Architectural Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 394 295
Rank change year-on-year -39 -99 +98
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Patterns 566 791 2,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.81% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.85% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 412 385 696
10th Percentile £52,325 £52,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% - +8.31%
75th Percentile £83,759 £97,290 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,625 £110,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Patterns 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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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 -12 505 £70,000 -12.82% 141
UK excluding London +68 376 £65,000 -7.14% 83
Work from Home +44 299 £70,576 -5.90% 60
London -77 155 £85,000 -5.56% 64
North of England +132 143 £64,353 +4.22% 37
North West +55 75 £61,206 +12.05% 25
Midlands +5 71 £65,000 -10.34% 15
West Midlands +26 63 £65,000 - 9
South West +1 54 £65,000 +4.00% 8
South East +2 53 £65,000 -23.53% 8
Yorkshire +101 49 £77,500 +28.79% 4
Scotland -77 33 £75,000 -5.06% 7
North East +12 19 £75,000 +7.14% 8
East of England -5 18 £55,000 -24.14% 4
East Midlands -22 7 £67,500 -6.90% 6
Northern Ireland +14 2 £75,400 -5.75% 4
Wales -4 2 £55,752 -11.14% 1

Architectural Patterns
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 24 (4.24%) CMS
2 7 (1.24%) Confluence
3 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (3.00%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (5.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (3.18%) SDL Web 8
3 7 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.35%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 223 (39.40%) Azure
2 186 (32.86%) AWS
3 121 (21.38%) GCP
4 62 (10.95%) SaaS
5 57 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (6.71%) PaaS
7 34 (6.01%) IaaS
8 32 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (4.77%) Serverless
10 22 (3.89%) GitHub
11 20 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (3.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 17 (3.00%) NuGet
13 16 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (2.12%) Azure Functions
15 12 (2.12%) dbt
15 12 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.47%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.12%) Network Security
3 7 (1.24%) Firewall
3 7 (1.24%) HTTP
4 6 (1.06%) Internet
4 6 (1.06%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.35%) DNS
6 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.35%) LAN
6 2 (0.35%) WAN
6 2 (0.35%) Wireless
7 1 (0.18%) NGFW
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 56 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 48 (8.48%) Relational Database
4 22 (3.89%) Big Data
5 19 (3.36%) DB2
5 19 (3.36%) Metadata
6 14 (2.47%) MySQL
7 13 (2.30%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.41%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.06%) GIS
12 6 (1.06%) Redis
13 5 (0.88%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (8.48%) Git
2 33 (5.83%) Visual Studio
3 28 (4.95%) JIRA
4 19 (3.36%) NUnit
5 18 (3.18%) Moq
5 18 (3.18%) TeamCity
6 17 (3.00%) git-flow
6 17 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (3.00%) Sourcetree
6 17 (3.00%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.59%) Maven
8 7 (1.24%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.06%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.88%) webpack
11 3 (0.53%) JUnit
12 2 (0.35%) Balsamiq
12 2 (0.35%) Gradle
12 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 133 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.61%) Finance
3 63 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (9.01%) Legal
5 51 (9.01%) Marketing
6 46 (8.13%) Public Sector
7 33 (5.83%) Banking
7 33 (5.83%) Law
8 30 (5.30%) Retail
9 14 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.77%) Billing
12 9 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.88%) Aviation
14 4 (0.71%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 331 (58.48%) Architect
2 175 (30.92%) Senior
3 169 (29.86%) Solutions Architect
4 123 (21.73%) Developer
5 88 (15.55%) Lead
6 83 (14.66%) Senior Architect
7 48 (8.48%) Senior Developer
8 47 (8.30%) Technical Architect
9 43 (7.60%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 43 (7.60%) Software Engineer
10 38 (6.71%) Full Stack Developer
11 37 (6.54%) C# Developer
12 34 (6.01%) Lead Architect
13 33 (5.83%) Senior Full Stack Developer
14 32 (5.65%) Data Architect
15 31 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
