Architectural Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 337 337
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 +39
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 957 1,015 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.02% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.07% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 417 461 857
10th Percentile £48,250 £50,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,500 £61,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £119,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £68,350 £68,500
% change year-on-year +14.52% -0.22% +5.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Design 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
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 Design within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London +74 726 £78,273 +14.52% 110
England -92 477 £79,932 +3.14% 194
Scotland +145 435 £72,500 +4.77% 4
Work from Home -30 267 £79,932 +6.58% 93
London -21 197 £95,000 +8.57% 96
North of England +32 120 £79,932 +22.97% 21
North West +10 81 £65,000 +4.00% 10
South West -12 54 £75,000 +7.14% 12
South East -104 46 £50,000 -33.33% 34
Midlands -57 38 £78,273 +1.00% 18
West Midlands -17 33 £71,636 -8.16% 6
Yorkshire +57 30 £79,932 +22.97% 6
East of England -1 22 £85,000 +21.43% 15
North East -7 9 £79,932 +14.19% 5
Northern Ireland +19 8 £85,000 +75.26% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £78,273 +1.00% 12
Wales -6 4 £55,228 +19.52% 7

Architectural Design
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 21 (2.19%) GemFire
2 20 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.67%) CMS
4 12 (1.25%) Apache
5 9 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.42%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.10%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.10%) Captiva
9 1 (0.10%) Documentum
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (1.88%) Photoshop
2 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.42%) Revit
5 2 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.10%) InDesign
6 1 (0.10%) Notion
6 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (1.57%) SDL Web 8
2 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.21%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.10%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 394 (41.17%) AWS
2 189 (19.75%) Azure
3 72 (7.52%) Datadog
4 55 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 55 (5.75%) GCP
5 54 (5.64%) SaaS
6 50 (5.22%) Serverless
7 36 (3.76%) GitHub
8 34 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (2.19%) Azure AKS
13 20 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.09%) Azure Functions
14 19 (1.99%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
16 16 (1.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.79%) Kerberos
2 18 (1.88%) DSL
3 8 (0.84%) VPN
4 5 (0.52%) DNS
5 4 (0.42%) Firewall
5 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.21%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.21%) DHCP
6 2 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.21%) Internet
6 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.21%) LAN
6 2 (0.21%) MPLS
6 2 (0.21%) Network Security
6 2 (0.21%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.21%) PBX
6 2 (0.21%) VoIP
6 2 (0.21%) WAN
6 2 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.15%) Metadata
2 65 (6.79%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 52 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 39 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 34 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.72%) Big Data
8 21 (2.19%) CockroachDB
8 21 (2.19%) Hazelcast
8 21 (2.19%) Looker
9 20 (2.09%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.88%) DB2
10 18 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.88%) Tableau
11 15 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (1.46%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.84%) Data Hub
14 7 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.73%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 145 (15.15%) Git
2 93 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 65 (6.79%) Artifactory
3 65 (6.79%) Bitbucket
4 29 (3.03%) JUnit
4 29 (3.03%) Visual Studio
5 25 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 25 (2.61%) Selenium
6 23 (2.40%) Jasmine
6 23 (2.40%) JIRA
7 22 (2.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 22 (2.30%) Protractor
7 22 (2.30%) WebDriver
8 21 (2.19%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.88%) Moq
9 18 (1.88%) SpecFlow
10 16 (1.67%) NUnit
11 15 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
11 15 (1.57%) Sourcetree
11 15 (1.57%) TeamCity
General
1 526 (54.96%) Finance
2 454 (47.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 428 (44.72%) Law
4 337 (35.21%) Marketing
5 206 (21.53%) Social Skills
6 152 (15.88%) Banking
7 117 (12.23%) Investment Banking
8 92 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (4.91%) Financial Institution
10 28 (2.93%) Retail
11 22 (2.30%) Prime Brokerage
12 17 (1.78%) Automotive
12 17 (1.78%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.36%) Back Office
14 13 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.25%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.04%) Legal
