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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 505 419
Rank change year-on-year +155 -86 -116
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 600 181 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.37% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 338 82 259
10th Percentile £49,308 £58,773 £49,774
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £78,750 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +4.79% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £89,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,375 £101,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year -0.23% -0.20% +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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 25 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 25 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 +80 421 £82,500 +3.13% 545
UK excluding London +97 390 £74,830 -0.23% 229
Work from Home +152 308 £77,500 -3.13% 222
London +14 142 £90,000 +5.88% 355
North of England +17 100 £85,000 +11.48% 56
Northern Ireland -30 71 £74,830 - 5
Midlands -2 58 £74,830 +3.57% 44
West Midlands +2 56 £74,830 -6.46% 33
South East -34 47 £85,000 +13.33% 59
South West -42 45 £37,500 - 30
North East - 44 £85,000 - 7
North West +1 39 £70,000 - 33
Wales -36 34 £70,000 -2.78% 8
Scotland +25 23 £74,830 - 16
Yorkshire -24 17 £90,000 +14.29% 16
East of England -22 12 £100,000 +37.93% 11
East Midlands -38 2 £70,000 +7.69% 11

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 (1.50%) Confluence
2 7 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.33%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 236 (39.33%) Azure
2 168 (28.00%) AWS
3 66 (11.00%) Cloud Computing
4 65 (10.83%) Power Platform
5 64 (10.67%) GCP
6 37 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.33%) dbt
8 25 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (3.83%) SaaS
10 16 (2.67%) Serverless
11 15 (2.50%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.17%) PaaS
13 13 (2.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 13 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 11 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (1.83%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.83%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.00%) LAN
1 72 (12.00%) WAN
2 16 (2.67%) Broadband
3 10 (1.67%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.50%) Firewall
5 6 (1.00%) WLAN
6 5 (0.83%) Network Security
7 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) Internet
7 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.50%) VPN
7 3 (0.50%) 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 25 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (3.67%) BigQuery
3 19 (3.17%) MySQL
4 18 (3.00%) Metadata
5 17 (2.83%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
7 13 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.83%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.00%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.00%) Power BI
11 6 (1.00%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.83%) Big Data
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.33%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (8.50%) Git
2 32 (5.33%) JUnit
3 22 (3.67%) Eclipse
4 20 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.17%) JIRA
5 19 (3.17%) Subversion
6 10 (1.67%) Maven
6 10 (1.67%) Mockito
7 7 (1.17%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.67%) Selenium
8 4 (0.67%) Yeoman
9 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.33%) Gatling
10 2 (0.33%) GitLab
10 2 (0.33%) JMeter
10 2 (0.33%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 262 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 194 (32.33%) Finance
3 140 (23.33%) Public Sector
4 105 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
6 73 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (9.17%) Law
8 32 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (4.67%) Legal
10 23 (3.83%) Banking
11 16 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.67%) Retail
12 13 (2.17%) Marketing
13 11 (1.83%) Military
14 9 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.17%) Aviation
15 7 (1.17%) Police
15 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.67%) Local Government
16 4 (0.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 344 (57.33%) Architect
2 122 (20.33%) Technical Architect
3 113 (18.83%) Lead
4 76 (12.67%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (11.50%) Systems Architect
6 66 (11.00%) Developer
7 60 (10.00%) Senior
8 43 (7.17%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.67%) Lead Architect
10 39 (6.50%) Technical Leader
11 26 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (3.67%) Data Architect
12 22 (3.67%) Junior
13 19 (3.17%) Senior Developer
14 18 (3.00%) Junior Developer
15 17 (2.83%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.83%) Junior Java Developer
16 16 (2.67%) Consultant
16 16 (2.67%) ERP Architect
17 15 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (10.67%) React
2 39 (6.50%) RESTful
3 36 (6.00%) Terraform
4 31 (5.17%) REST
5 30 (5.00%) Spring
6 27 (4.50%) Jakarta EE
7 24 (4.00%) Node.js
8 23 (3.83%) Middleware
9 20 (3.33%) Spring Boot
9 20 (3.33%) Web Services
10 19 (3.17%) Kafka
10 19 (3.17%) Struts
11 16 (2.67%) Hibernate
12 15 (2.50%) .NET
12 15 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.17%) JPA
14 12 (2.00%) Next.js
15 11 (1.83%) SAP Fiori
16 10 (1.67%) Playwright
17 8 (1.33%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 34 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 19 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.17%) Blog
12 7 (1.17%) PMI
12 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.00%) Life Science
13 6 (1.00%) NHS
14 5 (0.83%) BBC
14 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.50%) Linux
2 10 (1.67%) Windows
3 9 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.00%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (34.00%) Roadmaps
2 191 (31.83%) Agile
3 156 (26.00%) AI
4 151 (25.17%) Mentoring
5 150 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 141 (23.50%) Technical Leadership
7 123 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (18.83%) Containerisation
9 110 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 105 (17.50%) Project Delivery
12 104 (17.33%) DevOps
13 101 (16.83%) Risk Management
14 100 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 96 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 87 (14.50%) Microservices
17 85 (14.17%) Business Strategy
18 81 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
19 79 (13.17%) Migration
20 78 (13.00%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.83%) Java
2 75 (12.50%) Python
3 66 (11.00%) JavaScript
4 55 (9.17%) SQL
5 35 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 29 (4.83%) C#
7 22 (3.67%) C++
8 19 (3.17%) Perl
9 15 (2.50%) Scala
10 10 (1.67%) ABAP
10 10 (1.67%) Bash
10 10 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.83%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.67%) C
12 4 (0.67%) Go
12 4 (0.67%) X++
13 3 (0.50%) Rust
14 2 (0.33%) Bicep
14 2 (0.33%) SOQL
14 2 (0.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 147 (24.50%) Security Cleared
2 126 (21.00%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.50%) Degree
4 42 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.00%) CISSP
8 10 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.00%) CCNP
13 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.67%) CCSP
14 4 (0.67%) CISM
15 3 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.50%) GRC
2 55 (9.17%) QA
3 29 (4.83%) Data Quality
4 23 (3.83%) Accessibility
5 22 (3.67%) GDPR
6 11 (1.83%) NIST
7 10 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.67%) WCAG
12 3 (0.50%) COBIT
12 3 (0.50%) IFRS
12 3 (0.50%) NCSC
12 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (7.33%) Docker
2 17 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) NDS
3 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.83%) Grafana
3 16 (2.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.00%) Ansible
5 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 150 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.33%) SAP
3 27 (4.50%) Oracle
4 23 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.17%) Splunk
7 10 (1.67%) YouTube
8 6 (1.00%) Databricks
8 6 (1.00%) VMware
9 5 (0.83%) Okta
10 4 (0.67%) Aruba
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco
10 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.67%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.67%) Google
10 4 (0.67%) Mitel
10 4 (0.67%) OpenText
11 3 (0.50%) Juniper
11 3 (0.50%) NetIQ