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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 398 294
Rank change year-on-year -33 -104 +102
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Patterns 561 795 2,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.81% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.84% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 414 389 688
10th Percentile £52,325 £53,700 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £83,759 £97,290 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,625 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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% +10.53%

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 23 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 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
England +4 499 £70,000 -12.82% 128
UK excluding London +80 376 £65,000 -7.14% 69
Work from Home +38 297 £70,576 -9.81% 58
London -95 150 £85,000 -5.56% 63
North of England +123 139 £61,206 -3.69% 31
North West +50 75 £61,206 -6.52% 18
Midlands 0 71 £65,000 -10.34% 12
West Midlands +23 63 £65,000 - 8
South East +15 55 £65,000 -23.53% 10
South West +12 54 £65,000 +4.00% 6
Yorkshire +102 47 £77,500 +40.91% 7
Scotland -76 35 £75,000 -5.06% 6
East of England +7 18 £55,000 -24.14% 3
North East +10 17 £75,000 +7.14% 6
East Midlands -13 7 £67,500 -6.90% 4
Northern Ireland +23 2 £75,400 -5.75% 2
Wales +2 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 23 (4.10%) CMS
2 8 (1.43%) Confluence
3 5 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.36%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.36%) nginx
6 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 16 (2.85%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (5.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (3.03%) SDL Web 8
3 8 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.36%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 221 (39.39%) Azure
2 178 (31.73%) AWS
3 114 (20.32%) GCP
4 63 (11.23%) SaaS
5 57 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (6.77%) PaaS
7 34 (6.06%) IaaS
8 32 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (4.99%) Serverless
10 23 (4.10%) GitHub
11 20 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (2.85%) NuGet
13 14 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (2.32%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.96%) dbt
16 11 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.14%) Network Security
3 7 (1.25%) Firewall
3 7 (1.25%) HTTP
4 6 (1.07%) Internet
4 6 (1.07%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) NGFW
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 56 (9.98%) NoSQL
3 49 (8.73%) Relational Database
4 22 (3.92%) Big Data
5 19 (3.39%) DB2
6 18 (3.21%) Metadata
7 13 (2.32%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.32%) MySQL
8 12 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.25%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.07%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.07%) GIS
13 6 (1.07%) Redis
14 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.71%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (8.20%) Git
2 32 (5.70%) Visual Studio
3 28 (4.99%) JIRA
4 18 (3.21%) NUnit
5 17 (3.03%) Moq
5 17 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 16 (2.85%) git-flow
6 16 (2.85%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (2.85%) Sourcetree
6 16 (2.85%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.43%) Maven
8 6 (1.07%) Eclipse
8 6 (1.07%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.89%) webpack
10 2 (0.36%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.36%) JUnit
10 2 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.18%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.18%) MSTest
General
1 130 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.79%) Finance
3 63 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (9.09%) Legal
5 51 (9.09%) Marketing
6 46 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 34 (6.06%) Banking
8 33 (5.88%) Law
9 30 (5.35%) Retail
10 14 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.78%) Billing
13 9 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.89%) Aviation
15 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.71%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.53%) Back Office
16 3 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 327 (58.29%) Architect
2 176 (31.37%) Senior
3 168 (29.95%) Solutions Architect
4 123 (21.93%) Developer
5 86 (15.33%) Lead
6 83 (14.80%) Senior Architect
7 48 (8.56%) Senior Developer
8 46 (8.20%) Technical Architect
9 43 (7.66%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 42 (7.49%) Software Engineer
11 37 (6.60%) C# Developer
