Architectural Design Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Architectural Design
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 94 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 +46
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 7 7 18
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.38% 0.46% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.53% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £80,125 £44,875 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,313 £48,438 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £58,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -16.07% -15.15%
75th Percentile £82,813 £66,438 £96,539
90th Percentile £83,375 £68,425 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £81,250 £58,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.30% -16.07% -15.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,332 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.28% 87.00% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 914 661 1,392
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,938 £41,250 £42,423
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -4.40% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.34%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Leeds -9 7 £81,250 +38.30% 3
Architectural Design
Yorkshire

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) QA Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) ERP
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Process Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) Waterfall
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle