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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 433 459
Rank change year-on-year +50 +26 -123
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 491 247 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.56% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 280 96 287
10th Percentile £59,875 £48,513 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £59,908 £60,486
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -0.20% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,250 £103,125 £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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 28 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 28 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 +26 332 £80,000 +4.92% 181
UK excluding London +64 304 £74,830 +15.12% 85
Work from Home +147 279 £77,500 -3.13% 74
London -11 129 £100,000 +21.95% 111
North of England +11 69 £74,830 +3.21% 27
Northern Ireland - 67 £74,830 - 1
Midlands -19 39 £74,830 +15.12% 8
South East -19 38 £77,500 +3.33% 21
West Midlands +10 35 £74,830 +15.12% 5
North West +22 30 £74,830 +24.67% 13
South West -46 30 £29,500 -63.13% 15
Wales - 28 £70,000 - 2
North East - 27 £76,665 - 8
Scotland +18 21 £74,830 +66.29% 8
East of England -15 12 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -37 12 £90,000 +20.00% 6
East Midlands -32 4 £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 9 (1.83%) Confluence
2 6 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) JBoss
5 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 191 (38.90%) Azure
2 131 (26.68%) AWS
3 62 (12.63%) Cloud Computing
4 58 (11.81%) Power Platform
5 49 (9.98%) GCP
6 44 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.09%) dbt
8 20 (4.07%) SaaS
9 19 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.65%) PaaS
11 12 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 11 (2.24%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (2.04%) IaaS
13 10 (2.04%) Serverless
14 8 (1.63%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.43%) GitHub
15 7 (1.43%) OCI
15 7 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.24%) LAN
1 65 (13.24%) WAN
2 16 (3.26%) Broadband
3 10 (2.04%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.22%) WLAN
5 5 (1.02%) Firewall
5 5 (1.02%) Network Security
6 3 (0.61%) Internet
6 3 (0.61%) VPN
7 1 (0.20%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) WebEx
7 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.28%) BigQuery
2 19 (3.87%) Metadata
3 15 (3.05%) Semantic Layer
4 14 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.83%) MySQL
6 9 (1.83%) Power BI
7 8 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.43%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.02%) Big Data
10 5 (1.02%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.41%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.70%) Git
2 21 (4.28%) JUnit
3 18 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.65%) Eclipse
5 12 (2.44%) JIRA
5 12 (2.44%) Subversion
6 8 (1.63%) Maven
6 8 (1.63%) Mockito
7 7 (1.43%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.02%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.81%) Selenium
10 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.41%) Gatling
10 2 (0.41%) JMeter
10 2 (0.41%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.41%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 226 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 157 (31.98%) Finance
3 103 (20.98%) Public Sector
4 98 (19.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (13.85%) Presentation Skills
6 57 (11.61%) Law
7 56 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (6.52%) Legal
9 21 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.24%) Banking
11 10 (2.04%) Marketing
12 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.43%) Retail
13 5 (1.02%) Advertising
13 5 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.81%) Aviation
14 4 (0.81%) Public Speaking
14 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.61%) Local Government
16 2 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 288 (58.66%) Architect
2 77 (15.68%) Technical Architect
3 66 (13.44%) Solutions Architect
4 64 (13.03%) Lead
5 63 (12.83%) Systems Architect
6 53 (10.79%) Senior
7 45 (9.16%) Developer
8 28 (5.70%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (4.28%) Data Architect
11 20 (4.07%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.87%) Technical Leader
13 17 (3.46%) Consultant
14 16 (3.26%) ERP Architect
15 15 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 15 (3.05%) Lead Architect
16 13 (2.65%) Junior
16 13 (2.65%) Senior Developer
16 13 (2.65%) Systems Engineer
17 12 (2.44%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.37%) React
2 26 (5.30%) Node.js
3 25 (5.09%) RESTful
4 19 (3.87%) Jakarta EE
4 19 (3.87%) Spring
5 18 (3.67%) REST
6 17 (3.46%) Middleware
7 15 (3.05%) .NET
8 14 (2.85%) Web Services
9 12 (2.44%) Struts
10 11 (2.24%) Kafka
10 11 (2.24%) Next.js
10 11 (2.24%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.63%) Playwright
11 8 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.43%) JSP
13 6 (1.22%) Hibernate
13 6 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
14 5 (1.02%) AWS CDK
14 5 (1.02%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 44 (8.96%) Virtual Team
3 19 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.63%) AI Agents
6 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.22%) NHS
9 5 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.02%) Life Science
10 4 (0.81%) Blog
10 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.61%) BBC
11 3 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.85%) Linux
2 9 (1.83%) Windows
3 8 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.81%) Android
4 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (34.22%) Agile
2 159 (32.38%) Roadmaps
3 125 (25.46%) AI
4 117 (23.83%) CI/CD
5 109 (22.20%) Mentoring
6 98 (19.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (18.33%) Containerisation
7 90 (18.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 82 (16.70%) Project Delivery
9 79 (16.09%) Business Strategy
9 79 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (16.09%) Technical Leadership
10 78 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (15.48%) DevOps
11 76 (15.48%) Risk Management
12 73 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 72 (14.66%) Information Security
14 70 (14.26%) Migration
15 69 (14.05%) Enterprise Architecture
16 66 (13.44%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.02%) Python
2 57 (11.61%) Java
3 47 (9.57%) JavaScript
4 45 (9.16%) SQL
5 27 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.87%) C#
7 15 (3.05%) C++
8 12 (2.44%) Perl
9 11 (2.24%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.04%) Scala
11 8 (1.63%) Bash
12 6 (1.22%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.81%) Go
13 4 (0.81%) VBA
14 3 (0.61%) C
14 3 (0.61%) X++
15 2 (0.41%) Bicep
15 2 (0.41%) PHP
15 2 (0.41%) Ruby
16 1 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 110 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 96 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.57%) Degree
4 35 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.24%) CISSP
8 9 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.22%) CISM
11 5 (1.02%) CCSP
11 5 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.81%) APMP
12 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.81%) MBA
13 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.83%) GRC
2 37 (7.54%) QA
3 28 (5.70%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.48%) GDPR
5 12 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.24%) NIST
7 10 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.61%) COBIT
9 3 (0.61%) IFRS
9 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.41%) WCAG
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (5.70%) Docker
2 15 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.41%) NDS
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 29 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.28%) Terraform
3 7 (1.43%) Grafana
3 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 130 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.70%) SAP
3 23 (4.68%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.07%) Oracle
5 15 (3.05%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.63%) Google
8 5 (1.02%) Splunk
8 5 (1.02%) YouTube
9 4 (0.81%) Mitel
9 4 (0.81%) OpenText
10 3 (0.61%) HP
10 3 (0.61%) Okta
10 3 (0.61%) VMware
11 2 (0.41%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.41%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.41%) iManage
11 2 (0.41%) Litera
11 2 (0.41%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.41%) Pega