Technical Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 262 403 374
Rank change year-on-year +141 -29 +12
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 684 1,008 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 0.80% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.84% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 444 663 763
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% -6.67% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 28 November 2023.

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 28 November 2023. 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 +151 579 £82,500 +6.45% 169
UK excluding London +168 360 £71,000 +1.43% 102
Work from Home +112 313 £75,150 +0.20% 88
London +140 247 £90,000 +5.88% 80
North of England +152 113 £71,250 +1.79% 27
Midlands +152 79 £72,500 +3.57% 15
North West +144 66 £72,500 - 15
West Midlands +136 64 £70,000 +6.22% 10
South East +70 50 £67,500 -12.90% 34
Yorkshire +93 44 £66,250 -5.36% 9
South West +57 44 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Scotland +34 31 £55,000 -22.81% 5
Wales +26 20 £70,500 -6.00% 3
East Midlands +53 14 £73,750 -10.61% 4
East of England +98 12 £62,287 -16.95% 6
Northern Ireland +42 11 - - 2
North East +31 3 £40,000 -46.67% 3

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 18 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.32%) CMS
4 6 (0.88%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Appian
5 2 (0.29%) MS Exchange
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (3.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.58%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.29%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.15%) HFM
5 1 (0.15%) iTrent
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (37.13%) Azure
2 209 (30.56%) AWS
3 102 (14.91%) SaaS
4 98 (14.33%) GCP
5 60 (8.77%) Serverless
6 45 (6.58%) OpenShift
7 44 (6.43%) PaaS
8 40 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (4.68%) IaaS
9 32 (4.68%) Power Automate
10 30 (4.39%) ChatGPT
11 29 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (3.07%) GitHub
13 18 (2.63%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 9 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.32%) Azure API Management
17 8 (1.17%) dbt
18 7 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.02%) VSAT
2 28 (4.09%) VPN
3 26 (3.80%) SSL
4 15 (2.19%) Firewall
5 9 (1.32%) Network Security
5 9 (1.32%) SAN
6 7 (1.02%) LAN
6 7 (1.02%) WAN
7 5 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.44%) WLAN
10 2 (0.29%) BGP
10 2 (0.29%) DNS
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) Intranet
10 2 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.29%) MPLS
10 2 (0.29%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.12%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 17 (2.49%) Apache Ignite
5 17 (2.49%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.49%) Data Mining
5 17 (2.49%) Hadoop
6 15 (2.19%) Big Data
6 15 (2.19%) Power BI
7 14 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.46%) MySQL
9 8 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.88%) Redis
11 4 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.44%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (4.39%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.19%) Git
3 9 (1.32%) Maven
4 6 (0.88%) Artifactory
4 6 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.88%) git-flow
4 6 (0.88%) GitLab
5 5 (0.73%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.44%) Gradle
6 3 (0.44%) JIRA
7 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.15%) Snyk
7 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 179 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 161 (23.54%) Finance
3 64 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
5 27 (3.95%) Aerospace
6 24 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.51%) Publishing
7 23 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.49%) Banking
8 17 (2.49%) Retail
9 15 (2.19%) Back Office
10 12 (1.75%) Local Government
11 11 (1.61%) Legal
12 10 (1.46%) Marketing
12 10 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.02%) French Language
16 6 (0.88%) Advertising
17 5 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 373 (54.53%) Architect
2 124 (18.13%) Solutions Architect
3 106 (15.50%) Senior
4 89 (13.01%) Software Architect
5 78 (11.40%) Technical Architect
6 49 (7.16%) Developer
7 44 (6.43%) Consultant
7 44 (6.43%) Software Engineer
8 41 (5.99%) Data Architect
9 40 (5.85%) Lead
