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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 310 415
Rank change year-on-year -11 +105 -20
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 872 1,135 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.12% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.17% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 316 483 689
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £47,450
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £89,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -37 609 £72,500 -6.45% 99
UK excluding London +1 603 £70,000 +3.70% 65
Work from Home -116 207 £67,500 -12.90% 53
London -50 164 £82,500 - 36
North of England +37 161 £65,000 +8.33% 23
North West +13 104 £70,000 +17.13% 11
South East +2 98 £72,500 - 10
Scotland -50 86 £85,000 +42.79% 6
Midlands -7 84 £67,500 -1.82% 6
South West -30 74 £61,275 +2.13% 12
Yorkshire +70 54 £57,500 -14.81% 5
Wales +14 48 £60,000 -35.14% 3
East Midlands -7 48 £82,500 - 5
Northern Ireland +45 42 £65,200 +0.31% 1
West Midlands -5 36 £67,500 - 1
East of England 0 10 £72,500 -7.94% 5
North East -1 3 £63,000 - 7

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 23 (2.64%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.57%) CMS
5 4 (0.46%) IIS
5 4 (0.46%) SAS
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.46%) SPSS
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.34%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.34%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.11%) HFM
6 1 (0.11%) Magento
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 176 (20.18%) Azure
2 100 (11.47%) AWS
3 53 (6.08%) GCP
4 47 (5.39%) SaaS
5 29 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (2.87%) Power Platform
8 22 (2.52%) IaaS
9 21 (2.41%) PaaS
10 16 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (1.49%) GitHub
11 13 (1.49%) Serverless
12 11 (1.26%) dbt
13 10 (1.15%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
16 5 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 398 (45.64%) VSAT
2 20 (2.29%) Firewall
3 10 (1.15%) VPN
3 10 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.03%) WAN
5 8 (0.92%) SSL
5 8 (0.92%) Wireless
6 7 (0.80%) SAN
7 5 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) DNS
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) HSRP
10 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.11%) Modbus
10 1 (0.11%) Network Security
10 1 (0.11%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.47%) Relational Database
2 26 (2.98%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.64%) Apache Ignite
3 23 (2.64%) Data Mining
3 23 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (2.64%) Hadoop
4 21 (2.41%) RDBMS
5 15 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.26%) Big Data
7 8 (0.92%) CockroachDB
8 6 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.46%) DB2
9 4 (0.46%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.46%) MySQL
9 4 (0.46%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.34%) Metadata
10 3 (0.34%) Power BI
10 3 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.15%) Git
2 10 (1.15%) JIRA
3 8 (0.92%) GitLab
3 8 (0.92%) Jaeger
3 8 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.80%) CircleCI
4 7 (0.80%) git-flow
5 6 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.23%) Gradle
6 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 147 (16.86%) Social Skills
2 102 (11.70%) Finance
3 95 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.10%) Law
7 23 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.52%) Marketing
9 19 (2.18%) Banking
10 17 (1.95%) Legal
11 12 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.38%) Retail
12 11 (1.26%) French Language
13 6 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Advertising
14 5 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.57%) Police
14 5 (0.57%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 643 (73.74%) Architect
2 398 (45.64%) Software Architect
3 89 (10.21%) Developer
4 85 (9.75%) Senior
4 85 (9.75%) Technical Architect
5 49 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
6 46 (5.28%) Scala Developer
7 37 (4.24%) Senior Architect
8 30 (3.44%) Analyst
9 25 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (2.87%) IT Architect
9 25 (2.87%) Security Architect
9 25 (2.87%) Systems Architect
10 23 (2.64%) Enterprise Architect
11 22 (2.52%) Lead
12 21 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
13 20 (2.29%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.29%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.18%) Consultant
15 18 (2.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.77%) .NET
2 38 (4.36%) RESTful
3 37 (4.24%) HTML
4 35 (4.01%) CSS
4 35 (4.01%) Node.js
5 34 (3.90%) SOAP
6 33 (3.78%) React
7 32 (3.67%) Kafka
8 30 (3.44%) Web Services
9 28 (3.21%) JSON
10 18 (2.06%) Akka
11 17 (1.95%) XML
12 14 (1.61%) Django
13 13 (1.49%) REST
14 12 (1.38%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.38%) Middleware
15 11 (1.26%) .NET Framework
16 8 (0.92%) .NET Core
16 8 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
16 8 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 28 (3.21%) Security Posture
5 26 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.06%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.15%) PropTech
10 10 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.80%) CMDB
13 6 (0.69%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.57%) PMI
15 4 (0.46%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.10%) Linux
2 17 (1.95%) Windows
3 9 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.92%) Android
4 8 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.69%) SUSE
5 6 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (52.29%) TOGAF
2 408 (46.79%) Actionable Insight
3 406 (46.56%) Validation
4 405 (46.44%) Network Architecture
5 402 (46.10%) Network Management
6 398 (45.64%) Model Validation
6 398 (45.64%) Requirements Management
7 195 (22.36%) Agile
8 100 (11.47%) Project Management
9 94 (10.78%) Roadmaps
10 91 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (10.21%) Software Engineering
12 85 (9.75%) CI/CD
12 85 (9.75%) DevOps
13 63 (7.22%) Business Strategy
14 61 (7.00%) SDLC
15 54 (6.19%) Migration
16 52 (5.96%) Project Delivery
17 51 (5.85%) Microservices
18 50 (5.73%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 96 (11.01%) Java
2 77 (8.83%) JavaScript
3 55 (6.31%) SQL
4 52 (5.96%) C#
5 46 (5.28%) Scala
6 38 (4.36%) Python
7 20 (2.29%) Go
8 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.69%) SOQL
12 5 (0.57%) ABAP
12 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.46%) RPG
14 3 (0.34%) Bash
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 134 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 111 (12.73%) Degree
3 86 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.64%) CISSP
6 20 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 13 (1.49%) CCSP
9 11 (1.26%) CCSK
10 9 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.69%) CISM
14 5 (0.57%) CCIE
14 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.57%) OSCP
14 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.34%) CISA
15 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.29%) NIST
3 19 (2.18%) GDPR
4 17 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.69%) QA
9 4 (0.46%) COBIT
9 4 (0.46%) PMO
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.41%) Docker
2 18 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) RACF
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.41%) Ansible
3 14 (1.61%) Terraform
4 8 (0.92%) Kiali
5 7 (0.80%) HP UCMDB
6 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.01%) Google
3 18 (2.06%) Oracle
3 18 (2.06%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.83%) SAP
5 10 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.03%) Citrix
6 9 (1.03%) HP
7 8 (0.92%) AppDynamics
7 8 (0.92%) Cisco
7 8 (0.92%) Splunk
7 8 (0.92%) VMware
8 7 (0.80%) BMC
8 7 (0.80%) DocuSign
8 7 (0.80%) IBM
8 7 (0.80%) McAfee
8 7 (0.80%) Remedy
9 6 (0.69%) Apttus
9 6 (0.69%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.57%) Databricks