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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 479 412
Rank change year-on-year +144 -67 -115
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 616 179 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.41% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 338 79 253
10th Percentile £49,308 £58,936 £46,774
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 £110,000 £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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 +95 434 £82,500 +3.13% 581
UK excluding London +126 402 £74,830 -0.23% 230
Work from Home +157 310 £77,500 -3.13% 229
London +3 141 £90,000 +5.88% 382
North of England +23 106 £83,750 +8.06% 58
Northern Ireland -20 70 £74,830 - 5
Midlands +7 67 £74,830 -0.06% 39
West Midlands +11 60 £74,830 -1.70% 32
South East -32 46 £90,000 +20.00% 65
South West -37 44 £37,500 - 27
North West +11 43 £70,000 -6.67% 30
North East - 43 £85,000 - 8
Wales -42 34 £70,000 -2.78% 9
Scotland +14 21 £74,830 - 15
Yorkshire -20 20 £90,000 +14.29% 21
East of England -30 14 £100,000 +37.93% 12
East Midlands -34 7 £70,000 -1.75% 7

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 (1.46%) Confluence
2 7 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.32%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.81%) SAP MDG
3 5 (0.81%) SAP PSCD
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.32%) Maximo
6 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 238 (38.64%) Azure
2 167 (27.11%) AWS
3 66 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
4 64 (10.39%) GCP
4 64 (10.39%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.22%) dbt
7 24 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (3.25%) SaaS
9 17 (2.76%) Power Automate
10 16 (2.60%) Serverless
11 14 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.27%) iPaaS
11 14 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 13 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (2.11%) PowerApps
12 13 (2.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.46%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.69%) LAN
1 72 (11.69%) WAN
2 16 (2.60%) Broadband
3 10 (1.62%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.97%) WLAN
6 5 (0.81%) Network Security
7 3 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.49%) Internet
7 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.49%) Wireless
8 2 (0.32%) VPN
9 1 (0.16%) 5G
9 1 (0.16%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.16%) WebEx
9 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.16%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 19 (3.08%) MySQL
4 17 (2.76%) Metadata
4 17 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
6 11 (1.79%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.97%) Power BI
9 6 (0.97%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.81%) Big Data
11 3 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (8.12%) Git
2 32 (5.19%) JUnit
3 22 (3.57%) Eclipse
4 20 (3.25%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.08%) JIRA
5 19 (3.08%) Subversion
6 10 (1.62%) Maven
6 10 (1.62%) Mockito
7 7 (1.14%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.65%) Selenium
8 4 (0.65%) Yeoman
9 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.32%) Gatling
10 2 (0.32%) GitLab
10 2 (0.32%) JMeter
10 2 (0.32%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 266 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 205 (33.28%) Finance
3 143 (23.21%) Public Sector
4 118 (19.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 82 (13.31%) Presentation Skills
6 71 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (8.77%) Law
8 32 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (4.38%) Marketing
10 25 (4.06%) Legal
11 23 (3.73%) Banking
12 19 (3.08%) Aerospace
12 19 (3.08%) Retail
13 11 (1.79%) Military
14 9 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.14%) Aviation
15 7 (1.14%) Police
15 7 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.65%) Advertising
16 4 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 336 (54.55%) Architect
2 118 (19.16%) Lead
3 117 (18.99%) Technical Architect
4 78 (12.66%) Solutions Architect
5 68 (11.04%) Systems Architect
6 67 (10.88%) Developer
7 61 (9.90%) Senior
8 42 (6.82%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.49%) Lead Architect
10 39 (6.33%) Technical Leader
11 28 (4.55%) Consultant
12 25 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
13 22 (3.57%) Junior
13 22 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
14 19 (3.08%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.08%) Senior Developer
15 18 (2.92%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.92%) Junior Developer
16 17 (2.76%) Junior Java Developer
17 16 (2.60%) ERP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (10.39%) React
2 46 (7.47%) REST
3 38 (6.17%) RESTful
4 36 (5.84%) Terraform
5 35 (5.68%) Middleware
6 30 (4.87%) Spring
7 27 (4.38%) Jakarta EE
8 24 (3.90%) Node.js
9 20 (3.25%) CSS
9 20 (3.25%) Spring Boot
9 20 (3.25%) Web Services
10 19 (3.08%) Kafka
10 19 (3.08%) Struts
11 17 (2.76%) .NET
12 16 (2.60%) Hibernate
13 15 (2.44%) JWT
13 15 (2.44%) OAuth
13 15 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (2.11%) JPA
14 13 (2.11%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.47%) Virtual Team
3 35 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 27 (4.38%) Management Information System
6 26 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
10 13 (2.11%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.46%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.14%) Blog
12 7 (1.14%) PMI
12 7 (1.14%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.97%) Life Science
13 6 (0.97%) NHS
14 5 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.57%) Linux
2 10 (1.62%) Windows
3 9 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (33.28%) Roadmaps
2 188 (30.52%) Agile
3 172 (27.92%) AI
4 149 (24.19%) CI/CD
4 149 (24.19%) Mentoring
5 137 (22.24%) Technical Leadership
6 122 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 119 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 115 (18.67%) Containerisation
9 113 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
10 110 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 106 (17.21%) Project Delivery
12 105 (17.05%) Risk Management
13 104 (16.88%) DevOps
14 97 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 83 (13.47%) Business Strategy
16 82 (13.31%) Enterprise Architecture
16 82 (13.31%) Microservices
17 81 (13.15%) Migration
18 78 (12.66%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 91 (14.77%) Python
2 82 (13.31%) Java
3 79 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 56 (9.09%) SQL
5 35 (5.68%) TypeScript
6 30 (4.87%) C#
7 21 (3.41%) C++
8 19 (3.08%) Perl
9 17 (2.76%) Scala
10 12 (1.95%) ABAP
11 10 (1.62%) Bash
11 10 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.81%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.81%) Go
12 5 (0.81%) Rust
13 4 (0.65%) Clojure
13 4 (0.65%) Haskell
13 4 (0.65%) Lisp
13 4 (0.65%) OCaml
13 4 (0.65%) X++
Qualifications
1 155 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 133 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.39%) Degree
4 41 (6.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.95%) CISSP
9 10 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.62%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.97%) CCNP
13 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.81%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.65%) CCSP
14 4 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.20%) GRC
2 54 (8.77%) QA
3 28 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 25 (4.06%) Accessibility
5 21 (3.41%) GDPR
6 10 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.62%) NIST
7 9 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.65%) WCAG
10 3 (0.49%) COBIT
10 3 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.16%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (7.14%) Docker
2 17 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.49%) NDS
3 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.76%) Grafana
3 16 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.14%) Ansible
5 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 148 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.14%) SAP
3 27 (4.38%) Oracle
4 21 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.44%) OpenAI
5 15 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.11%) Splunk
7 12 (1.95%) YouTube
8 8 (1.30%) Databricks
9 6 (0.97%) VMware
10 5 (0.81%) Google
10 5 (0.81%) Okta
11 4 (0.65%) Aruba
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco
11 4 (0.65%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.65%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.65%) Mitel
12 3 (0.49%) HP
12 3 (0.49%) Juniper
12 3 (0.49%) NetIQ