Software Architecture Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Software Architecture
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 2 0 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.13% - 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £39,375 - £68,250
25th Percentile £42,188 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 - £75,000
75th Percentile £62,188 - -
90th Percentile £66,125 - £82,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £78,622 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.04% +12.32% +24.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,205 436 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.94% 90.64% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 810 237 1,096
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
% change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -5.66%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Software Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in Gloucestershire

Software Architecture
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. 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
Cirencester - 1 £62,500 -
Filton - 1 £40,000 - 3
Software Architecture
South West

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (50.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenGL
1 1 (50.00%) pgvector
1 1 (50.00%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI