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 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 267 408
Rank change year-on-year -170 +141 -19
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 386 675 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.26% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.34% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 241 430 657
10th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,809 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,475 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +6.42% -3.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £93,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,253 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.80% +3.22% -6.67%

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 62,866 50,261 118,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.89% 94.08% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 29,357 36,398 72,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,784 £52,500 £53,406
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.70% +6.81%

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 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Top 17 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 December 2024. 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 -183 325 £70,000 -15.15% 125
UK excluding London -109 259 £75,000 +3.80% 58
Work from Home -112 140 £75,000 -0.20% 74
London -121 100 £75,075 -16.58% 73
North of England -52 91 £50,055 -30.96% 13
North West -37 72 £45,628 -37.06% 7
Midlands -55 56 £77,500 +6.90% 12
South East -34 46 £70,000 - 18
West Midlands -60 44 £75,400 +7.71% 9
Scotland -17 19 £80,000 +45.45% 6
South West -26 19 £75,000 +3.45% 6
East of England -52 14 £77,500 +24.42% 4
North East -28 12 £77,700 +94.25% 3
East Midlands -30 11 £77,500 +5.08% 3
Wales +12 10 £80,000 +13.48% 1
Northern Ireland +17 8 £80,000 -
Yorkshire -13 7 £61,206 -7.61% 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 26 (6.74%) CMS
2 13 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.78%) Camunda
5 2 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.04%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.78%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (6.48%) Magento
1 25 (6.48%) Shopify
2 13 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (1.04%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.52%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.26%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.26%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 72 (18.65%) Azure
2 59 (15.28%) AWS
3 40 (10.36%) SaaS
4 29 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.92%) GCP
6 18 (4.66%) PowerApps
7 17 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (4.15%) dbt
8 16 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.37%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.55%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.55%) GitHub
11 6 (1.55%) IaaS
11 6 (1.55%) PaaS
12 5 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.04%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.11%) Firewall
2 11 (2.85%) Wireless
3 5 (1.30%) DHCP
3 5 (1.30%) DNS
4 3 (0.78%) LAN
4 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.78%) WAN
5 1 (0.26%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.26%) DAB
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) SAN
5 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.26%) VoIP
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.26%) VSAN
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.40%) Power BI
3 13 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.07%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.07%) Hadoop
5 7 (1.81%) Apache Ignite
5 7 (1.81%) Data Mining
5 7 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.55%) MySQL
6 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.55%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.78%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.52%) Big Data
9 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.52%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.26%) GIS
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.33%) Git
2 6 (1.55%) JIRA
3 3 (0.78%) GitLab
3 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 48 (12.44%) Public Sector
3 40 (10.36%) Finance
4 37 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (3.37%) Banking
6 12 (3.11%) Law
6 12 (3.11%) Retail
7 9 (2.33%) Marketing
8 6 (1.55%) Police
9 5 (1.30%) Legal
10 4 (1.04%) Advertising
10 4 (1.04%) French Language
10 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (0.78%) Front Office
11 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Military
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 243 (62.95%) Architect
2 110 (28.50%) Technical Architect
3 87 (22.54%) Senior
4 66 (17.10%) Solutions Architect
5 48 (12.44%) Lead
6 45 (11.66%) Senior Architect
7 42 (10.88%) Developer
8 29 (7.51%) Analyst
9 25 (6.48%) Senior Technical Architect
10 24 (6.22%) Lead Developer
11 17 (4.40%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.37%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.11%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (2.85%) Azure Architect
15 11 (2.85%) Consultant
16 10 (2.59%) Systems Architect
17 9 (2.33%) CRM Architect
17 9 (2.33%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (17.10%) React
2 58 (15.03%) Node.js
3 53 (13.73%) Django
4 36 (9.33%) .NET
5 16 (4.15%) Web Services
6 12 (3.11%) Spring
7 11 (2.85%) ASP.NET
8 10 (2.59%) Kafka
8 10 (2.59%) RESTful
9 9 (2.33%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.33%) HTML
10 8 (2.07%) CSS
10 8 (2.07%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (1.30%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (1.30%) Entity Framework
12 5 (1.30%) SOAP
12 5 (1.30%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.30%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.07%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 18 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.15%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.85%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.07%) CCTV
7 8 (2.07%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.55%) PMI
8 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.30%) CMDB
9 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.04%) Life Science
10 4 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.37%) Windows
2 4 (1.04%) Android
2 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.04%) Linux
3 3 (0.78%) VMS
3 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (34.72%) Roadmaps
2 120 (31.09%) Agile
3 70 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (17.36%) Mentoring
5 57 (14.77%) TOGAF
6 53 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
7 50 (12.95%) Microservices
8 47 (12.18%) Architecture Roadmap
9 45 (11.66%) Technology Roadmap
10 44 (11.40%) Architectural Patterns
11 42 (10.88%) ArchiMate
11 42 (10.88%) Continuous Delivery
11 42 (10.88%) DevOps
12 39 (10.10%) Project Management
13 35 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.07%) Systems Engineering
14 34 (8.81%) Software Engineering
14 34 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (8.81%) Technical Debt
15 33 (8.55%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 67 (17.36%) Python
2 42 (10.88%) C#
3 29 (7.51%) Java
4 22 (5.70%) JavaScript
4 22 (5.70%) SQL
5 8 (2.07%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.55%) Ruby
6 6 (1.55%) VBA
7 5 (1.30%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.30%) C++
8 4 (1.04%) Bash
9 2 (0.52%) ABAP
9 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) Delphi
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Groovy
10 1 (0.26%) JSX
10 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.80%) Degree
3 49 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.59%) HNC
6 10 (2.59%) HND
7 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.55%) APMP
8 6 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.55%) MBA
8 6 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.30%) CISSP
9 5 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.04%) CITP
10 4 (1.04%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.52%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (3.89%) NCSC
3 14 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.33%) NIST
5 8 (2.07%) QA
6 5 (1.30%) GDPR
7 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.78%) PMO
9 2 (0.52%) COBIT
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.04%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Docker
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (2.33%) SCCM
2 4 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.04%) SCOM
3 3 (0.78%) Terraform
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.26%) HP UCMDB
5 1 (0.26%) Marathon
5 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.37%) VMware
3 12 (3.11%) Google
3 12 (3.11%) SAP
4 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (1.55%) Cisco
5 6 (1.55%) Dell
5 6 (1.55%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.55%) Sparx
6 5 (1.30%) Oracle
7 4 (1.04%) Aruba
7 4 (1.04%) NetApp
7 4 (1.04%) Siemens
8 3 (0.78%) Adobe
8 3 (0.78%) Citrix
9 2 (0.52%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.52%) IBM
9 2 (0.52%) Meraki