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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 474 461
Rank change year-on-year +107 -13 -140
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 532 236 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.53% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 297 91 262
10th Percentile £52,000 £45,886 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,307 £60,563
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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 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 13 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 +36 375 £80,000 +6.67% 284
UK excluding London +71 342 £74,830 +15.12% 122
Work from Home +154 290 £77,500 - 121
London -15 134 £100,000 +21.95% 194
North of England +15 81 £76,665 +5.74% 38
Northern Ireland - 67 £74,830 - 4
South East -15 48 £77,500 +3.33% 28
Midlands -17 43 £74,830 +15.12% 10
South West -30 42 £37,500 -53.13% 24
West Midlands +4 40 £74,915 +3.33% 7
North East - 38 £81,750 - 11
North West +20 31 £70,000 +16.63% 18
Wales - 27 £70,000 - 5
Scotland +21 22 £74,830 +66.29% 10
Yorkshire -23 12 £90,000 +20.00% 9
East of England -24 12 £100,000 +37.93% 5
East Midlands -38 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 (1.69%) Confluence
2 7 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.94%) 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 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 206 (38.72%) Azure
2 149 (28.01%) AWS
3 62 (11.65%) Cloud Computing
4 55 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 51 (9.59%) GCP
6 40 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.89%) dbt
8 21 (3.95%) SaaS
9 16 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (2.82%) PaaS
11 14 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 13 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 11 (2.07%) IaaS
14 9 (1.69%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.69%) Serverless
15 8 (1.50%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 66 (12.41%) LAN
1 66 (12.41%) WAN
2 16 (3.01%) Broadband
3 10 (1.88%) Unified Communications
4 7 (1.32%) Firewall
5 6 (1.13%) WLAN
6 5 (0.94%) 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 (3.95%) BigQuery
2 20 (3.76%) Metadata
3 16 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.82%) Semantic Layer
5 12 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.07%) MySQL
7 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.50%) Power BI
9 7 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.13%) SAP BW
10 6 (1.13%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.94%) Big Data
12 4 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.56%) Tableau
14 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.38%) Redis
14 2 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (6.58%) Git
2 30 (5.64%) JUnit
3 20 (3.76%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 18 (3.38%) JIRA
5 18 (3.38%) Subversion
6 10 (1.88%) Maven
6 10 (1.88%) Mockito
7 7 (1.32%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.94%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.75%) Selenium
10 2 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.38%) Gatling
10 2 (0.38%) GitLab
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 241 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 175 (32.89%) Finance
3 114 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 100 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (12.97%) Presentation Skills
6 64 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (10.53%) Law
8 32 (6.02%) Legal
9 31 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.44%) Banking
11 12 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.26%) Marketing
11 12 (2.26%) Retail
12 9 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.50%) Aviation
13 8 (1.50%) Military
14 6 (1.13%) Police
14 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.94%) Advertising
16 4 (0.75%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 302 (56.77%) Architect
2 88 (16.54%) Technical Architect
3 77 (14.47%) Lead
4 66 (12.41%) Solutions Architect
5 65 (12.22%) Systems Architect
6 56 (10.53%) Senior
7 54 (10.15%) Developer
8 37 (6.95%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.76%) Consultant
11 20 (3.76%) Technical Leader
12 19 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.57%) Lead Architect
13 18 (3.38%) Junior
14 16 (3.01%) ERP Architect
14 16 (3.01%) Junior Developer
14 16 (3.01%) Junior Java Developer
14 16 (3.01%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (10.90%) React
2 31 (5.83%) RESTful
3 26 (4.89%) Jakarta EE
4 25 (4.70%) Node.js
5 22 (4.14%) REST
5 22 (4.14%) Spring
6 20 (3.76%) Middleware
7 19 (3.57%) Web Services
8 18 (3.38%) Struts
9 12 (2.26%) .NET
9 12 (2.26%) Next.js
9 12 (2.26%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.07%) Kafka
11 10 (1.88%) Playwright
12 9 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.50%) Hibernate
13 8 (1.50%) JSP
14 6 (1.13%) JPA
15 5 (0.94%) CSS
15 5 (0.94%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.71%) Virtual Team
3 24 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.32%) Blog
10 7 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.32%) PMI
10 7 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.13%) Life Science
11 6 (1.13%) NHS
12 4 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.38%) Linux
2 10 (1.88%) Windows
3 9 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.56%) Android
4 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (34.02%) Agile
2 174 (32.71%) Roadmaps
3 139 (26.13%) AI
4 122 (22.93%) Mentoring
5 121 (22.74%) CI/CD
6 108 (20.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 100 (18.80%) Technical Leadership
8 95 (17.86%) Containerisation
8 95 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (17.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 91 (17.11%) Project Delivery
11 90 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 86 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (16.17%) Risk Management
13 79 (14.85%) Business Strategy
14 78 (14.66%) DevOps
15 76 (14.29%) Migration
16 75 (14.10%) Information Security
17 73 (13.72%) Enterprise Architecture
18 72 (13.53%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 73 (13.72%) Java
2 65 (12.22%) Python
3 57 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 48 (9.02%) SQL
5 30 (5.64%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.95%) C++
7 20 (3.76%) C#
8 18 (3.38%) Perl
9 11 (2.07%) PL/SQL
9 11 (2.07%) Scala
10 10 (1.88%) Bash
11 5 (0.94%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.94%) C
12 4 (0.75%) ABAP
13 3 (0.56%) Go
13 3 (0.56%) X++
14 2 (0.38%) Bicep
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 2 (0.38%) VBA
15 1 (0.19%) RPG
Qualifications
1 132 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 115 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 59 (11.09%) Degree
4 40 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.26%) CISSP
7 10 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.88%) DBS Check
7 10 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.50%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.13%) CISM
11 5 (0.94%) CCSP
12 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.75%) CCNP
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.03%) GRC
2 47 (8.83%) QA
3 29 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.95%) GDPR
5 16 (3.01%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.07%) NIST
7 10 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.56%) COBIT
9 3 (0.56%) IFRS
9 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.38%) NCSC
10 2 (0.38%) 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 32 (6.02%) Docker
2 16 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.38%) 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 31 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.51%) Terraform
3 9 (1.69%) Grafana
3 9 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.56%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 128 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.14%) SAP
3 25 (4.70%) Oracle
4 24 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.13%) Google
7 6 (1.13%) Splunk
8 5 (0.94%) YouTube
9 4 (0.75%) Mitel
9 4 (0.75%) OpenText
9 4 (0.75%) VMware
10 3 (0.56%) Databricks
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.56%) HP
10 3 (0.56%) Okta
11 2 (0.38%) Aruba
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco
11 2 (0.38%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.38%) NetIQ