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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 242 311
Rank change year-on-year -35 +69 -62
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 44 46 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.58% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 19
10th Percentile £67,000 - £64,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £45,886 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -7.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £88,000 £117,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.20% +1.67% -6.25%

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 12,495 7,910 11,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.40% 87.76% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8,964 4,251 7,064
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 26 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 26 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 -12 17 £77,500 +3.33% 5
Hampshire -33 13 £100,000 +104.40% 5
Surrey - 13 £55,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 9 £77,500 -
Oxfordshire -19 6 £102,500 +36.67% 1
Berkshire -20 2 - - 4
East Sussex - 1 £80,000 -
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 (4.55%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) LAN
1 1 (2.27%) WAN
1 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Metadata
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.27%) Claude Code
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.82%) Public Sector
3 11 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (20.45%) Military
5 8 (18.18%) Aerospace
5 8 (18.18%) Law
6 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (15.91%) Aviation
6 7 (15.91%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (13.64%) Legal
7 6 (13.64%) Police
8 3 (6.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Architect
2 15 (34.09%) Lead
3 8 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Consultant
4 6 (13.64%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Head of Technical Services
6 3 (6.82%) Salesforce Technical Leader
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Principal Architect
7 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Director
8 1 (2.27%) Development Team Leader
8 1 (2.27%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) React
2 3 (6.82%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (6.82%) SAP Basis
2 3 (6.82%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (4.55%) CSS
3 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 2 (4.55%) Laravel
3 2 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Vue
4 1 (2.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Onboarding
2 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.91%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (15.91%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.91%) PMI
2 7 (15.91%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
1 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Roadmaps
1 18 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
2 13 (29.55%) AI
2 13 (29.55%) Data Modelling
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (29.55%) Project Management
2 13 (29.55%) Service Delivery
3 12 (27.27%) Agile
4 10 (22.73%) Migration
4 10 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (22.73%) Validation
5 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (20.45%) ERP
5 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (20.45%) Runbook
5 9 (20.45%) Technology Strategy
6 8 (18.18%) Community of Practice
6 8 (18.18%) Data Strategy
6 8 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
1 6 (13.64%) Python
1 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
2 3 (6.82%) ABAP
2 3 (6.82%) Apex Code
2 3 (6.82%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) C#
3 2 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 15 (34.09%) Degree
4 8 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 7 (15.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (15.91%) PMI Certification
5 7 (15.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (4.55%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) SAP
2 9 (20.45%) ServiceNow
3 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.91%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.55%) Foundry
5 2 (4.55%) Palantir
6 1 (2.27%) Aruba
6 1 (2.27%) EMC
6 1 (2.27%) New Relic
6 1 (2.27%) OpenAI