Software Architecture Jobs

Software Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 464 393
Rank change year-on-year +18 -71 +66
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 564 562 1,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.64% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 285 323 461
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +20.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Architecture 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90,810 88,242 165,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.65% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,635 53,650 83,244
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,818 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture.

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England -2 455 £70,000 -3.45% 87
UK excluding London +33 430 £67,500 +12.50% 60
Work from Home -31 158 £71,538 +5.98% 61
London +2 109 £85,000 -5.56% 33
South West -17 100 £70,000 +24.44% 7
North of England +71 93 £67,000 +11.67% 12
South East -77 91 £64,000 +8.47% 20
North West +21 64 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Scotland -31 51 £67,500 -10.00% 5
Midlands -27 40 £95,000 +52.00% 9
Yorkshire +83 27 £70,000 +27.27% 4
West Midlands +5 23 £95,000 +46.15% 4
Wales +30 22 £75,000 +3.45% 1
East of England -19 19 £72,250 +7.04% 8
East Midlands -35 16 £49,000 -21.60% 5
Northern Ireland +32 14 £65,000 - 2
North East -18 2 £70,500 -9.03% 2

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (1.24%) Apache
2 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.53%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.35%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.18%) Appian
5 1 (0.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) CANalyzer
1 4 (0.71%) Simulink
2 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 245 (43.44%) Azure
2 210 (37.23%) AWS
3 80 (14.18%) SaaS
4 37 (6.56%) OpenShift
5 32 (5.67%) GCP
6 26 (4.61%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.48%) Serverless
9 13 (2.30%) PaaS
10 11 (1.95%) IaaS
11 7 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (1.24%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.06%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.89%) GitHub
14 3 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.53%) Datadog
14 3 (0.53%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.75%) TCP/IP
2 50 (8.87%) HTTP
3 43 (7.62%) DNS
4 35 (6.21%) DHCP
5 14 (2.48%) Wireless
6 11 (1.95%) Internet
7 10 (1.77%) Ethernet
8 9 (1.60%) RS-232
9 8 (1.42%) SMTP
10 4 (0.71%) Multicast
10 4 (0.71%) RS-485
10 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.53%) Firewall
11 3 (0.53%) SSH
11 3 (0.53%) VPN
12 1 (0.18%) 4G
12 1 (0.18%) 5G
12 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (19.33%) Geospatial Data
2 48 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.90%) GIS
4 19 (3.37%) MySQL
4 19 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.24%) Big Data
8 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.18%) Redis
10 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (8.69%) Git
2 24 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 20 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.37%) Subversion
5 10 (1.77%) Postman
6 7 (1.24%) JUnit
7 6 (1.06%) JIRA
8 4 (0.71%) CANoe
9 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.53%) GitLab
9 3 (0.53%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.53%) Maven
10 2 (0.35%) Hardhat
10 2 (0.35%) ScalaTest
11 1 (0.18%) GitKraken
11 1 (0.18%) JetBrains Rider
11 1 (0.18%) JMeter
11 1 (0.18%) MLflow
11 1 (0.18%) ReSharper
11 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 203 (35.99%) Social Skills
2 63 (11.17%) Finance
3 42 (7.45%) Electronics
4 38 (6.74%) Aerospace
5 36 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.14%) Banking
6 29 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.61%) Law
8 25 (4.43%) Legal
9 19 (3.37%) Marketing
9 19 (3.37%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.66%) Games
12 14 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.13%) Automotive
14 6 (1.06%) Retail
14 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.89%) Advertising
15 5 (0.89%) Agriculture
15 5 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (35.11%) Architect
2 119 (21.10%) Senior
3 117 (20.74%) Software Architect
4 114 (20.21%) Software Engineer
5 112 (19.86%) Developer
6 87 (15.43%) Geospatial Architect
7 73 (12.94%) Lead
8 38 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 35 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (6.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (5.14%) Embedded Engineer
11 25 (4.43%) Full Stack Developer
