Software Architecture Jobs in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 476 408
Rank change year-on-year +10 -68 +68
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 412 585 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.62% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.65% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 269 338 400
10th Percentile £46,930 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £108,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,744 90,073 124,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.99% 95.66% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 53,833 53,069 73,904
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,320
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
South West +24 109 £70,000 +27.27% 10
London -16 89 £85,000 -2.86% 51
South East -17 87 £64,000 +3.73% 24
North of England +68 68 £70,000 +33.33% 17
North West +19 40 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Midlands -1 35 £90,000 +100.00% 3
Yorkshire +101 26 £72,500 +16.00% 6
West Midlands +27 25 £95,000 +46.15% 3
East of England +27 21 £72,250 +7.04% 10
East Midlands -30 9 £50,000 +11.11%
North East +1 2 £70,500 -9.03% 1
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.46%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Appian
4 1 (0.24%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) CANalyzer
1 6 (1.46%) Simulink
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.49%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (30.34%) Azure
2 105 (25.49%) AWS
3 65 (15.78%) SaaS
4 36 (8.74%) OpenShift
5 21 (5.10%) GCP
6 18 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (4.37%) Serverless
7 16 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.40%) PaaS
9 11 (2.67%) IaaS
10 10 (2.43%) GitHub
11 8 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.70%) Azure Functions
13 6 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (0.73%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (0.73%) Azure App Service
14 3 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.73%) Firebase
15 2 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.32%) TCP/IP
2 50 (12.14%) HTTP
3 43 (10.44%) DNS
4 36 (8.74%) DHCP
5 13 (3.16%) Ethernet
5 13 (3.16%) Internet
6 9 (2.18%) Wireless
7 8 (1.94%) RS-232
8 7 (1.70%) SMTP
9 5 (1.21%) Multicast
10 3 (0.73%) RS-485
10 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.49%) Firewall
11 2 (0.49%) SSH
11 2 (0.49%) VPN
12 1 (0.24%) 5G
12 1 (0.24%) IPsec
12 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.24%) Network Security
12 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.61%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.37%) MySQL
4 14 (3.40%) Geospatial Data
4 14 (3.40%) GIS
5 13 (3.16%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.97%) Big Data
8 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.24%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 40 (9.71%) Git
2 18 (4.37%) Visual Studio
3 17 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.64%) Postman
4 15 (3.64%) Subversion
5 7 (1.70%) GitLab
5 7 (1.70%) Maven
6 6 (1.46%) CANoe
6 6 (1.46%) JUnit
7 4 (0.97%) JIRA
8 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.24%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.24%) MLflow
9 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 90 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.98%) Electronics
3 32 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.52%) Finance
5 29 (7.04%) Aerospace
6 24 (5.83%) Legal
7 18 (4.37%) Banking
8 16 (3.88%) Automotive
9 15 (3.64%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.16%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.70%) Games
12 7 (1.70%) Law
13 6 (1.46%) Aviation
13 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.46%) Military
13 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.21%) Multimedia
14 5 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 99 (24.03%) Developer
2 95 (23.06%) Software Engineer
3 92 (22.33%) Senior
4 90 (21.84%) Architect
5 51 (12.38%) Lead
6 36 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (7.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 27 (6.55%) Software Architect
10 26 (6.31%) Technical Architect
11 20 (4.85%) Software Developer
11 20 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (4.61%) C# Developer
12 19 (4.61%) Embedded Engineer
12 19 (4.61%) Full Stack Developer
13 16 (3.88%) .NET Developer
14 15 (3.64%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (3.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 13 (3.16%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (20.87%) .NET
2 43 (10.44%) React
3 38 (9.22%) Spring
4 29 (7.04%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.55%) CSS
5 27 (6.55%) HTML
6 24 (5.83%) .NET Core
7 22 (5.34%) REST
8 21 (5.10%) .NET Framework
9 19 (4.61%) Node.js
9 19 (4.61%) Web Services
10 18 (4.37%) SOAP
11 16 (3.88%) RESTful
12 14 (3.40%) ASP.NET
13 13 (3.16%) Qt
14 12 (2.91%) Blazor
15 11 (2.67%) Hibernate
15 11 (2.67%) Spring Boot
16 10 (2.43%) Entity Framework
16 10 (2.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.31%) Algorithms
4 24 (5.83%) IoT
5 21 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.37%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.40%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.16%) Mobile App
9 13 (3.16%) Robotics
10 11 (2.67%) CUDA
11 7 (1.70%) GNSS
11 7 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.70%) Tandem
12 6 (1.46%) Arduino
12 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.46%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (1.21%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.39%) Linux
2 74 (17.96%) Windows
3 36 (8.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.43%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.43%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.18%) Unix
7 8 (1.94%) Android
8 2 (0.49%) CentOS
8 2 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (38.35%) Software Engineering
2 148 (35.92%) Agile
3 135 (32.77%) DevOps
4 101 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (20.15%) Actionable Insight
6 79 (19.17%) Computer Science
7 63 (15.29%) Roadmaps
8 61 (14.81%) CI/CD
8 61 (14.81%) Design Patterns
9 60 (14.56%) Architectural Patterns
10 52 (12.62%) Full Stack Development
11 43 (10.44%) Microservices
12 41 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
14 36 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 34 (8.25%) Requirements Analysis
16 33 (8.01%) Mentoring
16 33 (8.01%) SDLC
17 32 (7.77%) Test Automation
18 30 (7.28%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 146 (35.44%) Python
2 113 (27.43%) Java
3 101 (24.51%) C#
4 94 (22.82%) C
5 67 (16.26%) C++
6 65 (15.78%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.19%) PowerShell
8 41 (9.95%) SQL
9 38 (9.22%) Bash
10 24 (5.83%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.88%) VB.NET
12 9 (2.18%) MATLAB
12 9 (2.18%) Swift
13 6 (1.46%) Go
13 6 (1.46%) PHP
13 6 (1.46%) R
14 4 (0.97%) Ada
14 4 (0.97%) Bicep
15 3 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (26.46%) Degree
2 105 (25.49%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (9.47%) DV Cleared
5 37 (8.98%) Master's Degree
6 26 (6.31%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.21%) PhD
8 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.97%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.28%) QA
2 12 (2.91%) HIPAA
3 11 (2.67%) GDPR
4 9 (2.18%) ISO 13485
4 9 (2.18%) ISO 26262
5 5 (1.21%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.21%) SEPA
6 4 (0.97%) PMO
7 3 (0.73%) HAZOP
8 2 (0.49%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.49%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
9 1 (0.24%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (17.96%) Docker
2 36 (8.74%) Hyper-V
2 36 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.37%) Firmware
4 15 (3.64%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 64 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 38 (9.22%) Ansible
3 36 (8.74%) Puppet
4 2 (0.49%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.49%) Graphite
4 2 (0.49%) Kibana
4 2 (0.49%) Nagios
4 2 (0.49%) Terraform
4 2 (0.49%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Podman
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (8.74%) Microsoft
1 36 (8.74%) Red Hat
1 36 (8.74%) VMware
2 12 (2.91%) Google
3 8 (1.94%) Guidewire
4 7 (1.70%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.49%) Databricks
5 2 (0.49%) New Relic
5 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.49%) Splunk
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe
6 1 (0.24%) Apple
6 1 (0.24%) Ariba
6 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.24%) Citrix
6 1 (0.24%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.24%) Okta
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle
6 1 (0.24%) SAP