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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 450 466
Rank change year-on-year +76 +16 -141
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 485 247 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 279 95 290
10th Percentile £59,750 £47,988 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £59,815 £60,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -0.20% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.12% -13.33% +11.11%

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 74,263 44,137 73,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.84% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,228 24,998 49,763
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 25 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 25 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 +12 325 £78,502 +4.67% 187
UK excluding London +56 300 £74,830 +15.12% 90
Work from Home +153 277 £77,500 -3.13% 78
London -5 127 £100,000 +21.95% 113
Northern Ireland - 67 £74,830 - 2
North of England +13 66 £74,830 +3.21% 29
Midlands -22 39 £74,830 +15.12% 8
South East -49 36 £76,250 +1.67% 23
West Midlands +1 35 £74,915 +15.25% 5
South West -52 30 £29,500 -63.13% 13
North West +8 29 £72,415 +20.65% 13
Wales - 29 £70,000 - 2
North East - 25 £76,665 - 10
Scotland +21 21 £74,830 +66.29% 10
East of England -11 12 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -37 12 £90,000 +20.00% 6
East Midlands -40 4 £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 9 (1.86%) Confluence
2 6 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) JBoss
5 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.82%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 189 (38.97%) Azure
2 128 (26.39%) AWS
3 62 (12.78%) Cloud Computing
4 57 (11.75%) Power Platform
5 49 (10.10%) GCP
6 44 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.15%) dbt
8 19 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (3.92%) SaaS
9 13 (2.68%) PaaS
10 12 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 11 (2.27%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (2.06%) IaaS
12 10 (2.06%) Serverless
13 8 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.65%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
14 7 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.40%) LAN
1 65 (13.40%) WAN
2 16 (3.30%) Broadband
3 10 (2.06%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.24%) WLAN
5 5 (1.03%) Firewall
5 5 (1.03%) Network Security
6 3 (0.62%) Internet
6 3 (0.62%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) AMQP
7 1 (0.21%) WebEx
7 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.33%) BigQuery
2 19 (3.92%) Metadata
3 15 (3.09%) Semantic Layer
4 14 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.86%) MySQL
6 9 (1.86%) Power BI
7 8 (1.65%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.03%) Big Data
11 4 (0.82%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.41%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.77%) Git
2 20 (4.12%) JUnit
3 18 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.68%) Eclipse
5 12 (2.47%) Subversion
6 11 (2.27%) JIRA
7 7 (1.44%) Claude Code
7 7 (1.44%) Maven
7 7 (1.44%) Mockito
8 5 (1.03%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.82%) Selenium
10 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.41%) Gatling
10 2 (0.41%) JMeter
10 2 (0.41%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.41%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.21%) GitLab
11 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 225 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 154 (31.75%) Finance
3 102 (21.03%) Public Sector
4 98 (20.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (13.81%) Presentation Skills
6 55 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (11.34%) Law
7 32 (6.60%) Legal
8 20 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.27%) Banking
10 10 (2.06%) Marketing
11 7 (1.44%) Retail
12 6 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.03%) Advertising
14 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.82%) Local Government
14 4 (0.82%) Public Speaking
14 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.62%) Aviation
16 2 (0.41%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 285 (58.76%) Architect
2 76 (15.67%) Technical Architect
3 65 (13.40%) Solutions Architect
4 64 (13.20%) Lead
5 63 (12.99%) Systems Architect
6 52 (10.72%) Senior
7 43 (8.87%) Developer
8 27 (5.57%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.54%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (4.33%) Data Architect
11 20 (4.12%) Technical Leader
12 19 (3.92%) Enterprise Architect
13 17 (3.51%) Consultant
14 16 (3.30%) Lead Architect
15 15 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 15 (3.09%) ERP Architect
16 13 (2.68%) Junior
16 13 (2.68%) Systems Engineer
17 12 (2.47%) Junior Developer
17 12 (2.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.07%) React
2 25 (5.15%) Node.js
2 25 (5.15%) RESTful
3 19 (3.92%) Jakarta EE
4 18 (3.71%) Spring
5 17 (3.51%) REST
6 16 (3.30%) Middleware
7 15 (3.09%) .NET
8 14 (2.89%) Web Services
9 12 (2.47%) Struts
10 11 (2.27%) Kafka
10 11 (2.27%) Next.js
10 11 (2.27%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.65%) Playwright
11 8 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.44%) JSP
13 6 (1.24%) Hibernate
13 6 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
14 5 (1.03%) CSS
14 5 (1.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.07%) Virtual Team
3 19 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.24%) NHS
11 5 (1.03%) Life Science
12 4 (0.82%) Blog
12 4 (0.82%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.62%) BBC
13 3 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.68%) Linux
2 9 (1.86%) Windows
3 8 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.82%) Android
4 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (34.43%) Agile
2 157 (32.37%) Roadmaps
3 121 (24.95%) AI
4 114 (23.51%) CI/CD
5 107 (22.06%) Mentoring
6 96 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 89 (18.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 88 (18.14%) Containerisation
9 81 (16.70%) Project Delivery
10 79 (16.29%) Business Strategy
10 79 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (15.67%) DevOps
11 76 (15.67%) Technical Leadership
12 74 (15.26%) Risk Management
13 72 (14.85%) Information Security
14 70 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (14.02%) Enterprise Architecture
15 68 (14.02%) Migration
16 66 (13.61%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.96%) Python
2 56 (11.55%) Java
3 46 (9.48%) JavaScript
4 45 (9.28%) SQL
5 26 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.92%) C#
7 15 (3.09%) C++
8 12 (2.47%) Perl
9 10 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.06%) Scala
10 7 (1.44%) Bash
11 6 (1.24%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.82%) Go
12 4 (0.82%) VBA
13 3 (0.62%) C
13 3 (0.62%) X++
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
14 2 (0.41%) PHP
14 2 (0.41%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) RPG
Qualifications
1 106 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 92 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.48%) Degree
4 35 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.47%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.27%) CISSP
7 9 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.24%) CISM
10 5 (1.03%) CCSP
11 4 (0.82%) APMP
11 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.82%) MBA
11 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.99%) GRC
2 35 (7.22%) QA
3 28 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.54%) GDPR
5 12 (2.47%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.27%) NIST
7 10 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.62%) COBIT
9 3 (0.62%) IFRS
9 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.41%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (5.15%) Docker
2 15 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.41%) NDS
5 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.12%) Terraform
3 7 (1.44%) Grafana
3 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 129 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.36%) SAP
3 23 (4.74%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.51%) Oracle
5 15 (3.09%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.65%) Google
8 5 (1.03%) Splunk
8 5 (1.03%) YouTube
9 4 (0.82%) Mitel
9 4 (0.82%) OpenText
10 3 (0.62%) HP
10 3 (0.62%) Okta
10 3 (0.62%) VMware
11 2 (0.41%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.41%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.41%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.41%) iManage
11 2 (0.41%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.41%) Pega