Architectural Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 406 298
Rank change year-on-year -20 -108 +104
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Patterns 564 795 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.80% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.83% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 417 390 681
10th Percentile £52,325 £54,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £83,759 £97,030 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Patterns is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architectural Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns.

Salary trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Patterns within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England -17 501 £67,500 -15.93% 115
UK excluding London +47 380 £65,000 -7.14% 69
Work from Home +56 301 £70,576 -10.66% 55
London -89 149 £85,000 -5.56% 52
North of England +126 139 £61,206 -6.34% 27
North West +54 75 £61,206 -12.32% 17
Midlands -4 70 £65,000 -10.34% 8
West Midlands +25 62 £65,000 +4.42% 3
South West +3 57 £65,000 +4.00% 5
South East +13 56 £65,000 -25.71% 16
Yorkshire +110 47 £77,500 +40.91% 6
Scotland -72 36 £75,000 -5.06% 8
East of England +3 18 £55,000 -24.14% 2
North East +13 17 £75,000 +7.14% 4
East Midlands -24 7 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Northern Ireland +24 2 £75,400 +4.00% 2
Wales +4 2 £55,752 -11.14% 1

Architectural Patterns
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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (3.90%) CMS
2 8 (1.42%) Confluence
3 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.35%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (2.66%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 32 (5.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (2.84%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.35%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 219 (38.83%) Azure
2 176 (31.21%) AWS
3 112 (19.86%) GCP
4 64 (11.35%) SaaS
5 59 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (6.38%) PaaS
7 34 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (5.85%) IaaS
9 29 (5.14%) Serverless
10 24 (4.26%) GitHub
11 20 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (2.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 15 (2.66%) NuGet
14 14 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (2.30%) Azure Functions
15 13 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.95%) dbt
18 10 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.48%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.95%) Network Security
3 7 (1.24%) HTTP
4 6 (1.06%) Internet
4 6 (1.06%) VPN
5 5 (0.89%) Firewall
6 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.35%) DNS
8 1 (0.18%) IPsec
8 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) SAN
8 1 (0.18%) SSL
8 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 55 (9.75%) NoSQL
3 48 (8.51%) Relational Database
4 23 (4.08%) Big Data
5 19 (3.37%) DB2
6 17 (3.01%) Metadata
7 13 (2.30%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.30%) MySQL
8 11 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.06%) GIS
12 6 (1.06%) Redis
13 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (7.98%) Git
2 31 (5.50%) Visual Studio
3 27 (4.79%) JIRA
4 17 (3.01%) NUnit
5 16 (2.84%) Moq
5 16 (2.84%) TeamCity
6 15 (2.66%) git-flow
6 15 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (2.66%) Sourcetree
6 15 (2.66%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.42%) Maven
8 6 (1.06%) Eclipse
8 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.06%) webpack
9 2 (0.35%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.18%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.18%) MSTest
General
1 128 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 113 (20.04%) Finance
3 64 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (9.22%) Legal
6 49 (8.69%) Marketing
7 46 (8.16%) Public Sector
8 34 (6.03%) Law
9 32 (5.67%) Banking
10 30 (5.32%) Retail
11 14 (2.48%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.77%) Billing
13 10 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.89%) Aviation
15 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 330 (58.51%) Architect
2 176 (31.21%) Solutions Architect
3 175 (31.03%) Senior
4 121 (21.45%) Developer
5 85 (15.07%) Lead
6 84 (14.89%) Senior Architect
7 46 (8.16%) Technical Architect
8 44 (7.80%) Senior Developer
8 44 (7.80%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 41 (7.27%) Software Engineer
10 35 (6.21%) C# Developer
10 35 (6.21%) Full Stack Developer
11 31 (5.50%) Data Architect
12 30 (5.32%) Lead Architect
13 29 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
13 29 (5.14%) Senior Full Stack Developer
