Software Architecture Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 377 330
Rank change year-on-year -63 -47 +147
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 69 193 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.54% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.60% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 55 100 172
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% +17.02%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £79,875
UK median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year +5.26% +0.96% -8.93%

All Process & 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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Software Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Software Architecture

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 +3 24 £67,500 +28.57% 47
Yorkshire -9 12 £65,000 +53.19% 21
East of England +18 11 £70,000 -4.76% 38
North West +12 11 £67,500 +20.00% 18
Midlands +4 10 £57,500 -28.09% 32
South East -19 10 £77,500 +14.81% 71
West Midlands +5 8 £58,750 -26.50% 10
South West -9 7 £82,500 +6.45% 40
Wales +12 4 £57,500 - 14
Scotland -8 3 £100,000 +33.33% 13
East Midlands -9 2 £35,000 -65.00% 22
North East +11 1 £67,500 +28.57% 8
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.33%) Azure
2 22 (31.88%) AWS
3 14 (20.29%) Serverless
4 13 (18.84%) GitHub
5 6 (8.70%) GCP
6 5 (7.25%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
8 3 (4.35%) ChatGPT
8 3 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.90%) Asana
9 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) Broadband
1 2 (2.90%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) DHCP
2 1 (1.45%) DOCSIS
2 1 (1.45%) DSL
2 1 (1.45%) GPON
2 1 (1.45%) IPv4
2 1 (1.45%) IPv6
2 1 (1.45%) PPP
2 1 (1.45%) RTP
2 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.45%) VoIP
2 1 (1.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.25%) MySQL
2 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.35%) Big Data
3 3 (4.35%) Metadata
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.45%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.45%) Redis
4 1 (1.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Git
2 3 (4.35%) GitLab
2 3 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.45%) Moq
4 1 (1.45%) MSTest
4 1 (1.45%) NSubstitute
4 1 (1.45%) NUnit
4 1 (1.45%) Storybook
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.70%) Games
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Retail
4 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.80%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
6 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.90%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (42.03%) Developer
2 19 (27.54%) Software Engineer
3 13 (18.84%) Senior
4 9 (13.04%) Architect
4 9 (13.04%) Python Developer
5 8 (11.59%) Lead
6 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Software Architect
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.43%) .NET
2 19 (27.54%) React
3 17 (24.64%) HTML
4 16 (23.19%) CSS
5 11 (15.94%) Vue
6 10 (14.49%) .NET Framework
7 9 (13.04%) Django
7 9 (13.04%) FastAPI
7 9 (13.04%) Flask
8 8 (11.59%) REST
8 8 (11.59%) RESTful
9 6 (8.70%) Web Services
10 5 (7.25%) OpenGL
10 5 (7.25%) Vulkan
11 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
12 3 (4.35%) .NET Core
12 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 3 (4.35%) Laravel
12 3 (4.35%) Node.js
12 3 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) Data Structures
3 7 (10.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.35%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (4.35%) CUDA
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.35%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.90%) IoT
6 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.45%) Clustering
7 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.45%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Windows
2 6 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Android
3 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.45%) OpenWrt
4 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 35 (50.72%) Agile
2 35 (50.72%) Software Engineering
3 24 (34.78%) DevOps
3 24 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (28.99%) Mentoring
4 20 (28.99%) Microservices
5 18 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 17 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (21.74%) Design Patterns
8 14 (20.29%) Clean Code
9 13 (18.84%) Front End Development
10 12 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (15.94%) Code Quality
11 11 (15.94%) OOP
11 11 (15.94%) Test Automation
12 10 (14.49%) Scrum
13 8 (11.59%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.68%) SQL
2 24 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 20 (28.99%) C#
4 18 (26.09%) Python
5 11 (15.94%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.70%) C
6 6 (8.70%) C++
7 4 (5.80%) Java
8 3 (4.35%) Apex Code
8 3 (4.35%) GLSL
8 3 (4.35%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.25%) Degree
3 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Firmware
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.49%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Istio
3 1 (1.45%) Nagios
3 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.90%) Google
4 1 (1.45%) Xamarin