Technical Architecture Job Trends

Technical Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 441 484
Rank change year-on-year +47 +43 -139
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 430 249 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 265 94 329
10th Percentile £62,084 £51,548 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £116,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.21% - +11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Technical Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 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
England +6 302 £79,669 +4.48% 136
UK excluding London +37 245 £74,830 +3.21% 77
Work from Home +118 231 £77,500 -3.13% 58
London -6 119 £100,000 +21.95% 74
North of England -1 54 £74,830 +3.21% 22
Northern Ireland - 41 £74,742 - 2
South East -39 35 £75,000 - 22
Midlands -22 34 £74,830 +15.12% 9
West Midlands -1 28 £74,915 -0.11% 6
Wales - 27 £70,000 - 2
South West -53 26 £29,500 -63.13% 12
North East - 22 £74,830 - 3
North West +3 20 £70,000 +27.17% 12
Scotland +3 16 £74,830 +66.29% 5
East of England -12 12 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Yorkshire -25 12 £90,000 +24.14% 8
East Midlands -36 6 £70,000 +7.69% 3

Technical Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.02%) Confluence
2 8 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) Documentum
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) JBoss
5 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.47%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 152 (35.35%) Azure
2 122 (28.37%) AWS
3 61 (14.19%) Power Platform
4 51 (11.86%) GCP
5 46 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (9.07%) Cloud Computing
7 21 (4.88%) SaaS
8 20 (4.65%) dbt
8 20 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (3.95%) PaaS
10 13 (3.02%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (2.33%) IaaS
12 10 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (2.33%) Serverless
13 7 (1.63%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.63%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.84%) LAN
1 38 (8.84%) WAN
2 16 (3.72%) Broadband
3 8 (1.86%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.40%) WLAN
5 5 (1.16%) Firewall
5 5 (1.16%) Network Security
6 3 (0.70%) Internet
6 3 (0.70%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) WebEx
7 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.88%) BigQuery
2 16 (3.72%) Metadata
3 15 (3.49%) Semantic Layer
4 12 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.56%) Power BI
6 10 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.63%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.40%) MySQL
8 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.16%) Big Data
10 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.47%) Redis
11 2 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (5.35%) Git
2 17 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.49%) JUnit
4 14 (3.26%) JIRA
5 10 (2.33%) Eclipse
5 10 (2.33%) Subversion
6 6 (1.40%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.16%) Maven
7 5 (1.16%) Mockito
7 5 (1.16%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.70%) Selenium
9 2 (0.47%) Gatling
9 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.23%) GitLab
10 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 194 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 111 (25.81%) Finance
3 92 (21.40%) Public Sector
4 90 (20.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (12.33%) Law
6 49 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (9.07%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (6.51%) Legal
9 12 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.56%) Banking
11 7 (1.63%) Local Government
11 7 (1.63%) Retail
12 6 (1.40%) Marketing
13 5 (1.16%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.93%) Advertising
14 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.93%) Public Speaking
15 3 (0.70%) Aviation
16 2 (0.47%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (58.60%) Architect
2 80 (18.60%) Technical Architect
3 63 (14.65%) Solutions Architect
4 62 (14.42%) Lead
5 48 (11.16%) Senior
6 36 (8.37%) Systems Architect
7 33 (7.67%) Developer
8 24 (5.58%) Technical Leader
9 22 (5.12%) Lead Architect
10 21 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 20 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (4.42%) Data Architect
13 17 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
14 15 (3.49%) Consultant
14 15 (3.49%) Systems Engineer
15 13 (3.02%) ERP Architect
16 12 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 12 (2.79%) Head of Architecture
16 12 (2.79%) Principal Engineer
17 11 (2.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.14%) React
2 24 (5.58%) Node.js
3 23 (5.35%) RESTful
4 16 (3.72%) .NET
5 15 (3.49%) J2EE
6 13 (3.02%) Spring
7 12 (2.79%) Middleware
7 12 (2.79%) Web Services
8 11 (2.56%) REST
9 10 (2.33%) Kafka
9 10 (2.33%) Struts
10 8 (1.86%) Next.js
10 8 (1.86%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.16%) CSS
12 5 (1.16%) JSP
12 5 (1.16%) Playwright
12 5 (1.16%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (0.93%) AWS CDK
13 4 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.77%) Virtual Team
3 16 (3.72%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.63%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.63%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.40%) NHS
8 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.93%) Life Science
8 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.93%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.70%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.33%) Linux
2 9 (2.09%) Windows
3 8 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.40%) Android
4 6 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (35.35%) Agile
2 128 (29.77%) Roadmaps
3 105 (24.42%) AI
4 104 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 89 (20.70%) Mentoring
6 79 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 72 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (16.74%) DevOps
8 70 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
9 69 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (15.81%) Enterprise Architecture
11 66 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 63 (14.65%) Migration
13 58 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (13.49%) Technology Strategy
14 55 (12.79%) Containerisation
15 53 (12.33%) IT Strategy
16 52 (12.09%) Data Modelling
17 51 (11.86%) Decision-Making
17 51 (11.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (13.49%) Python
2 49 (11.40%) Java
3 42 (9.77%) SQL
4 38 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.88%) C#
5 21 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.02%) C++
7 10 (2.33%) Perl
7 10 (2.33%) Scala
8 9 (2.09%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.40%) Go
9 6 (1.40%) VBA
10 5 (1.16%) Bash
11 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.70%) X++
13 2 (0.47%) Bicep
13 2 (0.47%) PHP
13 2 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 92 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 80 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.77%) Degree
4 30 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.79%) DBS Check
6 11 (2.56%) CISSP
6 11 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.40%) APMP
10 6 (1.40%) CISM
10 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.40%) MBA
11 5 (1.16%) CCSP
11 5 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.37%) GRC
2 26 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 25 (5.81%) QA
4 22 (5.12%) GDPR
5 10 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.33%) NIST
6 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.70%) COBIT
8 3 (0.70%) IFRS
8 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 2 (0.47%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (4.65%) Docker
2 13 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 22 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.42%) Terraform
3 5 (1.16%) Grafana
3 5 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 96 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.88%) SAP
3 20 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.49%) Oracle
4 15 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.09%) Google
6 9 (2.09%) YouTube
7 6 (1.40%) OpenText
8 5 (1.16%) Pega
9 3 (0.70%) Databricks
9 3 (0.70%) HP
9 3 (0.70%) Splunk
9 3 (0.70%) VMware
10 2 (0.47%) Aderant
10 2 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.47%) iManage
10 2 (0.47%) Intapp
10 2 (0.47%) Litera
10 2 (0.47%) Mitel