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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 459 415
Rank change year-on-year -4 -44 +54
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 414 580 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.63% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.66% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 267 341 404
10th Percentile £46,658 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +13.46%

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 73,147 88,376 126,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,950 52,212 73,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
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 £101,243 £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 2 May 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 2 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
South West +9 109 £70,000 +27.27% 10
South East -15 91 £64,000 +6.67% 22
London -15 91 £85,000 -4.23% 56
North of England +75 68 £70,000 +33.33% 17
North West +25 43 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Midlands -14 31 £95,000 +111.11% 3
Yorkshire +104 23 £72,500 +16.00% 6
West Midlands +20 22 £95,000 +46.15% 2
East of England +9 21 £72,250 +7.04% 9
East Midlands -33 8 £49,000 +8.89% 1
North East -8 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 (1.45%) Tomcat
2 5 (1.21%) Apache
3 2 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Appian
4 1 (0.24%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) CANalyzer
2 5 (1.21%) Simulink
3 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.48%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 127 (30.68%) Azure
2 103 (24.88%) AWS
3 67 (16.18%) SaaS
4 37 (8.94%) OpenShift
5 20 (4.83%) GCP
6 18 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (4.11%) Serverless
8 16 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.38%) PaaS
10 12 (2.90%) IaaS
11 9 (2.17%) GitHub
12 7 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.69%) Azure Functions
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (0.72%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (0.72%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.72%) Firebase
15 2 (0.48%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 62 (14.98%) TCP/IP
2 52 (12.56%) HTTP
3 45 (10.87%) DNS
4 37 (8.94%) DHCP
5 14 (3.38%) Internet
6 13 (3.14%) Ethernet
7 10 (2.42%) Wireless
8 9 (2.17%) RS-232
9 8 (1.93%) SMTP
10 4 (0.97%) Multicast
10 4 (0.97%) RS-485
10 4 (0.97%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.48%) Firewall
11 2 (0.48%) SSH
11 2 (0.48%) VPN
12 1 (0.24%) 4G
12 1 (0.24%) IPsec
12 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.24%) Network Security
12 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.59%) MySQL
3 18 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.38%) Geospatial Data
4 14 (3.38%) GIS
5 13 (3.14%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.97%) Big Data
8 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.24%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (9.90%) Git
2 20 (4.83%) Visual Studio
3 18 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.86%) Subversion
5 15 (3.62%) Postman
6 7 (1.69%) GitLab
7 6 (1.45%) CANoe
7 6 (1.45%) JUnit
7 6 (1.45%) Maven
8 4 (0.97%) JIRA
9 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.48%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.24%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.24%) ScalaTest
10 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 91 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.94%) Electronics
3 33 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.49%) Aerospace
5 25 (6.04%) Finance
6 20 (4.83%) Legal
7 16 (3.86%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.62%) Automotive
9 14 (3.38%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.14%) Banking
10 13 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Aviation
11 7 (1.69%) Games
12 6 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.45%) Law
12 6 (1.45%) Military
12 6 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.21%) Multimedia
14 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (24.64%) Developer
2 99 (23.91%) Software Engineer
3 95 (22.95%) Senior
4 87 (21.01%) Architect
5 53 (12.80%) Lead
6 37 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (7.49%) Senior Developer
9 27 (6.52%) Software Architect
10 26 (6.28%) Technical Architect
11 21 (5.07%) Embedded Engineer
12 20 (4.83%) C# Developer
12 20 (4.83%) Full Stack Developer
12 20 (4.83%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.86%) .NET Developer
14 16 (3.86%) Azure Developer
15 15 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (3.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 13 (3.14%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (21.74%) .NET
2 46 (11.11%) React
3 33 (7.97%) Spring
4 30 (7.25%) HTML
5 29 (7.00%) AngularJS
5 29 (7.00%) CSS
6 25 (6.04%) .NET Framework
7 24 (5.80%) .NET Core
8 23 (5.56%) REST
9 21 (5.07%) Web Services
10 19 (4.59%) Node.js
11 18 (4.35%) SOAP
12 17 (4.11%) RESTful
13 15 (3.62%) ASP.NET
13 15 (3.62%) Qt
14 12 (2.90%) Blazor
15 11 (2.66%) Hibernate
16 10 (2.42%) Entity Framework
16 10 (2.42%) Swagger
17 9 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.97%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.28%) Algorithms
4 24 (5.80%) IoT
5 22 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.62%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (3.62%) Robotics
8 14 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (3.14%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.90%) CUDA
10 12 (2.90%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.93%) GNSS
11 8 (1.93%) Tandem
12 6 (1.45%) Arduino
12 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (1.21%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.21%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 87 (21.01%) Linux
2 79 (19.08%) Windows
3 37 (8.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.66%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.66%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.42%) Unix
6 8 (1.93%) Android
7 2 (0.48%) CentOS
7 2 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 147 (35.51%) Agile
3 138 (33.33%) DevOps
4 102 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (20.29%) Actionable Insight
6 79 (19.08%) Computer Science
7 64 (15.46%) Roadmaps
8 63 (15.22%) Design Patterns
9 60 (14.49%) CI/CD
10 56 (13.53%) Architectural Patterns
11 53 (12.80%) Full Stack Development
12 41 (9.90%) Collaborative Working
13 39 (9.42%) Microservices
14 37 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 37 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (7.97%) Mentoring
15 33 (7.97%) Requirements Analysis
15 33 (7.97%) Test Automation
16 31 (7.49%) Software Testing
17 30 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 147 (35.51%) Python
2 110 (26.57%) Java
3 103 (24.88%) C#
4 98 (23.67%) C
5 70 (16.91%) C++
6 67 (16.18%) JavaScript
7 44 (10.63%) PowerShell
8 41 (9.90%) SQL
9 39 (9.42%) Bash
10 24 (5.80%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.86%) VB.NET
12 9 (2.17%) Swift
13 8 (1.93%) MATLAB
13 8 (1.93%) PHP
14 7 (1.69%) Go
15 5 (1.21%) Ada
15 5 (1.21%) R
16 3 (0.72%) Bicep
16 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (26.81%) Degree
2 106 (25.60%) Security Cleared
3 41 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (9.66%) DV Cleared
5 36 (8.70%) Master's Degree
6 27 (6.52%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.21%) PhD
8 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.97%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.49%) QA
2 12 (2.90%) HIPAA
3 11 (2.66%) GDPR
4 9 (2.17%) ISO 13485
5 8 (1.93%) ISO 26262
6 4 (0.97%) PMO
7 3 (0.72%) HAZOP
8 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.48%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.24%) EMIR
9 1 (0.24%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 69 (16.67%) Docker
2 37 (8.94%) Hyper-V
2 37 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.59%) Firmware
4 17 (4.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 59 (14.25%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.42%) Ansible
3 37 (8.94%) Puppet
4 3 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.48%) Grafana
5 2 (0.48%) Graphite
5 2 (0.48%) Nagios
5 2 (0.48%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.24%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.94%) Red Hat
2 37 (8.94%) VMware
3 11 (2.66%) Google
4 8 (1.93%) Guidewire
4 8 (1.93%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.48%) Apple
5 2 (0.48%) Databricks
5 2 (0.48%) New Relic
5 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.48%) SAP
5 2 (0.48%) Splunk
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe
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
6 1 (0.24%) Sony