Technical Architect Jobs in the South East

Technical Architect
England > South East

The median Technical Architect salary in the South East is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 340 326
Rank change year-on-year +72 -14 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 39 59 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.41% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 37 40 16
10th Percentile £78,900 £64,500 £61,875
25th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £87,750 - £99,375
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,210 15,873 12,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.70% 93.98% 90.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,394 11,338 8,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,032 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +78 31 £82,500 +26.92% 35
Berkshire +65 29 £82,500 -13.16% 23
Surrey +40 5 £82,500 -8.33% 8
Hampshire +59 2 £82,500 +3.13% 19
Oxfordshire - 2 £105,000 - 6
East Sussex +17 1 £80,000 -11.11% 4
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Technical 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 across the South East region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 36 (92.31%) Azure
2 35 (89.74%) Microservices
3 34 (87.18%) .NET
4 33 (84.62%) C#
4 33 (84.62%) DevOps
4 33 (84.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 33 (84.62%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (84.62%) Event-Driven
5 32 (82.05%) GDPR
5 32 (82.05%) HTML
5 32 (82.05%) JavaScript
5 32 (82.05%) SQL
5 32 (82.05%) CSS
5 32 (82.05%) Code Quality
6 31 (79.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 31 (79.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 31 (79.49%) Git
6 31 (79.49%) ASP.NET
6 31 (79.49%) API Integration
6 31 (79.49%) MSBuild
6 31 (79.49%) Docker
6 31 (79.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 30 (76.92%) Elasticsearch
7 30 (76.92%) Bootstrap
7 30 (76.92%) REST
7 30 (76.92%) Performance Optimisation
7 30 (76.92%) gRPC
7 30 (76.92%) Data Encryption
7 30 (76.92%) JSON
7 30 (76.92%) Performance Testing

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (92.31%) Azure
2 33 (84.62%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (79.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 31 (79.49%) Azure Service Bus
4 30 (76.92%) SonarCloud
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) NAS
1 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (76.92%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (79.49%) Git
1 31 (79.49%) MSBuild
1 31 (79.49%) Octopus Deploy
2 30 (76.92%) Team Foundation Server
2 30 (76.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (61.54%) Retail
2 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (87.18%) .NET
2 32 (82.05%) CSS
2 32 (82.05%) HTML
3 31 (79.49%) ASP.NET
4 30 (76.92%) Bootstrap
4 30 (76.92%) gRPC
4 30 (76.92%) JSON
4 30 (76.92%) REST
4 30 (76.92%) XML
5 2 (5.13%) React
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) CSS3
6 1 (2.56%) HTML5
6 1 (2.56%) Kafka
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) SAP Basis
6 1 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (2.56%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.56%) Clustering
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (2.56%) FMCG
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) Microservices
2 33 (84.62%) DevOps
2 33 (84.62%) Event-Driven
2 33 (84.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 32 (82.05%) Code Quality
4 31 (79.49%) API Integration
5 30 (76.92%) Data Encryption
5 30 (76.92%) Design Patterns
5 30 (76.92%) MVC
5 30 (76.92%) Performance Optimisation
5 30 (76.92%) Performance Testing
6 25 (64.10%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (64.10%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 3 (7.69%) Machine Learning
9 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (5.13%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 33 (84.62%) C#
2 32 (82.05%) JavaScript
2 32 (82.05%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) Java
3 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (82.05%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (79.49%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (2.56%) Grafana
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.13%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.56%) VMware