Architectural Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns 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 419 396 328
Rank change year-on-year -23 -68 +83
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Patterns 571 841 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.80% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.84% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 423 416 674
10th Percentile £52,360 £53,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,930 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £81,438
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -1.77% +12.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Patterns 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 Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns 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
England 0 503 £70,576 -12.10% 108
UK excluding London +78 388 £65,000 -7.14% 68
Work from Home +77 300 £70,576 -5.90% 48
London -92 149 £85,000 -5.56% 44
North of England +127 133 £67,500 +0.33% 28
North West +58 73 £61,206 -12.32% 15
Midlands +3 70 £65,000 -9.72% 10
South East +39 63 £65,000 -23.53% 18
West Midlands +26 62 £65,000 +4.00% 7
South West +19 58 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Yorkshire +111 44 £78,126 +42.05% 9
Scotland -75 43 £75,000 -5.06% 6
East of England +12 18 £55,000 -24.14% 4
North East +11 16 £75,000 -9.09% 4
East Midlands -22 7 £67,500 -6.90% 3
Northern Ireland +29 2 £75,400 +4.00% 1
Wales +6 2 £55,752 -11.14% 1

Architectural Patterns
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 22 (3.85%) CMS
2 8 (1.40%) Confluence
3 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.35%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (2.45%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 32 (5.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (2.63%) SDL Web 8
3 10 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.35%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 215 (37.65%) Azure
2 167 (29.25%) AWS
3 108 (18.91%) GCP
4 71 (12.43%) SaaS
5 56 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (6.83%) PaaS
7 34 (5.95%) IaaS
8 33 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (5.25%) Serverless
10 24 (4.20%) GitHub
11 20 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 14 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (2.45%) Azure Functions
13 14 (2.45%) NuGet
14 13 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (1.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.45%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.40%) Network Security
3 7 (1.23%) HTTP
4 4 (0.70%) Internet
4 4 (0.70%) VPN
5 3 (0.53%) Firewall
6 2 (0.35%) DNS
6 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.18%) IPsec
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (15.59%) SQL Server
2 58 (10.16%) NoSQL
3 49 (8.58%) Relational Database
4 30 (5.25%) Big Data
5 19 (3.33%) DB2
6 17 (2.98%) Metadata
7 13 (2.28%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.10%) MySQL
9 11 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.23%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.05%) GIS
13 6 (1.05%) Redis
13 6 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (7.53%) Git
2 30 (5.25%) Visual Studio
3 26 (4.55%) JIRA
4 16 (2.80%) NUnit
5 15 (2.63%) Moq
5 15 (2.63%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.45%) git-flow
6 14 (2.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (2.45%) Sourcetree
6 14 (2.45%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.40%) Maven
7 8 (1.40%) webpack
8 6 (1.05%) Eclipse
8 6 (1.05%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.35%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.18%) Ant
10 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
General
1 129 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 128 (22.42%) Finance
3 65 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.16%) Legal
5 55 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (8.06%) Marketing
6 46 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 43 (7.53%) Banking
8 31 (5.43%) Retail
9 30 (5.25%) Law
10 14 (2.45%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.75%) Billing
12 10 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.88%) Aviation
13 5 (0.88%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 341 (59.72%) Architect
2 191 (33.45%) Solutions Architect
3 165 (28.90%) Senior
4 121 (21.19%) Developer
5 79 (13.84%) Lead
6 77 (13.49%) Senior Architect
7 50 (8.76%) Technical Architect
8 38 (6.65%) Senior Developer
8 38 (6.65%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 37 (6.48%) Software Engineer
10 32 (5.60%) Data Architect
10 32 (5.60%) Full Stack Developer
11 30 (5.25%) C# Developer
12 28 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
13 27 (4.73%) .NET Developer
