Technical Architecture Job Trends in the South East

Technical Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 251 305
Rank change year-on-year -30 +54 -48
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 47 46 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.52% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.59% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24 5 19
10th Percentile £66,625 - £64,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £45,886 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £88,000 £117,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +1.67% -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,152 7,753 11,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.52% 88.09% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,674 4,168 7,304
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,375 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in the South East

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the South East

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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 -22 20 £77,500 +3.33% 8
Hampshire -31 14 £100,000 +104.40% 9
Surrey - 12 £55,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 10 £76,250 - 2
Oxfordshire -13 6 £110,000 +46.67% 3
Berkshire -19 4 - - 3
East Sussex - 1 £80,000 - 1
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) AWS
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) GCP
3 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.51%) PowerApps
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) LAN
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) Metadata
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.13%) Claude Code
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Public Sector
3 11 (23.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (19.15%) Law
5 8 (17.02%) Aerospace
5 8 (17.02%) Aviation
5 8 (17.02%) Military
6 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (12.77%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (12.77%) Legal
8 5 (10.64%) Police
9 3 (6.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Architect
2 15 (31.91%) Lead
3 9 (19.15%) Data Architect
4 7 (14.89%) Consultant
5 5 (10.64%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Head of Technical Services
8 2 (4.26%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Principal Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Team Leader
9 1 (2.13%) Head of Business Transformation
9 1 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (6.38%) React
2 2 (4.26%) CSS
2 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
2 2 (4.26%) HTML
2 2 (4.26%) Laravel
2 2 (4.26%) SAP Basis
2 2 (4.26%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (4.26%) Vue
3 1 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Onboarding
2 7 (14.89%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (14.89%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.89%) PMI
2 7 (14.89%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
1 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Roadmaps
1 16 (34.04%) Technical Leadership
2 15 (31.91%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Data Modelling
3 14 (29.79%) Project Management
4 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.53%) Service Delivery
6 11 (23.40%) AI
7 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (21.28%) Data Architecture
7 10 (21.28%) ERP
7 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (21.28%) Technology Strategy
7 10 (21.28%) Validation
8 9 (19.15%) Community of Practice
8 9 (19.15%) Data Strategy
8 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (19.15%) Logical Data Model
8 9 (19.15%) Physical Data Model
8 9 (19.15%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) Python
2 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.38%) Apex Code
5 2 (4.26%) ABAP
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) PHP
5 2 (4.26%) VBA
6 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 18 (38.30%) Degree
4 9 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (14.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (14.89%) PMI Certification
6 7 (14.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (4.26%) APMP
7 2 (4.26%) ICAEW
7 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.26%) MBA
8 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
1 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) ServiceNow
2 9 (19.15%) SAP
3 8 (17.02%) Oracle
4 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Aruba
6 1 (2.13%) EMC
6 1 (2.13%) Foundry
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) New Relic
6 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.13%) Palantir