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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 439 477
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 -111
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 341 241 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.58% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 211 92 338
10th Percentile £63,744 £42,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,641 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.17% -2.56% +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 67,867 41,257 88,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 92.63% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46,626 22,001 62,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,353 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 15 June 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 15 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 -11 273 £80,000 +4.92% 83
UK excluding London -14 171 £75,000 +6.17% 47
Work from Home +82 158 £78,750 -1.56% 56
London -8 116 £100,000 +21.95% 42
North of England -22 37 £80,000 +10.34% 14
South East -15 36 £75,000 -11.76% 16
Midlands -13 30 £72,500 +38.39% 3
South West -55 23 £41,250 -48.44% 9
Wales - 23 £69,973 - 1
West Midlands -10 20 £82,500 +13.29% 1
North West -5 13 £70,000 +27.17% 7
North East - 13 £78,500 - 1
East of England -17 11 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Yorkshire -31 11 £90,000 +24.14% 6
East Midlands -16 10 £65,000 +73.33% 2
Scotland -4 6 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -

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 9 (2.64%) Confluence
1 9 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) Documentum
3 3 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 93 (27.27%) Azure
2 91 (26.69%) AWS
3 46 (13.49%) GCP
4 27 (7.92%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.28%) SaaS
6 17 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (4.99%) PaaS
7 15 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.81%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.93%) IaaS
9 10 (2.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 9 (2.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (1.76%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.76%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.11%) Broadband
2 7 (2.05%) LAN
2 7 (2.05%) WAN
3 6 (1.76%) Unified Communications
3 6 (1.76%) WLAN
4 3 (0.88%) Network Security
5 2 (0.59%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) AMQP
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) WebEx
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.99%) BigQuery
2 16 (4.69%) Metadata
3 13 (3.81%) Semantic Layer
4 11 (3.23%) Power BI
5 10 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.05%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.88%) MySQL
11 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.59%) Big Data
11 2 (0.59%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.59%) Redis
11 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.28%) Git
2 15 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.23%) JUnit
4 9 (2.64%) JIRA
5 6 (1.76%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.76%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.76%) Subversion
6 5 (1.47%) Maven
6 5 (1.47%) Mockito
6 5 (1.47%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.59%) Gatling
7 2 (0.59%) Selenium
7 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 113 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 86 (25.22%) Public Sector
3 75 (21.99%) Finance
4 56 (16.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.33%) Legal
7 23 (6.74%) Law
8 11 (3.23%) Retail
9 10 (2.93%) Banking
9 10 (2.93%) Marketing
10 8 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.05%) Local Government
11 7 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.88%) Aviation
13 3 (0.88%) Back Office
13 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.59%) Advertising
14 2 (0.59%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (49.27%) Architect
2 59 (17.30%) Technical Architect
3 55 (16.13%) Lead
4 49 (14.37%) Solutions Architect
5 44 (12.90%) Senior
6 29 (8.50%) Developer
7 25 (7.33%) Lead Architect
8 20 (5.87%) Systems Engineer
9 19 (5.57%) Data Architect
10 18 (5.28%) Technical Leader
11 16 (4.69%) Consultant
12 15 (4.40%) Enterprise Architect
12 15 (4.40%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (3.23%) Head of Architecture
15 10 (2.93%) Principal Architect
16 9 (2.64%) Data Engineer
16 9 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
17 8 (2.35%) Head of Technical Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.92%) React
2 21 (6.16%) Node.js
3 16 (4.69%) RESTful
4 14 (4.11%) .NET
5 12 (3.52%) REST
6 11 (3.23%) Spring
7 9 (2.64%) Middleware
8 8 (2.35%) Kafka
9 7 (2.05%) J2EE
9 7 (2.05%) Web Services
10 6 (1.76%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.76%) Struts
11 5 (1.47%) Playwright
12 4 (1.17%) Backbone.js
12 4 (1.17%) CSS
12 4 (1.17%) Next.js
12 4 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
14 2 (0.59%) FastAPI
14 2 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.44%) Virtual Team
2 35 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.05%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.76%) NHS
8 6 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.88%) BBC
11 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.35%) Android
1 8 (2.35%) Apple iOS
1 8 (2.35%) Linux
2 6 (1.76%) Windows
2 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (34.31%) Agile
2 92 (26.98%) AI
3 87 (25.51%) CI/CD
4 85 (24.93%) Roadmaps
5 62 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 60 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (17.60%) Technical Leadership
7 52 (15.25%) Data Modelling
8 51 (14.96%) DevOps
9 45 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (12.90%) Software Engineering
11 42 (12.32%) Analytics
11 42 (12.32%) Microservices
12 41 (12.02%) Data Architecture
13 39 (11.44%) Decision-Making
13 39 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 36 (10.56%) Project Management
14 36 (10.56%) SDLC
15 33 (9.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.25%) Python
2 41 (12.02%) SQL
3 36 (10.56%) Java
4 28 (8.21%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.99%) C#
6 16 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.64%) Go
7 9 (2.64%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.35%) C++
8 8 (2.35%) Scala
9 7 (2.05%) VBA
10 6 (1.76%) Perl
11 5 (1.47%) Bash
12 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.59%) PHP
12 2 (0.59%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) X++
13 1 (0.29%) ABAP
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 56 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.26%) Degree
4 24 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.52%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.64%) CISSP
8 7 (2.05%) APMP
8 7 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.05%) MBA
9 6 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.76%) CISM
9 6 (1.76%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.76%) OSCP
10 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.87%) GDPR
3 15 (4.40%) QA
4 9 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.64%) NIST
5 7 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.47%) GRC
7 4 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.88%) COBIT
8 3 (0.88%) IFRS
8 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.59%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (4.99%) Docker
2 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) IAG
Systems Management
1 22 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.40%) Terraform
3 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.59%) Grafana
4 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.99%) SAP
3 16 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.52%) Oracle
4 12 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.64%) Google
6 8 (2.35%) YouTube
7 6 (1.76%) OpenText
8 4 (1.17%) Pega
9 3 (0.88%) Databricks
9 3 (0.88%) HP
9 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.88%) VMware
10 2 (0.59%) Aderant
10 2 (0.59%) Foundry
10 2 (0.59%) iManage
10 2 (0.59%) Intapp
10 2 (0.59%) Litera
10 2 (0.59%) Palantir
11 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace