Software Architect Jobs in the North West

Software Architect
England > North West

The median Software Architect salary in the North West is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 288 330
Rank change year-on-year +115 +42 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 129 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.21% 0.068% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.076% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 7
10th Percentile £72,000 £76,100 -
25th Percentile - £77,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -0.62% +8.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £89,000 £86,100 £94,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.59% +21.43%

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 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £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 £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in the North West

Software Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Architect in the North West

Software 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 Software Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +74 66 £81,250 +0.93%
Merseyside - 43 £75,000 -
Lancashire - 15 - -
Cumbria - 5 £75,000 - 2
Software Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software 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 Software Architect in the job title.

1 68 (52.71%) TOGAF
2 67 (51.94%) Requirements Management
2 67 (51.94%) Technical Architecture
2 67 (51.94%) Validation
2 67 (51.94%) VSAT
2 67 (51.94%) Network Architecture
2 67 (51.94%) Network Management
2 67 (51.94%) Model Validation
3 57 (44.19%) Actionable Insight
4 47 (36.43%) Agile
5 36 (27.91%) Software Engineering
6 32 (24.81%) Mentoring
6 32 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (24.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (24.03%) Creative Thinking
7 31 (24.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 31 (24.03%) Data Engineering
7 31 (24.03%) Cyberattack
7 31 (24.03%) User Experience
7 31 (24.03%) Machine Learning
8 16 (12.40%) DevOps
8 16 (12.40%) Azure
8 16 (12.40%) AWS
9 15 (11.63%) Social Skills
10 14 (10.85%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (10.85%) Geospatial Data
10 14 (10.85%) Software Architecture
10 14 (10.85%) Software Testing
10 14 (10.85%) Migration
11 7 (5.43%) .NET

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (12.40%) AWS
1 16 (12.40%) Azure
2 4 (3.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (51.94%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.85%) Geospatial Data
General
1 32 (24.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (11.63%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.03%) Cyberattack
2 14 (10.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.55%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (52.71%) TOGAF
2 67 (51.94%) Model Validation
2 67 (51.94%) Network Architecture
2 67 (51.94%) Network Management
2 67 (51.94%) Requirements Management
2 67 (51.94%) Technical Architecture
2 67 (51.94%) Validation
3 57 (44.19%) Actionable Insight
4 47 (36.43%) Agile
5 36 (27.91%) Software Engineering
6 32 (24.81%) Mentoring
6 32 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (24.03%) Creative Thinking
7 31 (24.03%) Data Engineering
7 31 (24.03%) Machine Learning
7 31 (24.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 31 (24.03%) User Experience
8 16 (12.40%) DevOps
9 14 (10.85%) Software Architecture
9 14 (10.85%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.78%) Degree