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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 470 450
Rank change year-on-year +105 -20 -139
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 539 231 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.52% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 300 91 268
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,886 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,630 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -0.20% -3.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £100,000
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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £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 20 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 20 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 +35 378 £80,000 +4.92% 130
UK excluding London +80 349 £74,830 +15.12% 99
Work from Home +149 288 £77,500 - 62
London -4 136 £100,000 +21.95% 59
North of England +28 84 £76,665 +5.74% 31
Northern Ireland - 71 £74,830 - 1
South East -33 46 £78,750 +5.00% 32
South West -42 44 £37,500 -53.13% 13
Midlands -7 41 £74,830 +15.12% 11
West Midlands +2 39 £74,830 +3.21% 8
North East - 39 £81,750 - 8
North West +8 33 £70,000 +16.63% 12
Wales -35 28 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Scotland +9 23 £74,830 +66.29% 4
East of England -21 12 £100,000 +37.93% 2
Yorkshire -31 12 £90,000 +20.00% 11
East Midlands -37 2 £70,000 +7.69% 3

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 (1.67%) Confluence
2 7 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.19%) JBoss
4 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 213 (39.52%) Azure
2 150 (27.83%) AWS
3 65 (12.06%) Cloud Computing
4 56 (10.39%) Power Platform
5 52 (9.65%) GCP
6 38 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.82%) dbt
8 23 (4.27%) SaaS
9 16 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (2.97%) PaaS
10 14 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (1.86%) IaaS
13 9 (1.67%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.67%) Serverless
14 8 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.48%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.17%) LAN
1 71 (13.17%) WAN
2 16 (2.97%) Broadband
3 10 (1.86%) Unified Communications
4 8 (1.48%) Firewall
5 6 (1.11%) WLAN
6 5 (0.93%) Network Security
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) WebEx
9 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.90%) BigQuery
2 18 (3.34%) Metadata
2 18 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
4 12 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (2.23%) MySQL
5 11 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.30%) Power BI
9 6 (1.11%) SAP BW
9 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
11 4 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.56%) Tableau
13 2 (0.37%) Redis
13 2 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (6.86%) Git
2 31 (5.75%) JUnit
3 21 (3.90%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.53%) Subversion
5 18 (3.34%) JIRA
6 10 (1.86%) Maven
6 10 (1.86%) Mockito
7 7 (1.30%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.93%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.74%) 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
1 245 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 180 (33.40%) Finance
3 114 (21.15%) Public Sector
4 100 (18.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (13.54%) Presentation Skills
6 66 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (10.02%) Law
8 31 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (5.38%) Legal
10 13 (2.41%) Banking
11 12 (2.23%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.23%) Marketing
12 10 (1.86%) Retail
13 9 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.67%) Military
14 7 (1.30%) Aviation
15 6 (1.11%) Police
15 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.93%) Advertising
17 4 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 307 (56.96%) Architect
2 91 (16.88%) Technical Architect
3 77 (14.29%) Lead
4 69 (12.80%) Systems Architect
5 68 (12.62%) Solutions Architect
6 56 (10.39%) Developer
7 54 (10.02%) Senior
8 39 (7.24%) Java Developer
9 23 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (3.90%) Junior
11 20 (3.71%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.71%) Technical Leader
12 19 (3.53%) Consultant
12 19 (3.53%) Lead Architect
13 18 (3.34%) Enterprise Architect
14 17 (3.15%) Junior Developer
14 17 (3.15%) Junior Java Developer
15 16 (2.97%) ERP Architect
15 16 (2.97%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.50%) React
2 34 (6.31%) RESTful
3 27 (5.01%) Jakarta EE
3 27 (5.01%) Terraform
4 25 (4.64%) Node.js
5 24 (4.45%) REST
6 23 (4.27%) Spring
7 21 (3.90%) Middleware
8 20 (3.71%) Web Services
9 19 (3.53%) Struts
10 13 (2.41%) Kafka
10 13 (2.41%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.23%) .NET
11 12 (2.23%) Next.js
12 10 (1.86%) Playwright
12 10 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.67%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.48%) JSP
15 7 (1.30%) JPA
15 7 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.61%) Virtual Team
3 24 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.04%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.48%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.30%) Blog
13 7 (1.30%) PMI
13 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.11%) Life Science
14 6 (1.11%) NHS
15 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
16 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.53%) Linux
2 10 (1.86%) Windows
3 9 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (33.77%) Roadmaps
2 176 (32.65%) Agile
3 143 (26.53%) AI
4 126 (23.38%) CI/CD
5 124 (23.01%) Mentoring
6 114 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 107 (19.85%) Technical Leadership
8 102 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 98 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (18.18%) Project Delivery
10 93 (17.25%) Risk Management
10 93 (17.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 90 (16.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 82 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (15.03%) Business Strategy
14 80 (14.84%) DevOps
15 79 (14.66%) Migration
16 78 (14.47%) Information Security
17 76 (14.10%) Business Case
18 74 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.10%) Java
2 68 (12.62%) Python
3 59 (10.95%) JavaScript
4 48 (8.91%) SQL
5 31 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 22 (4.08%) C++
7 20 (3.71%) C#
8 19 (3.53%) Perl
9 12 (2.23%) Scala
10 10 (1.86%) Bash
10 10 (1.86%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.30%) ABAP
12 6 (1.11%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.74%) C
14 3 (0.56%) Go
14 3 (0.56%) X++
15 2 (0.37%) Bicep
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.37%) SOQL
15 2 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 134 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 116 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.13%) Degree
4 42 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.41%) CISSP
7 11 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.30%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.11%) CISM
13 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.93%) CCNP
13 5 (0.93%) CCSP
14 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.80%) GRC
2 48 (8.91%) QA
3 29 (5.38%) Data Quality
4 20 (3.71%) GDPR
5 16 (2.97%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.04%) NIST
7 10 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.56%) COBIT
9 3 (0.56%) IFRS
9 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (6.49%) Docker
2 16 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.37%) NDS
4 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 32 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.86%) Grafana
2 10 (1.86%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.74%) Ansible
3 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Argo
4 1 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 134 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.42%) SAP
3 25 (4.64%) Oracle
3 25 (4.64%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.97%) OpenAI
4 16 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.30%) Splunk
6 6 (1.11%) YouTube
7 5 (0.93%) VMware
8 4 (0.74%) Databricks
8 4 (0.74%) Google
8 4 (0.74%) Mitel
8 4 (0.74%) OpenText
9 3 (0.56%) Aruba
9 3 (0.56%) Cisco
9 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.56%) HP
9 3 (0.56%) Okta
9 3 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.37%) Zscaler