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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 474 450
Rank change year-on-year +112 -24 -139
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 557 216 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.49% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 313 83 270
10th Percentile £50,250 £54,139 £50,140
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,490
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £77,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +3.13% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £72,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year +3.93% -4.19% +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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 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 3 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 +65 393 £82,500 +4.76% 462
UK excluding London +94 369 £74,830 +3.93% 200
Work from Home +151 296 £77,500 -3.13% 226
London -6 133 £100,000 +17.65% 318
North of England +37 99 £85,000 +17.24% 57
Northern Ireland - 71 £74,830 - 7
Midlands -13 48 £74,830 +15.12% 18
West Midlands +7 46 £74,830 +3.21% 12
South East -41 43 £80,000 +6.67% 54
South West -45 43 £37,500 - 30
North East - 43 £85,000 - 9
North West +13 38 £74,830 +24.67% 38
Wales -32 30 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Scotland +26 23 £74,830 +19.73% 25
Yorkshire -42 18 £90,000 +16.13% 10
East of England -35 12 £100,000 +37.93% 7
East Midlands -29 2 £70,000 +7.69% 6

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 (1.62%) Confluence
2 7 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) JBoss
4 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.90%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 220 (39.50%) Azure
2 155 (27.83%) AWS
3 66 (11.85%) Cloud Computing
4 59 (10.59%) Power Platform
5 56 (10.05%) GCP
6 37 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.67%) dbt
8 23 (4.13%) SaaS
9 21 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.87%) PaaS
11 13 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 12 (2.15%) Serverless
13 10 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.80%) IaaS
14 9 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (1.62%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.93%) LAN
1 72 (12.93%) WAN
2 16 (2.87%) Broadband
3 10 (1.80%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.62%) Firewall
5 6 (1.08%) WLAN
6 5 (0.90%) Network Security
7 3 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.54%) Internet
7 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.54%) VPN
7 3 (0.54%) Wireless
8 1 (0.18%) WebEx
8 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.77%) BigQuery
2 20 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (3.23%) Metadata
4 15 (2.69%) Semantic Layer
5 14 (2.51%) MySQL
6 13 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.08%) Power BI
9 6 (1.08%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.90%) Big Data
11 4 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.36%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (7.54%) Git
2 31 (5.57%) JUnit
3 21 (3.77%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.41%) Subversion
5 18 (3.23%) JIRA
6 10 (1.80%) Maven
6 10 (1.80%) Mockito
7 7 (1.26%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.72%) Selenium
8 4 (0.72%) Yeoman
9 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.36%) Gatling
9 2 (0.36%) GitLab
9 2 (0.36%) JMeter
9 2 (0.36%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.36%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 251 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 183 (32.85%) Finance
3 123 (22.08%) Public Sector
4 102 (18.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
6 68 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (9.69%) Law
8 31 (5.57%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (5.03%) Legal
10 17 (3.05%) Banking
11 13 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.15%) Marketing
13 10 (1.80%) Military
13 10 (1.80%) Retail
14 9 (1.62%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.26%) Aviation
16 6 (1.08%) Police
16 6 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.72%) Advertising
17 4 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 322 (57.81%) Architect
2 109 (19.57%) Technical Architect
3 96 (17.24%) Lead
4 71 (12.75%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (12.39%) Systems Architect
6 60 (10.77%) Developer
7 54 (9.69%) Senior
8 41 (7.36%) Java Developer
9 36 (6.46%) Technical Leader
10 35 (6.28%) Lead Architect
11 23 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
12 21 (3.77%) Junior
13 20 (3.59%) Data Architect
14 18 (3.23%) Consultant
15 17 (3.05%) Junior Developer
15 17 (3.05%) Junior Java Developer
15 17 (3.05%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.87%) Enterprise Architect
16 16 (2.87%) ERP Architect
17 15 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.49%) React
2 36 (6.46%) RESTful
3 30 (5.39%) Terraform
4 27 (4.85%) Jakarta EE
5 26 (4.67%) REST
6 25 (4.49%) Node.js
6 25 (4.49%) Spring
7 21 (3.77%) Middleware
8 20 (3.59%) Web Services
9 19 (3.41%) Struts
10 16 (2.87%) Kafka
11 15 (2.69%) .NET
11 15 (2.69%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.15%) Next.js
12 12 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (1.97%) Hibernate
14 10 (1.80%) Playwright
15 9 (1.62%) JPA
16 8 (1.44%) JSP
17 7 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.90%) Virtual Team
3 26 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.33%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.44%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.26%) Blog
11 7 (1.26%) PMI
11 7 (1.26%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Life Science
12 6 (1.08%) NHS
13 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.41%) Linux
2 10 (1.80%) Windows
3 9 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (34.29%) Roadmaps
2 178 (31.96%) Agile
3 147 (26.39%) AI
4 139 (24.96%) Mentoring
5 135 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 122 (21.90%) Technical Leadership
7 117 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 106 (19.03%) Containerisation
9 100 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 99 (17.77%) Project Delivery
11 97 (17.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 93 (16.70%) Risk Management
13 92 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 88 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 88 (15.80%) DevOps
15 81 (14.54%) Business Strategy
16 78 (14.00%) Information Security
16 78 (14.00%) Microservices
16 78 (14.00%) Migration
17 77 (13.82%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 78 (14.00%) Java
2 70 (12.57%) Python
3 63 (11.31%) JavaScript
4 50 (8.98%) SQL
5 33 (5.92%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.49%) C#
7 22 (3.95%) C++
8 19 (3.41%) Perl
9 13 (2.33%) Scala
10 10 (1.80%) Bash
10 10 (1.80%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.26%) ABAP
12 5 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.72%) C
13 4 (0.72%) Go
13 4 (0.72%) X++
14 2 (0.36%) Bicep
14 2 (0.36%) PHP
14 2 (0.36%) SOQL
14 2 (0.36%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 129 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 112 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.41%) Degree
4 42 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.15%) CISSP
8 10 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.62%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.08%) CCNP
12 5 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.72%) CCSP
13 4 (0.72%) CISM
14 3 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.39%) GRC
2 50 (8.98%) QA
3 29 (5.21%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.41%) GDPR
5 17 (3.05%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.80%) NIST
7 9 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.54%) COBIT
9 3 (0.54%) IFRS
9 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) NCSC
10 2 (0.36%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (7.00%) Docker
2 16 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.36%) NDS
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 34 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.15%) Grafana
2 12 (2.15%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.72%) Ansible
3 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 139 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.00%) SAP
3 25 (4.49%) Oracle
4 24 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.87%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.51%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.62%) Splunk
8 7 (1.26%) YouTube
9 6 (1.08%) VMware
10 5 (0.90%) Google
11 4 (0.72%) Aruba
11 4 (0.72%) Cisco
11 4 (0.72%) Databricks
11 4 (0.72%) Mitel
11 4 (0.72%) OpenText
12 3 (0.54%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.54%) HP
12 3 (0.54%) Juniper
12 3 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.54%) Zscaler