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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 440 463
Rank change year-on-year +63 +23 -137
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 466 249 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 273 96 308
10th Percentile £62,084 £51,140 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £58,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £84,063
90th Percentile £115,000 £103,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -13.33% +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 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 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 21 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 +24 311 £79,669 +2.80% 190
UK excluding London +48 285 £74,830 +15.12% 83
Work from Home +138 267 £77,500 -3.13% 77
London +10 121 £100,000 +21.95% 116
Northern Ireland - 65 £74,830 - 1
North of England +14 62 £76,665 +5.74% 31
Midlands -21 36 £74,830 +15.12% 11
South East -42 35 £75,000 - 19
West Midlands 0 31 £74,915 +15.25% 6
South West -48 28 £29,500 -63.13% 10
Wales - 28 £70,000 - 2
North West +10 26 £74,830 +24.67% 12
North East - 24 £76,665 - 9
Scotland +14 19 £74,830 +66.29% 7
East of England -10 12 £100,000 +25.00% 3
Yorkshire -36 12 £90,000 +20.00% 11
East Midlands -30 5 £70,000 +7.69% 5

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 11 (2.36%) Confluence
2 7 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.43%) Documentum
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) JBoss
5 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.86%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 178 (38.20%) Azure
2 123 (26.39%) AWS
3 61 (13.09%) Cloud Computing
4 59 (12.66%) Power Platform
5 48 (10.30%) GCP
6 45 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (5.15%) dbt
8 20 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (4.29%) SaaS
9 15 (3.22%) PaaS
10 12 (2.58%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (2.15%) IaaS
12 10 (2.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (2.15%) Serverless
13 7 (1.50%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.50%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.50%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 62 (13.30%) LAN
1 62 (13.30%) WAN
2 16 (3.43%) Broadband
3 9 (1.93%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.29%) WLAN
5 5 (1.07%) Firewall
5 5 (1.07%) Network Security
6 3 (0.64%) Internet
6 3 (0.64%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) AMQP
7 1 (0.21%) WebEx
7 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.51%) BigQuery
2 17 (3.65%) Metadata
3 15 (3.22%) Semantic Layer
4 12 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (2.15%) Power BI
7 7 (1.50%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.50%) MySQL
7 7 (1.50%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.07%) Big Data
9 5 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.86%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.43%) Redis
11 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.36%) Git
2 17 (3.65%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.65%) JUnit
3 13 (2.79%) JIRA
4 11 (2.36%) Eclipse
4 11 (2.36%) Subversion
5 6 (1.29%) Claude Code
5 6 (1.29%) Maven
5 6 (1.29%) Mockito
6 5 (1.07%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.86%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.43%) Gatling
8 2 (0.43%) JMeter
8 2 (0.43%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 220 (47.21%) Social Skills
2 143 (30.69%) Finance
3 98 (21.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (20.82%) Public Sector
5 64 (13.73%) Presentation Skills
6 54 (11.59%) Law
7 52 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (6.22%) Legal
9 17 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.36%) Banking
11 7 (1.50%) Retail
12 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.29%) Marketing
13 4 (0.86%) Advertising
13 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.86%) Public Speaking
14 3 (0.64%) Aviation
14 3 (0.64%) Local Government
14 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.43%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 281 (60.30%) Architect
2 76 (16.31%) Technical Architect
3 64 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
4 62 (13.30%) Lead
5 60 (12.88%) Systems Architect
6 50 (10.73%) Senior
7 37 (7.94%) Developer
8 24 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
9 22 (4.72%) Data Architect
10 20 (4.29%) Technical Leader
11 19 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
12 17 (3.65%) Lead Architect
13 15 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 15 (3.22%) Consultant
13 15 (3.22%) ERP Architect
14 13 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.58%) Head of Architecture
15 12 (2.58%) Senior Architect
16 11 (2.36%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.37%) React
2 24 (5.15%) Node.js
3 23 (4.94%) RESTful
4 17 (3.65%) Jakarta EE
5 15 (3.22%) .NET
5 15 (3.22%) Middleware
5 15 (3.22%) Spring
6 13 (2.79%) REST
6 13 (2.79%) Web Services
7 11 (2.36%) Struts
8 10 (2.15%) Kafka
9 9 (1.93%) Next.js
9 9 (1.93%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.29%) JSP
11 6 (1.29%) Playwright
12 5 (1.07%) CSS
12 5 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (1.07%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (0.86%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.23%) Virtual Team
3 18 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.29%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.29%) NHS
8 5 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.86%) Life Science
10 3 (0.64%) BBC
10 3 (0.64%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.58%) Linux
2 9 (1.93%) Windows
3 8 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.07%) Android
4 5 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (35.19%) Agile
2 153 (32.83%) Roadmaps
3 112 (24.03%) AI
4 108 (23.18%) CI/CD
5 98 (21.03%) Mentoring
6 91 (19.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 88 (18.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 83 (17.81%) Containerisation
9 77 (16.52%) Project Delivery
10 75 (16.09%) Business Strategy
11 74 (15.88%) DevOps
12 73 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 72 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (15.45%) Technical Leadership
14 70 (15.02%) Risk Management
15 68 (14.59%) Enterprise Architecture
15 68 (14.59%) Information Security
16 67 (14.38%) Migration
17 64 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 62 (13.30%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.23%) Python
2 51 (10.94%) Java
3 43 (9.23%) SQL
4 42 (9.01%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.94%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.08%) C#
7 14 (3.00%) C++
8 11 (2.36%) Perl
9 10 (2.15%) Scala
10 9 (1.93%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.29%) Bash
12 5 (1.07%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.07%) Go
12 5 (1.07%) VBA
13 3 (0.64%) X++
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) C
14 2 (0.43%) PHP
14 2 (0.43%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 97 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.66%) Degree
4 34 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.58%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.36%) CISSP
7 9 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.29%) CISM
10 5 (1.07%) APMP
10 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.07%) CCSP
10 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.07%) MBA
11 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.64%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.88%) GRC
2 30 (6.44%) QA
3 26 (5.58%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.72%) GDPR
5 10 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.15%) NIST
6 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.64%) COBIT
7 3 (0.64%) IFRS
7 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) NCSC
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (4.72%) Docker
2 14 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) NDS
Systems Management
1 24 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.08%) Terraform
3 6 (1.29%) Grafana
3 6 (1.29%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 125 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.36%) SAP
3 21 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.43%) Oracle
5 14 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.72%) Google
8 7 (1.50%) YouTube
9 5 (1.07%) OpenText
10 4 (0.86%) Pega
10 4 (0.86%) Splunk
11 3 (0.64%) HP
11 3 (0.64%) Mitel
11 3 (0.64%) VMware
12 2 (0.43%) Aderant
12 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.43%) iManage
12 2 (0.43%) Intapp
12 2 (0.43%) Litera
12 2 (0.43%) Okta