Java Technical Architect Job Trends

Java Technical Architect
UK

The median Java Technical Architect salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 737 669 883
Rank change year-on-year -68 +214 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Technical Architect 4 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.004% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.005% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +3.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £118,750
90th Percentile - - £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 89,062 40,399 103,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.44% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,111 23,040 74,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,567
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

Java Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Java Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Java Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Java Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Technical Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 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
England -53 4 £100,000 +29.03%
London -29 2 - -
UK excluding London -66 2 £100,000 -
North of England - 2 £100,000 -
North West - 2 £100,000 -
Work from Home - 2 - -

Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 June 2026, Java Technical Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Java Technical Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL

Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Design
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) Domain Models
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Sequence Diagram
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design
1 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes