Software Architect Jobs

Software Architect
UK

The median Software Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 645 948
Rank change year-on-year +236 +303 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 432 116 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 131 79 107
10th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £66,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +17.24%
75th Percentile £86,250 - £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +17.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 71,968 55,098 132,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 95.65% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,505 40,133 78,004
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,604 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in the UK

Software Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Architect in the UK

Software Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architect over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in the UK

Software Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
UK excluding London +216 391 £80,000 -5.88% 11
England +184 342 £85,000 - 13
North of England +74 124 £75,000 -11.76% 1
North West +43 100 £82,500 -2.94% 1
South East +51 92 £75,000 -11.76% 3
Work from Home +21 62 £75,000 -11.76% 10
Scotland +29 42 £71,000 -16.47% 4
East of England -26 42 £85,000 +25.93% 4
South West +13 29 £75,000 -11.76%
Northern Ireland +37 26 £70,000 -3.45%
Midlands -15 25 £90,000 +5.88%
London +24 23 £90,000 +5.88% 2
East Midlands -22 20 £90,000 +44.00%
Yorkshire +33 19 £58,181 -31.55%
Wales +45 11 £75,000 +62.30%
West Midlands -27 5 £87,500 +2.94%
North East - 5 - -

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 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 featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 239 (55.32%) Agile
2 142 (32.87%) Social Skills
3 116 (26.85%) Mentoring
4 112 (25.93%) AWS
5 111 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (25.46%) Software Engineering
7 109 (25.23%) Azure
8 108 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (24.77%) Software Testing
10 106 (24.54%) Machine Learning
11 100 (23.15%) DevOps
12 99 (22.92%) Software Architecture
13 88 (20.37%) Creative Thinking
14 86 (19.91%) User Experience
15 83 (19.21%) Data Engineering
15 83 (19.21%) Cyberattack
15 83 (19.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 82 (18.98%) Migration
17 81 (18.75%) Geospatial Data
17 81 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
18 60 (13.89%) C++
18 60 (13.89%) Degree
19 54 (12.50%) Security Cleared
20 53 (12.27%) Java
20 53 (12.27%) Validation
21 42 (9.72%) C
22 39 (9.03%) Technical Architecture
23 38 (8.80%) TOGAF
24 37 (8.56%) Python
25 36 (8.33%) Linux

Software Architect Skill Set
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 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.69%) CMS
3 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Endur
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (25.93%) AWS
2 109 (25.23%) Azure
3 15 (3.47%) SaaS
4 6 (1.39%) GCP
4 6 (1.39%) Serverless
5 5 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (0.69%) dbt
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.23%) GitHub
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.33%) VSAT
2 10 (2.31%) Internet
3 6 (1.39%) HTTP
3 6 (1.39%) MQTT
4 5 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.16%) Wireless
5 2 (0.46%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.46%) Network Security
6 1 (0.23%) DHCP
6 1 (0.23%) DNS
6 1 (0.23%) Firewall
6 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.23%) SMTP
6 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (18.75%) Geospatial Data
2 9 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.62%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.16%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.46%) Big Data
5 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.23%) MySQL
6 1 (0.23%) Redis
6 1 (0.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (5.56%) GitLab
2 22 (5.09%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.69%) JIRA
5 2 (0.46%) Git
5 2 (0.46%) Maven
6 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 142 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 108 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (4.86%) Military
4 11 (2.55%) Finance
5 7 (1.62%) Automotive
6 6 (1.39%) Agriculture
6 6 (1.39%) Legal
7 5 (1.16%) Games
7 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.16%) Marketing
8 4 (0.93%) Banking
8 4 (0.93%) Retail
9 3 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.23%) Electronics
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.02%) .NET
2 21 (4.86%) Middleware
3 9 (2.08%) Node.js
4 8 (1.85%) Kafka
4 8 (1.85%) RESTful
5 7 (1.62%) React
5 7 (1.62%) Web Services
6 5 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.69%) Django
7 3 (0.69%) Next.js
8 2 (0.46%) Ionic Framework
8 2 (0.46%) Spring
8 2 (0.46%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.46%) YAML
9 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.23%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.23%) Micronaut
9 1 (0.23%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 83 (19.21%) Cyberattack
2 81 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 7 (1.62%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.16%) IoT
6 5 (1.16%) Swaptions
7 4 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.93%) Hackathon
7 4 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.23%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.23%) Life Science
9 1 (0.23%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.33%) Android
1 36 (8.33%) Linux
2 33 (7.64%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.69%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (55.32%) Agile
2 116 (26.85%) Mentoring
3 111 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (25.46%) Software Engineering
5 107 (24.77%) Software Testing
6 106 (24.54%) Machine Learning
7 100 (23.15%) DevOps
8 99 (22.92%) Software Architecture
9 88 (20.37%) Creative Thinking
10 86 (19.91%) User Experience
11 83 (19.21%) Data Engineering
11 83 (19.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 82 (18.98%) Migration
13 53 (12.27%) Validation
14 39 (9.03%) Technical Architecture
15 38 (8.80%) TOGAF
16 36 (8.33%) Computer Science
16 36 (8.33%) Network Architecture
16 36 (8.33%) Network Management
16 36 (8.33%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.89%) C++
2 53 (12.27%) Java
3 42 (9.72%) C
4 37 (8.56%) Python
5 35 (8.10%) C#
5 35 (8.10%) SQL
6 22 (5.09%) Fortran
7 9 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.62%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.62%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.16%) VB
10 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.46%) Ada
11 2 (0.46%) Go
11 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.23%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 60 (13.89%) Degree
2 54 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.16%) PhD
5 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.16%) QA
2 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.39%) Ansible
3 4 (0.93%) Puppet
4 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.69%) Terraform
5 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 30 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.39%) Google
2 6 (1.39%) Oracle
3 5 (1.16%) OpenLink
3 5 (1.16%) Sybase
3 5 (1.16%) TIBCO
4 2 (0.46%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.23%) Sparx
5 1 (0.23%) VMware