Technical Architecture Jobs

Technical Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 322 307
Rank change year-on-year -178 -15 +101
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 215 875 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.89% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.03% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 98 321 487
10th Percentile £38,750 £55,000 £53,650
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -3.13%
75th Percentile £88,438 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £103,875 £100,000 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% - -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Top 15 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 8 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
England -132 184 £75,000 +3.45% 202
UK excluding London -145 125 £72,500 +7.41% 123
London +26 82 £87,500 +6.06% 114
Work from Home +40 70 £80,000 +18.52% 148
South East +41 32 £74,000 +2.07% 48
North of England -59 26 £55,043 -15.32% 29
Midlands -10 25 £70,641 +4.65% 15
Scotland +62 23 £45,000 -43.89% 10
West Midlands +27 17 £75,000 +11.11% 9
North West -82 16 £42,500 -39.29% 20
South West +64 15 £80,000 +30.56% 23
Yorkshire +15 10 £72,500 +26.09% 8
East Midlands -1 8 £37,500 -54.55% 5
East of England +43 4 £80,000 +10.34% 1
Wales -7 1 £72,931 +21.55% 2

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 10 (4.65%) CMS
1 10 (4.65%) Confluence
2 7 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Maya
2 2 (0.93%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Magento
1 8 (3.72%) Shopify
2 4 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.86%) SAP SCM
3 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.40%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.58%) Azure
2 41 (19.07%) AWS
3 28 (13.02%) GCP
4 15 (6.98%) Vertex AI
5 11 (5.12%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.12%) SaaS
6 10 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.79%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.33%) GitHub
9 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.33%) Serverless
10 4 (1.86%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.86%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.72%) SSL
2 7 (3.26%) VPN
3 6 (2.79%) Firewall
4 5 (2.33%) Broadband
4 5 (2.33%) WAN
5 4 (1.86%) 5G
5 4 (1.86%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.40%) LAN
6 3 (1.40%) Network Security
6 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.93%) DMZ
7 2 (0.93%) DNS
7 2 (0.93%) Internet
7 2 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.93%) VoIP
7 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) IPsec
8 1 (0.47%) LTE
8 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.56%) Data Mining
2 17 (7.91%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.19%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.72%) Power BI
6 7 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.40%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.40%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.93%) MySQL
11 1 (0.47%) DataStage
11 1 (0.47%) DB2
11 1 (0.47%) Metadata
11 1 (0.47%) QualityStage
11 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 13 (6.05%) JIRA
2 7 (3.26%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
3 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.79%) Finance
3 45 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.81%) Law
5 29 (13.49%) Retail
6 17 (7.91%) Banking
7 15 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.65%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.79%) Marketing
11 5 (2.33%) French Language
12 4 (1.86%) Back Office
12 4 (1.86%) Fire and Rescue
12 4 (1.86%) Local Government
12 4 (1.86%) Police
13 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.93%) Advertising
14 2 (0.93%) Italian Language
14 2 (0.93%) Legal
14 2 (0.93%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 87 (40.47%) Architect
2 60 (27.91%) Lead
3 41 (19.07%) Senior
4 34 (15.81%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (10.23%) Developer
6 21 (9.77%) Data Architect
7 16 (7.44%) Analyst
8 13 (6.05%) Consultant
9 9 (4.19%) Development Manager
9 9 (4.19%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.72%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.26%) SQL Analyst
12 6 (2.79%) AWS Architect
12 6 (2.79%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.33%) Configuration Analyst
13 5 (2.33%) Configuration Management Analyst
13 5 (2.33%) Database Analyst
13 5 (2.33%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.12%) RESTful
2 9 (4.19%) .NET
3 8 (3.72%) OAuth
4 7 (3.26%) Android Jetpack
4 7 (3.26%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.26%) CSS
4 7 (3.26%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (3.26%) SwiftUI
4 7 (3.26%) UIKit
5 6 (2.79%) HTML
5 6 (2.79%) React
6 5 (2.33%) Kafka
6 5 (2.33%) Middleware
6 5 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (2.33%) Web Services
7 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.40%) Spring
7 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.93%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.16%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 9 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.72%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.26%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.79%) CMDB
8 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Licensing
8 5 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.86%) IVR
10 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.40%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.93%) DataPower
11 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.65%) Windows
2 7 (3.26%) Android
2 7 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.40%) Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (55.35%) Agile
2 114 (53.02%) Roadmaps
3 51 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (21.86%) DevOps
5 44 (20.47%) Artificial Intelligence
5 44 (20.47%) TOGAF
6 41 (19.07%) Analytics
7 32 (14.88%) Machine Learning
7 32 (14.88%) Product Management
7 32 (14.88%) Strategic Thinking
8 31 (14.42%) ArchiMate
8 31 (14.42%) Architecture Roadmap
8 31 (14.42%) Data Engineering
8 31 (14.42%) Visualisation
9 30 (13.95%) Adaptive Web Design
9 30 (13.95%) MLOps
9 30 (13.95%) Use Case
10 29 (13.49%) Data Science
10 29 (13.49%) Incident Management
10 29 (13.49%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.16%) Java
2 23 (10.70%) SQL
3 17 (7.91%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.44%) Python
5 13 (6.05%) C#
6 7 (3.26%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.26%) Swift
7 5 (2.33%) Bash
7 5 (2.33%) Ruby
7 5 (2.33%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.93%) Groovy
9 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.93%) VBA
10 1 (0.47%) C++
10 1 (0.47%) Delphi
10 1 (0.47%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (11.16%) Degree
2 14 (6.51%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.33%) CISSP
6 4 (1.86%) CISM
7 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CEH
8 2 (0.93%) CITP
8 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.93%) GIAC
8 2 (0.93%) ISSAP
8 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.93%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.93%) SANS
9 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.65%) QA
3 9 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.72%) GDPR
5 6 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.33%) NIST
7 4 (1.86%) COBIT
7 4 (1.86%) NCSC
7 4 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (5.12%) Docker
2 6 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) NDS
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.47%) HP UCMDB
3 1 (0.47%) Kiali
3 1 (0.47%) Marathon
3 1 (0.47%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.77%) Google
3 15 (6.98%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.58%) Databricks
5 11 (5.12%) SAP
6 8 (3.72%) Oracle
7 5 (2.33%) Ariba
8 4 (1.86%) Avaloq
8 4 (1.86%) Cisco
8 4 (1.86%) Ping Identity
8 4 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.40%) Adobe
9 3 (1.40%) Avaya
9 3 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.40%) Epicor
9 3 (1.40%) Facebook
9 3 (1.40%) Foundry
9 3 (1.40%) Sparx
9 3 (1.40%) YouTube
10 2 (0.93%) IBM