9 40 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 39 (5.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 38 (5.56%) .NET Architect
12 29 (4.24%) Senior Consultant
12 29 (4.24%) Technical Consultant
13 26 (3.80%) Enterprise Technical Architect
14 25 (3.65%) Project Manager
14 25 (3.65%) Senior ITSM Consultant
14 25 (3.65%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
14 25 (3.65%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (11.99%) .NET
2 67 (9.80%) SOAP
3 56 (8.19%) REST
4 43 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (6.14%) React
6 41 (5.99%) Web Services
7 40 (5.85%) HTML
7 40 (5.85%) RESTful
7 40 (5.85%) Spring
8 37 (5.41%) CSS
9 36 (5.26%) Hibernate
10 31 (4.53%) JSON
11 29 (4.24%) JDBC
12 28 (4.09%) Kafka
12 28 (4.09%) Struts
13 27 (3.95%) XML
14 25 (3.65%) Ajax
14 25 (3.65%) LDAP
15 23 (3.36%) Node.js
16 18 (2.63%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (6.29%) Virtual Team
3 31 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.65%) CMDB
5 20 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.05%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.61%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.46%) Reference Data
12 9 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.88%) PKI
15 5 (0.73%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.45%) Linux
2 39 (5.70%) Windows
3 18 (2.63%) Unix
4 9 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.73%) Android
6 4 (0.58%) CentOS
6 4 (0.58%) Solaris
6 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (34.94%) Agile
2 157 (22.95%) Roadmaps
3 137 (20.03%) DevOps
4 130 (19.01%) CI/CD
5 129 (18.86%) TOGAF
6 127 (18.57%) Software Engineering
7 122 (17.84%) Microservices
8 121 (17.69%) Actionable Insight
9 94 (13.74%) Project Delivery
10 93 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (13.45%) Project Management
12 88 (12.87%) Business Strategy
13 87 (12.72%) Enterprise Architecture
14 74 (10.82%) IT Strategy
14 74 (10.82%) SDLC
15 72 (10.53%) Containerisation
16 70 (10.23%) Migration
17 66 (9.65%) Design Patterns
18 65 (9.50%) UML
19 60 (8.77%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 127 (18.57%) Java
2 121 (17.69%) SQL
3 102 (14.91%) Python
4 95 (13.89%) C#
5 84 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 30 (4.39%) PL/SQL
7 18 (2.63%) Scala
7 18 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.19%) Bash
8 15 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.32%) Go
10 7 (1.02%) PHP
11 6 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.58%) Perl
13 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.44%) C++
15 1 (0.15%) ABAP
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 136 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.47%) Degree
3 84 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 49 (7.16%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.46%) CISSP
9 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.02%) GIAC
10 6 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.88%) MCSE
11 5 (0.73%) A+ Certification
11 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.73%) Citrix Certification
11 5 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.63%) PMO
3 17 (2.49%) QA
4 14 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.46%) GDPR
6 8 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.17%) GAAP
7 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.88%) ISO 9000
8 6 (0.88%) NCSC
9 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.29%) GAMP
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.49%) Docker
4 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) Squid
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) RACF
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (4.24%) Ansible
2 25 (3.65%) HP UCMDB
2 25 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.36%) Terraform
4 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.32%) Puppet
6 8 (1.17%) Nessus
7 5 (0.73%) SCCM
7 5 (0.73%) WSUS
8 4 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.15%) Grafana
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 147 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.99%) ServiceNow
3 38 (5.56%) Remedy
4 32 (4.68%) Oracle
5 31 (4.53%) Google
6 27 (3.95%) HP
7 25 (3.65%) BMC
7 25 (3.65%) VMware
8 18 (2.63%) Cisco
9 15 (2.19%) Informatica
10 12 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.75%) SAP
11 9 (1.32%) Citrix
11 9 (1.32%) Splunk
12 8 (1.17%) Darktrace
12 8 (1.17%) OneTrust
12 8 (1.17%) Proofpoint
12 8 (1.17%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.02%) Databricks
14 5 (0.73%) Aruba