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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 429 482
Rank change year-on-year +2 +53 -110
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 342 241 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.59% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 209 91 331
10th Percentile £63,421 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £57,388
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 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £71,571 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.79% +2.24% +7.69%

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 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
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 12 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 12 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 +2 275 £80,000 +1.59% 76
UK excluding London -15 172 £75,000 +4.79% 50
Work from Home +77 158 £80,000 - 49
London -14 115 £100,000 +21.95% 34
North of England -20 38 £79,250 +9.31% 16
South East -24 36 £75,000 -11.76% 15
Midlands -10 30 £72,500 +38.39% 4
South West -56 24 £41,250 -48.44% 10
Wales - 22 £69,973 - 1
West Midlands -16 20 £82,500 +13.29% 1
North East - 14 £74,250 - 1
North West +13 13 £70,000 +43.53% 10
East of England -13 11 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -38 11 £90,000 +24.14% 5
East Midlands -29 10 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Scotland -6 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 (2.63%) Confluence
1 9 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) Documentum
3 3 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) 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 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 92 (26.90%) Azure
2 91 (26.61%) AWS
3 45 (13.16%) GCP
4 27 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.26%) SaaS
6 17 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (4.97%) PaaS
7 14 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.80%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.92%) IaaS
9 10 (2.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 9 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.75%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.46%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.09%) Broadband
2 7 (2.05%) LAN
2 7 (2.05%) WAN
3 6 (1.75%) Unified Communications
3 6 (1.75%) WLAN
4 3 (0.88%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) 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 (4.97%) BigQuery
2 15 (4.39%) Metadata
3 13 (3.80%) Semantic Layer
4 11 (3.22%) Power BI
5 10 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.34%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.88%) Redis
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.58%) Big Data
10 2 (0.58%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.58%) MySQL
10 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.26%) Git
2 15 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.22%) JUnit
4 9 (2.63%) JIRA
5 6 (1.75%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.75%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.75%) Subversion
6 5 (1.46%) Maven
6 5 (1.46%) Mockito
6 5 (1.46%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.58%) Gatling
7 2 (0.58%) Selenium
7 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 115 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 84 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 76 (22.22%) Finance
4 55 (16.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.31%) Legal
7 22 (6.43%) Law
8 11 (3.22%) Retail
9 10 (2.92%) Marketing
10 9 (2.63%) Banking
11 8 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.05%) Local Government
12 7 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.46%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.88%) Aviation
15 3 (0.88%) Back Office
16 2 (0.58%) Advertising
16 2 (0.58%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (48.83%) Architect
2 59 (17.25%) Technical Architect
3 55 (16.08%) Lead
4 49 (14.33%) Solutions Architect
5 43 (12.57%) Senior
6 29 (8.48%) Developer
7 25 (7.31%) Lead Architect
8 21 (6.14%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 18 (5.26%) Technical Leader
10 16 (4.68%) Consultant
11 15 (4.39%) Enterprise Architect
12 14 (4.09%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.22%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (3.22%) Head of Architecture
15 10 (2.92%) Principal Architect
16 9 (2.63%) Data Engineer
16 9 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
17 8 (2.34%) Head of Technical Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.89%) React
2 21 (6.14%) Node.js
3 16 (4.68%) RESTful
4 15 (4.39%) .NET
5 12 (3.51%) REST
6 11 (3.22%) Spring
7 9 (2.63%) Middleware
8 8 (2.34%) Kafka
9 7 (2.05%) J2EE
9 7 (2.05%) Web Services
10 6 (1.75%) Struts
11 5 (1.46%) Playwright
11 5 (1.46%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.17%) Backbone.js
12 4 (1.17%) CSS
12 4 (1.17%) Next.js
13 3 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
14 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
14 2 (0.58%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.40%) Virtual Team
2 34 (9.94%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.05%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.75%) NHS
7 6 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.88%) BBC
10 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.34%) Android
1 8 (2.34%) Apple iOS
1 8 (2.34%) Linux
2 6 (1.75%) Windows
2 6 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (33.92%) Agile
2 92 (26.90%) AI
3 88 (25.73%) CI/CD
4 84 (24.56%) Roadmaps
5 61 (17.84%) Mentoring
6 60 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (17.25%) Technical Leadership
8 51 (14.91%) Data Modelling
8 51 (14.91%) DevOps
9 44 (12.87%) Microservices
9 44 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (12.57%) Software Engineering
11 42 (12.28%) Analytics
12 40 (11.70%) Data Architecture
13 39 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 38 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 36 (10.53%) Project Management
15 36 (10.53%) SDLC
16 32 (9.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.50%) Python
2 42 (12.28%) SQL
3 36 (10.53%) Java
4 28 (8.19%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.97%) C#
6 16 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.92%) Go
8 9 (2.63%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.63%) Scala
9 8 (2.34%) C++
10 7 (2.05%) VBA
11 6 (1.75%) Perl
12 5 (1.46%) Bash
13 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.58%) Ruby
13 2 (0.58%) X++
14 1 (0.29%) ABAP
14 1 (0.29%) C
14 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 57 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.23%) Degree
4 24 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.63%) CISSP
8 8 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.05%) APMP
9 7 (2.05%) MBA
10 6 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.75%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.75%) CISM
10 6 (1.75%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.75%) OSCP
11 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.85%) GDPR
3 14 (4.09%) QA
4 9 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.63%) NIST
5 7 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.46%) 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 (0.58%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (4.68%) Docker
2 11 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) IAG
Systems Management
1 22 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.09%) Terraform
3 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Argo
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.97%) SAP
3 16 (4.68%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.51%) Oracle
4 12 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.63%) Google
6 8 (2.34%) YouTube
7 6 (1.75%) 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 (0.58%) Aderant
10 2 (0.58%) Foundry
10 2 (0.58%) iManage
10 2 (0.58%) Intapp
10 2 (0.58%) Litera
10 2 (0.58%) Palantir
11 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace