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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 339 412
Rank change year-on-year +10 +73 0
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 860 1,094 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.03% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.07% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 338 504 710
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,575 £45,808
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +12.28%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

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 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -5 612 £72,500 -6.45% 102
UK excluding London +31 577 £70,000 -3.45% 60
Work from Home -83 218 £70,000 -9.68% 50
London -19 177 £83,750 - 45
North of England +73 160 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North West +37 103 £72,500 +1.75% 7
South East -12 98 £72,500 - 12
Scotland -38 82 £75,400 +4.00% 9
Midlands +5 79 £67,500 -10.00% 5
South West -13 69 £65,050 -7.07% 9
Yorkshire +98 54 £57,500 -17.86% 7
East Midlands -7 44 £82,500 - 4
Wales +14 43 £60,000 -35.14% 4
Northern Ireland +45 39 £65,200 -6.86% 1
West Midlands +16 35 £67,500 - 1
East of England +19 7 £90,000 +12.50% 8
North East -5 3 £63,000 -16.00% 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 29 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.93%) CMS
4 6 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.47%) IIS
5 4 (0.47%) SAS
6 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) SPSS
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.35%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.12%) HFM
6 1 (0.12%) Magento
6 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 197 (22.91%) Azure
2 112 (13.02%) AWS
3 65 (7.56%) GCP
4 52 (6.05%) SaaS
5 34 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (2.79%) PaaS
8 23 (2.67%) IaaS
9 20 (2.33%) Power Platform
10 15 (1.74%) GitHub
10 15 (1.74%) Serverless
11 14 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (1.28%) dbt
12 11 (1.28%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 362 (42.09%) VSAT
2 19 (2.21%) Firewall
3 13 (1.51%) VPN
4 10 (1.16%) SSL
4 10 (1.16%) WAN
4 10 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.93%) Wireless
6 7 (0.81%) SAN
7 6 (0.70%) LAN
8 5 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) DNS
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) DMZ
10 1 (0.12%) IPsec
10 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.12%) SNMP
10 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.42%) Relational Database
2 31 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (3.37%) Apache Ignite
3 29 (3.37%) Data Mining
3 29 (3.37%) Hadoop
3 29 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.56%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.28%) Big Data
7 8 (0.93%) CockroachDB
8 7 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.58%) MySQL
10 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.47%) DB2
10 4 (0.47%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.47%) Redis
11 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.35%) Metadata
11 3 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.74%) Git
3 10 (1.16%) GitLab
4 9 (1.05%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.05%) git-flow
4 9 (1.05%) JIRA
5 8 (0.93%) Jaeger
5 8 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.35%) Gradle
8 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.23%) Maven
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 143 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 110 (12.79%) Finance
3 107 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.14%) Law
7 21 (2.44%) Marketing
8 20 (2.33%) Banking
8 20 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.74%) Legal
10 14 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.51%) French Language
11 13 (1.51%) Retail
12 8 (0.93%) Advertising
13 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Police
15 3 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 619 (71.98%) Architect
2 362 (42.09%) Software Architect
3 95 (11.05%) Developer
4 89 (10.35%) Senior
5 77 (8.95%) Technical Architect
6 63 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
7 48 (5.58%) Scala Developer
8 41 (4.77%) Senior Architect
9 31 (3.60%) IT Architect
10 30 (3.49%) Analyst
10 30 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
11 26 (3.02%) Security Architect
12 25 (2.91%) Project Manager
12 25 (2.91%) Systems Architect
13 23 (2.67%) Consultant
14 22 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
15 21 (2.44%) Lead
15 21 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
16 20 (2.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
16 20 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.09%) .NET
2 46 (5.35%) RESTful
3 43 (5.00%) SOAP
4 42 (4.88%) HTML
5 39 (4.53%) CSS
6 37 (4.30%) Kafka
7 35 (4.07%) Node.js
7 35 (4.07%) React
8 31 (3.60%) Web Services
9 30 (3.49%) JSON
10 21 (2.44%) REST
11 20 (2.33%) Akka
11 20 (2.33%) XML
12 13 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.51%) Django
13 12 (1.40%) .NET Framework
13 12 (1.40%) Middleware
14 10 (1.16%) Spring Boot
15 9 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (1.05%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.09%) Management Information System
2 35 (4.07%) Virtual Team
3 30 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 26 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.21%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.16%) PropTech
10 9 (1.05%) CMDB
10 9 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.81%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.70%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.58%) PMI
15 4 (0.47%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.60%) Linux
2 18 (2.09%) Windows
3 9 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.70%) SUSE
4 6 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 5 (0.58%) Android
5 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (49.30%) TOGAF
2 401 (46.63%) Actionable Insight
3 370 (43.02%) Validation
4 369 (42.91%) Network Architecture
5 366 (42.56%) Network Management
6 362 (42.09%) Model Validation
6 362 (42.09%) Requirements Management
7 211 (24.53%) Agile
8 104 (12.09%) Project Management
9 102 (11.86%) Software Engineering
10 100 (11.63%) DevOps
11 96 (11.16%) Roadmaps
12 92 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (10.58%) CI/CD
14 74 (8.60%) Business Strategy
15 63 (7.33%) SDLC
16 62 (7.21%) Migration
16 62 (7.21%) Project Delivery
17 56 (6.51%) Microservices
18 51 (5.93%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 99 (11.51%) Java
2 86 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 63 (7.33%) SQL
4 52 (6.05%) C#
5 48 (5.58%) Scala
6 39 (4.53%) Python
7 20 (2.33%) Go
8 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.05%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.93%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.70%) SOQL
13 5 (0.58%) ABAP
13 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.58%) PHP
14 4 (0.47%) Bash
14 4 (0.47%) C++
14 4 (0.47%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.07%) Degree
3 96 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.67%) CISSP
6 20 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 13 (1.51%) CCSP
9 12 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.28%) CCSK
11 9 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.70%) CISM
13 5 (0.58%) CCIE
13 5 (0.58%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.58%) OSCP
13 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.35%) CISA
16 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.33%) NIST
3 17 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.86%) GDPR
5 13 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.47%) COBIT
7 4 (0.47%) ISO 9000
7 4 (0.47%) PMO
7 4 (0.47%) QA
8 2 (0.23%) GRC
8 2 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 23 (2.67%) Docker
2 21 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) RACF
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.67%) Ansible
3 16 (1.86%) Terraform
4 9 (1.05%) HP UCMDB
5 8 (0.93%) Kiali
6 6 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.12%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.12%) Google
3 19 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.09%) Oracle
5 13 (1.51%) SAP
6 12 (1.40%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.28%) HP
8 9 (1.05%) BMC
8 9 (1.05%) McAfee
8 9 (1.05%) Remedy
8 9 (1.05%) Splunk
8 9 (1.05%) VMware
9 8 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 8 (0.93%) Citrix
9 8 (0.93%) IBM
10 7 (0.81%) Cisco
10 7 (0.81%) DocuSign
11 6 (0.70%) Apttus
12 5 (0.58%) Meraki
12 5 (0.58%) Palo Alto