17 9 (0.94%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 451 (47.13%) Lead
2 431 (45.04%) Software Engineer
3 377 (39.39%) Lead Software Engineer
4 236 (24.66%) Architect
5 140 (14.63%) Java Engineer
6 134 (14.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 134 (14.00%) Lead Java Engineer
7 111 (11.60%) Senior
8 93 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 87 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 83 (8.67%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (8.36%) Developer
12 60 (6.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 50 (5.22%) Technical Architect
14 47 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 42 (4.39%) Technical Leader
16 34 (3.55%) UI Engineer
17 33 (3.45%) Python Engineer
18 32 (3.34%) Enterprise Architect
19 31 (3.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (13.79%) Spring
2 123 (12.85%) Web Services
3 116 (12.12%) RESTful
4 112 (11.70%) Kafka
5 100 (10.45%) React
6 96 (10.03%) JSON
7 93 (9.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 92 (9.61%) XML
9 87 (9.09%) HTML
10 84 (8.78%) .NET
10 84 (8.78%) Spring Boot
11 82 (8.57%) CSS
12 67 (7.00%) LDAP
13 66 (6.90%) AngularJS
13 66 (6.90%) OpenID
13 66 (6.90%) SAML
14 65 (6.79%) JSON-LD
15 47 (4.91%) REST
16 42 (4.39%) jQuery
16 42 (4.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 261 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 166 (17.35%) Public Cloud
3 126 (13.17%) Management Information System
4 65 (6.79%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (6.79%) Reference Data
5 63 (6.58%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 21 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.19%) Replication
11 16 (1.67%) Legacy Code
11 16 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.04%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.94%) Robotics
15 8 (0.84%) IoT
15 8 (0.84%) Reinsurance
16 7 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 71 (7.42%) Linux
2 16 (1.67%) Windows
3 13 (1.36%) Unix
4 8 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (0.73%) Android
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (65.31%) Agile
2 515 (53.81%) Software Engineering
3 461 (48.17%) CI/CD
4 419 (43.78%) Operational Stability
5 408 (42.63%) Community of Practice
6 407 (42.53%) SDLC
7 403 (42.11%) Information Architecture
8 321 (33.54%) Continuous Delivery
9 320 (33.44%) Artificial Intelligence
10 306 (31.97%) Machine Learning
11 237 (24.76%) Roadmaps
12 159 (16.61%) Data Modelling
13 156 (16.30%) Mentoring
14 145 (15.15%) DevOps
15 122 (12.75%) Coaching
16 120 (12.54%) Identity Access Management
17 112 (11.70%) Test Automation
18 109 (11.39%) Microservices
19 96 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 95 (9.93%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 389 (40.65%) Java
2 211 (22.05%) SQL
3 192 (20.06%) Python
4 175 (18.29%) JavaScript
5 83 (8.67%) C#
6 72 (7.52%) Go
7 65 (6.79%) Prolog
7 65 (6.79%) SPARQL
8 45 (4.70%) TypeScript
9 40 (4.18%) C++
9 40 (4.18%) Scala
10 39 (4.08%) C
11 29 (3.03%) COBOL
11 29 (3.03%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 22 (2.30%) Groovy
12 22 (2.30%) T-SQL
13 20 (2.09%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 17 (1.78%) VB.NET
15 15 (1.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (11.70%) Degree
2 34 (3.55%) AWS Certification
3 32 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 26 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 19 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.99%) SC Cleared
7 13 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.15%) CISM
8 11 (1.15%) CISSP
8 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.31%) MCAD
13 2 (0.21%) CCIE
13 2 (0.21%) CCNP
13 2 (0.21%) HNC
13 2 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 39 (4.08%) QA
3 23 (2.40%) PMO
4 20 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.99%) SLA
6 6 (0.63%) GDPR
6 6 (0.63%) ITGC
7 2 (0.21%) GRC
7 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.10%) COBIT
8 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 65 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 64 (6.69%) Docker
3 18 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.31%) NFS
5 2 (0.21%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) HDFS
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 130 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 95 (9.93%) Grafana
3 90 (9.40%) Terraform
4 41 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.82%) Kibana
6 21 (2.19%) HAProxy
6 21 (2.19%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (2.19%) Zipkin
7 4 (0.42%) Ansible
8 2 (0.21%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.21%) Istio
8 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (12.85%) Oracle
2 103 (10.76%) Splunk
3 100 (10.45%) Dynatrace
4 95 (9.93%) Microsoft
5 32 (3.34%) Google
6 29 (3.03%) Micro Focus
7 23 (2.40%) Databricks
7 23 (2.40%) SAP
8 20 (2.09%) Atlassian
9 18 (1.88%) Adobe
9 18 (1.88%) Alteryx
9 18 (1.88%) Cognos
9 18 (1.88%) SaltStack
9 18 (1.88%) Sybase
10 16 (1.67%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.67%) Sitecore
11 15 (1.57%) Cognizant
12 10 (1.04%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.84%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.84%) Thales