Technical Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 308 409
Rank change year-on-year -29 +101 -16
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 847 1,125 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.16% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.21% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 304 441 695
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,219 £44,550
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £59,274
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £103,125
90th Percentile £103,165 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technical Architecture 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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.38%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture.

Salary trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -11 593 £67,500 - 59
England -56 589 £72,500 -6.45% 118
Work from Home -109 197 £65,000 -13.33% 90
London -64 154 £82,500 - 58
North of England +15 150 £65,000 +4.00% 16
North West -3 98 £70,000 +17.60% 6
South East -19 94 £72,500 +3.57% 12
Scotland -66 83 £85,000 +42.79% 4
Midlands -24 82 £67,500 - 6
South West -21 81 £57,000 -11.63% 13
Yorkshire +67 49 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Wales +3 48 £60,000 -35.14% 4
East Midlands -20 47 £82,500 - 4
Northern Ireland +36 41 £65,200 +0.31% 2
West Midlands -16 35 £67,500 - 2
East of England -7 14 £67,500 +3.85% 3
North East -1 3 £63,000 - 6

Technical Architecture
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 18 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.59%) SAS
5 4 (0.47%) IIS
6 3 (0.35%) CMS
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Drupal
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) SPSS
3 3 (0.35%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Magento
6 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 165 (19.48%) Azure
2 82 (9.68%) AWS
3 41 (4.84%) GCP
4 40 (4.72%) SaaS
5 28 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (3.31%) Power Platform
6 23 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.13%) PaaS
8 17 (2.01%) IaaS
9 16 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.42%) dbt
11 11 (1.30%) Serverless
12 10 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 10 (1.18%) GitHub
13 6 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.59%) OCI
14 5 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 386 (45.57%) VSAT
2 21 (2.48%) Firewall
3 10 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.06%) WAN
5 8 (0.94%) Wireless
6 7 (0.83%) SAN
6 7 (0.83%) VPN
7 5 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.47%) LAN
8 4 (0.47%) SSL
9 2 (0.24%) Broadband
9 2 (0.24%) DHCP
9 2 (0.24%) DNS
9 2 (0.24%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) DMZ
10 1 (0.12%) Internet
10 1 (0.12%) Modbus
10 1 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.12%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.84%) Relational Database
2 26 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.13%) Hadoop
3 18 (2.13%) RDBMS
4 17 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (2.01%) Data Mining
4 17 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.42%) Big Data
7 8 (0.94%) CockroachDB
8 6 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.59%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.47%) DB2
10 4 (0.47%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.47%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.35%) MySQL
11 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.35%) Power BI
12 2 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.18%) JIRA
3 8 (0.94%) Jaeger
3 8 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.59%) GitLab
6 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.47%) Git
6 4 (0.47%) git-flow
7 2 (0.24%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 147 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.10%) Finance
3 84 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (5.90%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.42%) Law
7 22 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (2.48%) Marketing
9 19 (2.24%) Banking
10 18 (2.13%) Legal
11 11 (1.30%) French Language
12 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.18%) Retail
13 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.59%) Police
15 4 (0.47%) Advertising
15 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 627 (74.03%) Architect
2 386 (45.57%) Software Architect
3 92 (10.86%) Technical Architect
4 88 (10.39%) Developer
5 82 (9.68%) Senior
6 47 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
7 43 (5.08%) Scala Developer
8 32 (3.78%) Senior Architect
9 29 (3.42%) Analyst
10 25 (2.95%) Systems Architect
11 22 (2.60%) Security Architect
12 21 (2.48%) Full Stack Developer
12 21 (2.48%) Lead
12 21 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
13 20 (2.36%) Enterprise Architect
13 20 (2.36%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.24%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.24%) Cloud Architect
14 19 (2.24%) IT Architect
14 19 (2.24%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.67%) .NET
2 40 (4.72%) Node.js
3 39 (4.60%) RESTful
4 35 (4.13%) CSS
4 35 (4.13%) HTML
5 33 (3.90%) React
6 30 (3.54%) Web Services
7 29 (3.42%) SOAP
8 28 (3.31%) Kafka
9 25 (2.95%) JSON
10 15 (1.77%) Akka
10 15 (1.77%) Django
11 14 (1.65%) XML
12 12 (1.42%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.42%) Middleware
12 12 (1.42%) REST
13 10 (1.18%) .NET Framework
13 10 (1.18%) ASP.NET
14 9 (1.06%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (1.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.20%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 24 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 17 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.18%) PropTech
9 9 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.71%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.59%) PMI
13 4 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.47%) Cybercrime
13 4 (0.47%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.60%) Linux
2 14 (1.65%) Windows
3 12 (1.42%) Android
4 11 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.71%) SUSE
6 6 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (52.77%) TOGAF
2 394 (46.52%) Validation
3 392 (46.28%) Network Architecture
4 390 (46.04%) Network Management
5 386 (45.57%) Model Validation
5 386 (45.57%) Requirements Management
6 372 (43.92%) Actionable Insight
7 180 (21.25%) Agile
8 97 (11.45%) Project Management
9 90 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (10.63%) Roadmaps
10 83 (9.80%) Software Engineering
11 82 (9.68%) CI/CD
12 79 (9.33%) DevOps
13 61 (7.20%) SDLC
14 57 (6.73%) Business Strategy
15 52 (6.14%) Microservices
16 50 (5.90%) Service Design
17 47 (5.55%) Project Delivery
18 46 (5.43%) MODAF
Programming Languages
1 93 (10.98%) Java
2 74 (8.74%) JavaScript
3 54 (6.38%) C#
4 52 (6.14%) SQL
5 43 (5.08%) Scala
6 38 (4.49%) Python
7 22 (2.60%) Go
8 11 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.94%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.71%) SOQL
11 5 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.47%) ABAP
12 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.47%) RPG
12 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.24%) Bash
13 2 (0.24%) PHP
13 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 133 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 104 (12.28%) Degree
3 76 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.36%) CISSP
6 19 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (1.42%) CCSP
9 10 (1.18%) CCSK
10 9 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.71%) CISM
14 5 (0.59%) CCIE
14 5 (0.59%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.59%) OSCP
14 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.35%) CISA
15 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (2.60%) GDPR
3 19 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.24%) NIST
4 18 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.71%) QA
7 4 (0.47%) COBIT
7 4 (0.47%) PMO
8 2 (0.24%) GRC
8 2 (0.24%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.48%) Docker
2 15 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.13%) Ansible
3 12 (1.42%) Terraform
4 8 (0.94%) Kiali
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (0.47%) HP UCMDB
7 3 (0.35%) SCCM
8 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.12%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 98 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.95%) Google
3 16 (1.89%) Oracle
4 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
4 15 (1.77%) SAP
5 9 (1.06%) Cisco
5 9 (1.06%) Citrix
6 8 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 8 (0.94%) Splunk
7 7 (0.83%) DocuSign
7 7 (0.83%) IBM
7 7 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.71%) Apttus
8 6 (0.71%) HP
8 6 (0.71%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.59%) Databricks
9 5 (0.59%) Intapp
9 5 (0.59%) Meraki
9 5 (0.59%) VMware
10 4 (0.47%) Remedy