14 28 (4.96%) Senior C# Developer
15 25 (4.43%) .NET Developer
15 25 (4.43%) Software Developer
16 24 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (25.00%) .NET
2 79 (14.01%) RESTful
3 61 (10.82%) React
4 52 (9.22%) HTML
5 45 (7.98%) .NET Framework
5 45 (7.98%) CSS
6 43 (7.62%) Web Services
7 42 (7.45%) REST
8 37 (6.56%) ASP.NET
8 37 (6.56%) SOAP
9 36 (6.38%) XML
10 31 (5.50%) Node.js
11 30 (5.32%) Entity Framework
12 25 (4.43%) Spring
13 24 (4.26%) .NET Core
14 23 (4.08%) GraphQL
15 22 (3.90%) AngularJS
16 21 (3.72%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (3.55%) Blazor
18 19 (3.37%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.55%) Public Cloud
2 78 (13.83%) Cloud Native
3 54 (9.57%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.43%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.26%) Mobile App
6 23 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (3.19%) IoT
8 17 (3.01%) Legacy Code
9 16 (2.84%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.66%) Operational Technology
11 14 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.30%) PMI
13 11 (1.95%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.77%) Blockchain
15 8 (1.42%) Algorithms
15 8 (1.42%) Robotics
16 7 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
17 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
18 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.14%) Linux
2 26 (4.61%) Windows
3 25 (4.43%) Apple iOS
4 17 (3.01%) Android
5 11 (1.95%) Unix
6 10 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.60%) Solaris
8 8 (1.42%) VME
9 7 (1.24%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.71%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.71%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (53.55%) Agile
2 225 (39.89%) Design Patterns
3 190 (33.69%) Microservices
4 164 (29.08%) Mentoring
5 159 (28.19%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (27.66%) DevOps
7 154 (27.30%) Roadmaps
8 93 (16.49%) Coaching
9 88 (15.60%) Software Engineering
10 80 (14.18%) Architectural Design
11 79 (14.01%) Enterprise Architecture
12 78 (13.83%) Full Stack Development
13 76 (13.48%) Decision-Making
14 73 (12.94%) Software Architecture
15 72 (12.77%) Analytics
16 69 (12.23%) API Development
17 66 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (11.52%) CI/CD
19 64 (11.35%) Open Source
20 62 (10.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 119 (21.10%) C#
2 105 (18.62%) Java
3 81 (14.36%) JavaScript
4 79 (14.01%) Python
5 71 (12.59%) SQL
6 30 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.55%) Swift
8 18 (3.19%) T-SQL
9 17 (3.01%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.66%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.66%) XPath
11 14 (2.48%) VB.NET
12 11 (1.95%) C
13 8 (1.42%) COBOL
13 8 (1.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 7 (1.24%) Ruby
15 6 (1.06%) R
15 6 (1.06%) Scala
16 5 (0.89%) Go
17 4 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 138 (24.47%) Degree
2 70 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 67 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (5.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 32 (5.67%) Master's Degree
7 30 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (4.61%) CISSP
9 20 (3.55%) CISM
10 19 (3.37%) CRISC
11 15 (2.66%) AWS Certification
11 15 (2.66%) Azure Certification
12 14 (2.48%) CASP
12 14 (2.48%) CEH
13 13 (2.30%) PMI Certification
14 11 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (1.24%) CISA
15 7 (1.24%) SANS
16 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.21%) QA
2 21 (3.72%) GDPR
3 20 (3.55%) NCSC
4 18 (3.19%) NIST
5 15 (2.66%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.77%) HIPAA
8 9 (1.60%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.06%) SEPA
9 6 (1.06%) WCAG
10 4 (0.71%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.53%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) EMIR
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) RACF
Systems Management
1 44 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.38%) Terraform
3 5 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (0.71%) Suricata
5 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 93 (16.49%) Google
3 32 (5.67%) Sparx
4 28 (4.96%) Oracle
5 19 (3.37%) IBM
6 17 (3.01%) Adobe
7 15 (2.66%) Cognizant
8 12 (2.13%) Guidewire
8 12 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.95%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.42%) Citrix
11 8 (1.42%) Micro Focus
12 7 (1.24%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Cisco
14 4 (0.71%) ESRI
14 4 (0.71%) Juniper
14 4 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.71%) Splunk
15 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics