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 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 299 323 328
Rank change year-on-year +24 +5 +54
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 953 1,048 1,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 1.06% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.11% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 411 449 859
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,750 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £67,500 £69,250
% change year-on-year +15.96% -2.53% +6.54%

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 85,549 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 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 23 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 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
UK excluding London +70 727 £78,273 +15.96% 89
England -98 473 £79,932 +3.14% 173
Scotland +142 435 £72,500 +21.82% 8
Work from Home -31 264 £79,932 +6.58% 78
London -21 192 £95,000 +8.57% 87
North of England +6 119 £79,932 +22.97% 18
North West -1 81 £65,000 +4.00% 9
South West -10 52 £60,000 -14.29% 9
South East -102 49 £50,000 -33.33% 23
Midlands -63 38 £78,273 +1.00% 16
West Midlands -23 33 £78,273 +0.35% 5
Yorkshire +48 29 £79,932 +22.97% 2
East of England 0 23 £85,000 +21.43% 13
North East -10 9 £79,932 +14.19% 7
Northern Ireland +26 8 £85,000 +75.26% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £78,273 +1.00% 11
Wales -6 4 £55,228 +19.52% 5

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 (2.20%) GemFire
2 20 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.78%) CMS
4 12 (1.26%) 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%) 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 19 (1.99%) 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 16 (1.68%) SDL Web 8
2 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.10%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 393 (41.24%) AWS
2 187 (19.62%) Azure
3 72 (7.56%) Datadog
4 54 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 53 (5.56%) GCP
6 51 (5.35%) SaaS
7 50 (5.25%) Serverless
8 35 (3.67%) GitHub
9 34 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
11 23 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (2.20%) Azure AKS
14 20 (2.10%) Azure Functions
15 19 (1.99%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (1.68%) Akamai
18 16 (1.68%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.82%) Kerberos
2 18 (1.89%) 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 (8.18%) Metadata
2 66 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 52 (5.46%) MongoDB
5 39 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 34 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.73%) Big Data
8 21 (2.20%) CockroachDB
8 21 (2.20%) Hazelcast
8 21 (2.20%) Looker
9 20 (2.10%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.89%) DB2
10 18 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.89%) Tableau
11 15 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (1.47%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.84%) Data Hub
14 7 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.73%) Power BI
15 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 143 (15.01%) Git
2 91 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 65 (6.82%) Artifactory
3 65 (6.82%) Bitbucket
4 30 (3.15%) Visual Studio
5 29 (3.04%) JUnit
6 25 (2.62%) Cypress.io
6 25 (2.62%) Selenium
7 24 (2.52%) JIRA
8 23 (2.41%) Jasmine
9 22 (2.31%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (2.31%) Protractor
9 22 (2.31%) WebDriver
10 21 (2.20%) Jaeger
11 19 (1.99%) Moq
11 19 (1.99%) SpecFlow
12 17 (1.78%) NUnit
13 16 (1.68%) git-flow
13 16 (1.68%) Sourcetree
13 16 (1.68%) TeamCity
General
1 525 (55.09%) Finance
2 456 (47.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 428 (44.91%) Law
4 338 (35.47%) Marketing
5 203 (21.30%) Social Skills
6 150 (15.74%) Banking
7 117 (12.28%) Investment Banking
8 90 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (4.93%) Financial Institution
10 28 (2.94%) Retail
11 22 (2.31%) Prime Brokerage
12 17 (1.78%) Automotive
12 17 (1.78%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.36%) Back Office
15 12 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.26%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.05%) Legal
17 9 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 449 (47.11%) Lead
2 432 (45.33%) Software Engineer
3 378 (39.66%) Lead Software Engineer
4 236 (24.76%) Architect
5 140 (14.69%) Java Engineer
6 134 (14.06%) Java Software Engineer
6 134 (14.06%) Lead Java Engineer
