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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 813 1006
Rank change year-on-year +460 +193 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 830 132 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 189 113 176
10th Percentile £65,000 - £66,875
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 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 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 9 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 +321 686 £75,000 +7.14% 22
England +374 561 £75,000 +11.11% 25
North of England +214 208 £75,000 -6.83%
North West +134 157 £75,000 -6.83%
Work from Home +114 116 £75,000 +11.11% 13
South East +56 113 £75,000 +30.43% 8
Scotland +17 93 £65,000 -23.53% 2
London +116 72 £80,000 -11.11% 5
Northern Ireland +66 70 £87,500 +20.69% 1
Midlands +32 67 £90,000 - 3
South West +27 60 £70,000 +21.21% 1
East Midlands - 49 £90,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 46 £75,000 -
Wales +53 42 £77,500 +67.71%
East of England +5 33 £85,000 +21.43% 8
West Midlands +4 18 £67,500 -25.00%
North East - 5 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 369 (44.46%) Validation
2 368 (44.34%) Requirements Management
2 368 (44.34%) VSAT
2 368 (44.34%) Network Management
2 368 (44.34%) Network Architecture
2 368 (44.34%) Model Validation
3 363 (43.73%) TOGAF
4 362 (43.61%) Technical Architecture
5 321 (38.67%) Actionable Insight
6 242 (29.16%) Agile
7 149 (17.95%) Social Skills
8 131 (15.78%) Azure
9 130 (15.66%) Software Engineering
10 119 (14.34%) AWS
11 117 (14.10%) Software Architecture
11 117 (14.10%) Mentoring
12 116 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (13.61%) DevOps
14 110 (13.25%) Software Testing
15 102 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 94 (11.33%) Creative Thinking
17 90 (10.84%) Migration
18 87 (10.48%) Geospatial Data
18 87 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
19 86 (10.36%) Machine Learning
20 81 (9.76%) Cyberattack
21 79 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
21 79 (9.52%) User Experience
21 79 (9.52%) Data Engineering
22 67 (8.07%) Degree

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 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.12%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 131 (15.78%) Azure
2 119 (14.34%) AWS
3 33 (3.98%) SaaS
4 13 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (1.20%) GCP
6 5 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (0.24%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.24%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 368 (44.34%) VSAT
2 11 (1.33%) HTTP
2 11 (1.33%) MQTT
2 11 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.08%) CTI
4 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.48%) Geospatial Data
2 20 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.05%) Relational Database
4 15 (1.81%) NoSQL
4 15 (1.81%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.36%) Big Data
5 3 (0.36%) MySQL
6 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.13%) Visual Studio
2 17 (2.05%) GitLab
3 11 (1.33%) Git
4 9 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) Maven
General
1 149 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 102 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (2.53%) Finance
3 21 (2.53%) Games
4 16 (1.93%) Automotive
5 15 (1.81%) Marketing
6 10 (1.20%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.08%) Police
7 9 (1.08%) Retail
8 8 (0.96%) Legal
8 8 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
8 8 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 7 (0.84%) Advertising
9 7 (0.84%) Agriculture
10 4 (0.48%) Military
11 3 (0.36%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.36%) German Language
11 3 (0.36%) Law
12 2 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.75%) .NET
2 18 (2.17%) Web Services
3 15 (1.81%) AngularJS
3 15 (1.81%) RESTful
4 12 (1.45%) Kafka
5 11 (1.33%) Node.js
5 11 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (0.96%) YAML
7 6 (0.72%) XML
8 5 (0.60%) JSON
8 5 (0.60%) REST
9 4 (0.48%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.48%) WCF
10 3 (0.36%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.24%) ATL
11 2 (0.24%) Blazor
11 2 (0.24%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.24%) HTML
12 1 (0.12%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
2 81 (9.76%) Cyberattack
3 17 (2.05%) Product Ownership
4 15 (1.81%) Swaptions
5 14 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.33%) IoT
8 10 (1.20%) Private Cloud
9 8 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.36%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.12%) Verilog
13 1 (0.12%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.17%) Android
1 18 (2.17%) Linux
2 16 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (44.46%) Validation
2 368 (44.34%) Model Validation
2 368 (44.34%) Network Architecture
2 368 (44.34%) Network Management
2 368 (44.34%) Requirements Management
3 363 (43.73%) TOGAF
4 362 (43.61%) Technical Architecture
5 321 (38.67%) Actionable Insight
6 242 (29.16%) Agile
7 130 (15.66%) Software Engineering
8 117 (14.10%) Mentoring
8 117 (14.10%) Software Architecture
9 116 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (13.61%) DevOps
11 110 (13.25%) Software Testing
12 94 (11.33%) Creative Thinking
13 90 (10.84%) Migration
14 86 (10.36%) Machine Learning
15 79 (9.52%) Data Engineering
15 79 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.78%) C++
2 46 (5.54%) Java
3 45 (5.42%) C#
4 41 (4.94%) C
5 38 (4.58%) SQL
6 36 (4.34%) Python
7 17 (2.05%) Fortran
8 15 (1.81%) VB
9 11 (1.33%) Embedded C
10 10 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.08%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.48%) Scala
14 3 (0.36%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.24%) Ruby
15 2 (0.24%) X++
16 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (8.07%) Degree
2 47 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
3 11 (1.33%) PhD
4 10 (1.20%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.24%) CISSP
7 2 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.45%) QA
2 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.12%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (0.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (3.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.29%) Oracle
3 15 (1.81%) OpenLink
3 15 (1.81%) Sybase
3 15 (1.81%) TIBCO
4 12 (1.45%) Google
5 3 (0.36%) Twitter
6 1 (0.12%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.12%) MathWorks