Architectural Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 392 297
Rank change year-on-year -42 -95 +99
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Patterns 569 807 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.80% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.83% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 421 398 682
10th Percentile £52,325 £54,600 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £83,759 £97,030 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +2.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architectural Patterns 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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +2 505 £67,500 -15.93% 119
UK excluding London +67 384 £65,000 -7.14% 69
Work from Home +78 302 £70,576 -10.66% 68
London -87 150 £85,000 -5.56% 51
North of England +134 138 £61,206 -6.34% 32
North West +51 74 £61,206 -12.32% 17
Midlands -4 69 £65,000 -10.34% 10
West Midlands +30 61 £63,103 +1.37% 6
South West +4 60 £65,000 +4.00% 3
South East +20 58 £65,000 -25.71% 16
Yorkshire +102 47 £77,500 +40.91% 9
Scotland -72 37 £75,000 -5.06% 6
East of England +13 18 £55,000 -24.14% 1
North East +11 17 £75,000 +7.14% 6
East Midlands -18 7 £67,500 -6.90% 4
Northern Ireland +20 2 £75,400 +4.00% 1
Wales +8 2 £55,752 -11.14%

Architectural Patterns
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 (3.69%) CMS
2 8 (1.41%) Confluence
3 5 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.35%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (2.46%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 33 (5.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (2.64%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.35%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 219 (38.49%) Azure
2 175 (30.76%) AWS
3 112 (19.68%) GCP
4 65 (11.42%) SaaS
5 59 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (6.50%) PaaS
7 35 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (5.98%) IaaS
9 28 (4.92%) Serverless
10 24 (4.22%) GitHub
11 20 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (2.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 14 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (2.46%) NuGet
14 13 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (2.11%) Azure Functions
16 11 (1.93%) dbt
17 10 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.93%) Network Security
3 7 (1.23%) HTTP
4 6 (1.05%) Internet
4 6 (1.05%) VPN
5 5 (0.88%) Firewall
6 4 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.35%) DNS
8 1 (0.18%) IPsec
8 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) SAN
8 1 (0.18%) SSL
8 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (15.29%) SQL Server
2 55 (9.67%) NoSQL
3 49 (8.61%) Relational Database
4 24 (4.22%) Big Data
5 19 (3.34%) DB2
6 17 (2.99%) Metadata
7 13 (2.28%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.28%) MySQL
8 11 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.05%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.05%) GIS
13 5 (0.88%) Redis
14 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.70%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (7.73%) Git
2 30 (5.27%) Visual Studio
3 26 (4.57%) JIRA
4 16 (2.81%) NUnit
5 15 (2.64%) Moq
5 15 (2.64%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.46%) git-flow
6 14 (2.46%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (2.46%) Sourcetree
6 14 (2.46%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.41%) Maven
8 7 (1.23%) webpack
9 6 (1.05%) Eclipse
9 6 (1.05%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.35%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.35%) JUnit
10 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.18%) Ant
11 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
General
1 132 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 117 (20.56%) Finance
3 66 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (9.31%) Legal
6 48 (8.44%) Marketing
7 46 (8.08%) Public Sector
8 34 (5.98%) Banking
8 34 (5.98%) Law
9 30 (5.27%) Retail
10 14 (2.46%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.76%) Billing
12 10 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.88%) Aviation
13 5 (0.88%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 336 (59.05%) Architect
2 182 (31.99%) Solutions Architect
3 174 (30.58%) Senior
4 122 (21.44%) Developer
5 84 (14.76%) Lead
5 84 (14.76%) Senior Architect
6 47 (8.26%) Technical Architect
7 44 (7.73%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 42 (7.38%) Senior Developer
9 40 (7.03%) Software Engineer
10 34 (5.98%) C# Developer
10 34 (5.98%) Full Stack Developer
11 32 (5.62%) Data Architect
