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 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 378 473
Rank change year-on-year -128 +95 -55
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 258 465 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.82% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 141 262 449
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,775 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -9.35% +10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £104,875 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +14.29%

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 59,789 56,923 103,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.16% 89.80% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25,763 41,548 65,262
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,383 £41,388 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £96,539 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 20 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Top 17 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 20 January 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 -121 226 £70,000 - 121
UK excluding London -108 208 £70,000 - 65
Work from Home -31 115 £70,000 -0.82% 119
South East +5 77 £70,000 +3.70% 10
London -39 42 £81,975 -8.92% 67
North of England -41 31 £50,000 -29.15% 23
Midlands -27 28 £79,966 +14.24% 5
South West -62 28 £77,500 +14.81% 7
West Midlands -20 24 £79,932 +13.26% 3
Scotland +3 19 £75,000 +6.27% 11
North West -37 18 £56,250 +2.27% 19
East of England -43 18 £73,500 +21.87% 7
Yorkshire +8 12 £41,361 -42.95% 3
Northern Ireland +15 5 - - 2
East Midlands -12 4 £100,000 +100.00% 2
Wales +12 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £52,500 - 1

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 10 (3.88%) CMS
1 10 (3.88%) Sitecore CMS
1 10 (3.88%) Umbraco
2 2 (0.78%) Apache
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 20 (7.75%) Simulink
2 3 (1.16%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (0.39%) Shopify
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.21%) Azure
2 46 (17.83%) AWS
3 23 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (5.43%) SaaS
6 13 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (5.04%) GCP
7 11 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.94%) Serverless
10 4 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.55%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.16%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.16%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.40%) TCP/IP
2 14 (5.43%) DNS
3 11 (4.26%) Internet
4 9 (3.49%) HTTP
4 9 (3.49%) SMTP
5 8 (3.10%) 5G
5 8 (3.10%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.10%) WAN
6 5 (1.94%) Firewall
6 5 (1.94%) IPv6
6 5 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.55%) Modbus
7 4 (1.55%) RS-232
8 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.78%) RS-422
8 2 (0.78%) RS-485
8 2 (0.78%) Wireless
8 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.39%) Intranet
9 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.75%) Relational Database
3 14 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.43%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.55%) Parquet
5 4 (1.55%) Power BI
6 3 (1.16%) MySQL
7 2 (0.78%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) Big Data
8 1 (0.39%) Redis
8 1 (0.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (14.73%) Git
2 24 (9.30%) Subversion
3 13 (5.04%) Rational Rhapsody
4 7 (2.71%) JIRA
4 7 (2.71%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.94%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.16%) Babel
6 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.16%) webpack
6 3 (1.16%) XCTest
7 2 (0.78%) GitLab
8 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.39%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.85%) Electronics
2 28 (10.85%) Legal
3 27 (10.47%) Law
4 25 (9.69%) Finance
5 22 (8.53%) Military
6 18 (6.98%) Aerospace
6 18 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.04%) Banking
7 13 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.65%) Games
9 10 (3.88%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.71%) Tech for Good
12 6 (2.33%) Automotive
12 6 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.94%) Advertising
13 5 (1.94%) Back Office
13 5 (1.94%) Retail
14 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (25.97%) Developer
2 65 (25.19%) Software Engineer
3 57 (22.09%) Architect
4 52 (20.16%) Senior
5 46 (17.83%) Lead
6 36 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (12.79%) Principal Engineer
8 27 (10.47%) Principal Software Engineer
9 24 (9.30%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (7.75%) C# Developer
11 19 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (6.98%) Software Architect
13 17 (6.59%) .NET Developer
13 17 (6.59%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.43%) Development Manager
14 14 (5.43%) Embedded Engineer
14 14 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (5.04%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
15 13 (5.04%) Firmware Engineer
15 13 (5.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (35.66%) .NET
2 56 (21.71%) HTML
3 37 (14.34%) CSS
3 37 (14.34%) REST
4 32 (12.40%) ASP.NET
5 31 (12.02%) RESTful
6 29 (11.24%) ASP.NET MVC
7 26 (10.08%) .NET Framework
8 23 (8.91%) SOAP
9 22 (8.53%) React
10 15 (5.81%) Kafka
11 14 (5.43%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.26%) Node.js
13 9 (3.49%) Blazor
13 9 (3.49%) HTML5
14 8 (3.10%) JSON
14 8 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (3.10%) Spring
15 7 (2.71%) XML
16 6 (2.33%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.79%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.85%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (9.69%) Algorithms
4 23 (8.91%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (7.36%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.43%) Mobile App
7 13 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (4.26%) Management Information System
9 9 (3.49%) Data Structures
9 9 (3.49%) GNSS
10 8 (3.10%) FPGA
10 8 (3.10%) MicroBlaze
10 8 (3.10%) Tandem
11 6 (2.33%) Life Science
11 6 (2.33%) Mobile Games
12 5 (1.94%) Derivative
12 5 (1.94%) EMV
12 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.34%) Windows
2 36 (13.95%) Linux
3 13 (5.04%) VxWorks
4 9 (3.49%) Apple iOS
5 8 (3.10%) Unix
6 6 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.16%) Android
8 1 (0.39%) CentOS
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.09%) Agile
2 102 (39.53%) Software Engineering
3 54 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 53 (20.54%) Microservices
5 52 (20.16%) Architectural Patterns
6 49 (18.99%) DevOps
7 47 (18.22%) Scrum
8 41 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (15.50%) Roadmaps
10 39 (15.12%) Computer Science
10 39 (15.12%) Mentoring
11 38 (14.73%) MVC
12 32 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (12.40%) Test Automation
13 31 (12.02%) UML
14 29 (11.24%) Migration
14 29 (11.24%) SDLC
15 25 (9.69%) Coaching
15 25 (9.69%) Physics
16 24 (9.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 101 (39.15%) C#
2 69 (26.74%) SQL
3 57 (22.09%) Python
4 54 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 51 (19.77%) C
6 47 (18.22%) C++
7 41 (15.89%) Java
8 28 (10.85%) MATLAB
9 16 (6.20%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.55%) Ada
11 4 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.55%) Go
11 4 (1.55%) R
11 4 (1.55%) Ruby
11 4 (1.55%) Swift
12 3 (1.16%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.16%) VB
13 2 (0.78%) PHP
14 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (29.46%) Degree
2 29 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.20%) Security Cleared
4 15 (5.81%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.43%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.94%) PhD
7 4 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.08%) QA
2 5 (1.94%) ISO 26262
3 4 (1.55%) SLA
4 3 (1.16%) HAZOP
5 2 (0.78%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (0.78%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (6.59%) Docker
2 13 (5.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.04%) Firmware
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.94%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.55%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.04%) Wind River
3 10 (3.88%) Sitecore
4 8 (3.10%) Google
5 5 (1.94%) Veracode
6 4 (1.55%) Brio
7 2 (0.78%) Databricks
7 2 (0.78%) PayPal
7 2 (0.78%) VMware
8 1 (0.39%) Sparx