Software Architect Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Software Architect
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Software Architect salary in Cambridgeshire is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 45 77
Rank change year-on-year -28 +32 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 2 38 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.29% 3.33% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 3.59% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 35 2
10th Percentile - - £64,875
25th Percentile - - £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +15.25% -
75th Percentile - - £81,563
90th Percentile - - £83,625
East of England median annual salary £85,700 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.82% +25.93% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 650 1,059 666
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 92.81% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 433 776 377
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,313 £69,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in Cambridgeshire

Software Architect
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Software Architect in Cambridgeshire

Software Architect
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. 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
Cambridge -24 1 - - 1
Software Architect
East of England

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, Software Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Python

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python