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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 491 409
Rank change year-on-year +143 -82 -107
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 606 180 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.36% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.41% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 337 78 252
10th Percentile £49,077 £58,913 £46,512
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £80,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £105,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year -0.23% -0.20% +13.43%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +96 425 £82,500 +3.13% 715
UK excluding London +97 395 £74,830 -0.23% 485
Work from Home +156 312 £77,500 -3.13% 487
London +1 139 £90,000 +5.88% 390
North of England +27 103 £85,000 +9.68% 99
Northern Ireland -24 70 £74,830 - 14
Midlands -3 63 £74,830 +3.57% 60
West Midlands +9 58 £74,830 -1.70% 42
South East -31 46 £90,000 +20.00% 94
South West -42 44 £37,500 - 53
North East - 43 £85,000 - 17
North West 0 42 £70,000 -6.67% 54
Wales -40 34 £70,000 -2.78% 44
Scotland +17 21 £74,830 - 94
Yorkshire -28 18 £90,000 +14.29% 31
East of England -39 14 £100,000 +37.93% 28
East Midlands -42 5 £70,000 +7.69% 18

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 (1.49%) Confluence
2 7 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.66%) 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 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) SAP MDG
3 5 (0.83%) SAP PSCD
4 4 (0.66%) 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
6 2 (0.33%) Maximo
6 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
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
1 238 (39.27%) Azure
2 166 (27.39%) AWS
3 66 (10.89%) Cloud Computing
3 66 (10.89%) Power Platform
4 63 (10.40%) GCP
5 37 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.29%) dbt
6 26 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (3.47%) SaaS
8 16 (2.64%) Power Automate
8 16 (2.64%) Serverless
9 14 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 13 (2.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 12 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.98%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (1.65%) PaaS
13 9 (1.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.88%) LAN
1 72 (11.88%) WAN
2 16 (2.64%) Broadband
3 10 (1.65%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.49%) Firewall
5 6 (0.99%) 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%) Wireless
8 2 (0.33%) VPN
9 1 (0.17%) 5G
9 1 (0.17%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.17%) WebEx
9 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (3.63%) BigQuery
3 19 (3.14%) MySQL
4 17 (2.81%) Metadata
4 17 (2.81%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.48%) Semantic Layer
6 14 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.82%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.99%) Power BI
11 6 (0.99%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.83%) Big Data
13 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (8.42%) Git
2 32 (5.28%) JUnit
3 22 (3.63%) Eclipse
4 20 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.14%) JIRA
5 19 (3.14%) Subversion
6 10 (1.65%) Maven
6 10 (1.65%) Mockito
7 7 (1.16%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.66%) 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
1 265 (43.73%) Social Skills
2 202 (33.33%) Finance
3 142 (23.43%) Public Sector
4 111 (18.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 81 (13.37%) Presentation Skills
6 72 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (8.91%) Law
8 32 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (4.13%) Legal
10 23 (3.80%) Banking
11 20 (3.30%) Marketing
12 19 (3.14%) Aerospace
13 18 (2.97%) Retail
14 11 (1.82%) Military
15 9 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.16%) Aviation
16 7 (1.16%) Police
16 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.66%) Advertising
17 4 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 336 (55.45%) Architect
2 119 (19.64%) Technical Architect
3 118 (19.47%) Lead
4 76 (12.54%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (11.39%) Systems Architect
6 66 (10.89%) Developer
7 59 (9.74%) Senior
8 42 (6.93%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.60%) Lead Architect
10 39 (6.44%) Technical Leader
11 25 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (3.63%) Consultant
12 22 (3.63%) Junior
13 19 (3.14%) Senior Developer
14 18 (2.97%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.97%) Data Engineer
14 18 (2.97%) Junior Developer
15 17 (2.81%) Junior Java Developer
16 16 (2.64%) ERP Architect
17 15 (2.48%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (10.56%) React
2 38 (6.27%) REST
2 38 (6.27%) RESTful
3 36 (5.94%) Terraform
4 30 (4.95%) Spring
5 29 (4.79%) Middleware
6 27 (4.46%) Jakarta EE
7 24 (3.96%) Node.js
8 20 (3.30%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.30%) Web Services
9 19 (3.14%) Kafka
9 19 (3.14%) Struts
10 16 (2.64%) .NET
10 16 (2.64%) Hibernate
11 15 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (2.15%) CSS
12 13 (2.15%) JPA
12 13 (2.15%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (1.98%) Next.js
14 10 (1.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.76%) Virtual Team
3 35 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (3.96%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.31%) AI Agents
10 13 (2.15%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.16%) Blog
12 7 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.16%) PMI
12 7 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.99%) Life Science
13 6 (0.99%) NHS
14 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.63%) Linux
2 10 (1.65%) Windows
3 9 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.16%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (33.83%) Roadmaps
2 189 (31.19%) Agile
3 164 (27.06%) AI
4 152 (25.08%) CI/CD
4 152 (25.08%) Mentoring
5 140 (23.10%) Technical Leadership
6 123 (20.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 116 (19.14%) Containerisation
8 112 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 110 (18.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 106 (17.49%) DevOps
11 106 (17.49%) Project Delivery
12 104 (17.16%) Risk Management
13 100 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 86 (14.19%) Microservices
15 83 (13.70%) Business Strategy
16 82 (13.53%) Enterprise Architecture
17 81 (13.37%) Migration
18 78 (12.87%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.70%) Java
2 82 (13.53%) Python
3 73 (12.05%) JavaScript
4 55 (9.08%) SQL
5 36 (5.94%) TypeScript
6 30 (4.95%) C#
7 22 (3.63%) C++
8 19 (3.14%) Perl
9 16 (2.64%) Scala
10 12 (1.98%) ABAP
11 10 (1.65%) Bash
11 10 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.83%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.83%) Go
13 4 (0.66%) C
13 4 (0.66%) Rust
13 4 (0.66%) X++
14 3 (0.50%) Haskell
14 3 (0.50%) Lisp
14 3 (0.50%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 153 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 131 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.40%) Degree
4 41 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.98%) CISSP
8 10 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.99%) CCNP
12 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.83%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.66%) CCSP
13 4 (0.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.39%) GRC
2 54 (8.91%) QA
3 28 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 25 (4.13%) Accessibility
5 24 (3.96%) GDPR
6 10 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.65%) NIST
7 9 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.66%) WCAG
11 3 (0.50%) COBIT
11 3 (0.50%) IFRS
11 3 (0.50%) NCSC
12 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (7.26%) Docker
2 17 (2.81%) 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 38 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.81%) Grafana
3 16 (2.64%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 149 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.43%) SAP
3 27 (4.46%) Oracle
4 21 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.48%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.15%) Splunk
7 12 (1.98%) YouTube
8 7 (1.16%) Databricks
9 6 (0.99%) VMware
10 5 (0.83%) Okta
11 4 (0.66%) Aruba
11 4 (0.66%) Cisco
11 4 (0.66%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.66%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.66%) Mitel
12 3 (0.50%) Google
12 3 (0.50%) NetIQ
12 3 (0.50%) OpenText
12 3 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud