Architectural Design Jobs

Architectural Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design 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 312 327 332
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +41
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 950 994 2,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.05% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.10% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 408 441 830
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,375 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £69,600 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.46% -0.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Design 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
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% +9.38%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the UK 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
UK excluding London +56 724 £78,273 +12.46% 118
England -99 485 £79,932 +3.14% 220
Scotland +129 420 £72,500 +21.82% 8
Work from Home -38 256 £79,932 +6.58% 86
London -22 195 £95,000 +8.57% 109
North of England +9 121 £79,932 +22.31% 23
North West -8 81 £65,000 -6.07% 18
South West -25 51 £55,250 -21.07% 12
South East -114 51 £50,000 -33.33% 24
Midlands -56 38 £78,273 +1.00% 31
West Midlands -33 32 £71,636 -8.16% 21
East of England -8 30 £85,000 +21.43% 17
Yorkshire +30 29 £79,932 +22.64% 2
North East -13 11 £79,932 +14.19% 3
Northern Ireland +21 8 £85,000 +75.26% 1
East Midlands -37 6 £78,273 +1.00% 10
Wales -9 5 £55,228 +19.52% 5

Architectural Design
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 21 (2.21%) CMS
1 21 (2.21%) GemFire
2 18 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.26%) Apache
4 9 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.42%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (2.32%) Photoshop
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.53%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.42%) Revit
5 2 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.11%) InDesign
6 1 (0.11%) Notion
6 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 19 (2.00%) SDL Web 8
2 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.42%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 384 (40.42%) AWS
2 185 (19.47%) Azure
3 72 (7.58%) Datadog
4 54 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (5.37%) Serverless
6 50 (5.26%) GCP
6 50 (5.26%) SaaS
7 35 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (3.58%) GitHub
9 25 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 24 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (2.21%) Azure AKS
13 20 (2.11%) Amazon S3
14 19 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.00%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.00%) NuGet
15 17 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.79%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.84%) Kerberos
2 16 (1.68%) DSL
3 8 (0.84%) VPN
4 5 (0.53%) DNS
5 4 (0.42%) Firewall
5 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.32%) Internet
7 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.21%) DHCP
7 2 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.21%) LAN
7 2 (0.21%) MPLS
7 2 (0.21%) Network Security
7 2 (0.21%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.21%) PBX
7 2 (0.21%) VoIP
7 2 (0.21%) WAN
7 2 (0.21%) WLAN
8 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.21%) Metadata
2 62 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 56 (5.89%) Relational Database
4 48 (5.05%) MongoDB
5 39 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 35 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.53%) Big Data
8 21 (2.21%) CockroachDB
8 21 (2.21%) Hazelcast
9 19 (2.00%) Looker
10 18 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.68%) DB2
11 16 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.68%) Tableau
12 15 (1.58%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.84%) Data Hub
13 8 (0.84%) Power BI
14 7 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 146 (15.37%) Git
2 88 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 65 (6.84%) Artifactory
3 65 (6.84%) Bitbucket
4 33 (3.47%) Visual Studio
5 30 (3.16%) JUnit
6 28 (2.95%) JIRA
7 25 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.63%) Selenium
8 23 (2.42%) Jasmine
9 22 (2.32%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (2.32%) Moq
9 22 (2.32%) Protractor
9 22 (2.32%) SpecFlow
9 22 (2.32%) WebDriver
10 21 (2.21%) Jaeger
11 20 (2.11%) NUnit
12 19 (2.00%) git-flow
12 19 (2.00%) Sourcetree
12 19 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 509 (53.58%) Finance
2 441 (46.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 414 (43.58%) Law
4 328 (34.53%) Marketing
5 205 (21.58%) Social Skills
6 142 (14.95%) Banking
7 111 (11.68%) Investment Banking
8 88 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (4.53%) Financial Institution
10 28 (2.95%) Retail
11 22 (2.32%) Prime Brokerage
12 18 (1.89%) Automotive
13 17 (1.79%) Retail Banking
14 15 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.47%) Public Sector
