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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 238 197
Rank change year-on-year +34 -41 +84
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 18 25 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.32% 0.28% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.35% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 24
10th Percentile £53,750 £64,275 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £69,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £79,932 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.94% +25.38% +41.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £102,500 £71,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £110,000 £72,433
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

All Process and 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 4,761 7,209 4,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.72% 81.10% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,923 3,255 3,669
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,200 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +4.40% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,050 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,840 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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
West Midlands +44 18 £60,000 -24.94% 7
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 (5.56%) Simulink
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Asana
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Hazelcast
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Moq
2 2 (11.11%) MSTest
2 2 (11.11%) NSubstitute
2 2 (11.11%) NUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Automotive
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) C# Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior C# Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Systems Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Architect
6 2 (11.11%) Business Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 1 (5.56%) Business Development Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Development Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Software Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Software Development Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) Spring
3 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
3 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (27.78%) HTML
4 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 4 (22.22%) Blazor
4 4 (22.22%) REST
4 4 (22.22%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 2 (11.11%) Entity Framework
5 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.11%) React
5 2 (11.11%) YAML
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Life Science
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Infotainment
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Code Quality
2 7 (38.89%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (33.33%) MVC
3 6 (33.33%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 4 (22.22%) CQRS
5 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) C
6 1 (5.56%) C++
6 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) QNX