Architectural Design Jobs in the North West

Architectural Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 228 201
Rank change year-on-year +55 -27 +17
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 118 81 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.58% 0.70% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.88% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14 67 20
10th Percentile £70,029 £37,500 £51,050
25th Percentile £70,097 £49,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,496 £65,000 £69,600
Median % change year-on-year +20.76% -6.61% -7.20%
75th Percentile £98,474 £84,964 £73,750
90th Percentile £99,542 £85,650 £75,875
England median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £77,500
% change year-on-year +0.09% +3.14% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,077 9,235 6,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 94.98% 79.26% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,529 6,722 3,818
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West.

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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
Cumbria - 88 - - 1
Manchester +48 28 £71,991 -9.93% 59
Cheshire -1 1 - - 19
Lancashire -56 1 £100,000 +25.11% 13
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
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 2 (1.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.80%) GCP
2 17 (14.41%) Azure
3 11 (9.32%) AWS
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) DHCP
1 5 (4.24%) DNS
1 5 (4.24%) NAS
1 5 (4.24%) SAN
1 5 (4.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.24%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.69%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Git
2 5 (4.24%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
General
1 89 (75.42%) Automotive
2 88 (74.58%) Telecoms
3 15 (12.71%) Banking
4 13 (11.02%) Finance
5 10 (8.47%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.85%) Games
7 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.85%) Online Betting
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (74.58%) Principal Engineer
1 88 (74.58%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 40 (33.90%) Systems Engineer
3 16 (13.56%) Architect
4 14 (11.86%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (8.47%) Senior
6 8 (6.78%) AWS Architect
6 8 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (6.78%) AWS Solution Architect
6 8 (6.78%) DevOps Architect
6 8 (6.78%) Senior Architect
6 8 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (6.78%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.78%) TOGAF Architect
7 6 (5.08%) Lead
8 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (2.54%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) Node.js
1 7 (5.93%) Playwright
1 7 (5.93%) React
1 7 (5.93%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.08%) Middleware
3 5 (4.24%) Spring
4 2 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) EDI
5 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.24%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.24%) Linux
1 5 (4.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (75.42%) Systems Engineering
2 88 (74.58%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 24 (20.34%) Agile
4 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
5 13 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
6 12 (10.17%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (9.32%) CI/CD
7 11 (9.32%) DevOps
7 11 (9.32%) TOGAF
8 10 (8.47%) Containerisation
8 10 (8.47%) Microservices
8 10 (8.47%) Technology Roadmap
9 9 (7.63%) Data Management
9 9 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.63%) Software Engineering
10 8 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (6.78%) Data Privacy
10 8 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (6.78%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.71%) Java
2 14 (11.86%) SQL
3 11 (9.32%) Python
4 8 (6.78%) C#
5 7 (5.93%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.85%) C++
6 1 (0.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 90 (76.27%) Degree
2 14 (11.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (7.63%) AWS Certification
3 9 (7.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) GDPR
1 8 (6.78%) HIPAA
1 8 (6.78%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.24%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.24%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (13.56%) Google
2 7 (5.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle
3 5 (4.24%) VMware
4 1 (0.85%) Sparx
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