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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 134 191
Rank change year-on-year -23 +57 +104
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 28 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.58% 0.28% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.29% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 20
10th Percentile £50,500 £50,350 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,450 £71,538
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +13.86% +14.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £85,000 - £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -12.50%

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 3,588 2,071 4,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.75% 95.92% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,213 1,187 3,543
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -13 25 £77,500 -4.85% 6
South Yorkshire - 1 £50,000 -
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 (10.71%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Serverless
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.71%) Apigee
4 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
1 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.71%) Maven
1 3 (10.71%) Selenium
1 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (46.43%) Games
1 13 (46.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Python Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Android Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Android Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Applications Developer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Development Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Development Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Development Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Software Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 13 (46.43%) Android SDK
3 10 (35.71%) Flask
4 9 (32.14%) CSS
4 9 (32.14%) Django
4 9 (32.14%) FastAPI
4 9 (32.14%) HTML
4 9 (32.14%) React
4 9 (32.14%) Vue
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.71%) Drools
5 3 (10.71%) Gherkin
5 3 (10.71%) Jest
5 3 (10.71%) Node.js
5 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.71%) XML
6 2 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (3.57%) OAuth
7 1 (3.57%) OpenID
7 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Mobile App
1 13 (46.43%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (46.43%) Social Media
2 8 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Agile
2 26 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (89.29%) Design Patterns
4 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
5 13 (46.43%) AI
5 13 (46.43%) Observability
5 13 (46.43%) SOLID
6 12 (42.86%) Mentoring
7 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (32.14%) Android Development
8 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
9 8 (28.57%) API Testing
9 8 (28.57%) OOP
9 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
10 6 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (21.43%) Front End Development
10 6 (21.43%) Mathematics
10 6 (21.43%) Unit Testing
11 5 (17.86%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Java
1 16 (57.14%) Kotlin
2 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 10 (35.71%) Python
3 10 (35.71%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) Groovy
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) HP Fortify