Software Architect Jobs in England

Software Architect
UK > England

The median Software Architect salary in England is £73,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 431 802
Rank change year-on-year -182 +371 +171
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 70 471 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.53% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.56% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 56 143 95
10th Percentile - £65,000 -
25th Percentile - £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +11.11% -20.59%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -14.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +34 50 £73,000 -2.67% 101
London +51 5 £82,500 +3.13% 27
North of England -85 5 £80,000 +6.67% 87
South West +66 4 £87,500 +25.00% 67
Yorkshire +24 4 £76,000 +1.33% 37
East of England +20 4 £62,500 -16.67% 102
West Midlands +44 2 £65,000 -13.33% 42
Midlands -8 2 £65,000 -27.78% 79
North West -90 1 £85,000 +13.33% 40
Software Architect
UK

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 England region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 58 (82.86%) Agile
2 51 (72.86%) Degree
2 51 (72.86%) DevOps
2 51 (72.86%) Mentoring
3 50 (71.43%) Design Patterns
4 49 (70.00%) SDLC
4 49 (70.00%) UML
5 48 (68.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 48 (68.57%) Middleware
5 48 (68.57%) Configuration Management
5 48 (68.57%) Computer Science
5 48 (68.57%) Chartered Engineer
5 48 (68.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (68.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (68.57%) Open Source
5 48 (68.57%) Waterfall
5 48 (68.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (15.71%) AWS
7 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 7 (10.00%) Software Architecture
8 7 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (8.57%) Python
9 6 (8.57%) Java
9 6 (8.57%) .NET
9 6 (8.57%) Machine Learning
10 5 (7.14%) Docker
10 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
10 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda

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

Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) AWS
2 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (7.14%) Serverless
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.29%) Azure
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) MySQL
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.43%) Endeca
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
2 4 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Automotive
4 1 (1.43%) Law
4 1 (1.43%) Marketing
4 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (68.57%) Middleware
2 6 (8.57%) .NET
3 4 (5.71%) Laravel
3 4 (5.71%) Symfony
4 3 (4.29%) React
5 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.43%) COM
6 1 (1.43%) J2EE
6 1 (1.43%) jQuery
6 1 (1.43%) JSON
6 1 (1.43%) LDAP
6 1 (1.43%) RESTful
6 1 (1.43%) SOAP
6 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) IoT
3 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.43%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.43%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (82.86%) Agile
2 51 (72.86%) DevOps
2 51 (72.86%) Mentoring
3 50 (71.43%) Design Patterns
4 49 (70.00%) SDLC
4 49 (70.00%) UML
5 48 (68.57%) Computer Science
5 48 (68.57%) Configuration Management
5 48 (68.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (68.57%) Open Source
5 48 (68.57%) Waterfall
6 7 (10.00%) Software Architecture
6 7 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (8.57%) Machine Learning
8 5 (7.14%) Containerisation
9 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.71%) Regulatory Compliance
10 2 (2.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.57%) Java
1 6 (8.57%) Python
2 4 (5.71%) C#
2 4 (5.71%) PHP
3 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.86%) C
4 2 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.43%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.43%) Ruby
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (72.86%) Degree
2 48 (68.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 48 (68.57%) Chartered Engineer
2 48 (68.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (68.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 4 (5.71%) GMP
3 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle
2 1 (1.43%) QNX