Software Architect

Software Architect turns technical direction into reliable delivery.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $3,038 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $7,485 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 626 Last 3 months
Applications per job 13.35 JobNote category match
01

Published signal

System Architect
$7,000 System Architect median
$8,375 upper quartile

Hiring Screen for architecture decisions, operational ownership, and influence across teams.

Candidate Bring one system trade-off and the measurable result after launch.

Data DOU System Architect survey title; JobNote category wording differs.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 89 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$5740
Median$7000
Upper quartile$9000
Year over year +6.9%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Software, solution, application, and system architects · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Solution Architecture 196 $3381–$5195 Azure 79 $2740–$4638 Python 74 $2949–$4669 Data Architecture 70 $4484–$5561 AWS 67 $3576–$5291 API 66 $2499–$3902 Kubernetes 59 $3579–$5418 Java 52 $4339–$4890 CI/CD 50 $2810–$4738 Microservices 40 $3403–$5242 Google Cloud Platform 35 $4271–$5242 Cloud platforms 33 $3407–$5357 Analytics 32 $1839–$3236 SQL 31 $2550–$3953

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·