Software Architecture Jobs in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 455 415
Rank change year-on-year +4 -40 +54
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 410 580 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.63% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.65% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 266 342 404
10th Percentile £46,930 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,867 88,602 125,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.64% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,758 52,331 73,895
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,338
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South West +17 108 £70,000 +27.27% 10
South East -17 89 £64,000 +6.67% 26
London -10 88 £85,000 -5.56% 62
North of England +65 68 £70,000 +33.33% 19
North West +34 42 £55,000 +4.76% 12
Midlands -23 33 £95,000 +111.11% 2
Yorkshire +106 24 £72,500 +16.00% 6
West Midlands +21 23 £95,000 +46.15% 2
East of England +8 21 £72,250 +7.04% 11
East Midlands -30 9 £50,000 +11.11%
North East -6 2 £70,500 -9.03% 1
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
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 6 (1.46%) Tomcat
2 5 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Appian
4 1 (0.24%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) CANalyzer
1 6 (1.46%) Simulink
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.49%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 123 (30.00%) Azure
2 104 (25.37%) AWS
3 66 (16.10%) SaaS
4 36 (8.78%) OpenShift
5 20 (4.88%) GCP
6 18 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (4.15%) Serverless
8 16 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.41%) PaaS
10 13 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.93%) IaaS
12 9 (2.20%) GitHub
13 8 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (1.71%) Azure Functions
15 6 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (0.73%) AWS CodePipeline
16 3 (0.73%) Azure App Service
16 3 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (0.73%) Firebase
17 2 (0.49%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.63%) TCP/IP
2 50 (12.20%) HTTP
3 43 (10.49%) DNS
4 36 (8.78%) DHCP
5 13 (3.17%) Ethernet
5 13 (3.17%) Internet
6 10 (2.44%) Wireless
7 9 (2.20%) RS-232
8 7 (1.71%) SMTP
9 4 (0.98%) Multicast
9 4 (0.98%) RS-485
9 4 (0.98%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.49%) Firewall
10 2 (0.49%) SSH
10 2 (0.49%) VPN
11 1 (0.24%) 4G
11 1 (0.24%) 5G
11 1 (0.24%) IPsec
11 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.51%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.39%) MySQL
2 18 (4.39%) NoSQL
3 14 (3.41%) Geospatial Data
3 14 (3.41%) GIS
4 13 (3.17%) DynamoDB
5 11 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.98%) Big Data
7 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (10.00%) Git
2 20 (4.88%) Visual Studio
3 17 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.90%) Subversion
5 15 (3.66%) Postman
6 7 (1.71%) GitLab
6 7 (1.71%) Maven
7 6 (1.46%) CANoe
7 6 (1.46%) JUnit
8 4 (0.98%) JIRA
9 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.24%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 92 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.02%) Electronics
3 32 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.07%) Aerospace
5 28 (6.83%) Finance
6 21 (5.12%) Legal
7 16 (3.90%) Automotive
7 16 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.66%) Banking
9 13 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.71%) Aviation
11 7 (1.71%) Games
12 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.46%) Law
12 6 (1.46%) Military
12 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.22%) Multimedia
14 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (23.66%) Developer
1 97 (23.66%) Software Engineer
2 91 (22.20%) Senior
3 87 (21.22%) Architect
4 52 (12.68%) Lead
5 36 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (7.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (6.59%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.59%) Software Architect
8 26 (6.34%) Technical Architect
9 20 (4.88%) Embedded Engineer
9 20 (4.88%) Software Developer
10 18 (4.39%) C# Developer
10 18 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
11 17 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.90%) .NET Developer
13 15 (3.66%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (3.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 13 (3.17%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (20.98%) .NET
2 44 (10.73%) React
3 35 (8.54%) Spring
4 29 (7.07%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.59%) CSS
5 27 (6.59%) HTML
6 24 (5.85%) .NET Core
7 22 (5.37%) .NET Framework
7 22 (5.37%) REST
8 19 (4.63%) Node.js
8 19 (4.63%) Web Services
9 18 (4.39%) SOAP
10 16 (3.90%) RESTful
11 15 (3.66%) Qt
12 14 (3.41%) ASP.NET
13 11 (2.68%) Blazor
13 11 (2.68%) Hibernate
14 10 (2.44%) Entity Framework
15 9 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.34%) Algorithms
4 24 (5.85%) IoT
5 22 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.39%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.66%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (3.66%) Robotics
7 15 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.41%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.93%) Mobile App
10 11 (2.68%) CUDA
11 7 (1.71%) GNSS
11 7 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.71%) Tandem
12 6 (1.46%) Arduino
12 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.46%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.22%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 86 (20.98%) Linux
2 76 (18.54%) Windows
3 36 (8.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.68%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.20%) Unix
6 8 (1.95%) Android
7 2 (0.49%) CentOS
7 2 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (38.78%) Software Engineering
2 146 (35.61%) Agile
3 136 (33.17%) DevOps
4 101 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (20.24%) Actionable Insight
6 79 (19.27%) Computer Science
7 64 (15.61%) Roadmaps
8 60 (14.63%) Design Patterns
9 59 (14.39%) CI/CD
10 56 (13.66%) Architectural Patterns
11 51 (12.44%) Full Stack Development
12 40 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
12 40 (9.76%) Microservices
13 39 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 33 (8.05%) Requirements Analysis
16 32 (7.80%) Mentoring
16 32 (7.80%) Test Automation
17 30 (7.32%) SDLC
17 30 (7.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 145 (35.37%) Python
2 110 (26.83%) Java
3 100 (24.39%) C#
4 97 (23.66%) C
5 68 (16.59%) C++
6 64 (15.61%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.24%) PowerShell
8 41 (10.00%) SQL
9 38 (9.27%) Bash
10 22 (5.37%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.90%) VB.NET
12 9 (2.20%) MATLAB
12 9 (2.20%) Swift
13 7 (1.71%) Go
14 6 (1.46%) PHP
14 6 (1.46%) R
15 4 (0.98%) Ada
16 3 (0.73%) Bicep
16 3 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (26.83%) Degree
2 105 (25.61%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (9.51%) DV Cleared
5 37 (9.02%) Master's Degree
6 26 (6.34%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.22%) PhD
8 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.56%) QA
2 12 (2.93%) HIPAA
3 11 (2.68%) GDPR
4 9 (2.20%) ISO 13485
4 9 (2.20%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.98%) PMO
6 3 (0.73%) HAZOP
7 2 (0.49%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.49%) DO-178B
7 2 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.49%) SEPA
8 1 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
8 1 (0.24%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 71 (17.32%) Docker
2 36 (8.78%) Hyper-V
2 36 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.39%) Firmware
4 16 (3.90%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 61 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 38 (9.27%) Ansible
3 36 (8.78%) Puppet
4 2 (0.49%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.49%) Graphite
4 2 (0.49%) Kibana
4 2 (0.49%) Nagios
4 2 (0.49%) Terraform
4 2 (0.49%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Podman
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (8.78%) Microsoft
1 36 (8.78%) Red Hat
1 36 (8.78%) VMware
2 11 (2.68%) Google
3 8 (1.95%) Guidewire
4 7 (1.71%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.49%) Databricks
5 2 (0.49%) New Relic
5 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.49%) SAP
5 2 (0.49%) Splunk
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe
6 1 (0.24%) Apple
6 1 (0.24%) Ariba
6 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.24%) Citrix
6 1 (0.24%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.24%) Okta
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle