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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 328 307
Rank change year-on-year -188 -21 +103
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 222 859 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.86% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.01% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 98 305 468
10th Percentile £38,750 £55,000 £53,416
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £62,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -3.13%
75th Percentile £87,188 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £103,370 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% - -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 52,544 85,078 94,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.81% 85.26% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,695 59,840 55,939
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -136 190 £75,000 +3.45% 207
UK excluding London -148 125 £72,500 +7.41% 127
London +45 88 £81,000 -4.71% 122
Work from Home +9 71 £80,000 +18.52% 138
South East +26 31 £73,000 +0.69% 56
North of England -80 26 £55,043 -15.32% 32
Midlands +7 25 £68,171 +0.99% 15
Scotland +50 23 £45,000 -47.06% 11
West Midlands +30 17 £75,000 +11.11% 10
North West -88 15 £42,500 -39.29% 22
South West +49 14 £80,000 +39.13% 15
Yorkshire +25 11 £72,500 +26.09% 7
East Midlands -17 8 £37,500 -54.55% 4
East of England +34 5 £80,000 +10.34% 1
Wales -10 1 £72,931 +21.55% 1

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 10 (4.50%) Confluence
2 9 (4.05%) CMS
3 8 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.90%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Maya
2 2 (0.90%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Shopify
2 7 (3.15%) Magento
3 4 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.80%) SAP SCM
4 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.35%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.45%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 57 (25.68%) Azure
2 41 (18.47%) AWS
3 28 (12.61%) GCP
4 15 (6.76%) Vertex AI
5 13 (5.86%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.50%) SaaS
7 9 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.15%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.25%) GitHub
9 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.25%) Serverless
10 4 (1.80%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.80%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.60%) SSL
2 7 (3.15%) VPN
3 6 (2.70%) Firewall
4 5 (2.25%) Broadband
4 5 (2.25%) WAN
5 4 (1.80%) 5G
5 4 (1.80%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.35%) LAN
6 3 (1.35%) Network Security
6 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.90%) DMZ
7 2 (0.90%) DNS
7 2 (0.90%) Internet
7 2 (0.90%) VLAN
7 2 (0.90%) VoIP
7 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.45%) 802.11
8 1 (0.45%) BGP
8 1 (0.45%) MPLS
8 1 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.16%) Data Mining
2 17 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.05%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.60%) Power BI
6 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.25%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.80%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.90%) Metadata
10 2 (0.90%) MySQL
11 1 (0.45%) DataStage
11 1 (0.45%) DB2
11 1 (0.45%) QualityStage
11 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 13 (5.86%) JIRA
2 7 (3.15%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 57 (25.68%) Finance
3 47 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.32%) Law
5 29 (13.06%) Retail
6 16 (7.21%) Banking
6 16 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.95%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.25%) French Language
9 5 (2.25%) Local Government
9 5 (2.25%) Marketing
10 4 (1.80%) Back Office
10 4 (1.80%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (1.80%) Police
11 3 (1.35%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Polish Language
12 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (41.44%) Architect
2 67 (30.18%) Lead
3 41 (18.47%) Senior
4 38 (17.12%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (9.91%) Data Architect
6 20 (9.01%) Developer
7 15 (6.76%) Analyst
8 14 (6.31%) Consultant
9 10 (4.50%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.05%) Development Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Lead Architect
12 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (3.15%) SQL Analyst
13 6 (2.70%) AWS Architect
13 6 (2.70%) Lead Developer
14 5 (2.25%) Configuration Analyst
14 5 (2.25%) Configuration Management Analyst
14 5 (2.25%) Database Analyst
14 5 (2.25%) IT Architect
14 5 (2.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.41%) RESTful
2 10 (4.50%) .NET
3 8 (3.60%) OAuth
4 7 (3.15%) Android Jetpack
4 7 (3.15%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.15%) CSS
4 7 (3.15%) Jetpack Compose
4 7 (3.15%) SwiftUI
4 7 (3.15%) UIKit
5 6 (2.70%) HTML
5 6 (2.70%) React
6 5 (2.25%) Kafka
6 5 (2.25%) Middleware
6 5 (2.25%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (2.25%) Web Services
7 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.35%) Spring
7 3 (1.35%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.90%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 21 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.50%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.60%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.70%) CMDB
7 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Licensing
8 4 (1.80%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.80%) IVR
8 4 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Windows
2 7 (3.15%) Android
2 7 (3.15%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.35%) Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (57.66%) Agile
2 120 (54.05%) Roadmaps
3 57 (25.68%) DevOps
4 52 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (20.72%) Artificial Intelligence
6 43 (19.37%) TOGAF
7 40 (18.02%) Analytics
8 39 (17.57%) Data Engineering
9 37 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
10 36 (16.22%) IT Strategy
11 34 (15.32%) Machine Learning
11 34 (15.32%) Product Management
11 34 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (14.86%) Strategic Thinking
13 32 (14.41%) Visualisation
14 31 (13.96%) Microservices
14 31 (13.96%) MLOps
14 31 (13.96%) Use Case
15 30 (13.51%) Data Science
16 29 (13.06%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.36%) SQL
2 22 (9.91%) Java
3 17 (7.66%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.76%) Python
5 13 (5.86%) C#
6 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.15%) Swift
7 5 (2.25%) Ruby
7 5 (2.25%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.80%) Bash
9 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.90%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.90%) Groovy
10 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) ABAP
11 1 (0.45%) Delphi
11 1 (0.45%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (10.36%) Degree
2 13 (5.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.15%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.25%) CISSP
6 4 (1.80%) CISM
6 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) CEH
7 2 (0.90%) CITP
7 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) GIAC
7 2 (0.90%) ISSAP
7 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) SANS
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.50%) Accessibility
1 10 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (4.50%) QA
2 9 (4.05%) GDPR
3 6 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.80%) COBIT
4 4 (1.80%) NCSC
4 4 (1.80%) NIST
4 4 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (4.95%) Docker
2 6 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) NDS
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.70%) 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 51 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.46%) Google
3 15 (6.76%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.41%) Databricks
4 12 (5.41%) SAP
5 7 (3.15%) Oracle
6 5 (2.25%) Ariba
6 5 (2.25%) Avaloq
7 4 (1.80%) Cisco
7 4 (1.80%) Ping Identity
7 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.35%) Adobe
8 3 (1.35%) Avaya
8 3 (1.35%) Epicor
8 3 (1.35%) Facebook
8 3 (1.35%) Foundry
8 3 (1.35%) YouTube
9 2 (0.90%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.90%) VMware