Software Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 625 698
Rank change year-on-year +326 +73 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 653 108 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 156 89 105
10th Percentile £65,000 - £63,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.59% +25.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -14.71% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Architect in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in the UK excluding London

Software Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
North of England +195 176 £75,000 -6.83% 3
North West +106 128 £75,000 -6.83% 3
South East +48 112 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Scotland +13 94 £65,000 -23.53% 2
Northern Ireland +70 71 £87,500 +20.69% 1
Midlands +51 67 £90,000 - 4
South West +27 59 £70,000 +21.21%
East Midlands - 49 £90,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 45 £75,000 -
Wales +46 43 £77,500 +67.71%
East of England +8 31 £85,000 +13.33% 7
West Midlands +3 18 £67,500 -25.00%
North East - 3 - -
Software Architect
UK

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 325 (49.77%) Validation
1 325 (49.77%) TOGAF
2 324 (49.62%) Requirements Management
2 324 (49.62%) Technical Architecture
2 324 (49.62%) VSAT
2 324 (49.62%) Network Management
2 324 (49.62%) Network Architecture
2 324 (49.62%) Model Validation
3 280 (42.88%) Actionable Insight
4 176 (26.95%) Agile
5 120 (18.38%) Social Skills
6 102 (15.62%) Azure
7 97 (14.85%) AWS
7 97 (14.85%) Software Architecture
8 91 (13.94%) Software Testing
9 85 (13.02%) DevOps
10 83 (12.71%) Software Engineering
11 70 (10.72%) Migration
11 70 (10.72%) Geospatial Data
11 70 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (10.72%) Legacy Systems
12 69 (10.57%) Mentoring
13 59 (9.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 59 (9.04%) Degree
14 48 (7.35%) .NET
15 46 (7.04%) Machine Learning
16 45 (6.89%) C++
17 43 (6.58%) Security Cleared
18 39 (5.97%) C#
18 39 (5.97%) User Experience

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Simulink
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 102 (15.62%) Azure
2 97 (14.85%) AWS
3 26 (3.98%) SaaS
4 11 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (1.07%) GCP
6 4 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.15%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 324 (49.62%) VSAT
2 11 (1.68%) HTTP
2 11 (1.68%) MQTT
2 11 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.38%) CTI
4 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.72%) Geospatial Data
2 12 (1.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.46%) Big Data
4 3 (0.46%) MySQL
5 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.98%) Visual Studio
2 17 (2.60%) GitLab
3 10 (1.53%) Git
4 9 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.15%) JIRA
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 120 (18.38%) Social Skills
2 59 (9.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (1.68%) Automotive
4 9 (1.38%) Police
5 8 (1.23%) Finance
6 7 (1.07%) Agriculture
6 7 (1.07%) Legal
6 7 (1.07%) Retail
7 6 (0.92%) Games
7 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.46%) German Language
8 3 (0.46%) Law
9 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.35%) .NET
2 17 (2.60%) Web Services
3 15 (2.30%) AngularJS
4 13 (1.99%) RESTful
5 12 (1.84%) Kafka
6 11 (1.68%) Node.js
6 11 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (0.92%) XML
8 5 (0.77%) JSON
8 5 (0.77%) REST
9 4 (0.61%) WCF
9 4 (0.61%) YAML
10 2 (0.31%) ASP.NET
11 1 (0.15%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.15%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.15%) Java EE
11 1 (0.15%) OpenCL
11 1 (0.15%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.72%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (5.97%) Cyberattack
3 12 (1.84%) Cloud Native
4 11 (1.68%) IoT
5 9 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.15%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.15%) Verilog
9 1 (0.15%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.45%) Android
1 16 (2.45%) Linux
2 14 (2.14%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (1.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (49.77%) TOGAF
1 325 (49.77%) Validation
2 324 (49.62%) Model Validation
2 324 (49.62%) Network Architecture
2 324 (49.62%) Network Management
2 324 (49.62%) Requirements Management
2 324 (49.62%) Technical Architecture
3 280 (42.88%) Actionable Insight
4 176 (26.95%) Agile
5 97 (14.85%) Software Architecture
6 91 (13.94%) Software Testing
7 85 (13.02%) DevOps
8 83 (12.71%) Software Engineering
9 70 (10.72%) Migration
9 70 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (10.57%) Mentoring
11 46 (7.04%) Machine Learning
12 39 (5.97%) Data Engineering
12 39 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 39 (5.97%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (6.89%) C++
2 39 (5.97%) C#
3 37 (5.67%) SQL
4 34 (5.21%) C
4 34 (5.21%) Python
5 22 (3.37%) Java
6 17 (2.60%) Fortran
7 10 (1.53%) Embedded C
8 8 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.23%) MATLAB
9 6 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.46%) Bicep
10 3 (0.46%) PHP
11 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.31%) Ruby
12 1 (0.15%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 59 (9.04%) Degree
2 43 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (1.68%) Master's Degree
3 11 (1.68%) PhD
4 8 (1.23%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.84%) QA
2 1 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 3 (0.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.46%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.46%) Terraform
2 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 29 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (1.84%) Google
3 3 (0.46%) Twitter
4 1 (0.15%) Guidewire
4 1 (0.15%) MathWorks