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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 815 968
Rank change year-on-year +425 +153 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 678 144 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 149 117 166
10th Percentile £64,750 - £68,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -14.71% +17.24%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.47% +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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Architect in the UK

Software Architect
Top 16 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 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
UK excluding London +302 537 £75,000 +20.00% 57
England +350 434 £75,000 +11.11% 44
North of England +162 122 £77,500 -6.34% 11
Work from Home +110 96 £75,000 +11.11% 19
South East +49 96 £75,000 +30.43% 12
Scotland +20 86 £65,000 -23.53% 12
North West +79 84 £80,000 -0.62% 8
London +172 73 £80,000 -11.11% 7
Midlands +50 63 £90,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +69 54 £100,000 +37.93% 8
South West +25 53 £70,000 +21.21% 5
East Midlands - 42 £90,000 - 4
Wales +52 39 £80,000 +73.12% 2
Yorkshire +118 38 £75,000 -11.76% 3
East of England +22 24 £75,000 -11.76% 3
West Midlands +36 21 £75,000 -16.67%

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 406 (59.88%) Requirements Management
2 405 (59.73%) Network Management
3 404 (59.59%) Network Architecture
3 404 (59.59%) VSAT
3 404 (59.59%) Validation
3 404 (59.59%) Model Validation
4 399 (58.85%) TOGAF
5 398 (58.70%) Technical Architecture
6 374 (55.16%) Actionable Insight
7 100 (14.75%) Agile
8 90 (13.27%) Social Skills
9 73 (10.77%) Azure
10 66 (9.73%) Software Architecture
11 63 (9.29%) AWS
12 61 (9.00%) DevOps
13 59 (8.70%) Degree
14 53 (7.82%) Software Engineering
15 52 (7.67%) Software Testing
16 42 (6.19%) Security Cleared
16 42 (6.19%) C#
17 41 (6.05%) Java
18 40 (5.90%) .NET
18 40 (5.90%) Problem-Solving
19 38 (5.60%) Mentoring
20 37 (5.46%) Roadmaps
21 36 (5.31%) Migration
22 35 (5.16%) C++
23 34 (5.01%) Geospatial Data
23 34 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
24 32 (4.72%) C

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 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.33%) Simulink
2 2 (0.29%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (2.21%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 73 (10.77%) Azure
2 63 (9.29%) AWS
3 19 (2.80%) SaaS
4 9 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (1.33%) GCP
5 5 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.29%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 404 (59.59%) VSAT
2 9 (1.33%) CTI
3 7 (1.03%) HTTP
3 7 (1.03%) MQTT
3 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.59%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.01%) Geospatial Data
2 20 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.51%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.21%) RDBMS
5 11 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.59%) Big Data
7 3 (0.44%) MySQL
8 2 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (3.10%) Visual Studio
2 12 (1.77%) GitLab
3 11 (1.62%) Git
4 9 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.29%) CANoe
7 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 90 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (3.10%) Finance
3 21 (3.10%) Games
4 18 (2.65%) Automotive
5 15 (2.21%) Marketing
6 10 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.47%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.33%) Police
7 9 (1.33%) Retail
8 8 (1.18%) Mandarin Language
9 7 (1.03%) Advertising
10 6 (0.88%) Law
10 6 (0.88%) Legal
11 5 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Military
13 3 (0.44%) German Language
14 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.29%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.90%) .NET
2 14 (2.06%) Web Services
3 11 (1.62%) AngularJS
3 11 (1.62%) RESTful
4 8 (1.18%) Kafka
5 7 (1.03%) Node.js
5 7 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (1.03%) YAML
6 6 (0.88%) XML
7 5 (0.74%) JSON
7 5 (0.74%) REST
8 4 (0.59%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.59%) WCF
9 3 (0.44%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.29%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.29%) ATL
10 2 (0.29%) Blazor
10 2 (0.29%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.29%) HTML
11 1 (0.15%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (2.36%) Cloud Native
2 16 (2.36%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.21%) Swaptions
4 13 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 8 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.03%) IoT
7 7 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.44%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.29%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.29%) Mali
11 1 (0.15%) Infotainment
11 1 (0.15%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.15%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.15%) Verilog
11 1 (0.15%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.33%) Android
1 9 (1.33%) Linux
1 9 (1.33%) Windows
2 5 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (59.88%) Requirements Management
2 405 (59.73%) Network Management
3 404 (59.59%) Model Validation
3 404 (59.59%) Network Architecture
3 404 (59.59%) Validation
4 399 (58.85%) TOGAF
5 398 (58.70%) Technical Architecture
6 374 (55.16%) Actionable Insight
7 100 (14.75%) Agile
8 66 (9.73%) Software Architecture
9 61 (9.00%) DevOps
10 53 (7.82%) Software Engineering
11 52 (7.67%) Software Testing
12 40 (5.90%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (5.60%) Mentoring
14 37 (5.46%) Roadmaps
15 36 (5.31%) Migration
16 29 (4.28%) Coaching
17 26 (3.83%) Computer Science
18 22 (3.24%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.19%) C#
2 41 (6.05%) Java
3 35 (5.16%) C++
4 32 (4.72%) C
4 32 (4.72%) Python
5 29 (4.28%) SQL
6 15 (2.21%) VB
7 12 (1.77%) Fortran
8 9 (1.33%) MATLAB
9 8 (1.18%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.59%) Scala
12 3 (0.44%) Bicep
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.29%) Gremlin
13 2 (0.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.29%) X++
14 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (8.70%) Degree
2 42 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 10 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.03%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.03%) PhD
5 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.29%) CISSP
6 2 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.18%) QA
2 5 (0.74%) ISO 26262
3 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 6 (0.88%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Firmware
3 2 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.44%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 26 (3.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.80%) Oracle
3 15 (2.21%) OpenLink
3 15 (2.21%) Sybase
3 15 (2.21%) TIBCO
4 8 (1.18%) Google
5 3 (0.44%) Twitter
6 1 (0.15%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.15%) MathWorks