Software Architect Jobs in England

Software Architect
UK > England

The median Software Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 645 949
Rank change year-on-year +253 +304 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 437 96 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 159 80 96
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £70,000
25th Percentile £70,600 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £86,875 - £93,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £101,625 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 69,088 53,050 124,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 94.36% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,631 39,423 73,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
North of England +124 149 £75,000 -11.76% 1
North West +91 117 £75,000 -11.76% 1
South East +59 110 £75,000 +20.00% 3
South West +30 47 £70,000 -17.65%
East of England 0 45 £85,000 +25.93% 3
Midlands +8 41 £90,000 +5.88% 1
London +46 36 £80,000 -12.33% 4
East Midlands -1 32 £90,000 +44.00%
Yorkshire +35 27 £75,000 -11.76%
West Midlands -17 9 £75,000 -11.76% 1
North East - 5 - -
Software Architect
UK

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Software Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 223 (51.03%) Agile
2 113 (25.86%) Mentoring
3 108 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 108 (24.71%) Software Engineering
4 107 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (24.03%) Machine Learning
6 97 (22.20%) Social Skills
7 93 (21.28%) Creative Thinking
8 83 (18.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 83 (18.99%) User Experience
8 83 (18.99%) Data Engineering
8 83 (18.99%) Cyberattack
9 82 (18.76%) Software Testing
10 79 (18.08%) Validation
11 78 (17.85%) DevOps
12 74 (16.93%) Azure
13 72 (16.48%) AWS
14 70 (16.02%) Security Cleared
15 69 (15.79%) C++
16 66 (15.10%) TOGAF
16 66 (15.10%) Technical Architecture
17 65 (14.87%) Software Architecture
18 63 (14.42%) Network Architecture
18 63 (14.42%) Network Management
18 63 (14.42%) VSAT
18 63 (14.42%) Requirements Management
18 63 (14.42%) Model Validation
19 57 (13.04%) Degree
19 57 (13.04%) Java
20 52 (11.90%) Migration

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 10 (2.29%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (16.93%) Azure
2 72 (16.48%) AWS
3 19 (4.35%) SaaS
4 5 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.14%) Serverless
5 4 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (0.69%) dbt
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (0.46%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.46%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.23%) GCP
8 1 (0.23%) GitHub
8 1 (0.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (14.42%) VSAT
2 10 (2.29%) Internet
3 5 (1.14%) Wireless
4 2 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.21%) Geospatial Data
2 15 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.97%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.29%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.69%) MySQL
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.46%) Big Data
7 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.23%) Redis
8 1 (0.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (7.09%) GitLab
2 29 (6.64%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.69%) Git
3 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) Maven
5 1 (0.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 108 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 97 (22.20%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.81%) Military
4 10 (2.29%) Games
4 10 (2.29%) Marketing
5 9 (2.06%) Finance
6 6 (1.37%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.14%) Retail
8 4 (0.92%) Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.69%) German Language
9 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.46%) Automotive
10 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.23%) Electronics
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.49%) .NET
2 21 (4.81%) Middleware
3 8 (1.83%) YAML
4 5 (1.14%) RESTful
5 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.69%) Django
5 3 (0.69%) Node.js
5 3 (0.69%) React
6 2 (0.46%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (0.46%) Blazor
6 2 (0.46%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.46%) Spring
6 2 (0.46%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.46%) Web Services
6 2 (0.46%) XML
7 1 (0.23%) Kafka
7 1 (0.23%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.99%) Cyberattack
2 49 (11.21%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.29%) Swaptions
6 6 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (0.92%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.23%) Life Science
10 1 (0.23%) Verilog
10 1 (0.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.70%) Linux
2 37 (8.47%) Android
3 36 (8.24%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.46%) Windows
5 1 (0.23%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (51.03%) Agile
2 113 (25.86%) Mentoring
3 108 (24.71%) Software Engineering
4 107 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (24.03%) Machine Learning
6 93 (21.28%) Creative Thinking
7 83 (18.99%) Data Engineering
7 83 (18.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 83 (18.99%) User Experience
8 82 (18.76%) Software Testing
9 79 (18.08%) Validation
10 78 (17.85%) DevOps
11 66 (15.10%) Technical Architecture
11 66 (15.10%) TOGAF
12 65 (14.87%) Software Architecture
13 63 (14.42%) Model Validation
13 63 (14.42%) Network Architecture
13 63 (14.42%) Network Management
13 63 (14.42%) Requirements Management
14 52 (11.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 69 (15.79%) C++
2 57 (13.04%) Java
3 45 (10.30%) C#
4 44 (10.07%) C
5 43 (9.84%) Python
6 34 (7.78%) SQL
7 29 (6.64%) Fortran
8 10 (2.29%) VB
9 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.69%) Bicep
10 3 (0.69%) PHP
11 2 (0.46%) Ada
11 2 (0.46%) Go
11 2 (0.46%) Gremlin
11 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 70 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.04%) Degree
3 33 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Ansible
1 5 (1.14%) Terraform
2 4 (0.92%) Puppet
3 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.46%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 34 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.52%) Oracle
3 10 (2.29%) OpenLink
3 10 (2.29%) Sybase
3 10 (2.29%) TIBCO
4 3 (0.69%) Twitter
5 1 (0.23%) Google
5 1 (0.23%) Sparx
5 1 (0.23%) VMware