11 25 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.26%) Technical Architect
13 23 (4.08%) C# Developer
14 21 (3.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 21 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.19%) Azure Developer
15 18 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (3.01%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (21.10%) .NET
2 50 (8.87%) React
3 45 (7.98%) HTML
4 41 (7.27%) CSS
5 38 (6.74%) Spring
6 37 (6.56%) AngularJS
7 35 (6.21%) .NET Framework
8 29 (5.14%) ASP.NET
9 27 (4.79%) .NET Core
10 24 (4.26%) Web Services
11 21 (3.72%) REST
12 20 (3.55%) RESTful
13 17 (3.01%) Node.js
13 17 (3.01%) Qt
14 15 (2.66%) Entity Framework
14 15 (2.66%) Hibernate
15 14 (2.48%) SOAP
16 13 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
17 12 (2.13%) Kafka
18 11 (1.95%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.60%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 42 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.32%) Algorithms
5 28 (4.96%) IoT
6 23 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (3.37%) Embedded Systems
7 19 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 19 (3.37%) Robotics
8 18 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.13%) CUDA
11 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.42%) GNSS
11 8 (1.42%) Tandem
12 7 (1.24%) Derivative
12 7 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.89%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 87 (15.43%) Linux
2 85 (15.07%) Windows
3 35 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.30%) Ubuntu
4 13 (2.30%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.95%) Unix
6 10 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.89%) Android
8 3 (0.53%) CentOS
8 3 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (49.65%) Agile
2 236 (41.84%) DevOps
3 200 (35.46%) Software Engineering
4 128 (22.70%) Software Testing
5 117 (20.74%) Migration
6 105 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (15.25%) Computer Science
8 80 (14.18%) Actionable Insight
9 74 (13.12%) Roadmaps
10 67 (11.88%) Architectural Patterns
11 65 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
12 62 (10.99%) CI/CD
13 60 (10.64%) Design Patterns
14 55 (9.75%) Mentoring
15 52 (9.22%) Collaborative Working
15 52 (9.22%) Microservices
16 51 (9.04%) Artificial Intelligence
17 45 (7.98%) Machine Learning
17 45 (7.98%) SDLC
18 43 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 159 (28.19%) Python
2 130 (23.05%) C#
3 119 (21.10%) Java
4 102 (18.09%) C
5 93 (16.49%) JavaScript
6 68 (12.06%) C++
7 47 (8.33%) SQL
8 46 (8.16%) PowerShell
9 38 (6.74%) Bash
10 24 (4.26%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.95%) PHP
12 10 (1.77%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.60%) Go
13 9 (1.60%) MATLAB
13 9 (1.60%) Swift
14 6 (1.06%) Ada
14 6 (1.06%) Embedded C
14 6 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.89%) R
16 4 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 123 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 121 (21.45%) Degree
3 48 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 39 (6.91%) Master's Degree
6 36 (6.38%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.89%) PhD
8 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (0.71%) HND
8 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.18%) HNC
10 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.18%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.80%) QA
2 13 (2.30%) HIPAA
3 11 (1.95%) GDPR
4 9 (1.60%) ISO 13485
5 5 (0.89%) ISO 26262
6 4 (0.71%) EMIR
6 4 (0.71%) MiFID
6 4 (0.71%) PMO
7 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.35%) SEPA
7 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (13.48%) Docker
2 35 (6.21%) Hyper-V
2 35 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.72%) Firmware
4 19 (3.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (12.06%) Kubernetes
2 39 (6.91%) Ansible
3 36 (6.38%) Puppet
4 6 (1.06%) Kibana
5 3 (0.53%) Grafana
5 3 (0.53%) Graphite
5 3 (0.53%) Nagios
5 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.35%) Terraform
7 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 56 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.21%) Red Hat
2 35 (6.21%) VMware
3 21 (3.72%) Google
4 11 (1.95%) OpenAI
5 9 (1.60%) Oracle
6 8 (1.42%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.53%) Databricks
7 3 (0.53%) New Relic
7 3 (0.53%) Splunk
8 2 (0.35%) Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe
9 1 (0.18%) Apple
9 1 (0.18%) Ariba
9 1 (0.18%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.18%) Citrix
9 1 (0.18%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.18%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.18%) Sony