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 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 36 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 597 592 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.98% 7.66% 5.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.32% 8.55% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 342 142 222
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £53,750
25th Percentile £61,313 £60,016 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,088 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £85,250 £88,438 £91,819
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £109,865
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 9,439 6,920 9,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 89.53% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 4,044 5,351
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 19 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 19 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 +12 370 £75,000 - 49
Merseyside -4 107 £75,000 - 10
Lancashire +14 47 £70,000 +14.59% 7
Cheshire +11 45 £75,000 +11.59% 7
Cumbria -4 22 £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 19 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 (28.98%) Azure
2 130 (21.78%) Agile
2 130 (21.78%) TOGAF
3 114 (19.10%) Actionable Insight
4 111 (18.59%) AWS
5 99 (16.58%) Social Skills
6 96 (16.08%) Roadmaps
7 94 (15.75%) Technical Architecture
8 84 (14.07%) Microsoft
9 78 (13.07%) Requirements Management
10 76 (12.73%) Network Architecture
11 75 (12.56%) Validation
12 73 (12.23%) Network Management
13 72 (12.06%) Security Cleared
14 71 (11.89%) VSAT
14 71 (11.89%) Model Validation
15 70 (11.73%) Mentoring
16 68 (11.39%) DevOps
17 66 (11.06%) Finance
18 65 (10.89%) Presales
19 63 (10.55%) Migration
20 62 (10.39%) Public Cloud
20 62 (10.39%) SaaS
21 57 (9.55%) Coaching
22 56 (9.38%) Data Modelling
23 55 (9.21%) Data Architecture
24 54 (9.05%) GCP
25 51 (8.54%) Analytics
25 51 (8.54%) SC Cleared
25 51 (8.54%) Enterprise Architecture

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 14 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.34%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.50%) Apache
4 2 (0.34%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.51%) SAP BPC
3 9 (1.51%) SAP PP
4 7 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.84%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.84%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.67%) SAP APO
7 4 (0.67%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.67%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.67%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.50%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 173 (28.98%) Azure
2 111 (18.59%) AWS
3 62 (10.39%) SaaS
4 54 (9.05%) GCP
5 28 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.18%) PaaS
9 15 (2.51%) IaaS
10 13 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.34%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.01%) GitHub
13 5 (0.84%) Serverless
14 3 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.34%) Azure Event Grid
15 2 (0.34%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (0.34%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.89%) VSAT
2 36 (6.03%) WAN
3 28 (4.69%) SD-WAN
4 22 (3.69%) Network Security
5 12 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.68%) DNS
7 9 (1.51%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.51%) SSL
8 8 (1.34%) BGP
8 8 (1.34%) LAN
9 5 (0.84%) Firewall
10 4 (0.67%) Multicast
10 4 (0.67%) OSPF
10 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.67%) Wireless
10 4 (0.67%) WLAN
11 2 (0.34%) DHCP
11 2 (0.34%) SAN
12 1 (0.17%) IPsec
12 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (3.52%) Metadata
2 21 (3.52%) Relational Database
3 20 (3.35%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.68%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.68%) RDBMS
5 9 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.51%) SAP BW
5 9 (1.51%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (1.34%) Looker
6 8 (1.34%) Oracle Database
7 7 (1.17%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.17%) Power BI
8 6 (1.01%) DB2
9 5 (0.84%) MySQL
9 5 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Git
2 6 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.84%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 99 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 66 (11.06%) Finance
3 47 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 23 (3.85%) Retail
6 20 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (2.68%) Legal
8 12 (2.01%) Banking
9 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Law
14 1 (0.17%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.19%) .NET
2 12 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (1.68%) React
4 9 (1.51%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.84%) OpenID
5 5 (0.84%) SAP TM
6 4 (0.67%) Akka
6 4 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.67%) EDI
6 4 (0.67%) Kafka
6 4 (0.67%) Node.js
7 2 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.34%) Django
7 2 (0.34%) Middleware
7 2 (0.34%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.34%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.34%) Vue
7 2 (0.34%) Web Services
8 1 (0.17%) Spring Integration
8 1 (0.17%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.39%) Public Cloud
2 40 (6.70%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 14 (2.35%) PKI
9 11 (1.84%) FMCG
9 11 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.68%) Blog
10 10 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.17%) IoT
12 5 (0.84%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.67%) PMI
13 4 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.02%) Linux
2 9 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) VME
5 1 (0.17%) HPUX
5 1 (0.17%) Solaris
5 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (21.78%) Agile
1 130 (21.78%) TOGAF
2 114 (19.10%) Actionable Insight
3 96 (16.08%) Roadmaps
4 94 (15.75%) Technical Architecture
5 78 (13.07%) Requirements Management
6 76 (12.73%) Network Architecture
7 75 (12.56%) Validation
8 73 (12.23%) Network Management
9 71 (11.89%) Model Validation
10 70 (11.73%) Mentoring
11 68 (11.39%) DevOps
12 65 (10.89%) Presales
13 63 (10.55%) Migration
14 57 (9.55%) Coaching
15 56 (9.38%) Data Modelling
16 55 (9.21%) Data Architecture
17 51 (8.54%) Analytics
17 51 (8.54%) Enterprise Architecture
18 50 (8.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.02%) JavaScript
2 18 (3.02%) SQL
3 15 (2.51%) C#
4 8 (1.34%) Python
5 7 (1.17%) Java
6 4 (0.67%) Bicep
7 3 (0.50%) COBOL
7 3 (0.50%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 2 (0.34%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 72 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 51 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.20%) Degree
4 36 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.52%) AWS Certification
7 24 (4.02%) CISSP
8 21 (3.52%) CISM
9 17 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (2.51%) CCNP
10 15 (2.51%) CCSK
10 15 (2.51%) CCSP
11 14 (2.35%) CCNA
12 11 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (1.01%) CEH
14 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.69%) NIST
3 19 (3.18%) GDPR
4 8 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.01%) COBIT
6 6 (1.01%) SLA
7 5 (0.84%) QA
8 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (3.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) RACF
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.01%) Terraform
4 8 (1.34%) Stealthwatch
5 6 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.01%) OpenView
6 5 (0.84%) CASB
6 5 (0.84%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.03%) Google
3 30 (5.03%) SAP
4 22 (3.69%) Cisco
5 21 (3.52%) Oracle
6 17 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.18%) Adobe
7 13 (2.18%) Apple
7 13 (2.18%) Meraki
8 10 (1.68%) Sparx
9 8 (1.34%) IBM
10 7 (1.17%) Databricks
10 7 (1.17%) HP
10 7 (1.17%) Thales
11 6 (1.01%) BMC
11 6 (1.01%) Remedy
12 5 (0.84%) Tanium
13 4 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.67%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.67%) Palo Alto