13 27 (4.73%) Lead Architect
14 26 (4.55%) Senior Full Stack Developer
14 26 (4.55%) Software Developer
15 23 (4.03%) Senior C# Developer
15 23 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (25.39%) .NET
2 81 (14.19%) RESTful
3 62 (10.86%) React
4 51 (8.93%) HTML
5 48 (8.41%) REST
6 46 (8.06%) CSS
7 45 (7.88%) .NET Framework
8 38 (6.65%) ASP.NET
8 38 (6.65%) SOAP
8 38 (6.65%) Web Services
9 35 (6.13%) XML
10 32 (5.60%) Node.js
10 32 (5.60%) Spring
11 29 (5.08%) Entity Framework
12 27 (4.73%) Kafka
13 24 (4.20%) .NET Core
13 24 (4.20%) AngularJS
13 24 (4.20%) GraphQL
14 23 (4.03%) Spring Boot
15 21 (3.68%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 93 (16.29%) Public Cloud
2 78 (13.66%) Cloud Native
3 52 (9.11%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.20%) Mobile App
5 23 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.15%) IoT
8 17 (2.98%) Blockchain
9 16 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (2.80%) Legacy Code
10 15 (2.63%) Operational Technology
10 15 (2.63%) Robotics
11 14 (2.45%) Data Centre
12 13 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.28%) PMI
13 12 (2.10%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.40%) Algorithms
16 7 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 5 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.38%) Apple iOS
2 23 (4.03%) Windows
3 22 (3.85%) Linux
4 17 (2.98%) Android
5 10 (1.75%) Unix
6 9 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.40%) Solaris
8 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.70%) DC/OS
10 2 (0.35%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.35%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (54.29%) Agile
2 215 (37.65%) Design Patterns
3 202 (35.38%) Microservices
4 162 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
5 152 (26.62%) DevOps
5 152 (26.62%) Roadmaps
6 151 (26.44%) Mentoring
7 83 (14.54%) Architectural Design
8 82 (14.36%) Coaching
9 81 (14.19%) Software Engineering
10 80 (14.01%) Enterprise Architecture
11 74 (12.96%) Full Stack Development
11 74 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
12 73 (12.78%) Analytics
12 73 (12.78%) Software Architecture
13 70 (12.26%) Decision-Making
13 70 (12.26%) Open Source
14 63 (11.03%) API Development
15 61 (10.68%) CI/CD
15 61 (10.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 124 (21.72%) C#
2 109 (19.09%) Java
3 76 (13.31%) JavaScript
3 76 (13.31%) Python
4 70 (12.26%) SQL
5 30 (5.25%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.50%) Swift
7 17 (2.98%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.63%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.45%) VB.NET
9 14 (2.45%) XPath
10 12 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.58%) C
12 7 (1.23%) Ruby
13 6 (1.05%) Go
14 5 (0.88%) Bash
15 4 (0.70%) R
15 4 (0.70%) Scala
16 3 (0.53%) Bicep
16 3 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 138 (24.17%) Degree
2 70 (12.26%) Security Cleared
3 67 (11.73%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.95%) TOGAF Certification
6 32 (5.60%) Master's Degree
7 31 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (4.03%) CISSP
9 19 (3.33%) CISM
10 18 (3.15%) CRISC
11 14 (2.45%) CASP
11 14 (2.45%) CEH
12 13 (2.28%) Azure Certification
12 13 (2.28%) PMI Certification
13 11 (1.93%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.05%) CISA
15 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.88%) SANS
17 4 (0.70%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.30%) QA
2 21 (3.68%) GDPR
3 20 (3.50%) NCSC
4 15 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.63%) NIST
5 12 (2.10%) SEPA
6 11 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.75%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.40%) WCAG
9 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.70%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.53%) ISO 9000
11 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.53%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (9.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.18%) RACF
Systems Management
1 55 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.95%) Terraform
3 5 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.35%) Suricata
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 102 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 92 (16.11%) Google
3 32 (5.60%) Sparx
4 29 (5.08%) Oracle
5 19 (3.33%) IBM
6 16 (2.80%) Adobe
7 15 (2.63%) Guidewire
8 14 (2.45%) Cognizant
9 12 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.93%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.40%) Citrix
12 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.23%) SAP
13 4 (0.70%) ESRI
13 4 (0.70%) Okta
14 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics
14 3 (0.53%) Cisco
14 3 (0.53%) New Relic
14 3 (0.53%) ServiceNow
15 2 (0.35%) ForgeRock