Software Architecture Job Trends in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 133 189
Rank change year-on-year -44 +56 +98
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 23 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.38% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.36% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 16
10th Percentile £60,000 £54,650 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £89,113 £79,063
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,269 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,271 2,237 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 70.94% 94.11% 83.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,730 1,266 3,704
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,875 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Software Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -38 20 £75,000 -7.92% 6
South Yorkshire -35 1 £50,000 -28.57%
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Serverless
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) Apigee
3 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) ClickHouse
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
1 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.04%) Maven
1 3 (13.04%) Selenium
1 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (56.52%) Games
1 13 (56.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Android Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Android Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Applications Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Principal Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Development Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Angular Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Development Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Android SDK
1 13 (56.52%) GraphQL
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) Drools
2 3 (13.04%) Flask
2 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) Jest
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
2 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
2 3 (13.04%) Vue
2 3 (13.04%) XML
3 2 (8.70%) Django
3 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
3 2 (8.70%) React
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Mobile App
1 13 (56.52%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (56.52%) Social Media
2 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (82.61%) Agile
2 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 19 (82.61%) Design Patterns
3 16 (69.57%) AI
3 16 (69.57%) Observability
4 13 (56.52%) SOLID
5 9 (39.13%) Android Development
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
7 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
8 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (13.04%) Analytical Thinking
9 3 (13.04%) Architecture Governance
9 3 (13.04%) Commercial Awareness
9 3 (13.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (13.04%) Prototyping
9 3 (13.04%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
1 16 (69.57%) Kotlin
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) Groovy
3 3 (13.04%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) HP Fortify