Software Architecture Jobs

Software Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 459 483
Rank change year-on-year -20 +24 -89
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 208 501 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.51% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.59% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 143 305 361
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,250 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,037 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.23% +21.74% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -14 167 £67,037 -4.23% 191
UK excluding London +4 146 £67,037 -4.23% 104
Work from Home +120 95 £67,037 -5.01% 118
London +65 51 £77,000 -9.41% 93
South East +61 37 £60,000 -6.25% 18
Scotland +109 31 £75,000 +6.27% 8
Midlands +60 31 £60,000 -36.84% 28
West Midlands +58 29 £60,000 -36.84% 21
North of England +44 27 £67,037 -4.23% 18
North West +9 18 £67,037 +21.89% 9
South West +20 10 £78,622 +12.32% 15
Yorkshire +55 8 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East of England +43 6 £73,500 +1.73% 17
Northern Ireland +38 4 - - 1
East Midlands +42 2 £60,000 +20.00% 6
North East +51 1 £45,000 -36.17% 3

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (1.92%) CMS
1 4 (1.92%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Productboard
1 3 (1.44%) Simulink
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.73%) Azure
2 64 (30.77%) AWS
3 23 (11.06%) GCP
4 22 (10.58%) SaaS
5 19 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.85%) Serverless
8 6 (2.88%) GitHub
9 5 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.92%) Contentstack
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 2 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.48%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.48%) ChatGPT
13 1 (0.48%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.33%) Modbus
3 8 (3.85%) 5G
3 8 (3.85%) DNS
3 8 (3.85%) SD-WAN
3 8 (3.85%) WAN
4 5 (2.40%) Internet
5 4 (1.92%) Firewall
5 4 (1.92%) HTTP
5 4 (1.92%) IPv6
5 4 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.92%) SMTP
5 4 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.42%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.21%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.88%) MySQL
5 5 (2.40%) Tableau
6 2 (0.96%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.96%) Redis
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (10.58%) Git
2 14 (6.73%) Subversion
2 14 (6.73%) Visual Studio
3 11 (5.29%) JIRA
4 10 (4.81%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.85%) GitLab
6 5 (2.40%) XCTest
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.96%) JUnit
8 2 (0.96%) Maven
8 2 (0.96%) Mockito
8 2 (0.96%) Postman
8 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.96%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.96%) Xcode
9 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.48%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 77 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.23%) Finance
3 33 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.62%) Electronics
5 12 (5.77%) Games
6 10 (4.81%) Banking
6 10 (4.81%) Marketing
7 9 (4.33%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.88%) Advertising
10 5 (2.40%) Military
10 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.92%) Aviation
11 4 (1.92%) Legal
12 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.44%) Law
12 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (29.81%) Senior
2 50 (24.04%) Developer
3 49 (23.56%) Software Engineer
4 38 (18.27%) Lead
5 32 (15.38%) Architect
6 22 (10.58%) Embedded Engineer
7 21 (10.10%) Senior Developer
8 20 (9.62%) C# Developer
9 17 (8.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.69%) Senior Architect
10 16 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
11 15 (7.21%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 15 (7.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (7.21%) Software Architect
12 13 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
12 13 (6.25%) Firmware Engineer
12 13 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (6.25%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 13 (6.25%) Senior Firmware Engineer
13 12 (5.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (29.33%) .NET
2 47 (22.60%) HTML
3 34 (16.35%) React
4 26 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 25 (12.02%) CSS
6 21 (10.10%) AngularJS
7 20 (9.62%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (9.13%) .NET Framework
8 19 (9.13%) Kafka
9 17 (8.17%) Blazor
10 16 (7.69%) Spring
11 13 (6.25%) HTML5
11 13 (6.25%) Node.js
12 10 (4.81%) REST
12 10 (4.81%) RESTful
13 9 (4.33%) Vue
14 7 (3.37%) CSS3
14 7 (3.37%) Spring Boot
15 6 (2.88%) .NET Core
15 6 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.06%) Product Ownership
2 21 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.77%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.33%) Device Driver
5 8 (3.85%) FPGA
5 8 (3.85%) GNSS
5 8 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.85%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.37%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.88%) Mobile Games
8 5 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.92%) CPLD
9 4 (1.92%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.92%) MicroBlaze
9 4 (1.92%) Tandem
9 4 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.13%) Linux
2 12 (5.77%) Apple iOS
3 11 (5.29%) Windows
4 9 (4.33%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (2.88%) Unix
6 4 (1.92%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (50.96%) Software Engineering
2 78 (37.50%) Agile
3 60 (28.85%) Mentoring
4 59 (28.37%) DevOps
4 59 (28.37%) Microservices
5 55 (26.44%) CI/CD
6 51 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (18.27%) Architectural Patterns
8 36 (17.31%) Computer Science
8 36 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (16.83%) MVC
10 32 (15.38%) Design Patterns
11 29 (13.94%) Test Automation
12 28 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
12 28 (13.46%) Multithreading
12 28 (13.46%) SDLC
13 26 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (11.54%) OO
15 22 (10.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.02%) C#
2 60 (28.85%) Java
3 48 (23.08%) C++
4 46 (22.12%) SQL
5 44 (21.15%) C
6 43 (20.67%) JavaScript
7 35 (16.83%) Python
8 25 (12.02%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.85%) Go
10 7 (3.37%) MATLAB
10 7 (3.37%) PHP
11 5 (2.40%) Swift
12 4 (1.92%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.44%) Bicep
13 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.44%) Ruby
14 2 (0.96%) Ada
14 2 (0.96%) Groovy
14 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (21.63%) Degree
2 18 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.81%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.37%) PhD
6 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.13%) QA
2 4 (1.92%) PMO
3 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) GRC
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (11.06%) Docker
2 13 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.85%) Google
3 4 (1.92%) Agilent
3 4 (1.92%) Intel
3 4 (1.92%) Veracode
4 2 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.96%) Databricks
4 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle
4 2 (0.96%) SAP
4 2 (0.96%) Splunk
5 1 (0.48%) Apple
5 1 (0.48%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.48%) Telerik