16 11 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.16%) Legal
17 10 (1.05%) Back Office
18 9 (0.95%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 437 (46.00%) Lead
2 422 (44.42%) Software Engineer
3 365 (38.42%) Lead Software Engineer
4 243 (25.58%) Architect
5 134 (14.11%) Java Engineer
6 128 (13.47%) Java Software Engineer
6 128 (13.47%) Lead Java Engineer
7 117 (12.32%) Senior
8 88 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 83 (8.74%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 83 (8.74%) Developer
10 80 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
11 55 (5.79%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 51 (5.37%) Technical Architect
13 47 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 41 (4.32%) Technical Leader
15 38 (4.00%) Security Architect
16 36 (3.79%) Senior Developer
17 32 (3.37%) Python Engineer
17 32 (3.37%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (13.79%) Spring
2 128 (13.47%) Web Services
3 118 (12.42%) RESTful
4 112 (11.79%) Kafka
5 99 (10.42%) React
6 98 (10.32%) JSON
7 96 (10.11%) XML
8 93 (9.79%) OpenTelemetry
9 91 (9.58%) HTML
10 85 (8.95%) .NET
10 85 (8.95%) Spring Boot
11 84 (8.84%) CSS
12 67 (7.05%) LDAP
13 66 (6.95%) OpenID
13 66 (6.95%) SAML
14 65 (6.84%) JSON-LD
15 62 (6.53%) AngularJS
16 48 (5.05%) REST
17 47 (4.95%) jQuery
18 43 (4.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 253 (26.63%) Cloud Native
2 158 (16.63%) Public Cloud
3 124 (13.05%) Management Information System
4 66 (6.95%) Enterprise Cloud
5 65 (6.84%) Reference Data
6 58 (6.11%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 28 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.21%) Replication
10 20 (2.11%) Legacy Code
10 20 (2.11%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.95%) Robotics
13 8 (0.84%) IoT
13 8 (0.84%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 79 (8.32%) Linux
2 19 (2.00%) Windows
3 17 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
4 14 (1.47%) Android
4 14 (1.47%) Unix
5 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (64.21%) Agile
2 501 (52.74%) Software Engineering
3 443 (46.63%) CI/CD
4 405 (42.63%) Operational Stability
5 396 (41.68%) Community of Practice
6 394 (41.47%) SDLC
7 389 (40.95%) Information Architecture
8 317 (33.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 311 (32.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 300 (31.58%) Machine Learning
11 233 (24.53%) Roadmaps
12 158 (16.63%) Mentoring
13 153 (16.11%) Data Modelling
14 137 (14.42%) DevOps
15 120 (12.63%) Identity Access Management
16 118 (12.42%) Coaching
17 113 (11.89%) Microservices
18 106 (11.16%) Test Automation
19 94 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
19 94 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 390 (41.05%) Java
2 208 (21.89%) SQL
3 189 (19.89%) Python
4 176 (18.53%) JavaScript
5 84 (8.84%) C#
6 74 (7.79%) Go
7 65 (6.84%) Prolog
7 65 (6.84%) SPARQL
8 50 (5.26%) C++
9 46 (4.84%) C
10 45 (4.74%) TypeScript
11 38 (4.00%) Scala
12 29 (3.05%) COBOL
12 29 (3.05%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 26 (2.74%) T-SQL
14 22 (2.32%) Groovy
15 19 (2.00%) Kotlin
15 19 (2.00%) XPath
16 17 (1.79%) VB.NET
17 16 (1.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (11.68%) Degree
2 34 (3.58%) AWS Certification
3 29 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 23 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.00%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.05%) DBS Check
10 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.84%) CISM
11 8 (0.84%) CISSP
12 7 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.32%) MCAD
15 2 (0.21%) CCIE
15 2 (0.21%) CCNP
15 2 (0.21%) HNC
15 2 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.05%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.47%) QA
3 21 (2.21%) PMO
4 17 (1.79%) SLA
5 16 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.53%) GDPR
6 5 (0.53%) ITGC
7 2 (0.21%) GRC
7 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 66 (6.95%) Docker
3 18 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.32%) NFS
5 2 (0.21%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 133 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 95 (10.00%) Grafana
3 92 (9.68%) Terraform
4 41 (4.32%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.95%) Kibana
6 21 (2.21%) HAProxy
6 21 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (2.21%) Zipkin
7 3 (0.32%) Ansible
8 2 (0.21%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.21%) Istio
8 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 111 (11.68%) Oracle
2 104 (10.95%) Splunk
3 101 (10.63%) Dynatrace
4 96 (10.11%) Microsoft
5 29 (3.05%) Google
5 29 (3.05%) Micro Focus
6 22 (2.32%) Adobe
7 21 (2.21%) Databricks
8 19 (2.00%) Cognizant
9 18 (1.89%) Atlassian
9 18 (1.89%) SaltStack
10 17 (1.79%) SAP
11 16 (1.68%) Alteryx
11 16 (1.68%) Cognos
11 16 (1.68%) ForgeRock
11 16 (1.68%) Sitecore
11 16 (1.68%) Sybase
12 10 (1.05%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.84%) BeyondTrust
13 8 (0.84%) CyberArk