Software Architecture Job Trends in the Midlands

Software Architecture
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 190 285
Rank change year-on-year -53 +95 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 12 32 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.092% 0.64% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.72% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 22
10th Percentile £32,500 £53,000 £30,150
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -36.84% +65.22%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,625 £106,875
90th Percentile £93,750 £99,000 £123,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,269 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.90% -5.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,396 4,463 9,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.35% 89.42% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,690 2,558 7,134
10th Percentile £29,625 £27,465 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £34,250 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,311
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the Midlands

Software Architecture
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
West Midlands -43 10 £67,500 +12.50% 11
East Midlands -25 2 £35,000 -41.67% 3
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Asana
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
1 2 (16.67%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) Redis
1 3 (25.00%) TimescaleDB
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Development Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Development Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Software Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Node.js
1 5 (41.67%) React
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (16.67%) Deno
3 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) Laravel
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (16.67%) Vue
3 2 (16.67%) Yii
4 1 (8.33%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Cortex
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) API Design
5 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 2 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) C
3 5 (41.67%) C++
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
5 2 (16.67%) PHP
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) IEC 61508
1 2 (16.67%) MISRA
1 2 (16.67%) MISRA C
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Nagios
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft