Software Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 394 447
Rank change year-on-year -42 +53 +49
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 132 420 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.69% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 97 202 153
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,930 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £67,269 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.90% -3.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +34 34 £60,000 -6.25% 233
Midlands +60 32 £60,000 -36.84% 150
West Midlands +73 30 £60,000 -36.84% 82
Scotland +88 29 £71,250 +5.56% 40
North of England -12 24 £68,519 -2.12% 205
North West -40 17 £67,037 +21.89% 100
South West +14 10 £78,622 +12.32% 116
Yorkshire +43 6 £81,450 +16.36% 83
East of England +19 3 £71,250 -1.38% 147
East Midlands +29 2 £60,000 +22.45% 59
North East +48 1 £45,000 -36.17% 22
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
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 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Simulink
2 3 (2.27%) Productboard
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.55%) AWS
2 36 (27.27%) Azure
3 14 (10.61%) GCP
4 10 (7.58%) Serverless
5 9 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.82%) SaaS
6 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.76%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.06%) Modbus
1 8 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.03%) 5G
2 4 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.03%) WAN
2 4 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.76%) Internet
3 1 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.52%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.76%) Big Data
5 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.76%) MySQL
5 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.85%) Visual Studio
2 10 (7.58%) Git
2 10 (7.58%) GitLab
3 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.30%) JIRA
4 7 (5.30%) Subversion
5 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.76%) Babel
5 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.76%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.76%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.76%) Newman
5 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 39 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Finance
3 18 (13.64%) Electronics
4 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.82%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.55%) Banking
6 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.55%) Marketing
7 5 (3.79%) Military
8 4 (3.03%) Aviation
8 4 (3.03%) Law
8 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.52%) Games
9 2 (1.52%) Legal
9 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (30.30%) Senior
2 35 (26.52%) Software Engineer
3 33 (25.00%) Developer
4 24 (18.18%) Lead
5 16 (12.12%) Architect
5 16 (12.12%) C# Developer
5 16 (12.12%) Embedded Engineer
5 16 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.85%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 13 (9.85%) Senior C# Developer
6 13 (9.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Software Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Software Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Systems Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Systems Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.09%) .NET
2 29 (21.97%) HTML
3 20 (15.15%) ASP.NET
4 19 (14.39%) React
5 16 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
5 16 (12.12%) Spring
6 15 (11.36%) .NET Framework
6 15 (11.36%) Blazor
6 15 (11.36%) CSS
7 10 (7.58%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.82%) Kafka
9 7 (5.30%) REST
10 6 (4.55%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.79%) Node.js
11 5 (3.79%) RESTful
12 4 (3.03%) .NET Core
12 4 (3.03%) GraphQL
13 3 (2.27%) Hibernate
13 3 (2.27%) Java EE
13 3 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.06%) Device Driver
3 7 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.79%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.79%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.03%) CPLD
5 4 (3.03%) FPGA
5 4 (3.03%) GNSS
5 4 (3.03%) Self-Driving Car
6 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.52%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.52%) Clustering
7 2 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.36%) Linux
2 8 (6.06%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (4.55%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.03%) Windows
5 3 (2.27%) Android
6 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (52.27%) Software Engineering
2 55 (41.67%) Agile
3 44 (33.33%) DevOps
4 39 (29.55%) Mentoring
5 38 (28.79%) CI/CD
5 38 (28.79%) Microservices
6 25 (18.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (16.67%) Multithreading
8 21 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 19 (14.39%) Architectural Patterns
9 19 (14.39%) Design Patterns
9 19 (14.39%) MVC
10 18 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (12.88%) Coaching
11 17 (12.88%) Validation
12 16 (12.12%) SDLC
13 15 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.97%) C#
2 45 (34.09%) Java
3 39 (29.55%) C++
4 37 (28.03%) C
5 30 (22.73%) SQL
6 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
7 18 (13.64%) Python
8 15 (11.36%) TypeScript
9 8 (6.06%) MATLAB
10 5 (3.79%) Go
11 4 (3.03%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.52%) Ada
12 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.52%) R
13 1 (0.76%) PHP
13 1 (0.76%) Swift
13 1 (0.76%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Degree
2 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) PMO
3 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (14.39%) Docker
2 8 (6.06%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (6.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.03%) Agilent
2 4 (3.03%) Intel
3 2 (1.52%) Databricks
3 2 (1.52%) SAP
4 1 (0.76%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) Lauterbach
4 1 (0.76%) QNX
4 1 (0.76%) Telerik