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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 445 460
Rank change year-on-year +84 +15 -147
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 546 227 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.45% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.51% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 305 89 276
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,886 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,630 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -0.20% -6.06%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £65,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year +15.12% -13.51% +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 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 26 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 26 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 +45 384 £82,500 +8.20% 104
UK excluding London +77 357 £74,830 +15.12% 67
Work from Home +163 291 £77,500 - 48
London -7 135 £100,000 +19.76% 47
North of England +20 90 £80,000 +10.34% 25
Northern Ireland - 71 £74,830 -
South East -35 44 £80,000 +6.67% 11
South West -43 44 £37,500 - 13
Midlands -14 43 £74,830 +15.12% 12
North East - 42 £85,000 - 8
West Midlands +3 41 £76,415 +5.40% 7
North West +17 35 £72,415 +20.65% 12
Wales -30 30 £70,000 -2.78% 1
Scotland +16 23 £74,830 +66.29% 6
Yorkshire -35 13 £90,000 +20.00% 5
East of England -25 12 £100,000 +37.93%
East Midlands -31 2 £70,000 +7.69% 5

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 (1.65%) Confluence
2 7 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
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 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.92%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 214 (39.19%) Azure
2 151 (27.66%) AWS
3 65 (11.90%) Cloud Computing
4 55 (10.07%) GCP
4 55 (10.07%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.76%) dbt
7 23 (4.21%) SaaS
8 17 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (2.93%) PaaS
10 14 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.83%) IaaS
13 9 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.65%) Serverless
14 8 (1.47%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.00%) LAN
1 71 (13.00%) WAN
2 16 (2.93%) Broadband
3 10 (1.83%) Unified Communications
4 8 (1.47%) Firewall
5 6 (1.10%) WLAN
6 5 (0.92%) Network Security
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) VPN
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.37%) Wireless
9 1 (0.18%) WebEx
9 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 20 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (3.30%) Metadata
4 15 (2.75%) Semantic Layer
5 14 (2.56%) MySQL
6 13 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.10%) SAP BW
9 6 (1.10%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 5 (0.92%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 39 (7.14%) Git
2 31 (5.68%) JUnit
3 21 (3.85%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.48%) Subversion
5 18 (3.30%) JIRA
6 10 (1.83%) Maven
6 10 (1.83%) Mockito
7 7 (1.28%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.92%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.73%) 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
1 246 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 181 (33.15%) Finance
3 119 (21.79%) Public Sector
4 100 (18.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (13.55%) Presentation Skills
6 68 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (9.89%) Law
8 31 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (5.13%) Legal
10 15 (2.75%) Banking
11 13 (2.38%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.20%) Marketing
13 10 (1.83%) Military
13 10 (1.83%) Retail
14 9 (1.65%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.28%) Aviation
16 6 (1.10%) Police
16 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.92%) Advertising
18 4 (0.73%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 312 (57.14%) Architect
2 97 (17.77%) Technical Architect
3 84 (15.38%) Lead
4 69 (12.64%) Solutions Architect
4 69 (12.64%) Systems Architect
5 58 (10.62%) Developer
6 55 (10.07%) Senior
7 41 (7.51%) Java Developer
8 27 (4.95%) Technical Leader
9 26 (4.76%) Lead Architect
10 23 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (3.85%) Junior
12 20 (3.66%) Data Architect
13 18 (3.30%) Consultant
14 17 (3.11%) Enterprise Architect
14 17 (3.11%) Junior Developer
14 17 (3.11%) Junior Java Developer
14 17 (3.11%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.93%) ERP Architect
16 15 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.54%) React
2 36 (6.59%) RESTful
3 29 (5.31%) Terraform
4 27 (4.95%) Jakarta EE
5 25 (4.58%) Node.js
5 25 (4.58%) REST
5 25 (4.58%) Spring
6 21 (3.85%) Middleware
7 20 (3.66%) Web Services
8 19 (3.48%) Struts
9 15 (2.75%) Kafka
9 15 (2.75%) Spring Boot
10 13 (2.38%) .NET
11 12 (2.20%) Next.js
11 12 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (2.01%) Hibernate
13 10 (1.83%) Playwright
14 9 (1.65%) JPA
15 8 (1.47%) JSP
16 7 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 67 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 26 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.20%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.28%) Blog
12 7 (1.28%) PMI
12 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.10%) Life Science
13 6 (1.10%) NHS
14 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.48%) Linux
2 10 (1.83%) Windows
3 9 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.73%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (33.88%) Roadmaps
2 177 (32.42%) Agile
3 143 (26.19%) AI
4 131 (23.99%) Mentoring
5 128 (23.44%) CI/CD
6 116 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 115 (21.06%) Technical Leadership
8 105 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 101 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
10 99 (18.13%) Project Delivery
11 93 (17.03%) Risk Management
11 93 (17.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 91 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 84 (15.38%) DevOps
14 83 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 81 (14.84%) Business Strategy
16 78 (14.29%) Migration
17 77 (14.10%) Information Security
18 76 (13.92%) Business Case
19 74 (13.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 78 (14.29%) Java
2 68 (12.45%) Python
3 60 (10.99%) JavaScript
4 49 (8.97%) SQL
5 32 (5.86%) TypeScript
6 22 (4.03%) C++
7 21 (3.85%) C#
8 19 (3.48%) Perl
9 13 (2.38%) Scala
10 10 (1.83%) Bash
10 10 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.28%) ABAP
12 6 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.73%) C
14 3 (0.55%) Go
14 3 (0.55%) X++
15 2 (0.37%) Bicep
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.37%) SOQL
15 2 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 132 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 114 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.81%) Degree
4 42 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.20%) CISSP
7 10 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.28%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.92%) CCNP
11 5 (0.92%) CCSP
11 5 (0.92%) CISM
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.64%) GRC
2 50 (9.16%) QA
3 29 (5.31%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.30%) GDPR
5 16 (2.93%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.01%) NIST
7 10 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.55%) COBIT
9 3 (0.55%) IFRS
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
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
11 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (6.96%) Docker
2 16 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.37%) NDS
4 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 34 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.20%) Grafana
2 12 (2.20%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
3 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 135 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.33%) SAP
3 25 (4.58%) Oracle
3 25 (4.58%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.65%) Splunk
7 6 (1.10%) YouTube
8 5 (0.92%) VMware
9 4 (0.73%) Databricks
9 4 (0.73%) Google
9 4 (0.73%) Mitel
9 4 (0.73%) OpenText
10 3 (0.55%) Aruba
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco
10 3 (0.55%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.55%) HP
10 3 (0.55%) Okta
10 3 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.37%) Zscaler