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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 468 458
Rank change year-on-year +105 -10 -143
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 538 235 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.53% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 301 91 264
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,886 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,630 £60,497
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 £86,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -13.33% +15.38%

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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 15 August 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 August 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 +49 379 £80,000 +6.67% 395
UK excluding London +76 347 £74,830 +15.12% 140
Work from Home +142 290 £77,500 - 153
London -8 136 £100,000 +21.95% 286
North of England +19 82 £76,665 +5.74% 40
Northern Ireland - 68 £74,830 - 1
South East -25 48 £77,500 +3.33% 37
Midlands -10 43 £74,830 +15.12% 11
South West -47 43 £37,500 -53.13% 30
West Midlands +4 40 £74,915 +3.33% 8
North East - 38 £81,750 - 9
North West +14 32 £70,000 +16.63% 20
Wales -28 28 £70,000 -2.78% 4
Scotland +12 23 £74,830 +66.29% 13
East of England -20 12 £100,000 +37.93% 5
Yorkshire -28 12 £90,000 +20.00% 11
East Midlands -33 3 £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 (1.67%) Confluence
2 7 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.19%) JBoss
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 210 (39.03%) Azure
2 149 (27.70%) AWS
3 62 (11.52%) Cloud Computing
4 56 (10.41%) Power Platform
5 52 (9.67%) GCP
6 39 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.83%) dbt
8 23 (4.28%) SaaS
9 16 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (2.97%) PaaS
10 14 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 11 (2.04%) IaaS
13 9 (1.67%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.67%) Serverless
14 8 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.49%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.45%) LAN
1 67 (12.45%) WAN
2 16 (2.97%) Broadband
3 10 (1.86%) Unified Communications
4 7 (1.30%) Firewall
5 6 (1.12%) WLAN
6 5 (0.93%) Network Security
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) VPN
8 1 (0.19%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.19%) WebEx
8 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.90%) BigQuery
2 20 (3.72%) Metadata
3 17 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.79%) Semantic Layer
5 12 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.23%) MySQL
6 11 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.04%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.30%) Power BI
10 6 (1.12%) SAP BW
10 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.93%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.56%) Tableau
14 2 (0.37%) Redis
14 2 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (6.69%) Git
2 30 (5.58%) JUnit
3 20 (3.72%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 18 (3.35%) JIRA
5 18 (3.35%) Subversion
6 10 (1.86%) Maven
6 10 (1.86%) Mockito
7 7 (1.30%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.93%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
10 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.37%) Gatling
10 2 (0.37%) GitLab
10 2 (0.37%) JMeter
10 2 (0.37%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.37%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 243 (45.17%) Social Skills
2 178 (33.09%) Finance
3 116 (21.56%) Public Sector
4 100 (18.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (13.01%) Presentation Skills
6 66 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (10.41%) Law
8 32 (5.95%) Legal
9 31 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.42%) Banking
10 13 (2.42%) Marketing
11 12 (2.23%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.04%) Retail
13 9 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.67%) Military
14 8 (1.49%) Aviation
15 6 (1.12%) Police
15 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.93%) Advertising
17 4 (0.74%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 306 (56.88%) Architect
2 89 (16.54%) Technical Architect
3 78 (14.50%) Lead
4 67 (12.45%) Solutions Architect
5 66 (12.27%) Systems Architect
6 55 (10.22%) Developer
7 54 (10.04%) Senior
8 38 (7.06%) Java Developer
9 23 (4.28%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (3.90%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.72%) Technical Leader
12 19 (3.53%) Consultant
12 19 (3.53%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.53%) Junior
12 19 (3.53%) Lead Architect
13 16 (2.97%) ERP Architect
13 16 (2.97%) Junior Developer
13 16 (2.97%) Junior Java Developer
13 16 (2.97%) Senior Developer
14 15 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.15%) React
2 32 (5.95%) RESTful
3 26 (4.83%) Jakarta EE
4 25 (4.65%) Node.js
5 23 (4.28%) REST
5 23 (4.28%) Spring
6 21 (3.90%) Middleware
7 19 (3.53%) Web Services
8 18 (3.35%) Struts
9 13 (2.42%) Kafka
9 13 (2.42%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.23%) .NET
10 12 (2.23%) Next.js
11 10 (1.86%) Playwright
11 10 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (1.67%) Hibernate
13 8 (1.49%) JSP
14 7 (1.30%) JPA
15 6 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
16 5 (0.93%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.81%) Virtual Team
3 25 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.49%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.30%) Blog
9 7 (1.30%) PMI
9 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.12%) Life Science
10 6 (1.12%) NHS
11 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.53%) Linux
2 10 (1.86%) Windows
3 9 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (33.27%) Agile
1 179 (33.27%) Roadmaps
2 142 (26.39%) AI
3 126 (23.42%) CI/CD
4 124 (23.05%) Mentoring
5 111 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 105 (19.52%) Technical Leadership
7 98 (18.22%) Containerisation
7 98 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (17.66%) Project Delivery
10 92 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 90 (16.73%) Risk Management
12 86 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (15.06%) DevOps
14 80 (14.87%) Business Strategy
15 78 (14.50%) Migration
16 76 (14.13%) Enterprise Architecture
17 75 (13.94%) Information Security
18 73 (13.57%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.75%) Java
2 67 (12.45%) Python
3 57 (10.59%) JavaScript
4 49 (9.11%) SQL
5 31 (5.76%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.90%) C++
7 20 (3.72%) C#
8 18 (3.35%) Perl
9 12 (2.23%) Scala
10 11 (2.04%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.86%) Bash
12 6 (1.12%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.93%) ABAP
13 5 (0.93%) C
14 3 (0.56%) X++
15 2 (0.37%) Bicep
15 2 (0.37%) Go
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.37%) SOQL
15 2 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 133 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 116 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.15%) Degree
4 42 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.23%) CISSP
7 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 10 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.49%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.12%) CISM
11 5 (0.93%) CCSP
12 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.74%) CCNP
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.08%) GRC
2 48 (8.92%) QA
3 29 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.90%) GDPR
5 16 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.04%) NIST
7 10 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.56%) COBIT
9 3 (0.56%) IFRS
9 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) WCAG
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (6.32%) Docker
2 16 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.37%) NDS
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) IAG
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.83%) Terraform
3 10 (1.86%) Grafana
3 10 (1.86%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.74%) Ansible
4 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 132 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.25%) SAP
3 26 (4.83%) Oracle
4 25 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.97%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.30%) Splunk
8 5 (0.93%) Google
8 5 (0.93%) YouTube
9 4 (0.74%) Databricks
9 4 (0.74%) Mitel
9 4 (0.74%) OpenText
9 4 (0.74%) VMware
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.56%) HP
10 3 (0.56%) Okta
10 3 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco
11 2 (0.37%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.37%) NetIQ