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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 446 456
Rank change year-on-year +74 +10 -116
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 503 243 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 287 96 282
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,513 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,596 £59,630 £60,486
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 £87,500 £84,688
90th Percentile £115,000 £103,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -13.33% +11.11%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +22 346 £80,000 +4.92% 197
UK excluding London +71 314 £74,830 +15.12% 94
Work from Home +147 277 £77,500 -3.13% 74
London -4 131 £100,000 +21.95% 129
North of England +22 72 £74,830 +3.21% 28
Northern Ireland - 67 £74,830 - 1
South East -42 40 £77,500 +3.33% 26
Midlands -25 39 £74,830 +15.12% 6
West Midlands +4 35 £74,915 +15.25% 4
South West -45 35 £29,500 -63.13% 16
North West +22 31 £72,415 +20.65% 13
North East - 29 £78,500 - 7
Wales - 28 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +13 21 £74,830 +66.29% 10
East of England -20 12 £100,000 +37.93% 5
Yorkshire -31 12 £90,000 +16.13% 8
East Midlands -32 4 £70,000 +7.69% 2

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 (1.79%) Confluence
2 5 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.20%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) JBoss
4 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.99%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 193 (38.37%) Azure
2 134 (26.64%) AWS
3 62 (12.33%) Cloud Computing
4 56 (11.13%) Power Platform
5 50 (9.94%) GCP
6 43 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (5.17%) dbt
8 21 (4.17%) SaaS
9 18 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.78%) PaaS
11 12 (2.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 11 (2.19%) IaaS
12 11 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 9 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.79%) Serverless
14 8 (1.59%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (1.39%) OCI
16 6 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.92%) LAN
1 65 (12.92%) WAN
2 16 (3.18%) Broadband
3 10 (1.99%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.19%) WLAN
5 5 (0.99%) Firewall
5 5 (0.99%) Network Security
6 3 (0.60%) Internet
6 3 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.20%) WebEx
7 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 18 (3.58%) Metadata
3 15 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.98%) Semantic Layer
4 12 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.99%) MySQL
7 8 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.39%) Power BI
8 7 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.19%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.99%) Big Data
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.40%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (6.36%) Git
2 25 (4.97%) JUnit
3 19 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.38%) Eclipse
5 15 (2.98%) Subversion
6 14 (2.78%) JIRA
7 8 (1.59%) Maven
7 8 (1.59%) Mockito
8 7 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.99%) Yeoman
10 4 (0.80%) Selenium
11 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.40%) Gatling
11 2 (0.40%) GitLab
11 2 (0.40%) JMeter
11 2 (0.40%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.40%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 228 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 161 (32.01%) Finance
3 102 (20.28%) Public Sector
4 96 (19.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (13.52%) Presentation Skills
6 60 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (11.33%) Law
8 30 (5.96%) Legal
9 23 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.19%) Banking
11 9 (1.79%) Marketing
12 8 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.59%) Retail
13 7 (1.39%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.19%) Aviation
15 5 (0.99%) Advertising
16 4 (0.80%) Local Government
16 4 (0.80%) Military
16 4 (0.80%) Public Speaking
16 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 291 (57.85%) Architect
2 79 (15.71%) Technical Architect
3 69 (13.72%) Lead
4 65 (12.92%) Solutions Architect
5 64 (12.72%) Systems Architect
6 53 (10.54%) Senior
7 47 (9.34%) Developer
8 31 (6.16%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
10 20 (3.98%) Data Architect
10 20 (3.98%) Enterprise Architect
11 19 (3.78%) Technical Leader
12 17 (3.38%) Consultant
12 17 (3.38%) Lead Architect
13 16 (3.18%) ERP Architect
14 15 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 15 (2.98%) Junior
15 14 (2.78%) Junior Developer
15 14 (2.78%) Junior Java Developer
16 13 (2.58%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.94%) React
2 27 (5.37%) RESTful
3 25 (4.97%) Node.js
4 22 (4.37%) Jakarta EE
5 19 (3.78%) Spring
6 18 (3.58%) Middleware
7 17 (3.38%) REST
7 17 (3.38%) Web Services
8 15 (2.98%) Struts
9 14 (2.78%) .NET
10 11 (2.19%) Next.js
10 11 (2.19%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.99%) Kafka
12 8 (1.59%) Playwright
12 8 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.39%) Hibernate
13 7 (1.39%) JSP
14 6 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
15 5 (0.99%) AWS CDK
15 5 (0.99%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.55%) Virtual Team
3 20 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.39%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.19%) NHS
11 5 (0.99%) Blog
11 5 (0.99%) Life Science
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.98%) Linux
2 9 (1.79%) Windows
3 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.80%) Android
4 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (33.60%) Agile
2 164 (32.60%) Roadmaps
3 126 (25.05%) AI
4 116 (23.06%) CI/CD
5 110 (21.87%) Mentoring
6 102 (20.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 91 (18.09%) Containerisation
8 90 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 87 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (16.70%) Project Delivery
10 84 (16.70%) Technical Leadership
11 80 (15.90%) Business Strategy
11 80 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 80 (15.90%) Risk Management
11 80 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 77 (15.31%) DevOps
13 72 (14.31%) Enterprise Architecture
13 72 (14.31%) Information Security
13 72 (14.31%) Migration
14 68 (13.52%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 62 (12.33%) Java
2 61 (12.13%) Python
3 50 (9.94%) JavaScript
4 44 (8.75%) SQL
5 27 (5.37%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.98%) C#
7 18 (3.58%) C++
8 15 (2.98%) Perl
9 11 (2.19%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.99%) Scala
11 8 (1.59%) Bash
12 6 (1.19%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.80%) C
13 4 (0.80%) Go
14 3 (0.60%) VBA
14 3 (0.60%) X++
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
15 2 (0.40%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) Ruby
16 1 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 114 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.94%) Degree
4 36 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.39%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.19%) CISSP
8 9 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.19%) CISM
12 5 (0.99%) CCSP
13 4 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.60%) APMP
14 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.60%) CCNA
14 3 (0.60%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.52%) GRC
2 39 (7.75%) QA
3 29 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.37%) GDPR
5 12 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.19%) NIST
7 10 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.60%) COBIT
9 3 (0.60%) IFRS
9 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.40%) NCSC
10 2 (0.40%) WCAG
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (5.57%) Docker
2 15 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.40%) NDS
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 29 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.57%) Terraform
3 7 (1.39%) Grafana
3 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 129 (25.65%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.36%) SAP
3 23 (4.57%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.17%) Oracle
5 15 (2.98%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.59%) Google
8 5 (0.99%) Splunk
8 5 (0.99%) YouTube
9 4 (0.80%) Mitel
9 4 (0.80%) OpenText
10 3 (0.60%) HP
10 3 (0.60%) Okta
10 3 (0.60%) VMware
11 2 (0.40%) Aderant
11 2 (0.40%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.40%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.40%) Intapp
11 2 (0.40%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.40%) Pega