Software Architecture Jobs in the South East

Software Architecture
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Software Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Architecture over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 286 375
Rank change year-on-year -29 +89 -67
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 90 126 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.83% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.88% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 71 88 56
10th Percentile £38,750 - £36,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £61,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +7.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £69,375
90th Percentile - £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,047 14,389 18,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 85.01% 94.53% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,909 8,366 12,181
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the South East

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in the South East.

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the South East

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the South East

Software Architecture
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Hampshire -7 35 £70,000 - 9
Kent +15 18 £65,000 - 1
East Sussex +29 12 £60,000 -22.58% 1
Thames Valley 0 11 £52,500 -21.64% 9
West Sussex +48 7 £64,000 -1.54%
Surrey -42 7 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Oxfordshire -3 5 £51,020 -14.97% 4
Berkshire +15 3 £55,000 -31.25% 4
Buckinghamshire -13 3 £80,000 +21.21% 1
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.78%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.44%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.22%) Azure
2 17 (18.89%) AWS
2 17 (18.89%) AWS Lambda
2 17 (18.89%) Serverless
3 11 (12.22%) PaaS
4 10 (11.11%) IaaS
5 7 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.78%) GitHub
6 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.44%) SaaS
8 3 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.33%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.11%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) TCP/IP
2 7 (7.78%) HTTP
2 7 (7.78%) Internet
3 3 (3.33%) RS-232
3 3 (3.33%) RS-485
3 3 (3.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (16.67%) MySQL
3 14 (15.56%) DynamoDB
4 11 (12.22%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.22%) GIS
7 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.11%) Power BI
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) Git
2 14 (15.56%) Visual Studio
3 12 (13.33%) Postman
4 10 (11.11%) Subversion
5 7 (7.78%) Maven
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Electronics
3 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Aviation
4 6 (6.67%) Military
5 5 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.33%) Finance
6 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Games
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Software Engineer
2 31 (34.44%) Developer
3 12 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 12 (13.33%) Architect
4 10 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) VB.NET Developer
6 8 (8.89%) Azure Developer
6 8 (8.89%) Lead
6 8 (8.89%) Senior
7 7 (7.78%) AWS Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Backend Developer
7 7 (7.78%) IoT Architect
7 7 (7.78%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Systems Architect
8 6 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (42.22%) .NET
2 16 (17.78%) .NET Framework
3 14 (15.56%) React
4 13 (14.44%) Qt
4 13 (14.44%) REST
5 12 (13.33%) .NET Core
5 12 (13.33%) SOAP
6 10 (11.11%) Node.js
6 10 (11.11%) RESTful
7 8 (8.89%) Spring
8 7 (7.78%) gRPC
8 7 (7.78%) jQuery
8 7 (7.78%) Web Services
9 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.67%) CSS
9 6 (6.67%) HTML
10 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.44%) EDI
11 3 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Distributed Systems
1 17 (18.89%) IoT
2 13 (14.44%) Robotics
3 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 8 (8.89%) Algorithms
5 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
6 7 (7.78%) Arduino
6 7 (7.78%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (4.44%) Device Driver
7 4 (4.44%) Life Science
8 3 (3.33%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.11%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.22%) Linux
2 25 (27.78%) Windows
3 10 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 10 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) Software Engineering
2 42 (46.67%) DevOps
3 35 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (32.22%) Computer Science
5 24 (26.67%) Agile
6 20 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
8 16 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
9 15 (16.67%) OOP
9 15 (16.67%) User Experience
10 13 (14.44%) SOLID
10 13 (14.44%) Time Management
10 13 (14.44%) Unit Testing
11 12 (13.33%) UX Design
12 11 (12.22%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (12.22%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (12.22%) Test Automation
13 10 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.56%) C#
2 38 (42.22%) C
3 36 (40.00%) C++
4 21 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 21 (23.33%) Python
5 19 (21.11%) SQL
6 14 (15.56%) Java
7 12 (13.33%) VB.NET
8 4 (4.44%) Ada
9 3 (3.33%) Go
9 3 (3.33%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.11%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 45 (50.00%) Degree
2 19 (21.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (21.11%) Master's Degree
3 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) GDPR
1 11 (12.22%) QA
2 10 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 8 (8.89%) ISO 13485
4 3 (3.33%) HAZOP
5 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.11%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 14 (15.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.11%) Ariba
2 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.11%) SAP