Software Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Software Architect salary in the West Midlands is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 186 276
Rank change year-on-year -22 +90 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 9 7 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile - £76,000 £75,375
25th Percentile £65,000 - £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% +47.73%
75th Percentile £92,500 - £85,938
90th Percentile £100,000 - £86,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 5,483 3,546 7,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 95.30% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 2,803 4,892
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in the West Midlands

Software Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Software Architect in the West Midlands

Software Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in the West Midlands

Software Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Birmingham -21 5 £80,000 -5.88% 1
Staffordshire -20 3 £65,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Software Architect
England

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 October 2024, Software Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
General
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared