2 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
2 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.64%) Data Lake
3 8 (12.12%) Big Data
3 8 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.03%) Flink
5 1 (1.52%) Endeca
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
5 1 (1.52%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Git
1 1 (1.52%) GitLab
1 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 36 (54.55%) Finance
2 31 (46.97%) Banking
3 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.58%) Back Office
6 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Local Government
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.52%) .NET
2 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.52%) jQuery
2 1 (1.52%) JSON
2 1 (1.52%) LDAP
2 1 (1.52%) RESTful
2 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.52%) SOAP
2 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (40.91%) Product Ownership
2 13 (19.70%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.61%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.58%) Credit Risk
4 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.58%) Market Risk
4 5 (7.58%) Operational Technology
5 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.03%) CMDB
6 2 (3.03%) IVR
6 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.52%) CCTV
7 1 (1.52%) NHS
7 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) SCADA
7 1 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Linux
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.00%) Agile
2 24 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
2 24 (36.36%) Microservices
2 24 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
3 22 (33.33%) DevOps
4 19 (28.79%) Risk Management
5 17 (25.76%) API Design
6 16 (24.24%) Domain-Driven Design
7 15 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 15 (22.73%) ETL
7 15 (22.73%) IT Strategy
8 14 (21.21%) Integration Patterns
8 14 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (21.21%) Technology Strategy
9 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (19.70%) Data Architecture
9 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 12 (18.18%) TOGAF
11 10 (15.15%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) Java
2 6 (9.09%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) Python
3 5 (7.58%) R
4 2 (3.03%) Scala
5 1 (1.52%) Bicep
5 1 (1.52%) C#
5 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.52%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Basel II
1 5 (7.58%) Basel III
1 5 (7.58%) Dodd-Frank
1 5 (7.58%) GDPR
1 5 (7.58%) IFRS
1 5 (7.58%) IFRS 9
1 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Oracle
3 2 (3.03%) SAP
3 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.03%) VMware
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (1.52%) IBM
4 1 (1.52%) Meraki
4 1 (1.52%) Okta
4 1 (1.52%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.52%) Workday