Architect Jobs in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect salary in the North West is £73,543 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 32 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 612 618 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.99% 8.10% 5.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.32% 9.07% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 351 136 231
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,368 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,543 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,425
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,625 £110,000
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 9,681 6,813 9,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.33% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,427 4,029 5,422
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,086 £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 £78,500 £80,100 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +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 27 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 27 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 +10 374 £75,000 +1.69% 53
Merseyside -6 111 £75,000 +3.45% 10
Cheshire +11 48 £73,543 +9.90% 7
Lancashire +6 48 £70,000 +14.59% 10
Cumbria -11 23 £67,500 +6.30% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 173 (28.27%) Azure
2 130 (21.24%) TOGAF
3 125 (20.42%) Agile
4 115 (18.79%) AWS
5 110 (17.97%) Actionable Insight
6 101 (16.50%) Social Skills
7 90 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 87 (14.22%) Technical Architecture
9 85 (13.89%) Microsoft
10 74 (12.09%) Requirements Management
11 73 (11.93%) DevOps
12 72 (11.76%) Network Architecture
13 71 (11.60%) Validation
14 70 (11.44%) Security Cleared
14 70 (11.44%) Mentoring
15 69 (11.27%) Network Management
16 67 (10.95%) Model Validation
16 67 (10.95%) VSAT
17 66 (10.78%) Presales
18 65 (10.62%) Migration
18 65 (10.62%) Finance
19 61 (9.97%) Public Cloud
20 60 (9.80%) SaaS
20 60 (9.80%) Data Modelling
21 58 (9.48%) Data Architecture
22 57 (9.31%) Coaching
23 56 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
24 55 (8.99%) Analytics
25 52 (8.50%) GCP
26 50 (8.17%) 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 11 (1.80%) 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 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.47%) SAP BPC
3 9 (1.47%) 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 (0.65%) SAP APO
6 4 (0.65%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.65%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.65%) 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
1 173 (28.27%) Azure
2 115 (18.79%) AWS
3 60 (9.80%) SaaS
4 52 (8.50%) GCP
5 27 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 23 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (2.29%) PaaS
9 13 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.63%) IaaS
11 8 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.98%) GitHub
13 4 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.65%) Serverless
14 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.33%) dbt
14 2 (0.33%) Kong
14 2 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 67 (10.95%) VSAT
2 37 (6.05%) WAN
3 29 (4.74%) SD-WAN
4 24 (3.92%) Network Security
5 13 (2.12%) DNS
6 12 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.63%) 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 (0.65%) Multicast
10 4 (0.65%) OSPF
10 4 (0.65%) SAN
10 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.65%) Wireless
10 4 (0.65%) WLAN
11 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (3.59%) Metadata
3 21 (3.43%) Relational Database
4 18 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 11 (1.80%) Data Vault
5 11 (1.80%) Power BI
6 10 (1.63%) BigQuery
6 10 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (1.63%) RDBMS
7 9 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.47%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.31%) Looker
8 8 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.98%) DB2
9 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.98%) Tableau
10 5 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.47%) Git
2 6 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.82%) JIRA
4 4 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
General
1 101 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.62%) Finance
3 46 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 24 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
5 23 (3.76%) Retail
6 16 (2.61%) Legal
7 9 (1.47%) Banking
7 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.33%) Law
13 1 (0.16%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.92%) .NET
2 12 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (1.63%) React
4 9 (1.47%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.82%) SAP TM
6 4 (0.65%) Akka
6 4 (0.65%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.65%) EDI
6 4 (0.65%) Kafka
6 4 (0.65%) Node.js
7 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.33%) Django
7 2 (0.33%) Middleware
7 2 (0.33%) OpenID
7 2 (0.33%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.33%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.33%) Vue
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Camel
8 1 (0.16%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.16%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.97%) Public Cloud
2 41 (6.70%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.27%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 14 (2.29%) PKI
9 11 (1.80%) FMCG
9 11 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.63%) Blog
10 10 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.14%) IoT
12 5 (0.82%) NHS
12 5 (0.82%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.94%) Linux
2 9 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.49%) VME
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) HPUX
5 1 (0.16%) Solaris
5 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (21.24%) TOGAF
2 125 (20.42%) Agile
3 110 (17.97%) Actionable Insight
4 90 (14.71%) Roadmaps
5 87 (14.22%) Technical Architecture
6 74 (12.09%) Requirements Management
7 73 (11.93%) DevOps
8 72 (11.76%) Network Architecture
9 71 (11.60%) Validation
10 70 (11.44%) Mentoring
11 69 (11.27%) Network Management
12 67 (10.95%) Model Validation
13 66 (10.78%) Presales
14 65 (10.62%) Migration
15 60 (9.80%) Data Modelling
16 58 (9.48%) Data Architecture
17 57 (9.31%) Coaching
18 56 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
19 55 (8.99%) Analytics
20 48 (7.84%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.08%) JavaScript
2 14 (2.29%) SQL
3 12 (1.96%) C#
4 8 (1.31%) Python
5 7 (1.14%) Java
6 4 (0.65%) Bicep
7 3 (0.49%) COBOL
7 3 (0.49%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 2 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 70 (11.44%) Security Cleared
2 50 (8.17%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.03%) Degree
4 37 (6.05%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.92%) CISSP
8 21 (3.43%) CISM
9 17 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 16 (2.61%) CCNP
11 15 (2.45%) CCNA
11 15 (2.45%) CCSK
11 15 (2.45%) CCSP
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 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.59%) NIST
3 19 (3.10%) GDPR
4 8 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.14%) 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 (3.10%) Docker
2 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (1.96%) Terraform
4 9 (1.47%) Stealthwatch
5 6 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.98%) OpenView
6 5 (0.82%) CASB
6 5 (0.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.05%) Google
3 30 (4.90%) SAP
4 23 (3.76%) Cisco
5 18 (2.94%) Oracle
6 17 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.29%) Adobe
7 14 (2.29%) Apple
7 14 (2.29%) Meraki
8 10 (1.63%) Sparx
9 8 (1.31%) IBM
10 7 (1.14%) HP
10 7 (1.14%) Thales
11 6 (0.98%) BMC
11 6 (0.98%) Remedy
12 5 (0.82%) Databricks
12 5 (0.82%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.82%) Tanium
13 4 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.65%) Palo Alto