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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 328 329
Rank change year-on-year -145 +1 +66
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 220 871 1,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.03% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 104 335 492
10th Percentile £38,750 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £89,063 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £103,000 £102,950 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -112 190 £75,000 +3.45% 295
UK excluding London -104 126 £72,500 +3.57% 127
London +25 85 £90,000 +7.46% 185
Work from Home +27 67 £80,000 +14.29% 151
South East +46 32 £75,000 +3.45% 28
North of England -50 28 £48,771 -25.00% 32
Midlands +17 26 £71,821 +6.40% 19
Scotland +72 22 £45,000 -40.32% 14
West Midlands +50 18 £75,000 +11.11% 11
North West -52 18 £42,500 -40.35% 17
South West +62 15 £77,500 +19.14% 22
Yorkshire +27 10 £72,500 +26.09% 12
East Midlands +19 8 £37,500 -54.55% 8
East of England +60 4 £80,000 -11.11% 9
Wales 0 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 12 (5.45%) CMS
2 11 (5.00%) Confluence
3 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.91%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Maya
2 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Magento
1 10 (4.55%) Shopify
2 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.82%) SAP SCM
3 3 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.36%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.00%) Azure
2 39 (17.73%) AWS
3 26 (11.82%) GCP
4 15 (6.82%) Vertex AI
5 12 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.45%) SaaS
6 10 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.73%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.27%) GitHub
9 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.27%) Serverless
10 4 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.82%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.82%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.64%) SSL
2 7 (3.18%) VPN
3 6 (2.73%) Firewall
4 5 (2.27%) WAN
5 4 (1.82%) 5G
5 4 (1.82%) Broadband
5 4 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.36%) LAN
6 3 (1.36%) Network Security
6 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.91%) DMZ
7 2 (0.91%) DNS
7 2 (0.91%) Internet
7 2 (0.91%) VLAN
7 2 (0.91%) VoIP
7 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.45%) MPLS
8 1 (0.45%) SS7
8 1 (0.45%) TACACS
8 1 (0.45%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.27%) Data Mining
2 18 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.09%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.64%) Power BI
6 7 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.36%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.36%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.91%) MySQL
11 1 (0.45%) DataStage
11 1 (0.45%) DB2
11 1 (0.45%) Metadata
11 1 (0.45%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 14 (6.36%) JIRA
2 8 (3.64%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.36%) Finance
3 44 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.45%) Law
5 30 (13.64%) Retail
6 17 (7.73%) Banking
6 17 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.18%) Marketing
9 5 (2.27%) French Language
10 4 (1.82%) Back Office
10 4 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (1.82%) Local Government
10 4 (1.82%) Police
11 3 (1.36%) Advertising
11 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.91%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.91%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 87 (39.55%) Architect
2 63 (28.64%) Lead
3 42 (19.09%) Senior
4 34 (15.45%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (12.27%) Developer
6 21 (9.55%) Data Architect
7 16 (7.27%) Analyst
8 14 (6.36%) Consultant
9 9 (4.09%) Lead Developer
9 9 (4.09%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.64%) Development Manager
10 8 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (3.64%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Lead Architect
11 7 (3.18%) SQL Analyst
12 6 (2.73%) AWS Architect
12 6 (2.73%) Ruby Developer
13 5 (2.27%) Configuration Analyst
13 5 (2.27%) Configuration Management Analyst
13 5 (2.27%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.00%) RESTful
2 10 (4.55%) .NET
3 8 (3.64%) AngularJS
3 8 (3.64%) OAuth
4 7 (3.18%) Android Jetpack
4 7 (3.18%) CSS
4 7 (3.18%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (3.18%) React
4 7 (3.18%) SwiftUI
4 7 (3.18%) UIKit
5 6 (2.73%) HTML
5 6 (2.73%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (2.73%) Web Services
6 5 (2.27%) Kafka
7 4 (1.82%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.82%) Middleware
8 3 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.36%) Spring
8 3 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.91%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.91%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.09%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.09%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.73%) CMDB
7 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Licensing
7 5 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.82%) IVR
9 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.36%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.91%) DataPower
10 2 (0.91%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.55%) Windows
2 7 (3.18%) Android
2 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.27%) Linux
4 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (54.55%) Agile
2 113 (51.36%) Roadmaps
3 52 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (21.82%) DevOps
5 45 (20.45%) Artificial Intelligence
6 43 (19.55%) Analytics
6 43 (19.55%) TOGAF
7 33 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 32 (14.55%) Product Management
8 32 (14.55%) Strategic Thinking
9 31 (14.09%) Data Engineering
9 31 (14.09%) Visualisation
10 30 (13.64%) ArchiMate
10 30 (13.64%) Architecture Roadmap
10 30 (13.64%) MLOps
10 30 (13.64%) Use Case
11 29 (13.18%) Data Science
11 29 (13.18%) Incident Management
11 29 (13.18%) Microservices
11 29 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.36%) Java
2 23 (10.45%) SQL
3 19 (8.64%) JavaScript
3 19 (8.64%) Python
4 15 (6.82%) C#
5 7 (3.18%) Kotlin
5 7 (3.18%) Swift
6 6 (2.73%) Bash
6 6 (2.73%) Ruby
7 5 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.91%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.91%) C++
9 2 (0.91%) Groovy
9 2 (0.91%) Scala
9 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.91%) VBA
10 1 (0.45%) Delphi
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (12.27%) Degree
2 15 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.18%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.27%) CISSP
6 4 (1.82%) CISM
6 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.36%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.91%) CEH
8 2 (0.91%) CITP
8 2 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.91%) GIAC
8 2 (0.91%) ISSAP
8 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.91%) SANS
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.55%) QA
3 9 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.64%) GDPR
5 6 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.27%) NIST
7 4 (1.82%) COBIT
7 4 (1.82%) NCSC
7 4 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (5.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) NDS
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.73%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.45%) HP UCMDB
3 1 (0.45%) Kiali
3 1 (0.45%) Marathon
3 1 (0.45%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.55%) Google
3 15 (6.82%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.45%) Databricks
5 9 (4.09%) SAP
6 8 (3.64%) Oracle
7 4 (1.82%) Ariba
7 4 (1.82%) Cisco
7 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.36%) Adobe
8 3 (1.36%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.36%) Avaya
8 3 (1.36%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (1.36%) Facebook
8 3 (1.36%) Foundry
8 3 (1.36%) IBM
8 3 (1.36%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.36%) Sparx
8 3 (1.36%) VMware
8 3 (1.36%) YouTube