Software-Defined Architecture Jobs

Software-Defined Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software-Defined Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software-Defined Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 901 969
Rank change year-on-year +211 +68 +240
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Architecture 1 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.001% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.002% 0.001% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £63,375
25th Percentile £37,250 £71,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.52% - -7.94%
75th Percentile £41,750 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 - £38,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software-Defined 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 48,513 84,700 99,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.28% 85.98% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,566 59,840 58,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,035
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 £76,000 £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-Defined Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Architecture in the UK

Software-Defined Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software-Defined Architecture in the UK

Software-Defined Architecture
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software-Defined Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +171 1 £39,500 -45.52%
Work from Home - 1 £39,500 - 1
East of England - 1 £39,500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £39,500 -

Software-Defined 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft