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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 451 478
Rank change year-on-year +45 +27 -137
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 402 248 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 244 95 327
10th Percentile £62,084 £51,684 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,596 £60,000 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,625 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.21% -3.33% +15.38%

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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 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 8 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 -16 281 £80,000 +3.23% 156
UK excluding London +20 227 £74,830 +3.21% 88
Work from Home +119 211 £77,500 -3.13% 69
London -18 112 £100,000 +21.95% 77
North of England -18 46 £78,500 +8.28% 27
Northern Ireland - 39 £74,742 - 2
South East -36 35 £75,000 - 27
Midlands -16 31 £74,915 +15.25% 7
Wales - 27 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -1 25 £75,000 - 5
South West -50 24 £31,000 -61.25% 11
North West -2 18 £70,000 +27.17% 13
North East - 17 £78,500 - 5
Scotland +4 13 £74,830 +66.29% 6
East of England -20 12 £100,000 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -28 11 £90,000 +24.14% 10
East Midlands -31 6 £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 12 (2.99%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.00%) Documentum
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 142 (35.32%) Azure
2 109 (27.11%) AWS
3 61 (15.17%) Power Platform
4 50 (12.44%) GCP
5 47 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (9.20%) Cloud Computing
7 21 (5.22%) SaaS
8 19 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (4.23%) PaaS
10 14 (3.48%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.99%) dbt
12 10 (2.49%) IaaS
12 10 (2.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (2.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (1.99%) Serverless
15 7 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.74%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
16 6 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.45%) LAN
1 38 (9.45%) WAN
2 16 (3.98%) Broadband
3 7 (1.74%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.49%) WLAN
5 3 (0.75%) Firewall
5 3 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.25%) AMQP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) WebEx
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.98%) BigQuery
2 15 (3.73%) Metadata
2 15 (3.73%) Semantic Layer
3 12 (2.99%) Power BI
4 11 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.49%) MySQL
7 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.75%) Big Data
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.50%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.47%) Git
2 17 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.48%) JUnit
4 13 (3.23%) JIRA
5 9 (2.24%) Eclipse
5 9 (2.24%) Subversion
6 6 (1.49%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.24%) Maven
7 5 (1.24%) Mockito
7 5 (1.24%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.75%) Selenium
9 2 (0.50%) Gatling
9 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.25%) GitLab
10 1 (0.25%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 172 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 108 (26.87%) Finance
3 89 (22.14%) Public Sector
4 76 (18.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (12.69%) Law
6 48 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (6.72%) Legal
9 12 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.49%) Banking
11 7 (1.74%) Local Government
12 6 (1.49%) Retail
13 5 (1.24%) Marketing
14 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.75%) Advertising
15 3 (0.75%) Aviation
16 2 (0.50%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.50%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 229 (56.97%) Architect
2 74 (18.41%) Technical Architect
3 58 (14.43%) Lead
4 52 (12.94%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (11.44%) Senior
6 36 (8.96%) Systems Architect
7 32 (7.96%) Developer
8 22 (5.47%) Lead Architect
8 22 (5.47%) Technical Leader
9 20 (4.98%) Java Developer
10 18 (4.48%) Data Architect
11 17 (4.23%) Enterprise Architect
12 16 (3.98%) Consultant
13 15 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) Head of Architecture
14 12 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
15 11 (2.74%) Engineering Manager
16 10 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 10 (2.49%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.21%) React
2 24 (5.97%) Node.js
3 22 (5.47%) RESTful
4 16 (3.98%) .NET
5 13 (3.23%) J2EE
5 13 (3.23%) Spring
6 12 (2.99%) Middleware
7 11 (2.74%) REST
7 11 (2.74%) Web Services
8 10 (2.49%) Kafka
9 9 (2.24%) Struts
10 8 (1.99%) Next.js
10 8 (1.99%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.24%) CSS
12 5 (1.24%) Playwright
12 5 (1.24%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (1.00%) AWS CDK
13 4 (1.00%) Backbone.js
13 4 (1.00%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.19%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.45%) Virtual Team
3 16 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.74%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.49%) NHS
8 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.00%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.75%) BBC
10 3 (0.75%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.24%) Linux
2 8 (1.99%) Windows
2 8 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.49%) Android
3 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (34.83%) Agile
2 123 (30.60%) Roadmaps
3 101 (25.12%) AI
4 100 (24.88%) CI/CD
5 80 (19.90%) Mentoring
6 67 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 67 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 65 (16.17%) DevOps
8 64 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 58 (14.43%) Technology Strategy
11 54 (13.43%) Containerisation
12 53 (13.18%) IT Strategy
12 53 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 51 (12.69%) Business Strategy
13 51 (12.69%) Data Modelling
14 49 (12.19%) Software Engineering
15 47 (11.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (13.68%) Python
2 44 (10.95%) Java
3 41 (10.20%) SQL
4 36 (8.96%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.22%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.98%) C#
7 12 (2.99%) C++
8 9 (2.24%) Perl
8 9 (2.24%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.24%) Scala
9 7 (1.74%) VBA
10 5 (1.24%) Bash
10 5 (1.24%) Go
11 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.75%) X++
12 2 (0.50%) Bicep
12 2 (0.50%) PHP
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 77 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 67 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.45%) Degree
4 26 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.99%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.24%) CISSP
8 7 (1.74%) APMP
8 7 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.74%) MBA
9 6 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.49%) CISM
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.24%) CCSP
10 5 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.00%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.96%) GRC
2 25 (6.22%) Data Quality
3 23 (5.72%) QA
4 22 (5.47%) GDPR
5 9 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.24%) NIST
6 8 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.75%) COBIT
8 3 (0.75%) IFRS
8 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.50%) NCSC
9 2 (0.50%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 20 (4.98%) Docker
2 13 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) IAG
Systems Management
1 21 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.98%) Terraform
3 5 (1.24%) Grafana
3 5 (1.24%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 90 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.98%) SAP
3 18 (4.48%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.48%) Oracle
6 9 (2.24%) Google
6 9 (2.24%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.24%) YouTube
7 6 (1.49%) OpenText
8 5 (1.24%) Pega
9 3 (0.75%) Databricks
9 3 (0.75%) HP
9 3 (0.75%) Splunk
9 3 (0.75%) VMware
10 2 (0.50%) Aderant
10 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.50%) iManage
10 2 (0.50%) Intapp
10 2 (0.50%) Litera
11 1 (0.25%) Concur