Software Architecture Jobs in Central London

Software Architecture
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Software Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 174 182
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 15 12 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.32% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.35% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 65
10th Percentile £59,375 £37,375 £61,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £54,375 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,250 £115,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% +27.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £128,750 £144,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £131,000 £151,250 £122,000
London median annual salary £77,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.41% -5.56% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Software Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,398 3,457 4,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.69% 92.01% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 2,650 4,042
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Central London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
City of London +27 8 £120,000 -11.11% 1
Camden - 5 - -
Southwark - 2 £120,000 -
Software Architecture
London

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 6 (40.00%) SaaS
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
2 2 (13.33%) Postman
2 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
2 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Xcode
2 2 (13.33%) XCTest
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Games
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Software Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Software Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Kafka
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) OpenAPI
3 5 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (26.67%) React
5 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (20.00%) J2EE
5 3 (20.00%) RESTful
5 3 (20.00%) Spring
5 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
6 2 (13.33%) CSS
6 2 (13.33%) CSS3
6 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5
6 2 (13.33%) JPA
6 2 (13.33%) REST
6 2 (13.33%) SOAP
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 5 (33.33%) Mobile Games
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Life Science
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Microservices
2 9 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 8 (53.33%) Integration Patterns
3 8 (53.33%) Migration
3 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (53.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (46.67%) Architectural Design
4 7 (46.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
5 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
6 5 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) API Design
6 5 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 5 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) C#
4 4 (26.67%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) Groovy
5 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Google
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk