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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 440 334
Rank change year-on-year -5 -106 +72
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 194 284 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.54% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.59% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 109 157 413
10th Percentile £58,250 £38,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,194 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £98,900 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.23% +15.38% -7.14%

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 49,597 48,194 56,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.59% 90.99% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29,262 23,336 43,211
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,246 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -13 161 £76,640 +2.19% 95
Work from Home +62 104 £77,500 +2.79% 35
UK excluding London -29 104 £74,830 -0.23% 90
London +32 63 £82,000 +8.75% 23
North of England -15 25 £74,165 +74.51% 12
South East +14 24 £75,000 +1.35% 36
Midlands -9 23 £72,500 -3.85% 13
South West +14 13 £72,500 -3.33% 8
West Midlands -4 13 £72,500 -3.85% 4
North West -14 11 £58,665 +38.04% 5
East Midlands -10 10 £72,500 -6.45% 8
Yorkshire -8 9 £82,500 +10.00% 5
Wales +7 7 £69,793 -12.76% 7
Northern Ireland -5 6 £74,830 -6.46% 2
North East +7 5 £67,500 -15.63% 2
Scotland -15 4 £74,830 -6.46% 1
East of England +11 2 £70,750 -11.56% 12

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 14 (7.22%) CMS
2 9 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Documentum
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.03%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.99%) AWS
2 63 (32.47%) Azure
3 24 (12.37%) GCP
4 17 (8.76%) Power Platform
5 16 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.64%) PowerApps
6 9 (4.64%) SaaS
7 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.06%) PaaS
10 3 (1.55%) Kong
10 3 (1.55%) Kontent
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.03%) IaaS
11 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.06%) Firewall
1 4 (2.06%) IP Telephony
1 4 (2.06%) PSTN
1 4 (2.06%) VoIP
2 1 (0.52%) DHCP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) SSH
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.64%) Power BI
4 8 (4.12%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.09%) Redis
6 5 (2.58%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.06%) Metadata
8 3 (1.55%) MySQL
9 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.03%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.52%) DB2
10 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Git
2 4 (2.06%) JIRA
3 3 (1.55%) JUnit
3 3 (1.55%) Maven
4 2 (1.03%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.03%) JMeter
4 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.03%) Mockito
4 2 (1.03%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 91 (46.91%) Social Skills
2 56 (28.87%) Finance
2 56 (28.87%) Public Sector
3 52 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.98%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (12.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.76%) Law
7 14 (7.22%) Marketing
8 13 (6.70%) Retail
9 7 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.58%) Back Office
11 5 (2.58%) Banking
11 5 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 4 (2.06%) Legal
12 4 (2.06%) Local Government
13 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (54.12%) Architect
2 49 (25.26%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (15.46%) Technical Architect
4 21 (10.82%) Lead
5 20 (10.31%) Senior
6 18 (9.28%) Developer
7 12 (6.19%) Lead Architect
7 12 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.64%) Enterprise Architect
8 9 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Consultant
9 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.12%) Principal Consultant
9 8 (4.12%) Technical Leader
10 7 (3.61%) Data Architect
11 5 (2.58%) Integration Architect
11 5 (2.58%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.58%) Software Development Engineer
11 5 (2.58%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.31%) React
2 13 (6.70%) .NET
3 12 (6.19%) REST
4 10 (5.15%) Web Services
5 9 (4.64%) CSS
5 9 (4.64%) Node.js
6 8 (4.12%) Next.js
6 8 (4.12%) Spring
7 6 (3.09%) Django
7 6 (3.09%) Kafka
8 5 (2.58%) HTML
8 5 (2.58%) Memcached
8 5 (2.58%) RESTful
9 4 (2.06%) LangChain
9 4 (2.06%) Middleware
9 4 (2.06%) SOAP
10 3 (1.55%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.55%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.55%) Laravel
10 3 (1.55%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.53%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (17.01%) Virtual Team
3 12 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (5.67%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.12%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.09%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.58%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.06%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.06%) IVR
10 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.55%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Android
1 5 (2.58%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.55%) Linux
3 2 (1.03%) Windows
3 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.57%) Agile
2 51 (26.29%) AI
3 45 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (22.68%) Decision-Making
4 44 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (22.68%) Roadmaps
5 41 (21.13%) Analytics
6 38 (19.59%) Project Management
7 36 (18.56%) CI/CD
8 33 (17.01%) DevOps
8 33 (17.01%) Strategic Thinking
9 32 (16.49%) Customer Experience
9 32 (16.49%) Enterprise Architecture
10 28 (14.43%) Microservices
11 27 (13.92%) B2B
11 27 (13.92%) Due Diligence
12 24 (12.37%) Business Development
12 24 (12.37%) Data Modelling
12 24 (12.37%) Financial Modelling
12 24 (12.37%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.92%) Python
2 18 (9.28%) Java
3 16 (8.25%) SQL
4 14 (7.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.70%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.67%) C#
7 8 (4.12%) VBA
8 7 (3.61%) Go
9 5 (2.58%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.58%) Scala
10 3 (1.55%) PHP
10 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.03%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.37%) Degree
4 16 (8.25%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.12%) APMP
6 8 (4.12%) MBA
7 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.55%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.55%) OSCP
9 3 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.03%) CITP
10 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) QA
2 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.12%) Google
2 8 (4.12%) SAP
3 6 (3.09%) Oracle
4 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.58%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.06%) Avaya
5 4 (2.06%) Cisco
5 4 (2.06%) Genesys
5 4 (2.06%) YouTube
6 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.55%) Pega
6 3 (1.55%) Sparx
7 2 (1.03%) Ariba
7 2 (1.03%) Foundry
7 2 (1.03%) OpenText
7 2 (1.03%) Palantir
8 1 (0.52%) Adobe
8 1 (0.52%) Databricks