Software Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 442 507
Rank change year-on-year +36 +65 -29
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 396 339 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.59% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 216 150 179
10th Percentile £46,930 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.53% +2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +1 110 £70,000 +27.27% 9
South East -13 92 £64,000 +8.47% 24
North of England +80 71 £70,000 +33.33% 20
Scotland -30 49 £67,500 -20.59% 11
North West +37 45 £55,000 +4.76% 12
Midlands -17 32 £95,000 +85.37% 7
Yorkshire +95 24 £72,500 +31.82% 7
West Midlands +14 22 £95,000 +46.15% 4
East of England +11 21 £72,250 +7.04% 9
Wales +24 17 £73,750 +1.72% 3
East Midlands -32 9 £49,000 +8.89% 3
Northern Ireland +32 4 £65,000 - 6
North East -4 2 £70,500 -9.03% 1
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (1.77%) Apache
2 6 (1.52%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) CANalyzer
2 5 (1.26%) Simulink
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.51%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (29.04%) Azure
2 106 (26.77%) AWS
3 71 (17.93%) SaaS
4 37 (9.34%) OpenShift
5 17 (4.29%) Serverless
6 16 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.03%) PaaS
8 11 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.78%) GCP
8 11 (2.78%) IaaS
9 10 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.02%) GitHub
11 7 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (1.77%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.52%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.01%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.76%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (15.91%) TCP/IP
2 52 (13.13%) HTTP
3 45 (11.36%) DNS
4 37 (9.34%) DHCP
5 14 (3.54%) Internet
6 13 (3.28%) Ethernet
7 10 (2.53%) Wireless
8 9 (2.27%) RS-232
9 8 (2.02%) SMTP
10 4 (1.01%) RS-485
10 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) 4G
11 1 (0.25%) 5G
11 1 (0.25%) IPsec
11 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.25%) Network Security
11 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.62%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.58%) Geospatial Data
3 20 (5.05%) GIS
4 15 (3.79%) MySQL
5 13 (3.28%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.77%) Big Data
8 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.51%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.25%) Power BI
12 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (10.35%) Git
2 21 (5.30%) Visual Studio
3 16 (4.04%) Subversion
4 13 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.03%) Postman
6 9 (2.27%) Jasmine
6 9 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.52%) CANoe
7 6 (1.52%) Maven
8 5 (1.26%) GitLab
9 2 (0.51%) JIRA
9 2 (0.51%) JUnit
10 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.25%) GitKraken
10 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.25%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.25%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 79 (19.95%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.89%) Finance
3 34 (8.59%) Electronics
4 31 (7.83%) Aerospace
5 30 (7.58%) Law
6 28 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (6.57%) Banking
9 19 (4.80%) Marketing
10 16 (4.04%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.79%) Games
12 11 (2.78%) Automotive
12 11 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.27%) Private Banking
14 8 (2.02%) Legal
15 7 (1.77%) Aviation
16 6 (1.52%) Military
16 6 (1.52%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 5 (1.26%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 105 (26.52%) Architect
2 96 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 89 (22.47%) Developer
4 86 (21.72%) Senior
5 58 (14.65%) Lead
6 38 (9.60%) Software Architect
7 37 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.57%) Embedded Engineer
10 19 (4.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 19 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.29%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (4.29%) Technical Architect
12 15 (3.79%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.79%) Software Developer
13 14 (3.54%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.54%) Principal Architect
14 12 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
14 12 (3.03%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.22%) .NET
2 35 (8.84%) AngularJS
3 32 (8.08%) CSS
3 32 (8.08%) HTML
3 32 (8.08%) React
4 27 (6.82%) .NET Framework
4 27 (6.82%) Spring
5 25 (6.31%) ASP.NET
6 23 (5.81%) RESTful
7 22 (5.56%) .NET Core
8 16 (4.04%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (4.04%) Node.js
9 15 (3.79%) jQuery
9 15 (3.79%) Qt
9 15 (3.79%) REST
10 13 (3.28%) SOAP
10 13 (3.28%) Web Services
11 11 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (2.78%) OAuth
11 11 (2.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.05%) IoT
4 19 (4.80%) Robotics
5 15 (3.79%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
8 9 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.02%) CUDA
9 8 (2.02%) GNSS
9 8 (2.02%) Tandem
10 6 (1.52%) Arduino
10 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.52%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.26%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.26%) Infotainment
11 5 (1.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (19.95%) Linux
2 76 (19.19%) Windows
3 37 (9.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.02%) Unix
7 6 (1.52%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (40.66%) Software Engineering
2 148 (37.37%) Agile
3 126 (31.82%) DevOps
4 90 (22.73%) Actionable Insight
5 87 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (15.40%) Roadmaps
7 58 (14.65%) Computer Science
8 55 (13.89%) Design Patterns
9 48 (12.12%) Mentoring
10 43 (10.86%) CI/CD
10 43 (10.86%) Test Automation
11 42 (10.61%) Migration
12 41 (10.35%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 37 (9.34%) SDLC
14 36 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
15 35 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
17 32 (8.08%) Full Stack Development
18 31 (7.83%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.04%) Python
2 99 (25.00%) C#
3 96 (24.24%) Java
4 95 (23.99%) C
5 69 (17.42%) C++
6 68 (17.17%) JavaScript
7 37 (9.34%) Bash
7 37 (9.34%) PowerShell
8 36 (9.09%) SQL
9 14 (3.54%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.28%) VB.NET
11 12 (3.03%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.27%) Swift
13 8 (2.02%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.26%) Ada
15 4 (1.01%) Go
15 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.01%) R
16 3 (0.76%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 106 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 92 (23.23%) Degree
3 40 (10.10%) DV Cleared
4 33 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (7.32%) Master's Degree
6 21 (5.30%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.59%) QA
2 11 (2.78%) GDPR
3 10 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.53%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.27%) ISO 13485
4 9 (2.27%) WAI
5 8 (2.02%) ISO 26262
6 4 (1.01%) PMO
6 4 (1.01%) SEPA
7 3 (0.76%) HAZOP
8 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.51%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.25%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (16.92%) Docker
2 37 (9.34%) Hyper-V
2 37 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.80%) Firmware
4 17 (4.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 54 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.34%) Ansible
2 37 (9.34%) Puppet
3 3 (0.76%) Kibana
4 2 (0.51%) Terraform
5 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.34%) Red Hat
2 37 (9.34%) VMware
3 8 (2.02%) Guidewire
4 6 (1.52%) Google
4 6 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.25%) Ariba
5 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.25%) Citrix
5 1 (0.25%) Databricks
5 1 (0.25%) MathWorks
5 1 (0.25%) SAP