11 37 (6.60%) Full Stack Developer
12 32 (5.70%) Senior Full Stack Developer
13 31 (5.53%) Cloud Architect
13 31 (5.53%) Data Architect
13 31 (5.53%) Lead Architect
14 30 (5.35%) Senior C# Developer
15 27 (4.81%) Full-Stack C# Developer
16 25 (4.46%) .NET Developer
16 25 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (25.49%) .NET
2 79 (14.08%) RESTful
3 62 (11.05%) React
4 56 (9.98%) HTML
5 49 (8.73%) CSS
6 46 (8.20%) .NET Framework
7 43 (7.66%) Web Services
8 40 (7.13%) ASP.NET
8 40 (7.13%) REST
9 38 (6.77%) SOAP
10 37 (6.60%) XML
11 31 (5.53%) Entity Framework
12 30 (5.35%) Node.js
13 25 (4.46%) .NET Core
14 23 (4.10%) AngularJS
14 23 (4.10%) Spring
15 22 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
15 22 (3.92%) GraphQL
16 21 (3.74%) Blazor
17 19 (3.39%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 78 (13.90%) Cloud Native
3 55 (9.80%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (4.10%) Mobile App
6 19 (3.39%) IoT
7 18 (3.21%) Legacy Code
8 17 (3.03%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (2.85%) Operational Technology
10 15 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.32%) PMI
12 11 (1.96%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.43%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.43%) Blockchain
14 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.07%) Robotics
15 6 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.35%) Linux
2 27 (4.81%) Windows
3 24 (4.28%) Apple iOS
4 16 (2.85%) Android
5 12 (2.14%) Unix
6 11 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.78%) Solaris
8 8 (1.43%) VME
9 7 (1.25%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.71%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.71%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (54.01%) Agile
2 226 (40.29%) Design Patterns
3 183 (32.62%) Microservices
4 168 (29.95%) Mentoring
5 160 (28.52%) DevOps
6 157 (27.99%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (27.45%) Roadmaps
8 93 (16.58%) Coaching
9 86 (15.33%) Software Engineering
10 81 (14.44%) Architectural Design
11 78 (13.90%) Full Stack Development
12 74 (13.19%) Decision-Making
12 74 (13.19%) Enterprise Architecture
13 72 (12.83%) Analytics
14 71 (12.66%) Software Architecture
15 70 (12.48%) API Development
16 67 (11.94%) CI/CD
17 65 (11.59%) Computer Science
18 64 (11.41%) Open Source
18 64 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 122 (21.75%) C#
2 101 (18.00%) Java
3 85 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 82 (14.62%) Python
5 73 (13.01%) SQL
6 30 (5.35%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.57%) Swift
8 18 (3.21%) T-SQL
9 17 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.85%) XPath
11 15 (2.67%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.50%) VB.NET
13 11 (1.96%) C
14 8 (1.43%) COBOL
14 8 (1.43%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 7 (1.25%) Ruby
16 6 (1.07%) R
16 6 (1.07%) Scala
17 4 (0.71%) Go
17 4 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 136 (24.24%) Degree
2 69 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 66 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (5.70%) Master's Degree
6 31 (5.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 28 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (4.81%) CISSP
9 21 (3.74%) CISM
10 19 (3.39%) CRISC
11 16 (2.85%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.67%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.50%) CASP
13 14 (2.50%) CEH
14 13 (2.32%) PMI Certification
15 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (1.43%) SANS
17 7 (1.25%) CISA
18 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.24%) QA
2 21 (3.74%) GDPR
3 20 (3.57%) NCSC
4 18 (3.21%) NIST
5 17 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.78%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.89%) SEPA
9 5 (0.89%) WCAG
10 4 (0.71%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.53%) SLA
12 2 (0.36%) EMIR
12 2 (0.36%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (8.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 37 (6.60%) Terraform
3 5 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (0.71%) Suricata
5 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 92 (16.40%) Google
3 30 (5.35%) Sparx
4 28 (4.99%) Oracle
5 19 (3.39%) IBM
6 18 (3.21%) Adobe
7 16 (2.85%) Cognizant
8 13 (2.32%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.14%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.96%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.96%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.43%) Citrix
11 8 (1.43%) Micro Focus
12 7 (1.25%) SAP
13 6 (1.07%) Cisco
14 4 (0.71%) ESRI
14 4 (0.71%) Juniper
14 4 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.71%) Splunk
15 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics