Architect Jobs in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect salary in the North West is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 33 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 610 618 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.05% 8.01% 5.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.39% 8.96% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 351 135 225
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £53,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,032 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,552 6,900 9,138
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 89.46% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,344 4,020 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,065 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,050 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the North West

Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Manchester +9 373 £75,000 - 48
Merseyside -5 110 £75,000 - 11
Cheshire +9 48 £73,543 +9.90% 7
Lancashire +7 48 £70,000 +14.59% 10
Cumbria -7 23 £67,500 +6.30% 4
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 North West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 176 (28.85%) Azure
2 132 (21.64%) TOGAF
3 129 (21.15%) Agile
4 115 (18.85%) AWS
5 112 (18.36%) Actionable Insight
6 100 (16.39%) Social Skills
7 93 (15.25%) Roadmaps
8 91 (14.92%) Technical Architecture
9 84 (13.77%) Microsoft
10 76 (12.46%) Requirements Management
11 74 (12.13%) Network Architecture
11 74 (12.13%) DevOps
12 73 (11.97%) Validation
13 71 (11.64%) Security Cleared
13 71 (11.64%) Network Management
14 70 (11.48%) Mentoring
15 69 (11.31%) Model Validation
15 69 (11.31%) VSAT
16 66 (10.82%) Migration
17 65 (10.66%) Finance
17 65 (10.66%) Presales
18 62 (10.16%) Public Cloud
18 62 (10.16%) SaaS
19 60 (9.84%) Data Modelling
20 58 (9.51%) Data Architecture
21 57 (9.34%) Coaching
22 54 (8.85%) Analytics
22 54 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
23 53 (8.69%) GCP
24 51 (8.36%) SC Cleared

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 12 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.31%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.33%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.48%) SAP BPC
3 9 (1.48%) SAP PP
4 6 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.82%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.82%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.66%) SAP APO
6 4 (0.66%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.66%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.66%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 176 (28.85%) Azure
2 115 (18.85%) AWS
3 62 (10.16%) SaaS
4 53 (8.69%) GCP
5 27 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 24 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (2.79%) PaaS
9 13 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.13%) IaaS
10 8 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (0.98%) GitHub
12 4 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.66%) Serverless
13 2 (0.33%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.33%) dbt
13 2 (0.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.31%) VSAT
2 36 (5.90%) WAN
3 28 (4.59%) SD-WAN
4 24 (3.93%) Network Security
5 13 (2.13%) DNS
6 12 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (1.31%) BGP
8 8 (1.31%) LAN
8 8 (1.31%) SSL
9 5 (0.82%) DHCP
9 5 (0.82%) Firewall
10 4 (0.66%) Multicast
10 4 (0.66%) OSPF
10 4 (0.66%) SAN
10 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.66%) Wireless
10 4 (0.66%) WLAN
11 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (3.61%) Metadata
3 21 (3.44%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.11%) NoSQL
5 11 (1.80%) Data Vault
5 11 (1.80%) Power BI
6 10 (1.64%) BigQuery
6 10 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (1.64%) RDBMS
7 9 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.48%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.31%) Looker
8 8 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.15%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.98%) DB2
10 6 (0.98%) Tableau
11 5 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Git
2 6 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.82%) JIRA
4 4 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
General
1 100 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.66%) Finance
3 46 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (7.54%) Public Sector
4 24 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
5 23 (3.77%) Retail
6 16 (2.62%) Legal
7 11 (1.80%) Banking
8 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.33%) Law
14 1 (0.16%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.10%) .NET
2 12 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (1.64%) React
4 9 (1.48%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.82%) SAP TM
6 4 (0.66%) Akka
6 4 (0.66%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.66%) EDI
6 4 (0.66%) Kafka
6 4 (0.66%) Node.js
7 3 (0.49%) OpenID
8 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.33%) Django
8 2 (0.33%) Middleware
8 2 (0.33%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.33%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (0.33%) Vue
9 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.16%) J2EE
9 1 (0.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.16%) Public Cloud
2 41 (6.72%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 14 (2.30%) PKI
8 11 (1.80%) FMCG
8 11 (1.80%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.64%) Blog
9 10 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.15%) IoT
11 5 (0.82%) NHS
11 5 (0.82%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.66%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.95%) Linux
2 9 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.49%) Unix
3 3 (0.49%) VME
4 1 (0.16%) HPUX
4 1 (0.16%) Solaris
4 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (21.64%) TOGAF
2 129 (21.15%) Agile
3 112 (18.36%) Actionable Insight
4 93 (15.25%) Roadmaps
5 91 (14.92%) Technical Architecture
6 76 (12.46%) Requirements Management
7 74 (12.13%) DevOps
7 74 (12.13%) Network Architecture
8 73 (11.97%) Validation
9 71 (11.64%) Network Management
10 70 (11.48%) Mentoring
11 69 (11.31%) Model Validation
12 66 (10.82%) Migration
13 65 (10.66%) Presales
14 60 (9.84%) Data Modelling
15 58 (9.51%) Data Architecture
16 57 (9.34%) Coaching
17 54 (8.85%) Analytics
17 54 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
18 49 (8.03%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.10%) JavaScript
2 15 (2.46%) SQL
3 13 (2.13%) C#
4 8 (1.31%) Python
5 7 (1.15%) Java
6 4 (0.66%) Bicep
7 3 (0.49%) COBOL
7 3 (0.49%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 2 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 71 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 51 (8.36%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.89%) Degree
4 36 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.43%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.93%) CISSP
8 21 (3.44%) CISM
9 17 (2.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (2.46%) CCNP
10 15 (2.46%) CCSK
10 15 (2.46%) CCSP
11 14 (2.30%) CCNA
12 11 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.98%) CEH
14 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.66%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.61%) NIST
3 19 (3.11%) GDPR
4 8 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.98%) COBIT
6 6 (0.98%) SLA
7 5 (0.82%) QA
8 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (3.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (1.97%) Terraform
4 8 (1.31%) Stealthwatch
5 6 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.98%) OpenView
6 5 (0.82%) CASB
6 5 (0.82%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.90%) Google
3 30 (4.92%) SAP
4 22 (3.61%) Cisco
5 19 (3.11%) Oracle
6 17 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.13%) Adobe
7 13 (2.13%) Apple
7 13 (2.13%) Meraki
8 10 (1.64%) Sparx
9 8 (1.31%) IBM
10 7 (1.15%) HP
10 7 (1.15%) Thales
11 6 (0.98%) BMC
11 6 (0.98%) Remedy
12 5 (0.82%) Databricks
12 5 (0.82%) Tanium
13 4 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.66%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.66%) Palo Alto