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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 223 187
Rank change year-on-year +12 -36 +79
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 13 28 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.40% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.45% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 23
10th Percentile £32,500 £55,250 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £69,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £79,932 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +14.19% +55.56%
75th Percentile £67,188 £110,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £72,250 - £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -12.50%

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 6,351 6,188 4,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.45% 88.74% 92.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 2,789 3,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +16 11 £58,750 -26.50% 3
East Midlands -1 2 £35,000 -58.21% 1
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 2 (15.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Asana
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Hazelcast
2 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Moq
2 2 (15.38%) MSTest
2 2 (15.38%) NSubstitute
2 2 (15.38%) NUnit
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Games
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Business Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Business Development Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Development Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (15.38%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Systems Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Software Development Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Software Development Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) HTML
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) React
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
3 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Blazor
4 2 (15.38%) Deno
4 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Laravel
4 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 2 (15.38%) Yii
5 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Web Development
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
4 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
5 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Logistics
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft