Software Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 486 394
Rank change year-on-year +39 -92 +90
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 528 615 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.61% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.64% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 306 349 447
10th Percentile £47,215 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £59,063 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £101,875 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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
England -3 430 £70,000 -6.67% 115
UK excluding London +46 402 £68,000 +13.33% 70
Work from Home +16 160 £70,538 +0.77% 62
South West +3 105 £70,000 +27.27% 6
London -7 99 £85,000 -5.56% 53
South East -27 94 £64,000 +6.67% 25
North of England +78 74 £70,000 +33.33% 15
Scotland -25 51 £67,500 -20.59% 7
North West +31 48 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Midlands -23 34 £95,000 +85.37% 7
Yorkshire +96 24 £72,500 +31.82% 6
West Midlands +9 23 £95,000 +46.15% 4
East of England +15 21 £72,250 +7.04% 6
Wales +19 17 £75,000 +3.45% 2
East Midlands -33 10 £49,000 +8.89% 3
Northern Ireland +31 6 £65,000 - 4
North East -5 2 £70,500 -9.03%

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 7 (1.33%) Apache
2 6 (1.14%) Tomcat
3 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.19%) Appian
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) CANalyzer
2 5 (0.95%) Simulink
3 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.38%) SystmOne
1 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 185 (35.04%) Azure
2 159 (30.11%) AWS
3 79 (14.96%) SaaS
4 36 (6.82%) OpenShift
5 34 (6.44%) GCP
6 23 (4.36%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.22%) Serverless
9 16 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.84%) PaaS
11 12 (2.27%) IaaS
12 10 (1.89%) GitHub
13 7 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.33%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.14%) Entra ID
15 4 (0.76%) Power Platform
16 3 (0.57%) PowerApps
16 3 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.17%) TCP/IP
2 49 (9.28%) HTTP
3 42 (7.95%) DNS
4 34 (6.44%) DHCP
5 14 (2.65%) Internet
6 13 (2.46%) Ethernet
7 12 (2.27%) Wireless
8 9 (1.70%) RS-232
9 8 (1.52%) SMTP
10 4 (0.76%) Multicast
10 4 (0.76%) RS-485
10 4 (0.76%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.57%) Firewall
11 3 (0.57%) VPN
12 2 (0.38%) SSH
13 1 (0.19%) 4G
13 1 (0.19%) IPsec
13 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
13 1 (0.19%) Network Security
13 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.55%) SQL Server
2 56 (10.61%) Geospatial Data
3 22 (4.17%) GIS
4 20 (3.79%) MySQL
5 19 (3.60%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.46%) DynamoDB
7 12 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.70%) Big Data
9 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.19%) Redis
13 1 (0.19%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 57 (10.80%) Git
2 22 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 16 (3.03%) Subversion
5 15 (2.84%) Postman
6 9 (1.70%) Jasmine
6 9 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
6 9 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (1.33%) GitLab
8 6 (1.14%) CANoe
8 6 (1.14%) JUnit
8 6 (1.14%) Maven
9 4 (0.76%) JIRA
10 3 (0.57%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.38%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.38%) ScalaTest
12 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
12 1 (0.19%) GitKraken
12 1 (0.19%) JetBrains Rider
12 1 (0.19%) MLflow
General
1 141 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.26%) Finance
3 38 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (7.20%) Electronics
4 37 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.63%) Law
6 34 (6.44%) Banking
7 32 (6.06%) Aerospace
8 25 (4.73%) Legal
9 19 (3.60%) Marketing
10 18 (3.41%) Public Sector
11 17 (3.22%) Manufacturing
11 17 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.84%) Automotive
12 15 (2.84%) Games
13 9 (1.70%) Private Banking
14 7 (1.33%) Aviation
15 6 (1.14%) Military
15 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.95%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 153 (28.98%) Architect
2 131 (24.81%) Developer
3 118 (22.35%) Senior
4 107 (20.27%) Software Engineer
5 71 (13.45%) Lead
6 66 (12.50%) Software Architect
7 39 (7.39%) Senior Developer
8 34 (6.44%) Geospatial Architect
8 34 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (5.30%) Technical Architect
11 27 (5.11%) Embedded Engineer
12 23 (4.36%) Full Stack Developer
