Architectural Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 334 337
Rank change year-on-year +38 +3 +43
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 945 1,081 1,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.03% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.08% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 401 463 908
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,687 £48,600
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £128,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% - +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Design 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
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 Design within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
UK excluding London +73 717 £78,000 +15.56% 91
England -92 469 £79,932 +6.58% 170
Scotland +141 431 £72,500 +4.77% 5
Work from Home -8 270 £79,932 +3.14% 79
London -29 192 £94,500 +9.57% 85
North of England +15 113 £79,932 +22.97% 19
North West -1 76 £65,000 +4.00% 12
South West +16 56 £67,500 -3.30% 11
South East -82 50 £50,000 -33.33% 26
Midlands -50 40 £78,273 +2.65% 13
West Midlands -13 35 £78,273 +1.00% 10
Yorkshire +69 28 £79,932 +22.64% 3
East of England +4 18 £78,273 +9.86% 15
North East -3 9 £79,932 +14.19% 4
Northern Ireland +27 8 £85,000 +75.26% 3
East Midlands -35 5 £78,273 +7.96% 3
Wales +2 3 £52,956 -0.28% 4

Architectural Design
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 21 (2.22%) GemFire
2 20 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.59%) CMS
4 8 (0.85%) Apache
5 5 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.42%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.21%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.21%) Captiva
7 2 (0.21%) Documentum
7 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 17 (1.80%) Photoshop
2 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.53%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.42%) Revit
5 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.11%) InDesign
7 1 (0.11%) Notion
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.48%) SDL Web 8
2 7 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.42%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.21%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 386 (40.85%) AWS
2 188 (19.89%) Azure
3 72 (7.62%) Datadog
4 56 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 54 (5.71%) SaaS
6 50 (5.29%) GCP
6 50 (5.29%) Serverless
7 34 (3.60%) GitHub
8 28 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.12%) Azure Functions
12 19 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.01%) Azure AKS
13 17 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (1.69%) PaaS
15 14 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.88%) Kerberos
2 18 (1.90%) DSL
3 8 (0.85%) VPN
4 5 (0.53%) Bluetooth
4 5 (0.53%) DNS
5 4 (0.42%) Firewall
5 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.21%) DHCP
6 2 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.21%) Internet
6 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.21%) LAN
6 2 (0.21%) MPLS
6 2 (0.21%) Network Security
6 2 (0.21%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.21%) PBX
6 2 (0.21%) VoIP
6 2 (0.21%) WAN
6 2 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.83%) Metadata
2 62 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 51 (5.40%) Relational Database
4 49 (5.19%) MongoDB
5 39 (4.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 34 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.75%) Big Data
8 21 (2.22%) CockroachDB
8 21 (2.22%) Hazelcast
8 21 (2.22%) Looker
9 20 (2.12%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.90%) DB2
10 18 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.90%) Tableau
11 12 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (1.06%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.74%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.74%) Power BI
14 5 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.53%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 141 (14.92%) Git
2 92 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 65 (6.88%) Artifactory
3 65 (6.88%) Bitbucket
4 30 (3.17%) JUnit
5 28 (2.96%) Visual Studio
6 26 (2.75%) Selenium
7 25 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 23 (2.43%) Jasmine
9 22 (2.33%) JIRA
9 22 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (2.33%) Protractor
9 22 (2.33%) WebDriver
10 21 (2.22%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.80%) Moq
11 17 (1.80%) SpecFlow
12 15 (1.59%) NUnit
13 14 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
13 14 (1.48%) Sourcetree
13 14 (1.48%) TeamCity
General
1 523 (55.34%) Finance
2 444 (46.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 419 (44.34%) Law
4 334 (35.34%) Marketing
5 220 (23.28%) Social Skills
6 151 (15.98%) Banking
7 118 (12.49%) Investment Banking
8 88 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (4.97%) Financial Institution
10 27 (2.86%) Retail
11 22 (2.33%) Prime Brokerage
12 15 (1.59%) Automotive
12 15 (1.59%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.38%) Back Office
