Software Architecture Jobs in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 234 233
Rank change year-on-year +69 -1 -22
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 32 23 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 5
10th Percentile £53,000 £75,000 £39,300
25th Percentile £55,625 £78,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £95,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +46.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £107,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £125,000 -
England median annual salary £67,037 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,009 6,113 6,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.28% 82.87% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,693 4,561 3,191
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
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 Architecture within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Warwickshire -6 9 £80,000 -20.00% 9
Coventry - 9 £57,500 - 1
Shropshire - 7 £60,000 - 8
Birmingham +31 6 £110,000 +29.41% 8
Staffordshire +19 1 £55,000 - 3
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
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 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 17 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Electronics
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 17 (53.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (50.00%) C# Developer
4 15 (46.88%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 15 (46.88%) Senior
4 15 (46.88%) Senior C# Developer
4 15 (46.88%) Senior Developer
4 15 (46.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (21.88%) Senior Systems Developer
5 7 (21.88%) Software Engineer
6 6 (18.75%) Java Engineer
6 6 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Architect
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Data Scientist
8 2 (6.25%) Lead
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Scientist
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) .NET
2 16 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (46.88%) ASP.NET MVC
3 15 (46.88%) Blazor
3 15 (46.88%) HTML
4 7 (21.88%) Spring
5 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.13%) React
6 1 (3.13%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (50.00%) MVC
3 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
4 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 8 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (21.88%) CQRS
6 7 (21.88%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (21.88%) Software Delivery
6 7 (21.88%) TDD
7 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
7 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Agile
9 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) C#
2 17 (53.13%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) R
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) C
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Databricks
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft