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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 354 274
Rank change year-on-year -76 -80 +147
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 328 803 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.75% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.91% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 94 333 444
10th Percentile £51,548 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -

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 54,176 87,872 84,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.80% 82.53% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 28,154 60,487 53,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Top 14 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 6 July 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 -27 300 £77,500 +4.91% 216
UK excluding London -118 159 £72,500 - 94
Work from Home +95 154 £80,000 +14.29% 131
London +93 129 £82,000 +2.50% 137
South East +32 52 £75,000 +3.45% 25
Midlands +25 24 £65,000 -10.34% 21
North of England -69 24 £72,500 +11.45% 18
South West +50 21 £80,000 +40.35% 12
Scotland +36 20 £45,000 -43.75% 14
East of England +34 18 £80,000 +12.28% 7
East Midlands +22 13 £65,000 -21.21% 8
North West -66 13 £55,043 -21.37% 11
West Midlands +43 11 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire +25 11 £72,500 +18.45% 4

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 9 (2.74%) Confluence
2 7 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 84 (25.61%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.61%) Maya
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.22%) SAP SCM
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.91%) Shopify
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.61%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (23.78%) Azure
2 57 (17.38%) AWS
3 42 (12.80%) GCP
4 30 (9.15%) Vertex AI
5 17 (5.18%) GitHub
6 12 (3.66%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.66%) SaaS
7 11 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.13%) Azure AI
11 7 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.22%) IaaS
13 4 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 87 (26.52%) Broadband
2 83 (25.30%) DVB
3 8 (2.44%) SSL
4 7 (2.13%) VPN
5 5 (1.52%) Firewall
5 5 (1.52%) WAN
6 4 (1.22%) 5G
6 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.91%) LAN
7 3 (0.91%) Network Security
7 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.61%) DMZ
8 2 (0.61%) DNS
8 2 (0.61%) VLAN
8 2 (0.61%) VoIP
8 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.30%) IPsec
9 1 (0.30%) SS7
9 1 (0.30%) TACACS
9 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 28 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.13%) Power BI
7 6 (1.83%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.52%) Data Vault
8 5 (1.52%) MySQL
8 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.91%) CockroachDB
9 3 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.61%) Apache Ignite
10 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.61%) Metadata
10 2 (0.61%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (3.66%) JIRA
2 8 (2.44%) Git
3 4 (1.22%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 112 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.09%) Finance
3 72 (21.95%) Law
4 68 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (14.02%) Retail
6 29 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (6.10%) Banking
8 15 (4.57%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Marketing
11 7 (2.13%) Local Government
12 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.22%) Back Office
13 4 (1.22%) Italian Language
14 2 (0.61%) French Language
14 2 (0.61%) Legal
14 2 (0.61%) Polish Language
14 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (28.96%) Lead
2 90 (27.44%) Architect
3 83 (25.30%) Project Engineer
4 56 (17.07%) Senior
5 34 (10.37%) Solutions Architect
6 21 (6.40%) Data Architect
6 21 (6.40%) Technical Architect
7 15 (4.57%) Developer
8 12 (3.66%) Analyst
9 11 (3.35%) Consultant
9 11 (3.35%) Software Engineer
10 9 (2.74%) Development Manager
11 7 (2.13%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.13%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (1.83%) AWS Architect
12 6 (1.83%) Senior Developer
12 6 (1.83%) Technical Leader
13 5 (1.52%) Database Analyst
13 5 (1.52%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.01%) RESTful
2 18 (5.49%) Spring
2 18 (5.49%) Spring Boot
3 17 (5.18%) Kafka
4 13 (3.96%) .NET
5 11 (3.35%) React
6 9 (2.74%) OAuth
7 8 (2.44%) Micronaut
7 8 (2.44%) Quarkus
8 7 (2.13%) Android Jetpack
8 7 (2.13%) Jetpack Compose
8 7 (2.13%) SwiftUI
8 7 (2.13%) UIKit
9 6 (1.83%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.83%) CSS
9 6 (1.83%) Middleware
10 5 (1.52%) HTML
10 5 (1.52%) Node.js
10 5 (1.52%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (0.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 83 (25.30%) MPEG
2 39 (11.89%) Algorithms
3 35 (10.67%) Product Ownership
4 22 (6.71%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.66%) Distributed Applications
6 9 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.83%) CMDB
7 6 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) IVR
9 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.22%) Media Streaming
9 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Licensing
9 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.74%) Windows
2 7 (2.13%) Android
2 7 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (46.04%) Agile
2 135 (41.16%) Roadmaps
3 85 (25.91%) DevOps
4 83 (25.30%) Post-Production
4 83 (25.30%) Procure-to-Pay
5 68 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (20.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 62 (18.90%) Data Engineering
8 61 (18.60%) Analytics
9 57 (17.38%) Machine Learning
10 56 (17.07%) Product Management
11 52 (15.85%) Strategic Thinking
12 51 (15.55%) MLOps
12 51 (15.55%) Use Case
13 49 (14.94%) Data Science
14 48 (14.63%) Incident Management
15 46 (14.02%) Customer-Centricity
16 45 (13.72%) Visualisation
17 41 (12.50%) Generative AI
17 41 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.37%) Java
2 19 (5.79%) SQL
3 16 (4.88%) Python
4 14 (4.27%) C#
4 14 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.35%) Kotlin
6 7 (2.13%) Swift
7 6 (1.83%) Ruby
8 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.22%) Bash
10 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.61%) ABAP
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (5.79%) Degree
2 12 (3.66%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (1.22%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.22%) CISM
4 4 (1.22%) CISSP
5 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.61%) CEH
6 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.61%) GIAC
6 2 (0.61%) ISSAP
6 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.61%) SANS
7 1 (0.30%) CITP
7 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.35%) GDPR
2 8 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.83%) QA
4 4 (1.22%) NCSC
4 4 (1.22%) NIST
4 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.91%) COBIT
6 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (4.27%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) NDS
Systems Management
1 26 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.44%) Argo
3 6 (1.83%) Terraform
4 1 (0.30%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.30%) HP UCMDB
4 1 (0.30%) Kiali
4 1 (0.30%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 73 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.28%) Google
3 30 (9.15%) OpenAI
4 17 (5.18%) Databricks
5 11 (3.35%) SAP
6 7 (2.13%) Foundry
7 6 (1.83%) Ariba
7 6 (1.83%) Oracle
8 5 (1.52%) Avaloq
9 4 (1.22%) Cisco
9 4 (1.22%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (1.22%) Gigya
9 4 (1.22%) PayPal
9 4 (1.22%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.91%) Avaya
10 3 (0.91%) Epicor
10 3 (0.91%) Facebook
10 3 (0.91%) Juniper
10 3 (0.91%) YouTube
11 2 (0.61%) Salesforce