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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 490 441
Rank change year-on-year +132 -49 -135
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 579 194 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.39% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.44% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 327 81 256
10th Percentile £47,616 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £80,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £75,075
% change year-on-year -0.23% -0.10% +11.22%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +81 408 £82,500 +3.13% 667
UK excluding London +104 384 £74,830 -0.23% 279
Work from Home +159 304 £77,500 -3.13% 288
London +3 136 £95,000 +11.76% 446
North of England +19 101 £85,000 +9.68% 70
Northern Ireland -14 71 £74,830 - 7
Midlands +6 53 £74,830 +9.04% 38
West Midlands +3 51 £74,830 -1.70% 30
South East -45 46 £80,000 +6.67% 82
South West -39 44 £37,500 - 33
North East - 44 £85,000 - 9
North West +12 40 £74,830 +15.12% 47
Wales -43 34 £70,000 -2.78% 5
Scotland +22 23 £74,830 +66.29% 36
Yorkshire -22 17 £90,000 +14.29% 14
East of England -33 12 £100,000 +37.93% 9
East Midlands -37 2 £70,000 +7.69% 8

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 (1.55%) Confluence
2 7 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) NetWeaver
4 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.35%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 225 (38.86%) Azure
2 160 (27.63%) AWS
3 66 (11.40%) Cloud Computing
4 63 (10.88%) Power Platform
5 58 (10.02%) GCP
6 37 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.49%) dbt
8 24 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (3.97%) SaaS
10 14 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (2.42%) PaaS
11 13 (2.25%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (2.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.25%) Serverless
12 10 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (1.73%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.55%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.44%) LAN
1 72 (12.44%) WAN
2 16 (2.76%) Broadband
3 10 (1.73%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.55%) Firewall
5 6 (1.04%) WLAN
6 5 (0.86%) Network Security
7 3 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.52%) Internet
7 3 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.52%) VPN
7 3 (0.52%) Wireless
8 1 (0.17%) 5G
8 1 (0.17%) Value-Added Service
8 1 (0.17%) WebEx
8 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (3.63%) BigQuery
3 19 (3.28%) MySQL
4 18 (3.11%) Metadata
5 17 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.59%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.59%) Semantic Layer
7 11 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.55%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.21%) Power BI
12 6 (1.04%) SAP BW
13 5 (0.86%) Big Data
13 5 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.35%) Data Vault
15 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 49 (8.46%) Git
2 32 (5.53%) JUnit
3 22 (3.80%) Eclipse
4 20 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 19 (3.28%) Subversion
6 18 (3.11%) JIRA
7 10 (1.73%) Maven
7 10 (1.73%) Mockito
8 7 (1.21%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.69%) Selenium
9 4 (0.69%) Yeoman
10 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.35%) Gatling
11 2 (0.35%) GitLab
11 2 (0.35%) JMeter
11 2 (0.35%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 255 (44.04%) Social Skills
2 189 (32.64%) Finance
3 134 (23.14%) Public Sector
4 104 (17.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
6 73 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (9.50%) Law
8 31 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (4.32%) Legal
10 22 (3.80%) Banking
11 15 (2.59%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.25%) Marketing
13 12 (2.07%) Retail
14 11 (1.90%) Military
15 9 (1.55%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.21%) Aviation
16 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.04%) Police
18 4 (0.69%) Local Government
18 4 (0.69%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 334 (57.69%) Architect
2 117 (20.21%) Technical Architect
3 104 (17.96%) Lead
4 73 (12.61%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (11.92%) Systems Architect
6 65 (11.23%) Developer
7 57 (9.84%) Senior
8 43 (7.43%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.91%) Lead Architect
10 39 (6.74%) Technical Leader
11 23 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (3.80%) Junior
13 21 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 19 (3.28%) Senior Developer
15 18 (3.11%) Junior Developer
16 17 (2.94%) Consultant
16 17 (2.94%) Junior Java Developer
17 16 (2.76%) ERP Architect
18 15 (2.59%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
18 15 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.05%) React
2 39 (6.74%) RESTful
3 34 (5.87%) Terraform
4 30 (5.18%) Spring
5 27 (4.66%) Jakarta EE
5 27 (4.66%) REST
6 24 (4.15%) Node.js
7 21 (3.63%) Middleware
8 20 (3.45%) Kafka
8 20 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.45%) Web Services
9 19 (3.28%) Struts
10 16 (2.76%) Hibernate
10 16 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (2.59%) .NET
12 13 (2.25%) JPA
13 12 (2.07%) Next.js
14 10 (1.73%) Playwright
14 10 (1.73%) SAP Fiori
15 8 (1.38%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.12%) Virtual Team
3 32 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.42%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.42%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.21%) Blog
11 7 (1.21%) PMI
11 7 (1.21%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Life Science
12 6 (1.04%) NHS
13 4 (0.69%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.45%) Linux
2 10 (1.73%) Windows
3 9 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.06%) Roadmaps
2 186 (32.12%) Agile
3 151 (26.08%) AI
4 144 (24.87%) Mentoring
5 141 (24.35%) CI/CD
6 136 (23.49%) Technical Leadership
7 119 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 111 (19.17%) Containerisation
9 107 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 104 (17.96%) Project Delivery
12 99 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 98 (16.93%) Risk Management
14 96 (16.58%) DevOps
15 94 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (14.68%) Business Strategy
16 85 (14.68%) Microservices
17 78 (13.47%) Business Case
17 78 (13.47%) Migration
18 77 (13.30%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 81 (13.99%) Java
2 72 (12.44%) Python
3 65 (11.23%) JavaScript
4 52 (8.98%) SQL
5 34 (5.87%) TypeScript
6 28 (4.84%) C#
7 22 (3.80%) C++
8 19 (3.28%) Perl
9 14 (2.42%) Scala
10 10 (1.73%) Bash
10 10 (1.73%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.55%) ABAP
12 5 (0.86%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.69%) C
13 4 (0.69%) X++
14 3 (0.52%) Go
14 3 (0.52%) Rust
15 2 (0.35%) Bicep
15 2 (0.35%) SOQL
15 2 (0.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 135 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.88%) Degree
4 42 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.07%) CISSP
8 10 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.73%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.04%) CCNP
12 5 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.69%) CCSP
13 4 (0.69%) CISM
14 3 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.92%) GRC
2 55 (9.50%) QA
3 29 (5.01%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 19 (3.28%) GDPR
5 11 (1.90%) NIST
6 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.52%) COBIT
9 3 (0.52%) IFRS
9 3 (0.52%) NCSC
9 3 (0.52%) WCAG
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.17%) PMO
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (7.60%) Docker
2 17 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.52%) NDS
3 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.17%) IAG
Systems Management
1 38 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.76%) Grafana
2 16 (2.76%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.86%) Ansible
4 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 145 (25.04%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.43%) SAP
3 25 (4.32%) Oracle
4 23 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.76%) OpenAI
5 16 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.25%) Splunk
7 9 (1.55%) YouTube
8 6 (1.04%) VMware
9 5 (0.86%) Databricks
10 4 (0.69%) Aruba
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco
10 4 (0.69%) Google
10 4 (0.69%) Mitel
10 4 (0.69%) Okta
10 4 (0.69%) OpenText
11 3 (0.52%) HP
11 3 (0.52%) Juniper
11 3 (0.52%) NetIQ
11 3 (0.52%) Zscaler