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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 304 402
Rank change year-on-year -24 +98 +8
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 854 1,136 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.15% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.21% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 307 454 691
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,716 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
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 £88,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £103,330 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -

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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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
UK excluding London -4 598 £67,500 - 46
England -37 590 £72,500 -6.45% 106
Work from Home -116 199 £66,250 -11.67% 58
North of England +31 157 £65,000 - 11
London -56 151 £83,750 +1.52% 52
North West 0 102 £70,000 +17.13% 4
South East -6 95 £72,500 +3.57% 14
Scotland -58 85 £85,000 +42.79%
Midlands -22 83 £67,500 - 4
South West -23 77 £57,500 -10.85% 14
Yorkshire +70 52 £57,500 -17.86% 3
Wales +7 48 £60,000 -35.14% 1
East Midlands -1 48 £82,500 - 4
Northern Ireland +40 42 £65,200 +0.31%
West Midlands -11 35 £67,500 -
East of England -1 11 £67,500 +3.85% 3
North East -5 3 £63,000 - 4

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 17 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.47%) IIS
4 4 (0.47%) SAS
5 3 (0.35%) CMS
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 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) SPSS
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.35%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.35%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Magento
6 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 167 (19.56%) Azure
2 86 (10.07%) AWS
3 44 (5.15%) SaaS
4 42 (4.92%) GCP
5 29 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 25 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (2.46%) IaaS
9 20 (2.34%) PaaS
10 16 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (1.29%) dbt
11 11 (1.29%) GitHub
11 11 (1.29%) Serverless
12 10 (1.17%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 398 (46.60%) VSAT
2 21 (2.46%) Firewall
3 10 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.05%) WAN
5 8 (0.94%) VPN
5 8 (0.94%) Wireless
6 7 (0.82%) SAN
7 5 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.47%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 2 (0.23%) DHCP
9 2 (0.23%) DNS
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.12%) HSRP
10 1 (0.12%) Modbus
10 1 (0.12%) Network Security
10 1 (0.12%) SNMP
10 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.80%) Relational Database
2 25 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.22%) RDBMS
4 17 (1.99%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (1.99%) Data Mining
4 17 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (1.99%) Hadoop
5 12 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.29%) Big Data
7 8 (0.94%) CockroachDB
8 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.47%) DB2
9 4 (0.47%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.47%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.35%) MySQL
10 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.35%) Power BI
11 2 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.17%) JIRA
3 8 (0.94%) Jaeger
3 8 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.70%) GitLab
4 6 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (0.59%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.59%) Git
5 5 (0.59%) git-flow
6 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 147 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.01%) Finance
3 83 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.28%) Law
7 23 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.58%) Marketing
9 19 (2.22%) Banking
10 17 (1.99%) Legal
11 12 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.29%) French Language
12 11 (1.29%) Retail
13 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.59%) Police
15 4 (0.47%) Advertising
15 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 631 (73.89%) Architect
2 398 (46.60%) Software Architect
3 89 (10.42%) Developer
4 86 (10.07%) Technical Architect
5 81 (9.48%) Senior
6 46 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (5.15%) Scala Developer
8 32 (3.75%) Senior Architect
9 29 (3.40%) Analyst
10 25 (2.93%) Systems Architect
11 22 (2.58%) Security Architect
12 21 (2.46%) Enterprise Architect
12 21 (2.46%) Full Stack Developer
12 21 (2.46%) Technical Analyst
13 20 (2.34%) Lead
13 20 (2.34%) Project Manager
13 20 (2.34%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.22%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
14 19 (2.22%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.49%) .NET
2 40 (4.68%) RESTful
3 38 (4.45%) Node.js
4 36 (4.22%) CSS
4 36 (4.22%) HTML
5 32 (3.75%) React
6 31 (3.63%) SOAP
6 31 (3.63%) Web Services
7 26 (3.04%) JSON
7 26 (3.04%) Kafka
8 16 (1.87%) Akka
9 15 (1.76%) XML
10 14 (1.64%) Django
11 12 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.41%) Middleware
11 12 (1.41%) REST
12 10 (1.17%) .NET Framework
13 9 (1.05%) ASP.NET
13 9 (1.05%) OAuth
14 8 (0.94%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.03%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 26 (3.04%) Virtual Team
6 18 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.17%) PropTech
9 10 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 8 (0.94%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.59%) CMDB
12 5 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.59%) PMI
13 4 (0.47%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.47%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.69%) Linux
2 15 (1.76%) Windows
3 10 (1.17%) Android
4 9 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.70%) SUSE
5 6 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (53.16%) TOGAF
2 406 (47.54%) Validation
3 404 (47.31%) Network Architecture
4 402 (47.07%) Network Management
5 398 (46.60%) Model Validation
5 398 (46.60%) Requirements Management
6 384 (44.96%) Actionable Insight
7 184 (21.55%) Agile
8 95 (11.12%) Project Management
9 90 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (10.54%) Roadmaps
10 88 (10.30%) Software Engineering
11 85 (9.95%) CI/CD
12 84 (9.84%) DevOps
13 60 (7.03%) SDLC
14 57 (6.67%) Business Strategy
15 51 (5.97%) Microservices
16 49 (5.74%) Service Design
17 46 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (5.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 94 (11.01%) Java
2 75 (8.78%) JavaScript
3 53 (6.21%) C#
4 52 (6.09%) SQL
5 44 (5.15%) Scala
6 37 (4.33%) Python
7 22 (2.58%) Go
8 11 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.94%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.70%) SOQL
12 5 (0.59%) ABAP
12 5 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.47%) RPG
14 2 (0.23%) Bash
14 2 (0.23%) PHP
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 133 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 101 (11.83%) Degree
3 79 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.34%) CISSP
6 19 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (1.41%) CCSP
9 10 (1.17%) CCSK
10 9 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.70%) CISM
13 5 (0.59%) CCIE
13 5 (0.59%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.59%) OSCP
13 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.35%) CISA
14 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.34%) GDPR
3 19 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.22%) NIST
4 16 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.70%) QA
7 4 (0.47%) COBIT
7 4 (0.47%) PMO
8 2 (0.23%) GRC
8 2 (0.23%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (2.46%) Docker
2 16 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.22%) Ansible
3 13 (1.52%) Terraform
4 8 (0.94%) Kiali
5 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (0.59%) HP UCMDB
8 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.23%) SCCM
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.12%) Grafana
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.93%) Google
3 17 (1.99%) Oracle
3 17 (1.99%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.87%) SAP
5 9 (1.05%) Cisco
5 9 (1.05%) Citrix
6 8 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 8 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.94%) Splunk
6 8 (0.94%) VMware
7 7 (0.82%) DocuSign
7 7 (0.82%) HP
7 7 (0.82%) IBM
8 6 (0.70%) Apttus
8 6 (0.70%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.59%) BMC
9 5 (0.59%) Databricks
9 5 (0.59%) Intapp
9 5 (0.59%) Meraki