12 23 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (4.17%) C# Developer
14 21 (3.98%) Senior Architect
14 21 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.98%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.60%) .NET Developer
15 19 (3.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (23.11%) .NET
2 51 (9.66%) HTML
3 49 (9.28%) CSS
4 48 (9.09%) React
5 41 (7.77%) AngularJS
6 39 (7.39%) Spring
7 37 (7.01%) ASP.NET
8 34 (6.44%) .NET Core
9 32 (6.06%) .NET Framework
10 28 (5.30%) RESTful
11 25 (4.73%) REST
12 24 (4.55%) Web Services
13 20 (3.79%) Node.js
13 20 (3.79%) Swagger
14 19 (3.60%) SOAP
15 17 (3.22%) jQuery
16 16 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
17 15 (2.84%) Entity Framework
17 15 (2.84%) Qt
18 14 (2.65%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.63%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (4.92%) Algorithms
5 25 (4.73%) IoT
6 23 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (3.98%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.60%) Robotics
9 17 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
11 13 (2.46%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.46%) Mobile App
12 12 (2.27%) CUDA
13 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.52%) GNSS
14 8 (1.52%) Tandem
15 6 (1.14%) Arduino
15 6 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.14%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 87 (16.48%) Linux
2 79 (14.96%) Windows
3 34 (6.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.89%) Unix
6 8 (1.52%) Android
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
7 3 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (41.86%) Agile
2 189 (35.80%) Software Engineering
3 179 (33.90%) DevOps
4 110 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (18.56%) Actionable Insight
6 85 (16.10%) Computer Science
7 82 (15.53%) Roadmaps
8 73 (13.83%) Design Patterns
9 72 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
10 70 (13.26%) Software Testing
11 68 (12.88%) Migration
12 66 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 56 (10.61%) Full Stack Development
13 56 (10.61%) Mentoring
14 54 (10.23%) Microservices
15 50 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence
16 49 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (8.71%) Test Automation
18 45 (8.52%) Machine Learning
19 44 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 153 (28.98%) Python
2 134 (25.38%) C#
3 122 (23.11%) Java
4 103 (19.51%) C
5 92 (17.42%) JavaScript
6 71 (13.45%) C++
7 47 (8.90%) SQL
8 43 (8.14%) PowerShell
9 37 (7.01%) Bash
10 34 (6.44%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.03%) VB.NET
12 12 (2.27%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.70%) PHP
13 9 (1.70%) Swift
14 8 (1.52%) MATLAB
15 7 (1.33%) Go
16 5 (0.95%) Ada
16 5 (0.95%) R
17 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 117 (22.16%) Degree
2 114 (21.59%) Security Cleared
3 46 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (7.77%) Master's Degree
5 39 (7.39%) DV Cleared
6 29 (5.49%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.95%) PhD
8 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.01%) QA
2 13 (2.46%) HIPAA
3 11 (2.08%) GDPR
4 10 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.70%) ISO 13485
5 9 (1.70%) WAI
6 8 (1.52%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.76%) PMO
7 4 (0.76%) SEPA
8 3 (0.57%) HAZOP
9 2 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.38%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.38%) EMIR
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.38%) MiFID
10 1 (0.19%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (15.34%) Docker
2 34 (6.44%) Hyper-V
2 34 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.79%) Firmware
4 18 (3.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 71 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.01%) Ansible
3 34 (6.44%) Puppet
4 6 (1.14%) Kibana
5 4 (0.76%) Terraform
6 3 (0.57%) Grafana
6 3 (0.57%) Graphite
6 3 (0.57%) Nagios
6 3 (0.57%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.44%) Red Hat
2 34 (6.44%) VMware
3 21 (3.98%) Google
4 9 (1.70%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.52%) Guidewire
6 7 (1.33%) Oracle
7 3 (0.57%) Databricks
7 3 (0.57%) New Relic
7 3 (0.57%) Splunk
8 2 (0.38%) Apple
8 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.38%) SAP
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe
9 1 (0.19%) Ariba
9 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.19%) Citrix
9 1 (0.19%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.19%) Okta
9 1 (0.19%) Sony