Software Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 439 503
Rank change year-on-year +23 +64 -23
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 388 344 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.59% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 218 151 167
10th Percentile £46,930 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,125 £46,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% +2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.69% +13.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,389 58,729 66,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.39% 95.61% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,140 30,147 41,505
10th Percentile £27,247 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 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
South West +9 109 £70,000 +27.27% 10
South East -15 91 £64,000 +6.67% 22
North of England +75 68 £70,000 +33.33% 17
Scotland -23 49 £69,038 -7.95% 9
North West +25 43 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Midlands -14 31 £95,000 +111.11% 3
Yorkshire +104 23 £72,500 +16.00% 6
West Midlands +20 22 £95,000 +46.15% 2
East of England +9 21 £72,250 +7.04% 10
Wales +24 16 £73,750 +1.72% 2
East Midlands -33 8 £49,000 +8.89% 1
Northern Ireland +35 3 £65,000 - 3
North East -8 2 £70,500 -9.03% 1
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 7 (1.80%) Apache
2 6 (1.55%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) Appian
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) CANalyzer
2 5 (1.29%) Simulink
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (27.06%) Azure
2 96 (24.74%) AWS
3 72 (18.56%) SaaS
4 37 (9.54%) OpenShift
5 17 (4.38%) Serverless
6 16 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.09%) PaaS
8 11 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.84%) GCP
8 11 (2.84%) IaaS
9 10 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.06%) GitHub
11 7 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (1.80%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.55%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.03%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.77%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 63 (16.24%) TCP/IP
2 52 (13.40%) HTTP
3 45 (11.60%) DNS
4 37 (9.54%) DHCP
5 14 (3.61%) Internet
6 13 (3.35%) Ethernet
7 10 (2.58%) Wireless
8 9 (2.32%) RS-232
9 8 (2.06%) SMTP
10 4 (1.03%) RS-485
10 4 (1.03%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) 4G
11 1 (0.26%) 5G
11 1 (0.26%) IPsec
11 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.26%) Network Security
11 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.15%) Geospatial Data
2 20 (5.15%) GIS
3 15 (3.87%) MySQL
4 13 (3.35%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.06%) Big Data
7 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.26%) Power BI
11 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (10.57%) Git
2 21 (5.41%) Visual Studio
3 16 (4.12%) Subversion
4 13 (3.35%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.09%) Postman
6 9 (2.32%) Jasmine
6 9 (2.32%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.55%) CANoe
7 6 (1.55%) Maven
8 5 (1.29%) GitLab
9 2 (0.52%) JIRA
9 2 (0.52%) JUnit
10 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.26%) GitKraken
10 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.26%) JetBrains Rider
10 1 (0.26%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.69%) Finance
3 34 (8.76%) Electronics
4 31 (7.99%) Aerospace
5 30 (7.73%) Law
6 28 (7.22%) Banking
6 28 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (4.90%) Marketing
9 16 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.87%) Games
11 11 (2.84%) Automotive
11 11 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.32%) Legal
12 9 (2.32%) Private Banking
13 7 (1.80%) Aviation
14 6 (1.55%) Military
14 6 (1.55%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 97 (25.00%) Architect
2 96 (24.74%) Software Engineer
3 89 (22.94%) Developer
4 86 (22.16%) Senior
5 58 (14.95%) Lead
6 37 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (7.22%) Software Architect
9 26 (6.70%) Embedded Engineer
10 19 (4.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 19 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (4.38%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.38%) Technical Architect
12 15 (3.87%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.87%) Software Developer
13 14 (3.61%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.61%) Principal Architect
14 12 (3.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.68%) .NET
2 35 (9.02%) AngularJS
3 32 (8.25%) CSS
3 32 (8.25%) HTML
3 32 (8.25%) React
4 28 (7.22%) Spring
5 27 (6.96%) .NET Framework
6 25 (6.44%) ASP.NET
7 23 (5.93%) RESTful
8 22 (5.67%) .NET Core
9 16 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (4.12%) Node.js
10 15 (3.87%) jQuery
10 15 (3.87%) Qt
10 15 (3.87%) REST
11 13 (3.35%) SOAP
11 13 (3.35%) Web Services
12 12 (3.09%) Kafka
13 11 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (2.84%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.15%) IoT
3 20 (5.15%) Robotics
4 15 (3.87%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.06%) CUDA
7 8 (2.06%) GNSS
7 8 (2.06%) Tandem
8 6 (1.55%) Arduino
8 6 (1.55%) Blockchain
8 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.55%) Raspberry Pi
9 5 (1.29%) Infotainment
9 5 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.36%) Linux
2 76 (19.59%) Windows
3 37 (9.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.84%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.84%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.32%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.06%) Unix
7 6 (1.55%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (41.49%) Software Engineering
2 140 (36.08%) Agile
3 116 (29.90%) DevOps
4 90 (23.20%) Actionable Insight
5 87 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (15.72%) Roadmaps
7 58 (14.95%) Computer Science
8 55 (14.18%) Design Patterns
9 48 (12.37%) Mentoring
10 43 (11.08%) CI/CD
10 43 (11.08%) Test Automation
11 42 (10.82%) Architectural Patterns
12 38 (9.79%) SDLC
13 37 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 36 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
14 36 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (8.51%) Requirements Analysis
16 32 (8.25%) Full Stack Development
16 32 (8.25%) Migration
17 31 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.64%) Python
2 99 (25.52%) C#
3 97 (25.00%) Java
4 95 (24.48%) C
5 69 (17.78%) C++
6 68 (17.53%) JavaScript
7 37 (9.54%) Bash
7 37 (9.54%) PowerShell
8 36 (9.28%) SQL
9 14 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.35%) VB.NET
11 12 (3.09%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.32%) Swift
13 8 (2.06%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.29%) Ada
15 4 (1.03%) Go
15 4 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.03%) R
16 3 (0.77%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 106 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 92 (23.71%) Degree
3 40 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 33 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (7.47%) Master's Degree
6 21 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.76%) QA
2 11 (2.84%) GDPR
3 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.58%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.32%) ISO 13485
4 9 (2.32%) WAI
5 8 (2.06%) ISO 26262
6 5 (1.29%) SEPA
7 4 (1.03%) PMO
8 3 (0.77%) HAZOP
9 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.52%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.26%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (17.53%) Docker
2 37 (9.54%) Hyper-V
2 37 (9.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.90%) Firmware
4 17 (4.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
Systems Management
1 55 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.54%) Ansible
2 37 (9.54%) Puppet
3 3 (0.77%) Kibana
4 2 (0.52%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.54%) Red Hat
2 37 (9.54%) VMware
3 8 (2.06%) Guidewire
4 6 (1.55%) Google
4 6 (1.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.26%) Ariba
5 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.26%) Citrix
5 1 (0.26%) Databricks
5 1 (0.26%) MathWorks
5 1 (0.26%) SAP