Software Architecture Jobs in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 455 457
Rank change year-on-year -52 +2 -35
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 171 422 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.49% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.58% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 113 267 337
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,658 £52,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £104,250 £117,500
UK median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,051 73,216 87,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.07% 85.60% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,853 53,906 51,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 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
London +66 53 £77,000 -9.41% 136
South East +52 37 £60,000 -6.25% 75
Midlands +50 34 £60,000 -36.84% 39
West Midlands +56 32 £60,000 -36.84% 27
North of England +26 27 £67,037 -4.23% 46
North West -22 18 £67,037 +21.89% 22
South West +26 10 £78,622 +12.32% 37
Yorkshire +44 8 £70,000 -3.45% 21
East of England +33 5 £71,250 -1.38% 49
East Midlands +32 2 £60,000 +22.45% 11
North East +49 1 £45,000 -36.17% 4
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 4 (2.34%) CMS
1 4 (2.34%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Productboard
1 3 (1.75%) Simulink
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (34.50%) Azure
2 58 (33.92%) AWS
3 20 (11.70%) GCP
4 18 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (9.94%) SaaS
6 10 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.09%) Serverless
8 6 (3.51%) GitHub
9 5 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.34%) Contentstack
11 2 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.58%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) 5G
1 4 (2.34%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.34%) WAN
1 4 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.60%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.51%) MySQL
5 5 (2.92%) Tableau
6 2 (1.17%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.17%) Redis
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.58%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 18 (10.53%) Git
2 10 (5.85%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.85%) JIRA
2 10 (5.85%) Subversion
3 9 (5.26%) GitLab
4 5 (2.92%) XCTest
5 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.17%) JUnit
7 2 (1.17%) Maven
7 2 (1.17%) Mockito
7 2 (1.17%) Postman
7 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.17%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.17%) Xcode
8 1 (0.58%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 73 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.13%) Finance
3 30 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.70%) Electronics
5 12 (7.02%) Banking
6 10 (5.85%) Games
6 10 (5.85%) Marketing
7 9 (5.26%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.51%) Advertising
8 6 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.92%) Military
9 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.34%) Aviation
10 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.75%) Law
11 3 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.17%) Back Office
12 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.17%) Legal
12 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (27.49%) Developer
2 42 (24.56%) Software Engineer
3 38 (22.22%) Senior
4 36 (21.05%) Lead
5 22 (12.87%) Architect
6 20 (11.70%) C# Developer
7 19 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (9.36%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (8.77%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 15 (8.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.43%) .NET Developer
12 10 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.85%) Technical Leader
13 9 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (4.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 8 (4.68%) Java Engineer
14 8 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (4.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (27.49%) .NET
2 31 (18.13%) HTML
3 27 (15.79%) React
4 23 (13.45%) ASP.NET
5 18 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (9.36%) AngularJS
6 16 (9.36%) Blazor
6 16 (9.36%) Kafka
7 15 (8.77%) Spring
8 13 (7.60%) CSS
9 11 (6.43%) REST
10 10 (5.85%) RESTful
11 9 (5.26%) HTML5
11 9 (5.26%) Node.js
12 7 (4.09%) CSS3
12 7 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.09%) Vue
13 6 (3.51%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.51%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.02%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.09%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.51%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.51%) Mobile Games
7 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.34%) CPLD
8 4 (2.34%) FPGA
8 4 (2.34%) GNSS
8 4 (2.34%) Hackathon
8 4 (2.34%) Robotics
8 4 (2.34%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
10 2 (1.17%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.85%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.09%) Windows
3 6 (3.51%) Linux
4 2 (1.17%) Android
4 2 (1.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (49.71%) Software Engineering
2 57 (33.33%) Agile
3 53 (30.99%) DevOps
4 50 (29.24%) Microservices
5 47 (27.49%) Mentoring
5 47 (27.49%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (25.15%) CI/CD
7 36 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
8 34 (19.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (18.71%) Computer Science
9 32 (18.71%) MVC
10 31 (18.13%) Design Patterns
11 26 (15.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (14.62%) SDLC
13 24 (14.04%) TDD
14 23 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (11.70%) Decision-Making
15 20 (11.70%) Domain-Driven Design
15 20 (11.70%) Roadmaps
15 20 (11.70%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.84%) C#
2 48 (28.07%) Java
3 41 (23.98%) JavaScript
4 36 (21.05%) SQL
5 32 (18.71%) Python
6 25 (14.62%) C++
7 21 (12.28%) C
8 14 (8.19%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.09%) MATLAB
9 7 (4.09%) PHP
10 6 (3.51%) Go
11 5 (2.92%) Swift
12 4 (2.34%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.75%) Bicep
13 3 (1.75%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.17%) Ada
14 2 (1.17%) Groovy
14 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.17%) R
14 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (21.05%) Degree
2 13 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.68%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.09%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.34%) PhD
6 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) QA
2 4 (2.34%) PMO
3 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) GRC
4 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (11.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.68%) Google
3 4 (2.34%) Agilent
3 4 (2.34%) Intel
4 2 (1.17%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.17%) Databricks
4 2 (1.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.17%) Oracle
4 2 (1.17%) SAP
4 2 (1.17%) Splunk
5 1 (0.58%) Apple
5 1 (0.58%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.58%) Telerik