12 30 (5.27%) Lead Architect
13 29 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
14 28 (4.92%) Senior Full Stack Developer
15 27 (4.75%) .NET Developer
15 27 (4.75%) Senior C# Developer
16 26 (4.57%) Software Developer
17 24 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (25.13%) .NET
2 78 (13.71%) RESTful
3 61 (10.72%) React
4 54 (9.49%) HTML
5 47 (8.26%) CSS
6 46 (8.08%) .NET Framework
7 45 (7.91%) REST
8 42 (7.38%) Web Services
9 38 (6.68%) ASP.NET
10 36 (6.33%) SOAP
11 35 (6.15%) XML
12 31 (5.45%) Node.js
13 29 (5.10%) Entity Framework
14 26 (4.57%) Spring
15 24 (4.22%) .NET Core
16 23 (4.04%) AngularJS
16 23 (4.04%) GraphQL
17 21 (3.69%) Blazor
18 20 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
19 19 (3.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.40%) Public Cloud
2 78 (13.71%) Cloud Native
3 54 (9.49%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.22%) Mobile App
5 23 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (3.16%) IoT
8 16 (2.81%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.81%) Legacy Code
9 15 (2.64%) Operational Technology
10 14 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.28%) PMI
12 11 (1.93%) Blockchain
12 11 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.58%) Robotics
14 8 (1.41%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.92%) Linux
2 25 (4.39%) Apple iOS
2 25 (4.39%) Windows
3 17 (2.99%) Android
4 10 (1.76%) Unix
5 9 (1.58%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.41%) Solaris
6 8 (1.41%) VME
7 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.70%) DC/OS
8 4 (0.70%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (53.60%) Agile
2 225 (39.54%) Design Patterns
3 194 (34.09%) Microservices
4 161 (28.30%) Mentoring
5 160 (28.12%) Problem-Solving
6 154 (27.07%) DevOps
6 154 (27.07%) Roadmaps
7 92 (16.17%) Coaching
8 86 (15.11%) Software Engineering
9 82 (14.41%) Architectural Design
10 80 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
11 77 (13.53%) Decision-Making
11 77 (13.53%) Full Stack Development
12 73 (12.83%) Analytics
13 72 (12.65%) Software Architecture
14 67 (11.78%) API Development
14 67 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
15 65 (11.42%) Open Source
16 63 (11.07%) CI/CD
17 61 (10.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (21.09%) C#
2 105 (18.45%) Java
3 79 (13.88%) JavaScript
3 79 (13.88%) Python
4 70 (12.30%) SQL
5 31 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.51%) Swift
7 17 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.64%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.46%) VB.NET
9 14 (2.46%) XPath
10 11 (1.93%) C
11 8 (1.41%) COBOL
11 8 (1.41%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 7 (1.23%) Ruby
13 6 (1.05%) Go
13 6 (1.05%) R
13 6 (1.05%) Scala
14 4 (0.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 139 (24.43%) Degree
2 71 (12.48%) Security Cleared
3 68 (11.95%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 32 (5.62%) Master's Degree
7 31 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (4.57%) CISSP
9 20 (3.51%) CISM
10 19 (3.34%) CRISC
11 14 (2.46%) AWS Certification
11 14 (2.46%) Azure Certification
11 14 (2.46%) CASP
11 14 (2.46%) CEH
12 13 (2.28%) PMI Certification
13 10 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.23%) CISA
14 7 (1.23%) SANS
15 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.98%) QA
2 21 (3.69%) GDPR
3 20 (3.51%) NCSC
4 18 (3.16%) NIST
5 15 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.76%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.23%) WCAG
9 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.05%) SEPA
10 4 (0.70%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.53%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) EMIR
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (8.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.18%) RACF
Systems Management
1 44 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.15%) Terraform
3 5 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (0.70%) Suricata
5 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 107 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.70%) Google
3 33 (5.80%) Sparx
4 28 (4.92%) Oracle
5 19 (3.34%) IBM
6 16 (2.81%) Adobe
7 14 (2.46%) Cognizant
8 13 (2.28%) Guidewire
9 12 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.93%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.58%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.41%) Citrix
12 8 (1.41%) Micro Focus
13 7 (1.23%) SAP
14 5 (0.88%) Cisco
15 4 (0.70%) ESRI
15 4 (0.70%) Juniper
15 4 (0.70%) Okta
15 4 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.70%) Splunk