16 30 (5.30%) Senior C# Developer
17 28 (4.95%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 25 (4.42%) .NET Developer
18 25 (4.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (24.73%) .NET
2 82 (14.49%) RESTful
3 65 (11.48%) React
4 57 (10.07%) HTML
5 50 (8.83%) CSS
6 46 (8.13%) .NET Framework
7 45 (7.95%) Web Services
8 40 (7.07%) ASP.NET
8 40 (7.07%) REST
8 40 (7.07%) SOAP
9 39 (6.89%) XML
10 32 (5.65%) Entity Framework
10 32 (5.65%) Node.js
11 25 (4.42%) .NET Core
12 24 (4.24%) AngularJS
12 24 (4.24%) Spring
13 23 (4.06%) ASP.NET MVC
14 22 (3.89%) GraphQL
15 20 (3.53%) Blazor
15 20 (3.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 101 (17.84%) Public Cloud
2 80 (14.13%) Cloud Native
3 55 (9.72%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.06%) Mobile App
6 19 (3.36%) IoT
6 19 (3.36%) Legacy Code
7 17 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.83%) Operational Technology
9 15 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.30%) PMI
11 11 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.41%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.24%) Blockchain
13 7 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.30%) Linux
2 27 (4.77%) Windows
3 24 (4.24%) Apple iOS
4 16 (2.83%) Android
5 12 (2.12%) Unix
6 11 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.77%) Solaris
8 8 (1.41%) VME
9 7 (1.24%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.71%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.71%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (54.06%) Agile
2 227 (40.11%) Design Patterns
3 186 (32.86%) Microservices
4 175 (30.92%) Mentoring
5 161 (28.45%) DevOps
6 159 (28.09%) Roadmaps
7 158 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (17.49%) Coaching
9 86 (15.19%) Software Engineering
10 81 (14.31%) Architectural Design
11 79 (13.96%) Full Stack Development
12 78 (13.78%) Enterprise Architecture
13 73 (12.90%) Decision-Making
14 72 (12.72%) Analytics
15 69 (12.19%) API Development
15 69 (12.19%) Software Architecture
16 67 (11.84%) CI/CD
16 67 (11.84%) Computer Science
17 65 (11.48%) Open Source
18 63 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 119 (21.02%) C#
2 101 (17.84%) Java
3 85 (15.02%) JavaScript
4 82 (14.49%) Python
5 74 (13.07%) SQL
6 29 (5.12%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.53%) Swift
8 19 (3.36%) T-SQL
9 18 (3.18%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.00%) XPath
11 15 (2.65%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.47%) VB.NET
13 11 (1.94%) C
14 8 (1.41%) COBOL
14 8 (1.41%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 7 (1.24%) Ruby
16 6 (1.06%) R
16 6 (1.06%) Scala
17 4 (0.71%) Bash
17 4 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 138 (24.38%) Degree
2 72 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 68 (12.01%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (5.65%) Master's Degree
6 31 (5.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 28 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (4.77%) CISSP
9 21 (3.71%) CISM
10 19 (3.36%) CRISC
11 16 (2.83%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.65%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.47%) CASP
13 14 (2.47%) CEH
14 13 (2.30%) PMI Certification
15 12 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (1.41%) SANS
17 7 (1.24%) CISA
18 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
19 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.01%) QA
2 21 (3.71%) GDPR
3 20 (3.53%) NCSC
4 18 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.18%) NIST
5 10 (1.77%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.88%) WCAG
9 4 (0.71%) ISO 31000
9 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 4 (0.71%) SEPA
10 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.53%) SLA
11 2 (0.35%) EMIR
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (8.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.36%) Terraform
3 5 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (0.71%) Suricata
5 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 97 (17.14%) Google
3 30 (5.30%) Sparx
4 28 (4.95%) Oracle
5 19 (3.36%) Adobe
5 19 (3.36%) IBM
6 17 (3.00%) Cognizant
7 13 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.12%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.94%) Guidewire
9 11 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.41%) Citrix
10 8 (1.41%) Micro Focus
11 7 (1.24%) SAP
12 6 (1.06%) Cisco
13 4 (0.71%) ESRI
13 4 (0.71%) Juniper
13 4 (0.71%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.71%) Splunk
14 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics