Software Architecture Jobs in the North of England

Software Architecture
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 309 396
Rank change year-on-year -3 +87 -41
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 27 81 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.46% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.55% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 23 54 17
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,649 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +33.33% -19.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,580 £82,500 £81,500
England median annual salary £67,037 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,048 14,622 16,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.38% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,724 11,233 7,867
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in the North of England.

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West -28 18 £67,037 +21.89% 19
Yorkshire +49 8 £70,000 -1.75% 13
North East +44 1 £45,000 -36.17% 3
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.70%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) GitLab
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Babel
4 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Lead
2 9 (33.33%) Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Technical Leader
4 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Lead Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) JavaScript Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) React Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Kafka
1 7 (25.93%) React
2 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 5 (18.52%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
4 4 (14.81%) GraphQL
4 4 (14.81%) Node.js
4 4 (14.81%) REST
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
5 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.41%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) DOM
6 1 (3.70%) HTML5
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
6 1 (3.70%) Kendo UI
6 1 (3.70%) Spring
6 1 (3.70%) WinForms
6 1 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) PlayStation
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) DevOps
1 15 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 12 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (33.33%) Coaching
5 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.93%) Microservices
6 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) API Development
7 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
7 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
8 4 (14.81%) Scrum
8 4 (14.81%) SDLC
8 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 7 (25.93%) C#
5 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 3 (11.11%) Kotlin
7 2 (7.41%) Python
8 1 (3.70%) C++
8 1 (3.70%) VB.NET
8 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Telerik