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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 306 410
Rank change year-on-year -22 +104 -5
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 859 1,136 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.14% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.20% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 305 468 687
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,416 £46,640
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,438 £61,250
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 £103,750
90th Percentile £103,370 £98,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -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 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
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 17 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 17 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 -16 596 £67,500 - 53
England -36 595 £72,500 -6.45% 110
Work from Home -116 199 £67,500 -11.48% 59
North of England +43 158 £65,000 +8.33% 16
London -51 158 £85,000 +3.03% 58
North West +1 103 £70,000 +17.13% 8
South East -18 95 £72,500 -6.45% 18
Scotland -52 86 £85,000 +42.79%
Midlands -21 83 £67,500 - 4
South West -27 74 £57,500 -11.20% 11
Yorkshire +63 52 £57,500 -14.81% 2
Wales +15 48 £60,000 -35.14% 2
East Midlands -5 48 £82,500 - 4
Northern Ireland +37 42 £65,200 +0.31%
West Midlands -5 35 £67,500 -
East of England +1 10 £72,500 +11.54% 3
North East -2 3 £63,000 - 6

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 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.47%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) IIS
4 4 (0.47%) SAS
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.23%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.23%) nginx
5 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 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%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.58%) 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
1 171 (19.91%) Azure
2 94 (10.94%) AWS
3 50 (5.82%) GCP
4 44 (5.12%) SaaS
5 28 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 22 (2.56%) IaaS
8 21 (2.44%) PaaS
9 16 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.28%) dbt
10 11 (1.28%) GitHub
10 11 (1.28%) Serverless
11 10 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 398 (46.33%) VSAT
2 21 (2.44%) Firewall
3 10 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.05%) WAN
5 8 (0.93%) VPN
5 8 (0.93%) Wireless
6 7 (0.81%) SAN
7 6 (0.70%) SSL
8 5 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) Broadband
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) DNS
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
11 1 (0.12%) DMZ
11 1 (0.12%) HSRP
11 1 (0.12%) Modbus
11 1 (0.12%) Network Security
11 1 (0.12%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.77%) Relational Database
2 25 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 23 (2.68%) Apache Ignite
3 23 (2.68%) Data Mining
3 23 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (2.68%) Hadoop
4 20 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 16 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.28%) Big Data
7 8 (0.93%) CockroachDB
8 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.47%) DB2
9 4 (0.47%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.47%) MySQL
9 4 (0.47%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
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 (1.63%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.16%) JIRA
3 8 (0.93%) Jaeger
3 8 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.81%) Git
5 6 (0.70%) GitLab
5 6 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.58%) git-flow
7 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Gradle
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 146 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 95 (11.06%) Finance
3 92 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.03%) Law
7 23 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.56%) Marketing
9 19 (2.21%) Banking
10 17 (1.98%) Legal
11 12 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.28%) French Language
12 11 (1.28%) Retail
13 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.58%) 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
1 634 (73.81%) Architect
2 398 (46.33%) Software Architect
3 90 (10.48%) Developer
4 86 (10.01%) Senior
5 84 (9.78%) Technical Architect
6 46 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
7 45 (5.24%) Scala Developer
8 37 (4.31%) Senior Architect
9 29 (3.38%) Analyst
10 25 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
10 25 (2.91%) IT Architect
10 25 (2.91%) Systems Architect
11 22 (2.56%) Security Architect
12 21 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
12 21 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
13 20 (2.33%) Full Stack Developer
13 20 (2.33%) Lead
13 20 (2.33%) Project Manager
13 20 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.21%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.22%) .NET
2 39 (4.54%) RESTful
3 37 (4.31%) HTML
3 37 (4.31%) Node.js
4 36 (4.19%) CSS
5 33 (3.84%) React
6 32 (3.73%) Kafka
7 31 (3.61%) SOAP
7 31 (3.61%) Web Services
8 27 (3.14%) JSON
9 17 (1.98%) Akka
10 15 (1.75%) XML
11 14 (1.63%) Django
12 12 (1.40%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.40%) Middleware
12 12 (1.40%) REST
13 10 (1.16%) .NET Framework
14 9 (1.05%) OAuth
15 8 (0.93%) jQuery
15 8 (0.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.87%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.14%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.14%) Security Posture
4 26 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 19 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.16%) PropTech
9 10 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.58%) CMDB
12 5 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.58%) PMI
13 4 (0.47%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.47%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.79%) Linux
2 16 (1.86%) Windows
3 9 (1.05%) Android
3 9 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.70%) SUSE
5 6 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (52.62%) TOGAF
2 406 (47.26%) Validation
3 404 (47.03%) Network Architecture
4 402 (46.80%) Network Management
5 398 (46.33%) Model Validation
5 398 (46.33%) Requirements Management
6 396 (46.10%) Actionable Insight
7 190 (22.12%) Agile
8 101 (11.76%) Project Management
9 90 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (10.48%) Roadmaps
10 87 (10.13%) Software Engineering
11 85 (9.90%) CI/CD
11 85 (9.90%) DevOps
12 63 (7.33%) Business Strategy
13 60 (6.98%) SDLC
14 52 (6.05%) Microservices
15 51 (5.94%) Migration
16 50 (5.82%) Project Delivery
17 48 (5.59%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 95 (11.06%) Java
2 75 (8.73%) JavaScript
3 54 (6.29%) SQL
4 52 (6.05%) C#
5 45 (5.24%) Scala
6 37 (4.31%) Python
7 21 (2.44%) Go
8 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.93%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.70%) SOQL
11 5 (0.58%) ABAP
11 5 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.47%) RPG
13 3 (0.35%) PHP
14 2 (0.23%) Bash
14 2 (0.23%) C++
14 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.46%) Degree
3 79 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.33%) CISSP
6 19 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (1.40%) CCSP
9 10 (1.16%) CCSK
10 9 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.81%) Microsoft 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 3 (0.35%) CISA
14 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.21%) GDPR
2 19 (2.21%) NIST
3 18 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.40%) 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 20 (2.33%) Docker
2 16 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) RACF
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.21%) Ansible
3 13 (1.51%) Terraform
4 8 (0.93%) Kiali
5 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (0.58%) HP UCMDB
7 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
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 99 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.73%) Google
3 17 (1.98%) Oracle
3 17 (1.98%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.86%) SAP
5 9 (1.05%) Cisco
5 9 (1.05%) Citrix
6 8 (0.93%) AppDynamics
6 8 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.93%) Splunk
6 8 (0.93%) VMware
7 7 (0.81%) DocuSign
7 7 (0.81%) HP
7 7 (0.81%) IBM
8 6 (0.70%) Apttus
8 6 (0.70%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.58%) BMC
9 5 (0.58%) Databricks
9 5 (0.58%) Intapp
9 5 (0.58%) Meraki