Software Architect

Software Architect turns technical direction into reliable delivery.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $3,198 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $7,597 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 604 Last 3 months
Applications per job 13.21 JobNote category match
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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 216 $3498–$5191 Azure 88 $2839–$4634 Python 78 $2955–$4687 AWS 77 $3625–$5292 Data Architecture 77 $4810–$5400 API 72 $2560–$3928 Kubernetes 63 $3619–$5424 CI/CD 60 $2868–$4754 Java 59 $4424–$4937 Microservices 50 $3388–$5266 Google Cloud Platform 38 $4283–$5251 Analytics 36 $1862–$3251 Cloud platforms 35 $3418–$5326 SAP 34 $2102–$3735

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·