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 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 656 686
Rank change year-on-year +345 +30 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 594 114 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 143 90 106
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 £91,875
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% +17.24%

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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 23 May 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 23 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
North of England +166 137 £75,000 -9.37% 6
South East +61 106 £75,000 +30.43% 11
North West +84 94 £75,000 -9.37% 4
Scotland +22 93 £65,000 -23.53% 8
Midlands +52 69 £90,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +76 63 £100,000 +37.93% 7
South West +38 57 £70,000 +21.21% 2
East Midlands - 47 £90,000 - 4
Wales +50 43 £77,500 +67.71% 1
Yorkshire - 43 £75,000 - 2
East of England +16 26 £75,000 -9.09% 4
West Midlands +22 22 £75,000 -16.67%
Software Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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.

1 346 (58.25%) Requirements Management
2 345 (58.08%) TOGAF
2 345 (58.08%) Network Management
3 344 (57.91%) Network Architecture
3 344 (57.91%) Model Validation
3 344 (57.91%) Technical Architecture
3 344 (57.91%) VSAT
3 344 (57.91%) Validation
4 300 (50.51%) Actionable Insight
5 112 (18.86%) Agile
6 98 (16.50%) Social Skills
7 79 (13.30%) Software Architecture
8 78 (13.13%) Azure
9 74 (12.46%) AWS
10 69 (11.62%) Software Testing
11 65 (10.94%) DevOps
12 57 (9.60%) Degree
13 50 (8.42%) Migration
13 50 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (8.42%) Geospatial Data
14 47 (7.91%) .NET
15 44 (7.41%) Software Engineering
16 41 (6.90%) Security Cleared
17 40 (6.73%) C++
18 38 (6.40%) C#
19 34 (5.72%) Problem-Solving
20 32 (5.39%) SQL
20 32 (5.39%) Python
21 30 (5.05%) C
21 30 (5.05%) Mentoring

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 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Simulink
2 2 (0.34%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (13.13%) Azure
2 74 (12.46%) AWS
3 24 (4.04%) SaaS
4 9 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (1.01%) GCP
6 4 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 344 (57.91%) VSAT
2 9 (1.52%) CTI
2 9 (1.52%) HTTP
2 9 (1.52%) MQTT
2 9 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.42%) Geospatial Data
2 10 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.51%) Big Data
4 3 (0.51%) MySQL
5 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (4.04%) Visual Studio
2 15 (2.53%) GitLab
3 10 (1.68%) Git
4 9 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.34%) CANoe
6 1 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 98 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (2.36%) Automotive
4 9 (1.52%) Police
5 8 (1.35%) Finance
6 7 (1.18%) Retail
7 6 (1.01%) Games
7 6 (1.01%) Law
7 6 (1.01%) Legal
7 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.67%) Agriculture
8 4 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.51%) German Language
10 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.17%) Banking
11 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.17%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.17%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.91%) .NET
2 15 (2.53%) Web Services
3 13 (2.19%) AngularJS
4 11 (1.85%) RESTful
5 10 (1.68%) Kafka
6 9 (1.52%) Node.js
6 9 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.01%) XML
8 5 (0.84%) JSON
8 5 (0.84%) REST
9 4 (0.67%) WCF
9 4 (0.67%) YAML
10 2 (0.34%) ASP.NET
11 1 (0.17%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.17%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.17%) Java EE
11 1 (0.17%) OpenCL
11 1 (0.17%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (2.19%) Cloud Native
3 9 (1.52%) IoT
4 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (1.35%) Private Cloud
4 8 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.17%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.17%) Mali
7 1 (0.17%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.17%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.17%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.17%) Verilog
7 1 (0.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.85%) Android
1 11 (1.85%) Linux
2 9 (1.52%) Windows
3 8 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (58.25%) Requirements Management
2 345 (58.08%) Network Management
2 345 (58.08%) TOGAF
3 344 (57.91%) Model Validation
3 344 (57.91%) Network Architecture
3 344 (57.91%) Technical Architecture
3 344 (57.91%) Validation
4 300 (50.51%) Actionable Insight
5 112 (18.86%) Agile
6 79 (13.30%) Software Architecture
7 69 (11.62%) Software Testing
8 65 (10.94%) DevOps
9 50 (8.42%) Migration
10 44 (7.41%) Software Engineering
11 34 (5.72%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (5.05%) Mentoring
13 29 (4.88%) Computer Science
14 26 (4.38%) Physics
15 25 (4.21%) Coaching
16 21 (3.54%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 40 (6.73%) C++
2 38 (6.40%) C#
3 32 (5.39%) Python
3 32 (5.39%) SQL
4 30 (5.05%) C
5 19 (3.20%) Java
6 15 (2.53%) Fortran
7 9 (1.52%) MATLAB
8 8 (1.35%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.01%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.84%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.51%) Bicep
11 3 (0.51%) PHP
12 2 (0.34%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (9.60%) Degree
2 41 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 9 (1.52%) Master's Degree
3 9 (1.52%) PhD
4 8 (1.35%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.68%) QA
2 5 (0.84%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 3 (0.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Firmware
2 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.51%) Terraform
2 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 26 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.68%) Google
3 3 (0.51%) Twitter
4 1 (0.17%) Guidewire
4 1 (0.17%) MathWorks