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 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 36 27 56
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 506 580 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.31% 8.61% 5.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.52% 9.67% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 269 162 223
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,335 £46,548
25th Percentile £62,250 £56,219 £55,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,640
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.20% +10.22%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,250 £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 9,161 5,999 7,976
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.18% 89.10% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,723 3,680 5,125
10th Percentile £27,789 £29,725 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £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 £63,750 £68,750 £65,275
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £78,750
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 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 23 May 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 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
Bristol +4 299 £80,000 +6.67% 28
Wiltshire -4 113 £71,250 +0.35% 14
Dorset -15 25 £95,000 +22.58% 5
Gloucestershire -79 24 £74,136 -16.31% 11
Somerset -2 18 £45,293 -45.81% 8
Devon -23 13 £71,840 +51.18% 4
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 South West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 189 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 152 (30.04%) Azure
3 151 (29.84%) TOGAF
4 129 (25.49%) Agile
5 119 (23.52%) AWS
5 119 (23.52%) Actionable Insight
6 108 (21.34%) Microsoft
7 93 (18.38%) DevOps
8 90 (17.79%) Social Skills
9 88 (17.39%) SC Cleared
10 82 (16.21%) Roadmaps
11 81 (16.01%) ArchiMate
12 77 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
13 76 (15.02%) Finance
14 73 (14.43%) Validation
15 70 (13.83%) Degree
16 65 (12.85%) Migration
17 64 (12.65%) Technical Architecture
18 60 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
19 58 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
19 58 (11.46%) Microservices
20 57 (11.26%) Business Case
20 57 (11.26%) Model Validation
21 53 (10.47%) Cloud Native
22 52 (10.28%) Collaborative Working
22 52 (10.28%) TOGAF Certification
22 52 (10.28%) Requirements Management
23 50 (9.88%) .NET
23 50 (9.88%) Public Cloud
23 50 (9.88%) Analytics

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 (0.79%) ArcGIS
1 4 (0.79%) CMS
1 4 (0.79%) WebLogic
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Simulink
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 38 (7.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 152 (30.04%) Azure
2 119 (23.52%) AWS
3 58 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (7.11%) GCP
6 34 (6.72%) PaaS
7 33 (6.52%) IaaS
8 32 (6.32%) SaaS
9 23 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 21 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.98%) OCI
13 9 (1.78%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.19%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.19%) Serverless
15 5 (0.99%) Azure Stack
16 4 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.72%) VSAT
2 8 (1.58%) Firewall
3 7 (1.38%) Network Security
3 7 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (1.19%) SSL
5 5 (0.99%) DNS
5 5 (0.99%) VoIP
6 4 (0.79%) BGP
6 4 (0.79%) PBX
6 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.59%) Broadband
7 3 (0.59%) Tactical Data Link
8 2 (0.40%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.40%) RTP
8 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.20%) TETRA
9 1 (0.20%) VPN
9 1 (0.20%) WAN
9 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (3.16%) Big Data
3 11 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (1.58%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.58%) Looker
6 7 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.38%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.79%) GIS
8 4 (0.79%) Metadata
8 4 (0.79%) Power BI
8 4 (0.79%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.59%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.59%) MySQL
9 3 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
2 3 (0.59%) Git
2 3 (0.59%) JUnit
2 3 (0.59%) Maven
3 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
General
1 90 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.02%) Finance
3 37 (7.31%) Aerospace
4 35 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
5 27 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.34%) Banking
6 25 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.55%) Retail
8 22 (4.35%) Marketing
9 20 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 17 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.36%) Law
11 16 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 13 (2.57%) Military
13 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.78%) Legal
15 7 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.99%) Electronics
17 3 (0.59%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.88%) .NET
2 12 (2.37%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.38%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.38%) Kafka
4 6 (1.19%) Middleware
5 5 (0.99%) Spring
6 4 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (0.79%) REST
7 3 (0.59%) CSS
7 3 (0.59%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.59%) HTML
7 3 (0.59%) Java SE
7 3 (0.59%) JPA
7 3 (0.59%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.59%) OpenID
7 3 (0.59%) Playwright
7 3 (0.59%) Swagger
7 3 (0.59%) YAML
8 2 (0.40%) HTML5
8 2 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.88%) Public Cloud
3 25 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 15 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (2.96%) Taxonomies
6 13 (2.57%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.38%) PKI
9 6 (1.19%) CCTV
9 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.19%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.19%) Replication
10 5 (0.99%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.31%) Linux
2 7 (1.38%) Windows
3 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) CentOS
4 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (29.84%) TOGAF
2 129 (25.49%) Agile
3 119 (23.52%) Actionable Insight
4 93 (18.38%) DevOps
5 82 (16.21%) Roadmaps
6 81 (16.01%) ArchiMate
7 77 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
8 73 (14.43%) Validation
9 65 (12.85%) Migration
10 64 (12.65%) Technical Architecture
11 60 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (11.46%) Microservices
13 57 (11.26%) Business Case
13 57 (11.26%) Model Validation
14 52 (10.28%) Collaborative Working
14 52 (10.28%) Requirements Management
15 50 (9.88%) Analytics
16 46 (9.09%) Data Analytics
17 45 (8.89%) Business Strategy
17 45 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.89%) Python
2 24 (4.74%) Java
3 17 (3.36%) C
4 16 (3.16%) SQL
5 9 (1.78%) C#
6 8 (1.58%) Ruby
7 7 (1.38%) C++
8 6 (1.19%) Bash
8 6 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.19%) R
8 6 (1.19%) Scala
8 6 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.59%) Bicep
9 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 88 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 70 (13.83%) Degree
4 52 (10.28%) TOGAF Certification
5 43 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 42 (8.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (4.74%) CISSP
8 20 (3.95%) CISM
9 16 (3.16%) CISA
10 15 (2.96%) CRISC
11 10 (1.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 10 (1.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (1.78%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.58%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.19%) SANS
15 5 (0.99%) CCSP
15 5 (0.99%) CEH
16 4 (0.79%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.37%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.37%) NIST
3 11 (2.17%) GDPR
4 6 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.59%) COBIT
6 3 (0.59%) HMG Infosec
6 3 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.59%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.59%) RMADS
7 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.40%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.40%) QA
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) Docker
4 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.40%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.35%) Terraform
3 19 (3.75%) Ansible
4 18 (3.56%) Puppet
5 3 (0.59%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.59%) OpenView
6 2 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.51%) Sparx
3 33 (6.52%) Google
4 23 (4.55%) Oracle
5 17 (3.36%) VMware
6 7 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.19%) Cisco
7 6 (1.19%) PagerDuty
8 5 (0.99%) Pega
9 4 (0.79%) ESRI
9 4 (0.79%) Ribbon
10 3 (0.59%) BMC
10 3 (0.59%) Databricks
10 3 (0.59%) HP
10 3 (0.59%) Remedy
10 3 (0.59%) Riverbed
10 3 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.59%) Splunk
10 3 (0.59%) Twitter
10 3 (0.59%) Veracode