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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 469 437
Rank change year-on-year +117 -32 -127
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 576 207 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.48% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 327 81 256
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £80,000 £75,075
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +6.56% -6.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.23% - +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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
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 15 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 15 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 +43 406 £82,500 +3.13% 639
UK excluding London +103 380 £74,830 -0.23% 263
Work from Home +149 304 £77,500 -3.13% 274
London +8 136 £95,000 +11.76% 437
North of England +27 100 £85,000 +9.68% 62
Northern Ireland - 71 £74,830 - 6
Midlands -13 52 £74,830 +9.04% 36
West Midlands +3 50 £74,830 -1.70% 29
South East -45 46 £80,000 +6.67% 77
South West -48 44 £37,500 - 32
North East - 44 £85,000 - 8
North West +9 39 £74,830 +15.12% 41
Wales -41 32 £70,000 -2.78% 6
Scotland +19 23 £74,830 +66.29% 34
Yorkshire -33 17 £90,000 +14.29% 13
East of England -29 12 £100,000 +37.93% 11
East Midlands -34 2 £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 9 (1.56%) Confluence
2 7 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.87%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.35%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (38.89%) Azure
2 159 (27.60%) AWS
3 66 (11.46%) Cloud Computing
4 63 (10.94%) Power Platform
5 56 (9.72%) GCP
6 37 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.51%) dbt
8 24 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (3.99%) SaaS
10 14 (2.43%) PaaS
11 13 (2.26%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.26%) Serverless
12 12 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.74%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.56%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.50%) LAN
1 72 (12.50%) WAN
2 16 (2.78%) Broadband
3 10 (1.74%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.56%) Firewall
5 6 (1.04%) WLAN
6 5 (0.87%) Network Security
7 3 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.52%) Internet
7 3 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.52%) VPN
7 3 (0.52%) 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 22 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (3.65%) BigQuery
3 18 (3.13%) Metadata
4 16 (2.78%) MySQL
5 15 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.60%) Semantic Layer
6 13 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.56%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.22%) Power BI
12 6 (1.04%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.87%) Big Data
13 5 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.35%) Data Vault
15 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (7.99%) Git
2 31 (5.38%) JUnit
3 21 (3.65%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.30%) Subversion
5 18 (3.13%) JIRA
6 10 (1.74%) Maven
6 10 (1.74%) Mockito
7 7 (1.22%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.69%) Selenium
8 4 (0.69%) Yeoman
9 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.35%) Gatling
9 2 (0.35%) GitLab
9 2 (0.35%) JMeter
9 2 (0.35%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 254 (44.10%) Social Skills
2 189 (32.81%) Finance
3 132 (22.92%) Public Sector
4 104 (18.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (13.72%) Presentation Skills
6 71 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (9.55%) Law
8 31 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.51%) Legal
10 20 (3.47%) Banking
11 15 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.26%) Marketing
13 11 (1.91%) Military
13 11 (1.91%) Retail
14 9 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.22%) Aviation
15 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.04%) Police
17 4 (0.69%) Advertising
17 4 (0.69%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 334 (57.99%) Architect
2 117 (20.31%) Technical Architect
3 104 (18.06%) Lead
4 73 (12.67%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (11.98%) Systems Architect
6 63 (10.94%) Developer
7 56 (9.72%) Senior
8 42 (7.29%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.94%) Lead Architect
10 39 (6.77%) Technical Leader
11 24 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
12 21 (3.65%) Data Architect
12 21 (3.65%) Junior
13 18 (3.13%) Senior Developer
14 17 (2.95%) Consultant
14 17 (2.95%) Junior Developer
14 17 (2.95%) Junior Java Developer
15 16 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
15 16 (2.78%) ERP Architect
16 15 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.11%) React
2 37 (6.42%) RESTful
3 32 (5.56%) Terraform
4 27 (4.69%) Jakarta EE
4 27 (4.69%) REST
4 27 (4.69%) Spring
5 24 (4.17%) Node.js
6 21 (3.65%) Middleware
7 20 (3.47%) Web Services
8 19 (3.30%) Struts
9 18 (3.13%) Kafka
10 17 (2.95%) Spring Boot
11 15 (2.60%) .NET
12 14 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.26%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.08%) Next.js
15 11 (1.91%) JPA
16 10 (1.74%) Playwright
17 9 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
18 8 (1.39%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.81%) Virtual Team
3 30 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.56%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.22%) Blog
12 7 (1.22%) PMI
12 7 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.04%) Life Science
13 6 (1.04%) NHS
14 4 (0.69%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.47%) Linux
2 10 (1.74%) Windows
3 9 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (35.07%) Roadmaps
2 183 (31.77%) Agile
3 151 (26.22%) AI
4 142 (24.65%) Mentoring
5 139 (24.13%) CI/CD
6 133 (23.09%) Technical Leadership
7 117 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 109 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 104 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (17.71%) Project Delivery
10 102 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 100 (17.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 98 (17.01%) Risk Management
13 94 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (16.32%) DevOps
14 84 (14.58%) Business Strategy
15 83 (14.41%) Microservices
16 79 (13.72%) Migration
17 78 (13.54%) Business Case
17 78 (13.54%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 79 (13.72%) Java
2 72 (12.50%) Python
3 65 (11.28%) JavaScript
4 52 (9.03%) SQL
5 34 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 27 (4.69%) C#
7 22 (3.82%) C++
8 19 (3.30%) Perl
9 14 (2.43%) Scala
10 10 (1.74%) Bash
10 10 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.56%) ABAP
12 5 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.69%) C
13 4 (0.69%) X++
14 3 (0.52%) Go
14 3 (0.52%) Rust
15 2 (0.35%) Clojure
15 2 (0.35%) SOQL
15 2 (0.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 135 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.94%) Degree
4 42 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.08%) CISSP
8 10 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.04%) CCNP
12 5 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.69%) CCSP
13 4 (0.69%) CISM
14 3 (0.52%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.98%) GRC
2 53 (9.20%) QA
3 29 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 19 (3.30%) GDPR
5 11 (1.91%) NIST
6 10 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.52%) COBIT
8 3 (0.52%) IFRS
8 3 (0.52%) NCSC
8 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) WCAG
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (7.29%) Docker
2 17 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.52%) NDS
3 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.17%) IAG
Systems Management
1 36 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.43%) Grafana
2 14 (2.43%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.87%) Ansible
4 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 146 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.29%) SAP
3 25 (4.34%) Oracle
4 23 (3.99%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.78%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.91%) Splunk
7 9 (1.56%) YouTube
8 6 (1.04%) VMware
9 5 (0.87%) Databricks
10 4 (0.69%) Aruba
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco
10 4 (0.69%) Google
10 4 (0.69%) Mitel
10 4 (0.69%) Okta
10 4 (0.69%) OpenText
11 3 (0.52%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.52%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.52%) NetIQ
11 3 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud