Architect Jobs in the South West

Architect
England > South West

The median Architect salary in the South West is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 22 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 +27
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 541 620 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.22% 9.55% 5.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.42% 10.75% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 300 170 222
10th Percentile £52,000 £49,875 £46,442
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,688 £55,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +1.38% +7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,375 £112,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,975 5,765 8,290
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.76% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,226 3,665 5,138
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the South West

Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Bristol +2 305 £80,000 +4.58% 23
Wiltshire -2 113 £72,500 +3.57% 15
Somerset -4 33 £55,000 -26.67% 10
Gloucestershire -75 31 £80,000 -5.88% 8
Dorset -19 30 £80,000 - 8
Devon -26 16 £71,840 +30.62% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 South West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 183 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 151 (27.91%) Azure
3 150 (27.73%) TOGAF
4 133 (24.58%) Agile
5 115 (21.26%) AWS
6 108 (19.96%) Microsoft
7 103 (19.04%) Actionable Insight
8 98 (18.11%) Social Skills
9 93 (17.19%) DevOps
10 91 (16.82%) SC Cleared
11 80 (14.79%) ArchiMate
12 76 (14.05%) Degree
13 75 (13.86%) Roadmaps
14 74 (13.68%) Finance
15 73 (13.49%) Technical Architecture
16 70 (12.94%) Enterprise Architecture
17 67 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
18 63 (11.65%) Validation
19 58 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
20 56 (10.35%) Microservices
20 56 (10.35%) Migration
21 53 (9.80%) Business Case
22 52 (9.61%) Collaborative Working
23 50 (9.24%) TOGAF Certification
23 50 (9.24%) Model Validation
24 49 (9.06%) .NET
25 48 (8.87%) Requirements Management
26 47 (8.69%) Public Cloud
26 47 (8.69%) Analytics
27 46 (8.50%) Cybersecurity

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (0.74%) ArcGIS
1 4 (0.74%) CMS
1 4 (0.74%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Simulink
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 37 (6.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (27.91%) Azure
2 115 (21.26%) AWS
3 58 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (6.10%) GCP
6 31 (5.73%) PaaS
7 30 (5.55%) SaaS
8 27 (4.99%) IaaS
9 23 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.85%) OCI
13 9 (1.66%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.29%) Serverless
15 6 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (0.92%) Azure Stack
17 4 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
17 4 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
17 4 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.73%) VSAT
2 10 (1.85%) Firewall
3 7 (1.29%) DNS
3 7 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (1.11%) Network Security
4 6 (1.11%) SSL
5 4 (0.74%) BGP
5 4 (0.74%) PBX
5 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.74%) VoIP
6 3 (0.55%) Broadband
6 3 (0.55%) Tactical Data Link
7 2 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.37%) RTP
7 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.18%) TETRA
8 1 (0.18%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.59%) Big Data
3 11 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
4 10 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.48%) Looker
6 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.11%) GIS
6 6 (1.11%) Power BI
6 6 (1.11%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.92%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.74%) Metadata
8 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.55%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.55%) MySQL
9 3 (0.55%) Tableau
10 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.37%) Git
2 2 (0.37%) JUnit
2 2 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 98 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 74 (13.68%) Finance
3 36 (6.65%) Aerospace
4 34 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
5 31 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.44%) Banking
7 24 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.07%) Marketing
9 21 (3.88%) Retail
10 20 (3.70%) Law
11 19 (3.51%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.77%) Military
14 10 (1.85%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.85%) Legal
15 7 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.92%) Aviation
16 5 (0.92%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.06%) .NET
2 9 (1.66%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.29%) Middleware
4 6 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.11%) Kafka
5 5 (0.92%) REST
6 4 (0.74%) OAuth
6 4 (0.74%) OpenID
6 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (0.74%) SAML
7 3 (0.55%) CSS
7 3 (0.55%) HTML
7 3 (0.55%) XML
7 3 (0.55%) YAML
8 2 (0.37%) CSS3
8 2 (0.37%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.37%) Java SE
8 2 (0.37%) JPA
8 2 (0.37%) Spring
8 2 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.69%) Public Cloud
2 46 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.99%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.03%) Taxonomies
7 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.29%) PKI
10 6 (1.11%) CCTV
10 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.11%) Replication
11 4 (0.74%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.55%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.02%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.37%) CentOS
4 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (27.73%) TOGAF
2 133 (24.58%) Agile
3 103 (19.04%) Actionable Insight
4 93 (17.19%) DevOps
5 80 (14.79%) ArchiMate
6 75 (13.86%) Roadmaps
7 73 (13.49%) Technical Architecture
8 70 (12.94%) Enterprise Architecture
9 67 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (11.65%) Validation
11 56 (10.35%) Microservices
11 56 (10.35%) Migration
12 53 (9.80%) Business Case
13 52 (9.61%) Collaborative Working
14 50 (9.24%) Model Validation
15 48 (8.87%) Requirements Management
16 47 (8.69%) Analytics
17 46 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
18 45 (8.32%) Data Analytics
19 44 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.76%) Python
2 25 (4.62%) Java
3 17 (3.14%) C
4 14 (2.59%) SQL
5 9 (1.66%) C#
6 8 (1.48%) Ruby
7 7 (1.29%) C++
8 6 (1.11%) Bash
8 6 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.11%) R
8 6 (1.11%) Scala
8 6 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.55%) Bicep
10 3 (0.55%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 183 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 91 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.05%) Degree
4 50 (9.24%) TOGAF Certification
5 44 (8.13%) DV Cleared
6 42 (7.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (4.44%) CISSP
8 20 (3.70%) CISM
9 16 (2.96%) CISA
10 15 (2.77%) CRISC
11 11 (2.03%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
15 6 (1.11%) SANS
16 5 (0.92%) CCSP
16 5 (0.92%) CEH
17 4 (0.74%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.22%) NIST
3 11 (2.03%) GDPR
4 7 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.55%) COBIT
6 3 (0.55%) HMG Infosec
6 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.55%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.55%) RMADS
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.37%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.37%) QA
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) Docker
4 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.37%) Firmware
5 2 (0.37%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.88%) Terraform
3 19 (3.51%) Ansible
4 18 (3.33%) Puppet
5 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.55%) OpenView
6 1 (0.18%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.84%) Sparx
3 33 (6.10%) Google
4 24 (4.44%) Oracle
5 16 (2.96%) VMware
6 10 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.11%) Cisco
7 6 (1.11%) ESRI
7 6 (1.11%) PagerDuty
8 5 (0.92%) Pega
9 4 (0.74%) Ribbon
10 3 (0.55%) BMC
10 3 (0.55%) HP
10 3 (0.55%) IBM
10 3 (0.55%) Remedy
10 3 (0.55%) Riverbed
10 3 (0.55%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.55%) Splunk
10 3 (0.55%) Twitter
10 3 (0.55%) Veracode