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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 57 41
Rank change year-on-year +23 -16 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 439 333 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.62% 5.48% 6.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.95% 6.09% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 290 194 246
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £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 £82,970
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £87,500
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 7,380 5,467 7,179
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 90.01% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,485 3,231 4,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
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 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 28 May 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 28 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
Birmingham +6 256 £77,500 +3.33% 36
Warwickshire +67 78 £77,500 -18.29% 19
Solihull -1 30 £62,500 -31.88% 1
Staffordshire -14 16 £65,000 -17.46% 2
Shropshire +3 8 £74,136 -14.29%
West Bromwich - 3 £78,500 -
Coventry -5 2 £81,636 +9.95% 8
Stourbridge - 1 £75,000 -
Walsall - 1 £92,500 -
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 West Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 100 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 99 (22.55%) Azure
3 91 (20.73%) Agile
4 66 (15.03%) Roadmaps
5 65 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 61 (13.90%) Data Modelling
7 59 (13.44%) Analytics
8 51 (11.62%) Dynamics 365
8 51 (11.62%) Architectural Patterns
9 48 (10.93%) Finance
10 46 (10.48%) Data Architecture
11 45 (10.25%) Power Platform
12 41 (9.34%) AWS
12 41 (9.34%) Degree
13 40 (9.11%) Social Skills
14 38 (8.66%) ERP
15 36 (8.20%) WAN
15 36 (8.20%) Data Management
16 34 (7.74%) Mentoring
17 32 (7.29%) Presales
18 31 (7.06%) User Experience
18 31 (7.06%) Cisco
19 30 (6.83%) DevOps
19 30 (6.83%) Data Design
19 30 (6.83%) Metadata
20 28 (6.38%) SD-WAN
20 28 (6.38%) Public Cloud
20 28 (6.38%) IT Strategy
20 28 (6.38%) Management Information System
20 28 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management

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 17 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.23%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.91%) Simulink
3 2 (0.46%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 10 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.46%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 99 (22.55%) Azure
2 51 (11.62%) Dynamics 365
3 45 (10.25%) Power Platform
4 41 (9.34%) AWS
5 28 (6.38%) SaaS
6 23 (5.24%) GCP
7 21 (4.78%) IaaS
7 21 (4.78%) PaaS
7 21 (4.78%) PowerApps
8 20 (4.56%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.46%) dbt
11 2 (0.46%) Serverless
12 1 (0.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.20%) WAN
2 28 (6.38%) SD-WAN
3 19 (4.33%) Firewall
4 14 (3.19%) VPN
4 14 (3.19%) Wireless
5 9 (2.05%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.82%) LAN
6 8 (1.82%) NGFW
7 5 (1.14%) MPLS
8 4 (0.91%) DNS
8 4 (0.91%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.91%) Intranet
9 3 (0.68%) VoIP
9 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.68%) WLAN
10 2 (0.46%) BGP
10 2 (0.46%) Internet
10 2 (0.46%) IPsec
10 2 (0.46%) Junos
10 2 (0.46%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.83%) Metadata
2 22 (5.01%) Power BI
3 21 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.05%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.82%) Looker
6 7 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.68%) DB2
10 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.46%) Big Data
10 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.23%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Git
2 6 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.37%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.46%) CANoe
3 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (10.93%) Finance
2 40 (9.11%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
4 20 (4.56%) Public Sector
4 20 (4.56%) Retail
5 17 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (3.87%) Marketing
6 16 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.51%) Automotive
9 8 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.37%) Legal
11 4 (0.91%) Law
11 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Banking
13 2 (0.46%) Electronics
13 2 (0.46%) Games
13 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.23%) Back Office
14 1 (0.23%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.87%) JSON
2 12 (2.73%) YAML
3 9 (2.05%) .NET
4 8 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.82%) Middleware
5 6 (1.37%) Web Services
6 5 (1.14%) EDI
6 5 (1.14%) XML
7 4 (0.91%) REST
7 4 (0.91%) WCF
8 2 (0.46%) Django
8 2 (0.46%) HTML
8 2 (0.46%) Node.js
8 2 (0.46%) React
8 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.23%) Kafka
9 1 (0.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.38%) Management Information System
1 28 (6.38%) Public Cloud
2 17 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.05%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.37%) FMCG
7 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.91%) IoT
7 4 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.91%) Replication
8 3 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.68%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.46%) NHS
9 2 (0.46%) PropTech
10 1 (0.23%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.19%) Windows
2 10 (2.28%) Linux
3 8 (1.82%) Solaris
3 8 (1.82%) Ubuntu
3 8 (1.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.46%) VME
4 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (20.73%) Agile
2 66 (15.03%) Roadmaps
3 65 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
4 61 (13.90%) Data Modelling
5 59 (13.44%) Analytics
6 51 (11.62%) Architectural Patterns
7 46 (10.48%) Data Architecture
8 38 (8.66%) ERP
9 36 (8.20%) Data Management
10 34 (7.74%) Mentoring
11 32 (7.29%) Presales
12 31 (7.06%) User Experience
13 30 (6.83%) Data Design
13 30 (6.83%) DevOps
14 28 (6.38%) IT Strategy
14 28 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence
17 25 (5.69%) CI/CD
18 24 (5.47%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (4.33%) SQL
2 15 (3.42%) C#
3 12 (2.73%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.91%) MATLAB
5 4 (0.91%) Python
5 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.68%) C
6 3 (0.68%) C++
7 2 (0.46%) COBOL
7 2 (0.46%) Java
7 2 (0.46%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 2 (0.46%) R
8 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 41 (9.34%) Degree
2 25 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.33%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.33%) CCNP
6 16 (3.64%) CCNA
7 13 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.14%) CCIE
12 4 (0.91%) CISM
12 4 (0.91%) CISSP
12 4 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.68%) CCSK
13 3 (0.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.19%) SLA
2 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.82%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.68%) NIST
6 2 (0.46%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 13 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (1.82%) vSphere
3 3 (0.68%) Docker
4 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (2.96%) Terraform
2 9 (2.05%) Stealthwatch
3 5 (1.14%) CASB
4 4 (0.91%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.68%) MOM
5 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 100 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.06%) Cisco
3 24 (5.47%) SAP
4 16 (3.64%) Adobe
4 16 (3.64%) Apple
4 16 (3.64%) Meraki
5 14 (3.19%) Juniper
6 13 (2.96%) VMware
7 12 (2.73%) Google
7 12 (2.73%) Pega
7 12 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.51%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.82%) Citrix
9 8 (1.82%) Guidewire
10 5 (1.14%) Unisys
11 4 (0.91%) NEC
11 4 (0.91%) Oracle
12 3 (0.68%) IBM
12 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.46%) Micro Focus