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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 443 474
Rank change year-on-year +51 +31 -139
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 436 250 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 269 95 326
10th Percentile £62,084 £51,684 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £58,375
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 £84,688
90th Percentile £115,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £72,500 £73,185
% change year-on-year +3.21% -0.94% +12.59%

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 72,826 44,439 83,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.81% 90.30% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 24,847 58,274
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £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 £98,750 £92,500
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 12 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 12 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 +10 305 £79,669 +6.22% 156
UK excluding London +26 249 £74,830 +3.21% 90
Work from Home +128 235 £77,500 -3.13% 64
London +3 121 £100,000 +21.95% 83
North of England +15 55 £74,830 +3.21% 27
Northern Ireland - 42 £74,830 - 2
South East -37 35 £75,000 - 27
Midlands -20 34 £74,830 +15.12% 9
West Midlands 0 28 £74,915 -0.11% 6
Wales - 28 £70,000 - 3
South West -50 26 £29,500 -63.13% 12
North East - 22 £74,830 - 5
North West -3 21 £72,415 +20.65% 13
Scotland +7 17 £74,830 +66.29% 6
East of England -14 12 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -29 12 £90,000 +24.14% 10
East Midlands -35 6 £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 13 (2.98%) Confluence
2 8 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.92%) Documentum
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) JBoss
5 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 153 (35.09%) Azure
2 123 (28.21%) AWS
3 61 (13.99%) Power Platform
4 51 (11.70%) GCP
5 46 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (8.94%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (5.28%) dbt
8 21 (4.82%) SaaS
9 20 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (3.90%) PaaS
11 13 (2.98%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (2.29%) IaaS
13 10 (2.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (2.29%) Serverless
14 7 (1.61%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.61%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.72%) LAN
1 38 (8.72%) WAN
2 16 (3.67%) Broadband
3 8 (1.83%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.38%) WLAN
5 5 (1.15%) Firewall
5 5 (1.15%) Network Security
6 3 (0.69%) Internet
6 3 (0.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) WebEx
7 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.82%) BigQuery
2 16 (3.67%) Metadata
3 15 (3.44%) Semantic Layer
4 12 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.52%) Power BI
6 10 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.38%) MySQL
8 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.15%) Big Data
10 4 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.69%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.46%) Redis
12 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.28%) Git
2 17 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.44%) JUnit
4 14 (3.21%) JIRA
5 10 (2.29%) Eclipse
5 10 (2.29%) Subversion
6 6 (1.38%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.15%) Maven
7 5 (1.15%) Mockito
7 5 (1.15%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.69%) Selenium
9 2 (0.46%) Gatling
9 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.23%) GitLab
10 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 198 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 113 (25.92%) Finance
3 94 (21.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (21.10%) Public Sector
5 53 (12.16%) Law
6 49 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (8.94%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (6.42%) Legal
9 13 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.52%) Banking
11 7 (1.61%) Local Government
11 7 (1.61%) Retail
12 6 (1.38%) Marketing
13 5 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Advertising
14 4 (0.92%) Public Speaking
15 3 (0.69%) Aviation
16 2 (0.46%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (59.17%) Architect
2 84 (19.27%) Technical Architect
3 63 (14.45%) Solutions Architect
4 62 (14.22%) Lead
5 48 (11.01%) Senior
6 36 (8.26%) Systems Architect
7 33 (7.57%) Developer
8 24 (5.50%) Technical Leader
9 22 (5.05%) Lead Architect
10 21 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (4.82%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.36%) Data Architect
12 18 (4.13%) Enterprise Architect
13 15 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 15 (3.44%) Consultant
13 15 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
14 13 (2.98%) ERP Architect
15 12 (2.75%) Head of Architecture
15 12 (2.75%) Principal Engineer
16 11 (2.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.03%) React
2 24 (5.50%) Node.js
3 23 (5.28%) RESTful
4 16 (3.67%) .NET
5 15 (3.44%) J2EE
6 13 (2.98%) Middleware
6 13 (2.98%) Spring
7 12 (2.75%) Web Services
8 11 (2.52%) REST
9 10 (2.29%) Kafka
9 10 (2.29%) Struts
10 8 (1.83%) Next.js
10 8 (1.83%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.15%) CSS
12 5 (1.15%) JSP
12 5 (1.15%) Playwright
12 5 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (0.92%) AWS CDK
13 4 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.63%) Virtual Team
3 16 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.61%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.38%) NHS
8 4 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.92%) Life Science
8 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.69%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.29%) Linux
2 9 (2.06%) Windows
3 8 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.38%) Android
4 6 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (35.78%) Agile
2 129 (29.59%) Roadmaps
3 109 (25.00%) AI
4 104 (23.85%) CI/CD
5 89 (20.41%) Mentoring
6 84 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 72 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (16.51%) DevOps
8 70 (16.06%) Technical Leadership
9 69 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (15.60%) Enterprise Architecture
11 66 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 65 (14.91%) Migration
13 59 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 58 (13.30%) Technology Strategy
15 55 (12.61%) Containerisation
16 53 (12.16%) IT Strategy
17 52 (11.93%) Data Modelling
18 51 (11.70%) Decision-Making
18 51 (11.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (13.30%) Python
2 49 (11.24%) Java
3 42 (9.63%) SQL
4 38 (8.72%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.82%) C#
5 21 (4.82%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.98%) C++
7 10 (2.29%) Perl
7 10 (2.29%) Scala
8 9 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.38%) Go
9 6 (1.38%) VBA
10 5 (1.15%) Bash
11 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.69%) X++
13 2 (0.46%) Bicep
13 2 (0.46%) PHP
13 2 (0.46%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 96 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 84 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.63%) Degree
4 30 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.75%) DBS Check
6 11 (2.52%) CISSP
6 11 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.38%) APMP
10 6 (1.38%) CISM
10 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.38%) MBA
11 5 (1.15%) CCSP
11 5 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.26%) GRC
2 26 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.96%) QA
3 22 (5.05%) GDPR
4 10 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.29%) NIST
5 8 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.69%) COBIT
7 3 (0.69%) IFRS
7 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) NCSC
8 2 (0.46%) WCAG
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (4.59%) Docker
2 13 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 22 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.36%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Grafana
3 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 99 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.28%) SAP
3 20 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.44%) Oracle
4 15 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.06%) Google
6 9 (2.06%) YouTube
7 6 (1.38%) OpenText
8 5 (1.15%) Pega
9 3 (0.69%) Databricks
9 3 (0.69%) HP
9 3 (0.69%) Splunk
9 3 (0.69%) VMware
10 2 (0.46%) Aderant
10 2 (0.46%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.46%) iManage
10 2 (0.46%) Intapp
10 2 (0.46%) Litera
10 2 (0.46%) Mitel