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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 486 426
Rank change year-on-year +131 -60 -132
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 601 181 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.37% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 338 80 258
10th Percentile £49,308 £58,625 £49,661
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £78,750 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +4.79% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,375 £101,625 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year -0.23% -0.20% +11.33%

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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +72 421 £82,500 +3.13% 570
UK excluding London +89 390 £74,830 -0.23% 241
Work from Home +153 309 £77,500 -3.13% 224
London +2 142 £90,000 +5.88% 367
North of England +25 100 £85,000 +11.48% 65
Northern Ireland -26 71 £74,830 - 4
Midlands -7 58 £74,830 +9.04% 40
West Midlands +10 56 £74,830 -1.70% 30
South East -18 47 £85,000 +13.33% 60
South West -42 45 £37,500 - 35
North East - 44 £85,000 - 6
North West +2 39 £70,000 - 42
Wales -31 34 £70,000 -2.78% 6
Scotland +26 23 £74,830 - 18
Yorkshire -32 17 £90,000 +14.29% 17
East of England -30 12 £100,000 +37.93% 13
East Midlands -36 2 £70,000 +7.69% 10

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 (1.50%) Confluence
2 7 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.33%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (39.43%) Azure
2 168 (27.95%) AWS
3 66 (10.98%) Cloud Computing
4 65 (10.82%) Power Platform
5 64 (10.65%) GCP
6 37 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.33%) dbt
8 25 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (3.83%) SaaS
10 16 (2.66%) Serverless
11 15 (2.50%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.16%) PaaS
13 13 (2.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 13 (2.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 12 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (1.83%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.83%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.98%) LAN
1 72 (11.98%) WAN
2 16 (2.66%) Broadband
3 10 (1.66%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.50%) Firewall
5 6 (1.00%) WLAN
6 5 (0.83%) Network Security
7 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) Internet
7 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.50%) VPN
7 3 (0.50%) Wireless
8 1 (0.17%) 5G
8 1 (0.17%) Value-Added Service
8 1 (0.17%) WebEx
8 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (3.66%) BigQuery
3 19 (3.16%) MySQL
4 18 (3.00%) Metadata
5 17 (2.83%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
7 13 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.83%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.00%) Power BI
12 6 (1.00%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.83%) Big Data
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.33%) Data Vault
15 2 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (8.49%) Git
2 32 (5.32%) JUnit
3 22 (3.66%) Eclipse
4 20 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.16%) JIRA
5 19 (3.16%) Subversion
6 10 (1.66%) Maven
6 10 (1.66%) Mockito
7 7 (1.16%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.67%) Selenium
8 4 (0.67%) Yeoman
9 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.33%) Gatling
10 2 (0.33%) GitLab
10 2 (0.33%) JMeter
10 2 (0.33%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 264 (43.93%) Social Skills
2 195 (32.45%) Finance
3 140 (23.29%) Public Sector
4 105 (17.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (13.31%) Presentation Skills
6 73 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (9.15%) Law
8 32 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (4.66%) Legal
10 23 (3.83%) Banking
11 17 (2.83%) Retail
12 16 (2.66%) Aerospace
13 13 (2.16%) Marketing
14 11 (1.83%) Military
15 9 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.16%) Aviation
16 7 (1.16%) Police
16 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.67%) Local Government
17 4 (0.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 344 (57.24%) Architect
2 122 (20.30%) Technical Architect
3 114 (18.97%) Lead
4 76 (12.65%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (11.48%) Systems Architect
6 66 (10.98%) Developer
7 59 (9.82%) Senior
8 43 (7.15%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.66%) Lead Architect
10 39 (6.49%) Technical Leader
11 26 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (3.66%) Data Architect
12 22 (3.66%) Junior
13 19 (3.16%) Senior Developer
14 18 (3.00%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.00%) Junior Developer
15 17 (2.83%) Junior Java Developer
16 16 (2.66%) Consultant
16 16 (2.66%) ERP Architect
17 15 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (10.65%) React
2 39 (6.49%) RESTful
3 36 (5.99%) Terraform
4 31 (5.16%) REST
5 30 (4.99%) Spring
6 27 (4.49%) Jakarta EE
7 24 (3.99%) Node.js
8 23 (3.83%) Middleware
9 20 (3.33%) Spring Boot
9 20 (3.33%) Web Services
10 19 (3.16%) Kafka
10 19 (3.16%) Struts
11 16 (2.66%) Hibernate
12 15 (2.50%) .NET
12 15 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.16%) JPA
14 12 (2.00%) Next.js
15 11 (1.83%) SAP Fiori
16 10 (1.66%) Playwright
17 8 (1.33%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.99%) Virtual Team
3 34 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 19 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.16%) Blog
12 7 (1.16%) PMI
12 7 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.00%) Life Science
13 6 (1.00%) NHS
14 5 (0.83%) BBC
14 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.49%) Linux
2 10 (1.66%) Windows
3 9 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.00%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (33.94%) Roadmaps
2 191 (31.78%) Agile
3 157 (26.12%) AI
4 152 (25.29%) Mentoring
5 151 (25.12%) CI/CD
6 141 (23.46%) Technical Leadership
7 124 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (18.97%) Containerisation
9 111 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 105 (17.47%) DevOps
11 105 (17.47%) Project Delivery
12 101 (16.81%) Risk Management
13 100 (16.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 96 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 87 (14.48%) Microservices
16 85 (14.14%) Business Strategy
17 81 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
18 79 (13.14%) Migration
19 78 (12.98%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.81%) Java
2 76 (12.65%) Python
3 66 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 56 (9.32%) SQL
5 35 (5.82%) TypeScript
6 29 (4.83%) C#
7 22 (3.66%) C++
8 19 (3.16%) Perl
9 16 (2.66%) Scala
10 10 (1.66%) ABAP
10 10 (1.66%) Bash
10 10 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.83%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.67%) C
12 4 (0.67%) Go
12 4 (0.67%) X++
13 3 (0.50%) Rust
14 2 (0.33%) Bicep
14 2 (0.33%) SOQL
14 2 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 147 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 126 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.48%) Degree
4 42 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.16%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.00%) CISSP
8 10 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.66%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.00%) CCNP
13 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.67%) CCSP
14 4 (0.67%) CISM
15 3 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.48%) GRC
2 55 (9.15%) QA
3 29 (4.83%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 23 (3.83%) GDPR
6 11 (1.83%) NIST
7 10 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.67%) WCAG
12 3 (0.50%) COBIT
12 3 (0.50%) IFRS
12 3 (0.50%) NCSC
13 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (7.32%) Docker
2 17 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) NDS
3 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.83%) Grafana
3 16 (2.66%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.00%) Ansible
5 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 151 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.32%) SAP
3 27 (4.49%) Oracle
4 23 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.66%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.16%) Splunk
7 10 (1.66%) YouTube
8 7 (1.16%) Databricks
9 6 (1.00%) VMware
10 5 (0.83%) Okta
11 4 (0.67%) Aruba
11 4 (0.67%) Cisco
11 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.67%) Google
11 4 (0.67%) Mitel
11 4 (0.67%) OpenText
12 3 (0.50%) Juniper
12 3 (0.50%) NetIQ