Software Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 481 401
Rank change year-on-year +15 -80 +89
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 505 631 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.61% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.63% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 306 362 440
10th Percentile £47,215 £50,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,813 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +13.46%
75th Percentile £81,813 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £101,875 £117,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.87% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,697 99,477 149,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 58,401 83,209
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,025 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,330
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -10 414 £70,000 -6.67% 145
UK excluding London +34 389 £69,500 +20.87% 91
Work from Home +16 161 £70,576 +0.82% 75
South West +17 109 £70,000 +27.27% 13
South East -25 91 £64,000 +6.67% 25
London -14 90 £85,000 -4.23% 65
North of England +69 68 £70,000 +33.33% 23
Scotland -32 49 £69,038 -7.95% 11
North West +26 43 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Midlands -14 32 £95,000 +111.11% 4
Yorkshire +100 23 £72,500 +16.00% 7
West Midlands +20 22 £95,000 +46.15% 2
East of England +6 21 £72,250 +7.04% 11
Wales +20 16 £73,750 +1.72% 2
East Midlands -29 9 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Northern Ireland +33 3 £65,000 - 4
North East -4 2 £70,500 -9.03% 1

Software Architecture
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 7 (1.39%) Apache
2 6 (1.19%) Tomcat
3 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.20%) Appian
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.19%) CANalyzer
2 5 (0.99%) Simulink
3 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.40%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 162 (32.08%) Azure
2 140 (27.72%) AWS
3 82 (16.24%) SaaS
4 39 (7.72%) OpenShift
5 33 (6.53%) GCP
6 23 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (3.37%) Serverless
8 16 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.77%) PaaS
10 12 (2.38%) IaaS
11 10 (1.98%) GitHub
12 8 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.39%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 4 (0.79%) Power Platform
16 3 (0.59%) Power Automate
16 3 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (12.48%) TCP/IP
2 52 (10.30%) HTTP
3 45 (8.91%) DNS
4 37 (7.33%) DHCP
5 14 (2.77%) Internet
6 13 (2.57%) Ethernet
7 11 (2.18%) Wireless
8 9 (1.78%) RS-232
9 8 (1.58%) SMTP
10 4 (0.79%) Multicast
10 4 (0.79%) RS-485
10 4 (0.79%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.40%) Firewall
11 2 (0.40%) SSH
11 2 (0.40%) VPN
12 1 (0.20%) 4G
12 1 (0.20%) IPsec
12 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.20%) Network Security
12 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 33 (6.53%) Geospatial Data
3 22 (4.36%) GIS
4 19 (3.76%) MySQL
5 18 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.57%) DynamoDB
7 12 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.98%) Big Data
9 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.20%) Redis
13 1 (0.20%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 52 (10.30%) Git
2 21 (4.16%) Visual Studio
3 19 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.17%) Subversion
5 15 (2.97%) Postman
6 9 (1.78%) Jasmine
6 9 (1.78%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (1.39%) GitLab
8 6 (1.19%) CANoe
8 6 (1.19%) JUnit
8 6 (1.19%) Maven
9 4 (0.79%) JIRA
10 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.20%) MLflow
11 1 (0.20%) ReSharper
11 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 71 (14.06%) Finance
3 38 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (7.52%) Electronics
4 37 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (7.13%) Banking
6 34 (6.73%) Law
7 31 (6.14%) Aerospace
8 25 (4.95%) Legal
9 19 (3.76%) Marketing
10 16 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.17%) Public Sector
11 15 (2.97%) Automotive
11 15 (2.97%) Games
12 9 (1.78%) Private Banking
13 7 (1.39%) Aviation
14 6 (1.19%) Military
14 6 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.99%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 133 (26.34%) Architect
2 127 (25.15%) Developer
3 115 (22.77%) Senior
4 106 (20.99%) Software Engineer
5 69 (13.66%) Lead
6 42 (8.32%) Software Architect
7 37 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 33 (6.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (5.74%) Technical Architect
11 26 (5.15%) Embedded Engineer
11 26 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (4.36%) Full Stack Developer
13 21 (4.16%) Senior Architect
13 21 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.96%) C# Developer
14 20 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.76%) .NET Developer
15 19 (3.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 18 (3.56%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (23.56%) .NET
2 48 (9.50%) HTML
2 48 (9.50%) React
3 47 (9.31%) CSS
4 41 (8.12%) AngularJS
4 41 (8.12%) Spring
5 35 (6.93%) ASP.NET
6 34 (6.73%) .NET Core
7 30 (5.94%) .NET Framework
8 26 (5.15%) RESTful
9 23 (4.55%) REST
10 20 (3.96%) Node.js
10 20 (3.96%) Web Services
11 19 (3.76%) Swagger
12 18 (3.56%) SOAP
13 16 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (3.17%) jQuery
14 15 (2.97%) Entity Framework
14 15 (2.97%) Qt
15 14 (2.77%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.75%) IoT
5 23 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.96%) Robotics
8 17 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
10 14 (2.77%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.38%) CUDA
11 12 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.38%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.58%) GNSS
13 8 (1.58%) Tandem
14 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.19%) Blockchain
15 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.62%) Linux
2 79 (15.64%) Windows
3 37 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.18%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.18%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.18%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.98%) Unix
6 8 (1.58%) Android
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
7 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (38.22%) Agile
2 189 (37.43%) Software Engineering
3 156 (30.89%) DevOps
4 111 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (20.79%) Actionable Insight
6 85 (16.83%) Computer Science
7 82 (16.24%) Roadmaps
8 71 (14.06%) Architectural Patterns
8 71 (14.06%) Design Patterns
9 64 (12.67%) CI/CD
10 56 (11.09%) Full Stack Development
11 55 (10.89%) Microservices
12 54 (10.69%) Mentoring
13 49 (9.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 49 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (9.11%) Migration
14 46 (9.11%) SDLC
14 46 (9.11%) Test Automation
15 45 (8.91%) Software Testing
16 44 (8.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 155 (30.69%) Python
2 132 (26.14%) C#
3 125 (24.75%) Java
4 103 (20.40%) C
5 90 (17.82%) JavaScript
6 72 (14.26%) C++
7 46 (9.11%) SQL
8 44 (8.71%) PowerShell
9 39 (7.72%) Bash
10 34 (6.73%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.17%) VB.NET
12 12 (2.38%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.78%) Swift
14 8 (1.58%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.58%) PHP
15 7 (1.39%) Go
16 5 (0.99%) Ada
16 5 (0.99%) R
17 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 119 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 117 (23.17%) Degree
3 47 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (8.32%) DV Cleared
4 42 (8.32%) Master's Degree
5 30 (5.94%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (0.99%) PhD
7 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.52%) QA
2 12 (2.38%) HIPAA
3 11 (2.18%) GDPR
4 10 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.78%) ISO 13485
5 9 (1.78%) WAI
6 8 (1.58%) ISO 26262
7 5 (0.99%) SEPA
8 4 (0.79%) PMO
9 3 (0.59%) HAZOP
10 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.40%) DO-178B
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.20%) EMIR
11 1 (0.20%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.20%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (16.83%) Docker
2 37 (7.33%) Hyper-V
2 37 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.76%) Firmware
4 17 (3.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 74 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.72%) Ansible
3 37 (7.33%) Puppet
4 4 (0.79%) Kibana
4 4 (0.79%) Terraform
5 2 (0.40%) Graphite
5 2 (0.40%) Nagios
5 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.33%) Red Hat
2 37 (7.33%) VMware
3 21 (4.16%) Google
4 8 (1.58%) Guidewire
4 8 (1.58%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.39%) Oracle
6 3 (0.59%) Databricks
7 2 (0.40%) Apple
7 2 (0.40%) New Relic
7 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.40%) SAP
7 2 (0.40%) Splunk
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe
8 1 (0.20%) Ariba
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.20%) Citrix
8 1 (0.20%) MathWorks
8 1 (0.20%) Okta
8 1 (0.20%) Sony