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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 449 468
Rank change year-on-year +74 +19 -140
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 513 242 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 292 95 266
10th Percentile £55,125 £47,988 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £59,630 £60,486
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 £84,688
90th Percentile £117,250 £103,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -13.33% +11.11%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +39 356 £80,000 +6.67% 299
UK excluding London +75 323 £74,830 +15.12% 144
Work from Home +150 283 £77,500 -3.13% 128
London -6 133 £100,000 +21.95% 185
North of England +15 73 £76,665 +5.74% 41
Northern Ireland - 67 £74,830 - 3
South East -31 43 £77,500 +3.33% 39
Midlands -20 42 £74,830 +15.12% 11
West Midlands -4 38 £74,915 +15.25% 4
South West -38 37 £31,000 -61.25% 28
North West +14 31 £72,415 +20.65% 17
North East - 30 £78,500 - 8
Wales - 27 £70,000 - 5
Scotland +12 22 £74,830 +66.29% 15
East of England -26 12 £100,000 +37.93% 4
Yorkshire -31 12 £90,000 +16.13% 16
East Midlands -28 4 £70,000 +7.69% 7

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 8 (1.56%) Confluence
2 6 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.97%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 200 (38.99%) Azure
2 142 (27.68%) AWS
3 62 (12.09%) Cloud Computing
4 55 (10.72%) Power Platform
5 50 (9.75%) GCP
6 43 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (5.07%) dbt
8 21 (4.09%) SaaS
9 17 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.73%) PaaS
10 14 (2.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 11 (2.14%) IaaS
13 9 (1.75%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.75%) Serverless
14 8 (1.56%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.56%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (1.36%) GitHub
16 6 (1.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.67%) LAN
1 65 (12.67%) WAN
2 16 (3.12%) Broadband
3 10 (1.95%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.17%) WLAN
5 5 (0.97%) Firewall
5 5 (0.97%) Network Security
6 3 (0.58%) Internet
6 3 (0.58%) VPN
7 1 (0.19%) WebEx
7 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.09%) BigQuery
2 20 (3.90%) Metadata
3 15 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.92%) Semantic Layer
4 12 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.95%) MySQL
7 8 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.36%) Power BI
8 7 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.36%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.17%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.97%) Big Data
11 4 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.39%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (6.24%) Git
2 26 (5.07%) JUnit
3 19 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.31%) Eclipse
5 15 (2.92%) JIRA
5 15 (2.92%) Subversion
6 9 (1.75%) Maven
6 9 (1.75%) Mockito
7 7 (1.36%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.97%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.78%) Selenium
10 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.39%) Gatling
10 2 (0.39%) GitLab
10 2 (0.39%) JMeter
10 2 (0.39%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 233 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 165 (32.16%) Finance
3 104 (20.27%) Public Sector
4 99 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (13.26%) Presentation Skills
6 60 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (11.31%) Law
8 31 (6.04%) Legal
9 25 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.34%) Marketing
11 11 (2.14%) Banking
12 9 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.75%) Retail
13 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.36%) Aviation
15 6 (1.17%) Military
16 5 (0.97%) Advertising
17 4 (0.78%) Local Government
17 4 (0.78%) Public Speaking
17 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 295 (57.50%) Architect
2 82 (15.98%) Technical Architect
3 72 (14.04%) Lead
4 65 (12.67%) Solutions Architect
5 64 (12.48%) Systems Architect
6 57 (11.11%) Senior
7 49 (9.55%) Developer
8 32 (6.24%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (4.09%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.90%) Enterprise Architect
11 20 (3.90%) Technical Leader
12 17 (3.31%) Consultant
12 17 (3.31%) Lead Architect
13 16 (3.12%) ERP Architect
14 15 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 15 (2.92%) Junior
14 15 (2.92%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.73%) Junior Developer
15 14 (2.73%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.53%) React
2 27 (5.26%) RESTful
3 25 (4.87%) Node.js
4 23 (4.48%) Jakarta EE
5 21 (4.09%) REST
6 20 (3.90%) Spring
7 19 (3.70%) Middleware
8 17 (3.31%) Web Services
9 15 (2.92%) Struts
10 14 (2.73%) .NET
11 12 (2.34%) Next.js
12 11 (2.14%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.95%) Kafka
13 10 (1.95%) Playwright
14 8 (1.56%) JSP
14 8 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (1.36%) Hibernate
16 6 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
17 5 (0.97%) AWS CDK
17 5 (0.97%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 42 (8.19%) Virtual Team
3 19 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.17%) Blog
12 6 (1.17%) Life Science
12 6 (1.17%) NHS
13 5 (0.97%) PMI
13 5 (0.97%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.12%) Linux
2 9 (1.75%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.78%) Android
4 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (34.31%) Agile
2 167 (32.55%) Roadmaps
3 130 (25.34%) AI
4 122 (23.78%) CI/CD
5 118 (23.00%) Mentoring
6 105 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 92 (17.93%) Containerisation
8 91 (17.74%) Technical Leadership
9 90 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 88 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
11 85 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (16.57%) Project Delivery
12 83 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 82 (15.98%) Risk Management
14 80 (15.59%) DevOps
15 79 (15.40%) Business Strategy
16 74 (14.42%) Migration
17 72 (14.04%) Enterprise Architecture
17 72 (14.04%) Information Security
18 70 (13.65%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 66 (12.87%) Java
2 61 (11.89%) Python
3 54 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 46 (8.97%) SQL
5 30 (5.85%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.90%) C#
7 18 (3.51%) C++
8 15 (2.92%) Perl
9 11 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.95%) Scala
11 9 (1.75%) Bash
12 6 (1.17%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.78%) C
13 4 (0.78%) Go
14 3 (0.58%) ABAP
14 3 (0.58%) VBA
14 3 (0.58%) X++
15 2 (0.39%) Bicep
15 2 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 119 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 103 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.33%) Degree
4 37 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.14%) CISSP
6 11 (2.14%) DBS Check
7 9 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.17%) CISM
9 6 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.97%) CCSP
11 3 (0.58%) CCNA
11 3 (0.58%) CCNP
11 3 (0.58%) MBA
11 3 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.28%) GRC
2 45 (8.77%) QA
3 29 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.29%) GDPR
5 15 (2.92%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.14%) NIST
7 10 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.58%) COBIT
9 3 (0.58%) IFRS
9 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 2 (0.39%) WCAG
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (5.65%) Docker
2 15 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.39%) NDS
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 30 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.48%) Terraform
3 7 (1.36%) Grafana
3 7 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.58%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 128 (24.95%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.02%) SAP
3 25 (4.87%) Salesforce
4 23 (4.48%) Oracle
5 15 (2.92%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.36%) Google
7 5 (0.97%) Splunk
7 5 (0.97%) YouTube
8 4 (0.78%) Mitel
8 4 (0.78%) OpenText
9 3 (0.58%) HP
9 3 (0.58%) Okta
9 3 (0.58%) VMware
10 2 (0.39%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.39%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.39%) iManage
10 2 (0.39%) NetIQ
10 2 (0.39%) Pega
10 2 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud