Technical Architecture Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 214 212
Rank change year-on-year +38 -2 +29
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 16 35 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.47% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.57% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14 28 41
10th Percentile £55,253 - £57,000
25th Percentile £69,785 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,638 £76,150 £75,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,940 6,110 6,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 4,547 3,160
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Birmingham +33 6 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Staffordshire +22 5 £70,641 -2.56% 4
Warwickshire -14 2 £52,387 -8.89% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £78,700 -
Coventry - 1 £75,000 -
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
2 2 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
3 1 (6.25%) VoIP
3 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DataStage
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) QualityStage
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Police
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) IT Assistant
4 1 (6.25%) IT Director
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) MACH
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Roadmaps
2 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Information Security
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) API Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 2 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) CITP
2 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) COBIT
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Avaya
2 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Mitel