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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 27 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 528 594 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.29% 8.98% 5.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.50% 10.10% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 291 166 220
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £46,335
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,070
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.60% +6.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £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 9,607 5,879 8,100
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,030 3,696 5,109
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,838 £37,971 £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 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +2 303 £80,000 +6.67% 27
Wiltshire -3 110 £72,500 +2.84% 20
Somerset +5 29 £55,000 -34.20% 12
Dorset -18 29 £80,000 +1.59% 5
Gloucestershire -79 28 £79,136 -6.90% 10
Devon -18 15 £71,840 +34.72% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 184 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 151 (28.60%) TOGAF
3 150 (28.41%) Azure
4 132 (25.00%) Agile
5 115 (21.78%) AWS
6 109 (20.64%) Actionable Insight
7 107 (20.27%) Microsoft
8 95 (17.99%) DevOps
8 95 (17.99%) Social Skills
9 90 (17.05%) SC Cleared
10 81 (15.34%) ArchiMate
11 78 (14.77%) Roadmaps
12 76 (14.39%) Finance
13 74 (14.02%) Degree
14 73 (13.83%) Enterprise Architecture
15 70 (13.26%) Technical Architecture
16 67 (12.69%) Validation
17 65 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
18 59 (11.17%) Microservices
18 59 (11.17%) Migration
19 57 (10.80%) Microsoft 365
20 55 (10.42%) Business Case
21 53 (10.04%) Model Validation
22 52 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
22 52 (9.85%) TOGAF Certification
23 50 (9.47%) Requirements Management
23 50 (9.47%) .NET
24 49 (9.28%) Analytics
25 48 (9.09%) Cloud Native
26 47 (8.90%) Public Cloud

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 (0.76%) ArcGIS
1 4 (0.76%) CMS
1 4 (0.76%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Simulink
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 37 (7.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 150 (28.41%) Azure
2 115 (21.78%) AWS
3 57 (10.80%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (6.44%) GCP
6 32 (6.06%) PaaS
7 31 (5.87%) SaaS
8 28 (5.30%) IaaS
9 23 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (3.79%) Power Platform
11 12 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.89%) OCI
13 9 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.33%) Serverless
15 6 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (0.95%) Azure Stack
17 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
17 4 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
17 4 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.06%) VSAT
2 9 (1.70%) Firewall
3 7 (1.33%) Network Security
3 7 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (1.14%) DNS
4 6 (1.14%) SSL
5 5 (0.95%) VoIP
6 4 (0.76%) BGP
6 4 (0.76%) PBX
6 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.57%) Broadband
7 3 (0.57%) Tactical Data Link
8 2 (0.38%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.38%) RTP
8 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.19%) 4G
9 1 (0.19%) 5G
9 1 (0.19%) TETRA
9 1 (0.19%) VPN
9 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.84%) Big Data
3 11 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
3 11 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.52%) BigQuery
4 8 (1.52%) Looker
5 7 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.95%) GIS
6 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.76%) Metadata
7 4 (0.76%) Power BI
7 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.57%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.57%) MySQL
8 3 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
2 3 (0.57%) Git
2 3 (0.57%) JUnit
2 3 (0.57%) Maven
3 2 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
General
1 95 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 76 (14.39%) Finance
3 37 (7.01%) Aerospace
4 34 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
5 28 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.73%) Banking
8 22 (4.17%) Marketing
8 22 (4.17%) Retail
9 20 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.79%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.60%) Law
11 17 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.46%) Military
13 11 (2.08%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.89%) Legal
15 7 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.95%) Electronics
17 3 (0.57%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.47%) .NET
2 11 (2.08%) Spring Boot
3 7 (1.33%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.33%) Kafka
4 6 (1.14%) Middleware
5 5 (0.95%) REST
6 4 (0.76%) OpenID
6 4 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (0.76%) Spring
7 3 (0.57%) CSS
7 3 (0.57%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.57%) HTML
7 3 (0.57%) Java SE
7 3 (0.57%) JPA
7 3 (0.57%) OAuth
7 3 (0.57%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.57%) Playwright
7 3 (0.57%) SAML
7 3 (0.57%) Swagger
7 3 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.90%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.11%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (2.46%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.27%) Taxonomies
7 11 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.33%) PKI
10 6 (1.14%) CCTV
10 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.14%) Replication
11 4 (0.76%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.33%) Windows
3 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.57%) Unix
5 2 (0.38%) CentOS
5 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (28.60%) TOGAF
2 132 (25.00%) Agile
3 109 (20.64%) Actionable Insight
4 95 (17.99%) DevOps
5 81 (15.34%) ArchiMate
6 78 (14.77%) Roadmaps
7 73 (13.83%) Enterprise Architecture
8 70 (13.26%) Technical Architecture
9 67 (12.69%) Validation
10 65 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (11.17%) Microservices
11 59 (11.17%) Migration
12 55 (10.42%) Business Case
13 53 (10.04%) Model Validation
14 52 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
15 50 (9.47%) Requirements Management
16 49 (9.28%) Analytics
17 46 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
17 46 (8.71%) Data Analytics
18 44 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.14%) Python
2 25 (4.73%) Java
3 17 (3.22%) C
4 15 (2.84%) SQL
5 9 (1.70%) C#
6 8 (1.52%) Ruby
7 7 (1.33%) C++
8 6 (1.14%) Bash
8 6 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.14%) R
8 6 (1.14%) Scala
8 6 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.95%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.57%) Bicep
10 3 (0.57%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.57%) PHP
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 90 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 74 (14.02%) Degree
4 52 (9.85%) TOGAF Certification
5 42 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (7.95%) DV Cleared
6 24 (4.55%) CISSP
7 20 (3.79%) CISM
8 16 (3.03%) CISA
9 15 (2.84%) CRISC
10 10 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 10 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 9 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.14%) SANS
14 5 (0.95%) CCSP
14 5 (0.95%) CEH
15 4 (0.76%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.27%) NIST
3 11 (2.08%) GDPR
4 7 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.57%) COBIT
6 3 (0.57%) HMG Infosec
6 3 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.57%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.57%) RMADS
7 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.38%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.38%) QA
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) Docker
4 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.98%) Terraform
3 19 (3.60%) Ansible
4 18 (3.41%) Puppet
5 3 (0.57%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.57%) OpenView
6 1 (0.19%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.01%) Sparx
3 33 (6.25%) Google
4 24 (4.55%) Oracle
5 15 (2.84%) VMware
6 9 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.14%) Cisco
7 6 (1.14%) PagerDuty
8 5 (0.95%) ESRI
8 5 (0.95%) Pega
9 4 (0.76%) Ribbon
10 3 (0.57%) BMC
10 3 (0.57%) HP
10 3 (0.57%) Remedy
10 3 (0.57%) Riverbed
10 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.57%) Splunk
10 3 (0.57%) Twitter
10 3 (0.57%) Veracode
11 2 (0.38%) Avaya