Software Architect Jobs

Software Architect
UK

The median Software Architect salary in the UK 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 351 809 995
Rank change year-on-year +458 +186 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 800 137 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 184 117 171
10th Percentile £65,000 - £67,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -14.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.59% +25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 June 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 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
UK excluding London +326 653 £75,000 +11.11% 19
England +400 526 £75,000 +11.11% 23
North of England +195 176 £75,000 -6.83% 3
North West +106 128 £75,000 -6.83% 3
Work from Home +103 115 £75,000 +11.11% 10
South East +48 112 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Scotland +13 94 £65,000 -23.53% 2
London +157 75 £80,000 -11.11% 7
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 381 (47.63%) Validation
2 380 (47.50%) Requirements Management
2 380 (47.50%) VSAT
2 380 (47.50%) Network Management
2 380 (47.50%) Network Architecture
2 380 (47.50%) Model Validation
3 375 (46.88%) TOGAF
4 374 (46.75%) Technical Architecture
5 334 (41.75%) Actionable Insight
6 206 (25.75%) Agile
7 149 (18.63%) Social Skills
8 133 (16.63%) Azure
9 121 (15.13%) AWS
10 118 (14.75%) Software Architecture
11 115 (14.38%) DevOps
12 111 (13.88%) Software Testing
13 93 (11.63%) Software Engineering
14 91 (11.38%) Migration
15 88 (11.00%) Legacy Systems
15 88 (11.00%) Geospatial Data
16 79 (9.88%) Mentoring
17 78 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
18 66 (8.25%) Degree
19 64 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 57 (7.13%) Creative Thinking
21 56 (7.00%) .NET
22 48 (6.00%) Machine Learning
23 47 (5.88%) Security Cleared
24 46 (5.75%) C#
24 46 (5.75%) Java

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 16 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Simulink
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (2.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 133 (16.63%) Azure
2 121 (15.13%) AWS
3 33 (4.13%) SaaS
4 13 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (1.25%) GCP
6 5 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (0.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 380 (47.50%) VSAT
2 11 (1.38%) HTTP
2 11 (1.38%) MQTT
2 11 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.13%) CTI
4 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.00%) Geospatial Data
2 21 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 16 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 15 (1.88%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.38%) Big Data
6 3 (0.38%) MySQL
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.25%) Visual Studio
2 17 (2.13%) GitLab
3 11 (1.38%) Git
4 9 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.13%) JIRA
6 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 149 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 64 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (2.75%) Games
4 21 (2.63%) Finance
5 16 (2.00%) Marketing
6 15 (1.88%) Automotive
7 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.13%) Police
8 9 (1.13%) Retail
9 8 (1.00%) Mandarin Language
9 8 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.88%) Advertising
10 7 (0.88%) Agriculture
10 7 (0.88%) Legal
11 4 (0.50%) Military
12 3 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.38%) German Language
12 3 (0.38%) Law
13 2 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.00%) .NET
2 18 (2.25%) Web Services
3 15 (1.88%) AngularJS
3 15 (1.88%) RESTful
4 12 (1.50%) Kafka
5 11 (1.38%) Node.js
5 11 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.00%) YAML
7 6 (0.75%) XML
8 5 (0.63%) JSON
8 5 (0.63%) REST
9 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.50%) WCF
10 3 (0.38%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.25%) ATL
11 2 (0.25%) Blazor
11 2 (0.25%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.25%) HTML
12 1 (0.13%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.00%) Legacy Systems
2 43 (5.38%) Cyberattack
3 17 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.00%) Swaptions
5 14 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.38%) IoT
8 10 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.38%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.13%) Verilog
13 1 (0.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.00%) Android
1 16 (2.00%) Linux
2 14 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (1.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (47.63%) Validation
2 380 (47.50%) Model Validation
2 380 (47.50%) Network Architecture
2 380 (47.50%) Network Management
2 380 (47.50%) Requirements Management
3 375 (46.88%) TOGAF
4 374 (46.75%) Technical Architecture
5 334 (41.75%) Actionable Insight
6 206 (25.75%) Agile
7 118 (14.75%) Software Architecture
8 115 (14.38%) DevOps
9 111 (13.88%) Software Testing
10 93 (11.63%) Software Engineering
11 91 (11.38%) Migration
12 79 (9.88%) Mentoring
13 78 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (7.13%) Creative Thinking
15 48 (6.00%) Machine Learning
16 41 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 41 (5.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.75%) C#
1 46 (5.75%) Java
2 45 (5.63%) C++
3 38 (4.75%) C
3 38 (4.75%) SQL
4 37 (4.63%) Python
5 17 (2.13%) Fortran
6 16 (2.00%) VB
7 10 (1.25%) Embedded C
7 10 (1.25%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.00%) MATLAB
9 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.50%) Scala
11 3 (0.38%) Bicep
11 3 (0.38%) PHP
12 2 (0.25%) Gremlin
12 2 (0.25%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.25%) Ruby
12 2 (0.25%) X++
13 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (8.25%) Degree
2 47 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 11 (1.38%) Master's Degree
3 11 (1.38%) PhD
4 10 (1.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.25%) CISSP
7 2 (0.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.50%) QA
2 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.13%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (0.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.50%) Oracle
3 16 (2.00%) OpenLink
3 16 (2.00%) Sybase
3 16 (2.00%) TIBCO
4 12 (1.50%) Google
5 3 (0.38%) Twitter
6 1 (0.13%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.13%) MathWorks