7 112 (11.75%) Senior
8 93 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (9.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 83 (8.71%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (8.39%) Developer
12 60 (6.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 50 (5.25%) Technical Architect
14 46 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 41 (4.30%) Technical Leader
16 34 (3.57%) UI Engineer
17 33 (3.46%) Python Engineer
18 32 (3.36%) Data Engineer
18 32 (3.36%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (13.85%) Spring
2 124 (13.01%) Web Services
3 116 (12.17%) RESTful
4 113 (11.86%) Kafka
5 100 (10.49%) React
6 96 (10.07%) JSON
7 93 (9.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 93 (9.76%) XML
8 88 (9.23%) HTML
9 85 (8.92%) Spring Boot
10 83 (8.71%) .NET
10 83 (8.71%) CSS
11 67 (7.03%) LDAP
12 66 (6.93%) OpenID
12 66 (6.93%) SAML
13 65 (6.82%) JSON-LD
14 64 (6.72%) AngularJS
15 47 (4.93%) REST
16 43 (4.51%) jQuery
17 42 (4.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 261 (27.39%) Cloud Native
2 166 (17.42%) Public Cloud
3 125 (13.12%) Management Information System
4 65 (6.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (6.82%) Reference Data
5 63 (6.61%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.20%) Mobile App
9 21 (2.20%) Replication
10 17 (1.78%) Legacy Code
11 16 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.05%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.94%) Robotics
15 8 (0.84%) IoT
16 7 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.66%) Linux
2 17 (1.78%) Windows
3 14 (1.47%) Unix
4 9 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (0.84%) Android
6 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (65.48%) Agile
2 515 (54.04%) Software Engineering
3 461 (48.37%) CI/CD
4 420 (44.07%) Operational Stability
5 409 (42.92%) Community of Practice
6 407 (42.71%) SDLC
7 404 (42.39%) Information Architecture
8 322 (33.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 321 (33.68%) Continuous Delivery
10 308 (32.32%) Machine Learning
11 237 (24.87%) Roadmaps
12 158 (16.58%) Data Modelling
13 156 (16.37%) Mentoring
14 141 (14.80%) DevOps
15 120 (12.59%) Coaching
15 120 (12.59%) Identity Access Management
16 111 (11.65%) Test Automation
17 110 (11.54%) Microservices
18 96 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
19 95 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 392 (41.13%) Java
2 213 (22.35%) SQL
3 194 (20.36%) Python
4 176 (18.47%) JavaScript
5 82 (8.60%) C#
6 73 (7.66%) Go
7 65 (6.82%) Prolog
7 65 (6.82%) SPARQL
8 45 (4.72%) TypeScript
9 41 (4.30%) C++
10 40 (4.20%) C
10 40 (4.20%) Scala
11 29 (3.04%) COBOL
11 29 (3.04%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 23 (2.41%) T-SQL
13 22 (2.31%) Groovy
14 20 (2.10%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.89%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.78%) VB.NET
17 16 (1.68%) XPath
Qualifications
1 110 (11.54%) Degree
2 35 (3.67%) AWS Certification
3 31 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (2.73%) Master's Degree
4 26 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 19 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.15%) CISM
8 11 (1.15%) CISSP
9 10 (1.05%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
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 51 (5.35%) Accessibility
2 37 (3.88%) QA
3 23 (2.41%) PMO
4 19 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.99%) SLA
5 5 (0.52%) GDPR
5 5 (0.52%) ITGC
6 2 (0.21%) GRC
6 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.10%) COBIT
7 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 65 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 64 (6.72%) Docker
3 18 (1.89%) 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
1 133 (13.96%) Kubernetes
2 95 (9.97%) Grafana
3 91 (9.55%) Terraform
4 41 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.83%) Kibana
6 21 (2.20%) HAProxy
6 21 (2.20%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (2.20%) Zipkin
7 3 (0.31%) 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
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 122 (12.80%) Oracle
2 103 (10.81%) Splunk
3 100 (10.49%) Dynatrace
4 94 (9.86%) Microsoft
5 31 (3.25%) Google
6 29 (3.04%) Micro Focus
7 23 (2.41%) Databricks
8 21 (2.20%) SAP
9 20 (2.10%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.99%) Adobe
11 18 (1.89%) Alteryx
11 18 (1.89%) Cognos
11 18 (1.89%) SaltStack
11 18 (1.89%) Sybase
12 16 (1.68%) Cognizant
12 16 (1.68%) ForgeRock
12 16 (1.68%) Sitecore
13 10 (1.05%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.84%) Thales