Software Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 518 696
Rank change year-on-year +248 +178 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 524 103 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.29% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 170 88 75
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £70,400
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +23.64%
75th Percentile £85,938 - £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 - £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 56,123 35,671 68,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.40% 93.59% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 31,124 24,346 41,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,290 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Architect in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
North of England +126 153 £75,000 -11.76% 3
North West +89 121 £75,000 -11.76% 1
South East +53 112 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland +5 57 £71,000 -16.47% 6
South West +17 50 £70,000 -17.65%
East of England +5 45 £85,000 +25.93% 10
Midlands +9 43 £90,000 +5.88% 1
Northern Ireland +54 42 £75,000 +3.45%
East Midlands -4 34 £90,000 +44.00%
Yorkshire +52 27 £75,000 -11.76% 1
Wales +57 22 £77,500 +67.71%
West Midlands -19 9 £75,000 -11.76% 1
North East - 5 - - 1
Software Architect
UK

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 September 2024, Software Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 243 (46.37%) Agile
2 135 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 127 (24.24%) Validation
4 112 (21.37%) TOGAF
5 111 (21.18%) Technical Architecture
6 110 (20.99%) Requirements Management
6 110 (20.99%) Software Engineering
6 110 (20.99%) VSAT
6 110 (20.99%) Network Architecture
6 110 (20.99%) Model Validation
6 110 (20.99%) Network Management
7 108 (20.61%) Mentoring
8 106 (20.23%) Software Testing
9 104 (19.85%) Azure
10 103 (19.66%) Machine Learning
11 102 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 101 (19.27%) AWS
13 93 (17.75%) Software Architecture
14 90 (17.18%) DevOps
15 79 (15.08%) User Experience
15 79 (15.08%) Data Engineering
15 79 (15.08%) Cyberattack
15 79 (15.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 79 (15.08%) Creative Thinking
16 72 (13.74%) C++
17 70 (13.36%) Migration
17 70 (13.36%) Geospatial Data
17 70 (13.36%) Legacy Systems
18 67 (12.79%) Security Cleared

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (0.57%) CMS
2 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (19.85%) Azure
2 101 (19.27%) AWS
3 24 (4.58%) SaaS
4 8 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (1.15%) GCP
6 4 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.57%) Serverless
8 2 (0.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.19%) dbt
9 1 (0.19%) GitHub
9 1 (0.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 110 (20.99%) VSAT
2 10 (1.91%) Internet
3 9 (1.72%) MQTT
4 8 (1.53%) HTTP
4 8 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.95%) Wireless
6 2 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (13.36%) Geospatial Data
2 9 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.57%) MySQL
5 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.19%) Big Data
6 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.19%) Redis
6 1 (0.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (5.92%) GitLab
2 29 (5.53%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.38%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) JIRA
5 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.19%) Maven
5 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 135 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 101 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (4.01%) Military
4 8 (1.53%) Finance
5 7 (1.34%) Agriculture
5 7 (1.34%) Automotive
6 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
7 5 (0.95%) Legal
7 5 (0.95%) Retail
8 3 (0.57%) German Language
8 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.38%) Banking
9 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.19%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.19%) Electronics
10 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.11%) .NET
2 21 (4.01%) Middleware
3 12 (2.29%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.91%) Kafka
4 10 (1.91%) Node.js
4 10 (1.91%) RESTful
4 10 (1.91%) Web Services
5 8 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (0.95%) React
7 4 (0.76%) YAML
8 3 (0.57%) Next.js
8 3 (0.57%) XML
9 1 (0.19%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.19%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.19%) Blazor
9 1 (0.19%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Java EE
9 1 (0.19%) Micronaut
9 1 (0.19%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (0.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.08%) Cyberattack
2 70 (13.36%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.10%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.91%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
6 8 (1.53%) IoT
7 6 (1.15%) Private Cloud
8 5 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (0.76%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.19%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.19%) Life Science
11 1 (0.19%) Verilog
11 1 (0.19%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.25%) Linux
2 37 (7.06%) Android
3 36 (6.87%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.38%) Windows
5 1 (0.19%) CentOS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (46.37%) Agile
2 127 (24.24%) Validation
3 112 (21.37%) TOGAF
4 111 (21.18%) Technical Architecture
5 110 (20.99%) Model Validation
5 110 (20.99%) Network Architecture
5 110 (20.99%) Network Management
5 110 (20.99%) Requirements Management
5 110 (20.99%) Software Engineering
6 108 (20.61%) Mentoring
7 106 (20.23%) Software Testing
8 103 (19.66%) Machine Learning
9 102 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (17.75%) Software Architecture
11 90 (17.18%) DevOps
12 79 (15.08%) Creative Thinking
12 79 (15.08%) Data Engineering
12 79 (15.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 79 (15.08%) User Experience
13 70 (13.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.74%) C++
2 51 (9.73%) C
3 45 (8.59%) Java
3 45 (8.59%) Python
4 41 (7.82%) SQL
5 39 (7.44%) C#
6 29 (5.53%) Fortran
7 12 (2.29%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.72%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.15%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.95%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.57%) Bicep
11 3 (0.57%) PHP
11 3 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.19%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 67 (12.79%) Degree
1 67 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 30 (5.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.53%) Master's Degree
3 8 (1.53%) PhD
4 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.53%) QA
2 3 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (0.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.95%) Terraform
3 3 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Puppet
5 1 (0.19%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.72%) Google
3 3 (0.57%) Twitter
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx
4 1 (0.19%) VMware