Software Architecture Jobs in the South East

Software Architecture
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Software Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Architecture over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 252 394
Rank change year-on-year -62 +142 -85
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 87 139 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 1.01% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.07% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 60 99 70
10th Percentile £35,500 £53,750 £37,350
25th Percentile £46,930 £56,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £83,675
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,831 12,988 19,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 94.36% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,186 7,705 11,814
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,339 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the South East

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the South East

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the South East

Software Architecture
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the South East 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
Hampshire -35 29 £70,000 - 4
Kent +7 19 £65,000 +116.67% 2
Thames Valley -2 19 £53,750 -19.78% 9
Berkshire +15 10 £55,000 -21.43% 4
West Sussex +28 7 £64,000 -1.54%
East Sussex +20 7 £60,000 +1.69%
Oxfordshire +4 5 £51,020 +34.09% 3
Surrey -69 5 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Buckinghamshire -23 4 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Middlesex - 1 - -
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (5.75%) Apache
2 4 (4.60%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.33%) Azure
2 22 (25.29%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (16.09%) Serverless
4 11 (12.64%) PaaS
5 10 (11.49%) IaaS
6 7 (8.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (8.05%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.75%) SaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.60%) GitHub
9 3 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (3.45%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.15%) Datadog
10 1 (1.15%) GCP
10 1 (1.15%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (1.15%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) TCP/IP
2 7 (8.05%) HTTP
3 4 (4.60%) Internet
3 4 (4.60%) RS-232
3 4 (4.60%) RS-485
3 4 (4.60%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.15%) Firewall
4 1 (1.15%) Network Security
4 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.79%) MySQL
3 11 (12.64%) DynamoDB
3 11 (12.64%) Relational Database
4 9 (10.34%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (9.20%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.30%) GIS
8 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (20.69%) Git
1 18 (20.69%) Visual Studio
2 12 (13.79%) Subversion
3 8 (9.20%) Postman
4 4 (4.60%) Maven
5 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.15%) JIRA
6 1 (1.15%) JMeter
6 1 (1.15%) Selenium
6 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 43 (49.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.29%) Electronics
3 6 (6.90%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Aviation
5 4 (4.60%) Finance
5 4 (4.60%) Military
6 2 (2.30%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Software Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) Developer
3 20 (22.99%) Architect
4 12 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Lead
6 7 (8.05%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.05%) AWS Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Azure Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Backend Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Embedded Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Geospatial Architect
6 7 (8.05%) IoT Architect
6 7 (8.05%) Software Architect
6 7 (8.05%) Systems Architect
6 7 (8.05%) VB.NET Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (42.53%) .NET
2 20 (22.99%) .NET Framework
3 16 (18.39%) Qt
4 12 (13.79%) React
5 10 (11.49%) RESTful
6 8 (9.20%) Node.js
7 7 (8.05%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.05%) CSS
7 7 (8.05%) gRPC
7 7 (8.05%) HTML
7 7 (8.05%) REST
7 7 (8.05%) SOAP
7 7 (8.05%) Web Services
8 5 (5.75%) Spring
9 4 (4.60%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.60%) EDI
9 4 (4.60%) JSON
9 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Distributed Systems
1 19 (21.84%) IoT
2 16 (18.39%) Robotics
3 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.34%) Product Ownership
5 8 (9.20%) Algorithms
6 7 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
8 4 (4.60%) Arduino
8 4 (4.60%) Device Driver
8 4 (4.60%) Life Science
8 4 (4.60%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.15%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.15%) PMI
10 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.48%) Windows
2 29 (33.33%) Linux
3 12 (13.79%) Ubuntu
3 12 (13.79%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.15%) CentOS
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.87%) DevOps
2 45 (51.72%) Software Engineering
3 31 (35.63%) Agile
4 29 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (29.89%) Computer Science
6 19 (21.84%) CI/CD
7 17 (19.54%) Customer Requirements
8 16 (18.39%) Design Patterns
8 16 (18.39%) Software Testing
8 16 (18.39%) Time Management
9 15 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (13.79%) Change Management
10 12 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.79%) Test Strategy
11 11 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (12.64%) Mathematics
12 10 (11.49%) Microservices
12 10 (11.49%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (11.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) C
2 36 (41.38%) C#
3 35 (40.23%) C++
4 22 (25.29%) Python
5 19 (21.84%) JavaScript
6 16 (18.39%) SQL
7 9 (10.34%) Java
8 7 (8.05%) VB.NET
9 5 (5.75%) Ada
10 4 (4.60%) Go
10 4 (4.60%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.15%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.15%) Bash
11 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (56.32%) Degree
2 18 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (20.69%) Master's Degree
3 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.15%) MBA
5 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) GDPR
1 11 (12.64%) HIPAA
1 11 (12.64%) QA
2 8 (9.20%) ISO 13485
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 12 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) Ansible
2 1 (1.15%) Graphite
2 1 (1.15%) Kibana
2 1 (1.15%) Nagios
2 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.15%) Ariba
2 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.15%) New Relic
2 1 (1.15%) SAP
2 1 (1.15%) Splunk