Architect Jobs 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 to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 59 46
Rank change year-on-year +27 -13 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 388 342 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.40% 5.07% 5.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.74% 5.63% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 255 210 229
10th Percentile £52,500 £61,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £95,000 £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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,759 6,072 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,145 3,346 4,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +4 227 £75,400 +0.53% 22
Warwickshire +68 59 £77,500 -7.74% 11
Solihull +3 29 £62,500 -33.16% 1
Staffordshire -11 12 £65,000 -17.46% 2
Shropshire +6 8 £74,136 -14.29%
Coventry +1 4 £81,636 +11.83% 1
Walsall - 3 £92,500 -
West Bromwich - 3 £78,500 -
Wolverhampton +13 2 £86,000 +6.17% 2
Stourbridge - 1 £75,000 - 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 89 (22.94%) Agile
2 88 (22.68%) Azure
3 83 (21.39%) Microsoft
4 65 (16.75%) Roadmaps
5 63 (16.24%) Data Modelling
6 57 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (14.43%) Analytics
8 51 (13.14%) Architectural Patterns
9 49 (12.63%) Data Architecture
10 46 (11.86%) Power Platform
11 44 (11.34%) AWS
12 40 (10.31%) Dynamics 365
13 38 (9.79%) Social Skills
13 38 (9.79%) Finance
14 35 (9.02%) ERP
15 34 (8.76%) DevOps
16 30 (7.73%) Mentoring
16 30 (7.73%) Public Cloud
16 30 (7.73%) Data Design
16 30 (7.73%) Metadata
16 30 (7.73%) WAN
17 29 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (7.47%) Degree
18 28 (7.22%) Management Information System
19 27 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
19 27 (6.96%) Data Management
19 27 (6.96%) SaaS
19 27 (6.96%) CI/CD
19 27 (6.96%) User Experience
20 26 (6.70%) Enterprise Architecture

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 16 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.26%) Appian
2 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Simulink
2 2 (0.52%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 9 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.52%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.52%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 88 (22.68%) Azure
2 46 (11.86%) Power Platform
3 44 (11.34%) AWS
4 40 (10.31%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (6.96%) SaaS
6 25 (6.44%) GCP
7 23 (5.93%) PaaS
8 21 (5.41%) IaaS
9 20 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (5.15%) PowerApps
10 19 (4.90%) Power Automate
11 17 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.52%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.52%) dbt
12 2 (0.52%) Serverless
12 2 (0.52%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.73%) WAN
2 23 (5.93%) SD-WAN
3 16 (4.12%) Firewall
3 16 (4.12%) VPN
4 12 (3.09%) Wireless
5 10 (2.58%) NGFW
6 7 (1.80%) LAN
7 5 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (1.29%) MPLS
8 4 (1.03%) DNS
8 4 (1.03%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.03%) Intranet
9 3 (0.77%) VoIP
9 3 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.77%) WLAN
10 2 (0.52%) BGP
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) Internet
10 2 (0.52%) IPsec
10 2 (0.52%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.73%) Metadata
2 23 (5.93%) Power BI
3 16 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.32%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.06%) Looker
5 8 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.77%) DB2
7 3 (0.77%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) Big Data
8 2 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Git
2 6 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.55%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.52%) CANoe
3 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (9.79%) Finance
1 38 (9.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
3 17 (4.38%) Public Sector
4 15 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.35%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.35%) Retail
7 11 (2.84%) Automotive
8 9 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.55%) Banking
9 6 (1.55%) Legal
10 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Games
11 3 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.52%) Electronics
12 2 (0.52%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.26%) Back Office
13 1 (0.26%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.90%) JSON
2 14 (3.61%) YAML
3 10 (2.58%) .NET
3 10 (2.58%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.55%) Middleware
4 6 (1.55%) Web Services
5 5 (1.29%) EDI
5 5 (1.29%) XML
6 4 (1.03%) REST
6 4 (1.03%) WCF
7 3 (0.77%) Kafka
8 2 (0.52%) Django
8 2 (0.52%) HTML
8 2 (0.52%) Node.js
8 2 (0.52%) React
8 2 (0.52%) RESTful
8 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.52%) Spring
8 2 (0.52%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.73%) Public Cloud
2 28 (7.22%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.84%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.55%) FMCG
8 4 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.03%) IoT
8 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.77%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.52%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.52%) NHS
10 2 (0.52%) PropTech
10 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.26%) Blog
11 1 (0.26%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.84%) Windows
2 7 (1.80%) Unix
3 6 (1.55%) Linux
3 6 (1.55%) Solaris
3 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.94%) Agile
2 65 (16.75%) Roadmaps
3 63 (16.24%) Data Modelling
4 57 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
5 56 (14.43%) Analytics
6 51 (13.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 49 (12.63%) Data Architecture
8 35 (9.02%) ERP
9 34 (8.76%) DevOps
10 30 (7.73%) Data Design
10 30 (7.73%) Mentoring
11 29 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (6.96%) CI/CD
12 27 (6.96%) Data Management
12 27 (6.96%) User Experience
13 26 (6.70%) Enterprise Architecture
14 25 (6.44%) Artificial Intelligence
14 25 (6.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 24 (6.19%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 17 (4.38%) C#
2 16 (4.12%) SQL
3 14 (3.61%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.06%) Python
5 6 (1.55%) Java
6 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.03%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.77%) C
8 3 (0.77%) C++
9 2 (0.52%) R
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (7.47%) Degree
2 22 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (4.64%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.61%) CCNP
6 11 (2.84%) CCNA
7 10 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.03%) CCIE
10 4 (1.03%) CISM
10 4 (1.03%) CISSP
10 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.77%) CCSK
11 3 (0.77%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.61%) SLA
2 9 (2.32%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.06%) GDPR
4 5 (1.29%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.77%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.52%) NCSC
6 2 (0.52%) SEPA
7 1 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 15 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (2.58%) vSphere
3 5 (1.29%) Docker
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.87%) Terraform
2 7 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.29%) CASB
3 5 (1.29%) Stealthwatch
4 3 (0.77%) MOM
4 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 83 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.70%) SAP
3 25 (6.44%) Cisco
4 15 (3.87%) VMware
5 13 (3.35%) Juniper
6 12 (3.09%) Adobe
6 12 (3.09%) Apple
6 12 (3.09%) Google
6 12 (3.09%) Meraki
6 12 (3.09%) Pega
6 12 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.84%) Citrix
8 10 (2.58%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.06%) Guidewire
10 5 (1.29%) Unisys
11 4 (1.03%) IBM
11 4 (1.03%) Oracle
11 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.52%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.52%) Informatica