Technical Architecture Job Trends in Durham

Technical Architecture
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 7 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.44% - 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% - 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile - - £71,075
25th Percentile £71,085 - £71,138
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 - £80,000
75th Percentile £78,312 - -
90th Percentile £83,537 - -
North East median annual salary £78,500 - £75,150

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 352 159 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 72.58% 72.60% 75.46%
Number of salaries quoted 216 77 179
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,188 £33,287
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -25.53% -6.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £70,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,268 £85,000 £75,000
North East median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £47,148
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% -5.71%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Durham

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Technical Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Durham over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in Durham

Technical Architecture
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the Durham region over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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
Darlington - 6 £74,742 -
Technical Architecture
North East

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 6 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (42.86%) ERP Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Open Source
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) ERP
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (14.29%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree