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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 425 446
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 -60
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 264 222 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.54% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.58% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 149 111 343
10th Percentile £65,000 £38,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,087 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £123,969 £103,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

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 64,151 38,285 80,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.65% 92.95% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,600 22,564 59,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -7.94%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -44 221 £78,000 +4.00% 113
UK excluding London -87 122 £75,000 +3.45% 76
Work from Home +63 120 £82,203 +9.60% 46
London -8 94 £105,000 +25.37% 48
South East -49 30 £75,000 - 20
North of England -52 29 £82,500 +94.12% 21
Midlands -40 23 £72,500 +0.95% 12
South West -40 21 £65,000 -13.33% 8
West Midlands -21 13 £72,500 -3.33% 6
North West -36 12 £85,000 +100.00% 7
East Midlands -50 10 £65,000 +73.33% 6
Yorkshire -59 10 £88,750 +22.41% 9
Wales -19 8 £67,586 -7.33% 2
North East - 7 £67,500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 1
Scotland -32 4 - - 3
East of England -30 2 £88,750 +10.94% 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 15 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.41%) CMS
3 6 (2.27%) Confluence
4 4 (1.52%) Documentum
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.14%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (27.27%) AWS
2 62 (23.48%) Azure
3 29 (10.98%) GCP
3 29 (10.98%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (6.44%) PaaS
6 16 (6.06%) PowerApps
6 16 (6.06%) SaaS
7 10 (3.79%) IaaS
8 9 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.89%) OCI
10 5 (1.89%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.14%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.14%) GitHub
12 2 (0.76%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) Firewall
2 2 (0.76%) IP Telephony
2 2 (0.76%) PSTN
2 2 (0.76%) VoIP
3 1 (0.38%) AMQP
3 1 (0.38%) DHCP
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) Network Security
3 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.06%) Power BI
2 10 (3.79%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.41%) Metadata
3 9 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.89%) Couchbase
4 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.89%) Redis
5 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.14%) MySQL
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.38%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Git
2 6 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.38%) JUnit
3 1 (0.38%) Maven
3 1 (0.38%) Mockito
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.38%) Yeoman
General
1 115 (43.56%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.62%) Public Sector
3 62 (23.48%) Finance
4 51 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (10.98%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (8.71%) Legal
8 21 (7.95%) Law
9 17 (6.44%) Marketing
10 16 (6.06%) Retail
11 12 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (3.41%) Banking
13 7 (2.65%) Local Government
14 5 (1.89%) Back Office
14 5 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.89%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.14%) Aviation
16 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (54.92%) Architect
2 52 (19.70%) Solutions Architect
3 51 (19.32%) Technical Architect
4 29 (10.98%) Lead
5 23 (8.71%) Senior
6 19 (7.20%) Developer
7 18 (6.82%) Lead Architect
8 17 (6.44%) Enterprise Architect
8 17 (6.44%) Systems Engineer
9 16 (6.06%) Consultant
10 15 (5.68%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
11 12 (4.55%) Technical Leader
12 9 (3.41%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.03%) Principal Architect
13 8 (3.03%) ServiceNow Architect
14 6 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (2.27%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.27%) Senior Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.55%) .NET
2 11 (4.17%) React
3 8 (3.03%) Kafka
3 8 (3.03%) RESTful
4 7 (2.65%) Next.js
4 7 (2.65%) REST
4 7 (2.65%) Spring
5 5 (1.89%) LangChain
5 5 (1.89%) Memcached
5 5 (1.89%) Middleware
5 5 (1.89%) Node.js
6 4 (1.52%) React Native
7 3 (1.14%) CSS
7 3 (1.14%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.14%) Laravel
7 3 (1.14%) Web Services
8 2 (0.76%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.76%) Backbone.js
8 2 (0.76%) EDI
8 2 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.15%) Virtual Team
2 33 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.79%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.14%) BBC
10 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.14%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.41%) Android
1 9 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.76%) Linux
2 2 (0.76%) Windows
2 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.41%) Agile
2 68 (25.76%) AI
3 67 (25.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (21.59%) Roadmaps
5 54 (20.45%) Decision-Making
6 48 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 48 (18.18%) DevOps
6 48 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (17.42%) Analytics
8 40 (15.15%) Project Management
9 39 (14.77%) Data Modelling
10 33 (12.50%) Microservices
10 33 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 32 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
12 30 (11.36%) Migration
12 30 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (11.36%) Technology Strategy
13 29 (10.98%) Customer Experience
13 29 (10.98%) IT Strategy
13 29 (10.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.23%) Python
2 22 (8.33%) Java
3 20 (7.58%) SQL
4 13 (4.92%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.55%) VBA
6 11 (4.17%) C#
6 11 (4.17%) Go
7 8 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.89%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.89%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.89%) Scala
9 3 (1.14%) PHP
10 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.38%) Bash
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.80%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.36%) Degree
4 17 (6.44%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.55%) APMP
6 12 (4.55%) MBA
7 9 (3.41%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.27%) CREST Certified
10 6 (2.27%) OSCP
11 4 (1.52%) CITP
11 4 (1.52%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.76%) CISM
12 2 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.30%) GDPR
2 6 (2.27%) QA
3 4 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.14%) IFRS
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 5 (1.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Argo
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.30%) Google
3 12 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.79%) SAP
6 8 (3.03%) Oracle
7 7 (2.65%) YouTube
8 6 (2.27%) OpenText
9 4 (1.52%) Pega
10 3 (1.14%) Sparx
11 2 (0.76%) Aderant
11 2 (0.76%) Avaya
11 2 (0.76%) Cisco
11 2 (0.76%) Databricks
11 2 (0.76%) Foundry
11 2 (0.76%) Genesys
11 2 (0.76%) iManage
11 2 (0.76%) Intapp
11 2 (0.76%) Palantir
12 1 (0.38%) Progress