14 13 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.16%) Public Sector
16 9 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 436 (46.14%) Lead
2 421 (44.55%) Software Engineer
3 367 (38.84%) Lead Software Engineer
4 231 (24.44%) Architect
5 138 (14.60%) Java Engineer
6 134 (14.18%) Java Software Engineer
6 134 (14.18%) Lead Java Engineer
7 121 (12.80%) Senior
8 93 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 83 (8.78%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 82 (8.68%) Developer
12 56 (5.93%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 50 (5.29%) Technical Architect
14 47 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 41 (4.34%) Technical Leader
16 34 (3.60%) UI Engineer
17 33 (3.49%) Principal Architect
18 32 (3.39%) Software Developer
19 31 (3.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (14.07%) Spring
2 120 (12.70%) Web Services
3 116 (12.28%) RESTful
4 110 (11.64%) Kafka
5 100 (10.58%) React
6 96 (10.16%) JSON
7 92 (9.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 91 (9.63%) XML
9 87 (9.21%) HTML
10 85 (8.99%) .NET
11 84 (8.89%) Spring Boot
12 82 (8.68%) CSS
13 67 (7.09%) LDAP
14 66 (6.98%) AngularJS
14 66 (6.98%) OpenID
14 66 (6.98%) SAML
15 65 (6.88%) JSON-LD
16 49 (5.19%) REST
17 45 (4.76%) Node.js
18 41 (4.34%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 259 (27.41%) Cloud Native
2 167 (17.67%) Public Cloud
3 129 (13.65%) Management Information System
4 65 (6.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (6.88%) Reference Data
5 61 (6.46%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 21 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.22%) Replication
10 15 (1.59%) Legacy Code
10 15 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.06%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.95%) Robotics
14 8 (0.85%) IoT
15 7 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 69 (7.30%) Linux
2 16 (1.69%) Windows
3 13 (1.38%) Unix
4 5 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (65.29%) Agile
2 505 (53.44%) Software Engineering
3 458 (48.47%) CI/CD
4 414 (43.81%) Operational Stability
5 410 (43.39%) SDLC
6 400 (42.33%) Community of Practice
7 398 (42.12%) Information Architecture
8 324 (34.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 321 (33.97%) Continuous Delivery
10 311 (32.91%) Machine Learning
11 233 (24.66%) Roadmaps
12 161 (17.04%) Mentoring
13 156 (16.51%) Data Modelling
14 148 (15.66%) DevOps
15 124 (13.12%) Coaching
16 120 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
17 117 (12.38%) Test Automation
18 110 (11.64%) Microservices
19 96 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
20 91 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 374 (39.58%) Java
2 209 (22.12%) SQL
3 190 (20.11%) Python
4 175 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 87 (9.21%) C#
6 67 (7.09%) Go
7 65 (6.88%) Prolog
7 65 (6.88%) SPARQL
8 47 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 38 (4.02%) C++
9 38 (4.02%) Scala
10 37 (3.92%) C
11 29 (3.07%) COBOL
11 29 (3.07%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 22 (2.33%) Groovy
13 21 (2.22%) PL/SQL
13 21 (2.22%) T-SQL
14 17 (1.80%) VB.NET
15 14 (1.48%) XPath
16 13 (1.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 125 (13.23%) Degree
2 34 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 28 (2.96%) Master's Degree
4 28 (2.96%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.12%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.16%) CISM
6 11 (1.16%) CISSP
6 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.32%) MCAD
12 2 (0.21%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.21%) CCIE
12 2 (0.21%) HNC
12 2 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.61%) Accessibility
1 53 (5.61%) QA
2 23 (2.43%) PMO
3 19 (2.01%) SLA
4 16 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.95%) GDPR
5 9 (0.95%) ITGC
6 2 (0.21%) GRC
6 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.11%) COBIT
7 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 65 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 62 (6.56%) Docker
3 16 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.32%) NFS
5 2 (0.21%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (13.12%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.84%) Grafana
3 87 (9.21%) Terraform
4 41 (4.34%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.65%) Kibana
6 21 (2.22%) HAProxy
6 21 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (2.22%) Zipkin
7 6 (0.63%) Ansible
8 2 (0.21%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.21%) Istio
8 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Consul
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 124 (13.12%) Oracle
2 103 (10.90%) Splunk
3 99 (10.48%) Dynatrace
4 88 (9.31%) Microsoft
5 29 (3.07%) Micro Focus
6 28 (2.96%) Google
7 23 (2.43%) Databricks
8 20 (2.12%) Atlassian
8 20 (2.12%) SAP
9 18 (1.90%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.90%) Cognos
9 18 (1.90%) SaltStack
9 18 (1.90%) Sybase
10 17 (1.80%) Adobe
11 14 (1.48%) Cognizant
11 14 (1.48%) ForgeRock
11 14 (1.48%) Sitecore
12 11 (1.16%) Dell
13 10 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.95%) Sparx