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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 299 257
Rank change year-on-year +46 -42 +73
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 38 35 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.27% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.33% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 38
10th Percentile £46,547 £54,600 £55,600
25th Percentile £60,938 £64,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.11% +10.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,125 £86,875
90th Percentile £99,500 £88,774 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £73,048 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.69% +3.23%

All Process and 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 7,879 10,518 8,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.99% 81.06% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,220 5,884 5,767
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,688 £41,216 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 +11 30 £75,000 +7.14% 15
Berkshire +8 24 - - 4
Hampshire +52 5 £82,500 +15.79% 11
Oxfordshire +25 3 £75,000 +134.38% 2
Buckinghamshire -8 3 £67,500 -3.57% 9
Middlesex - 2 - - 2
Surrey - 1 £95,000 - 5
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.26%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) Vertex AI
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Broadband
1 2 (5.26%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (63.16%) Data Mining
2 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (71.05%) Law
2 26 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (68.42%) Social Skills
3 24 (63.16%) Retail
4 6 (15.79%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 24 (63.16%) Lead
1 24 (63.16%) Senior
2 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Information Security Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Project Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Security Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Software Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Head of Development
5 1 (2.63%) Head of Software Development
5 1 (2.63%) Service Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.63%) Kendo UI
1 1 (2.63%) React
1 1 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (63.16%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.89%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) MPEG
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Agile
1 28 (73.68%) DevOps
2 27 (71.05%) Roadmaps
2 27 (71.05%) Strategic Thinking
3 25 (65.79%) Data Engineering
3 25 (65.79%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (63.16%) Artificial Intelligence
4 24 (63.16%) Customer-Centricity
4 24 (63.16%) Generative AI
4 24 (63.16%) Incident Management
4 24 (63.16%) LLM
4 24 (63.16%) Machine Learning
4 24 (63.16%) Natural Language Processing
4 24 (63.16%) Performance Monitoring
4 24 (63.16%) Product Management
4 24 (63.16%) Statistical Analysis
4 24 (63.16%) Statistical Modelling
4 24 (63.16%) Time Series Analysis
4 24 (63.16%) Use Case
4 24 (63.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (71.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (63.16%) Google
2 24 (63.16%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.63%) Databricks