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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 440 491
Rank change year-on-year -2 +51 -96
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 327 218 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 205 84 306
10th Percentile £63,744 £38,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,500 £54,731 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £73,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% +5.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £103,875 £103,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,021 £70,000
% change year-on-year +24.96% -14.26% +3.70%

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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +10 266 £79,669 +6.22% 147
UK excluding London -13 166 £75,000 +24.96% 72
Work from Home +96 151 £77,500 -3.13% 76
London +1 108 £100,000 +25.00% 84
North of England -12 41 £78,500 +23.10% 16
South East -5 37 £75,000 -6.25% 17
Midlands -19 32 £73,750 +47.67% 6
South West -52 22 £65,000 -18.75% 14
West Midlands -27 21 £82,500 +13.29% 4
Wales - 19 £69,973 - 8
Yorkshire -35 16 £90,000 +24.14% 5
North West -15 13 £70,000 +64.71% 4
North East - 12 £70,000 - 7
East Midlands -31 11 £65,000 +73.33% 2
East of England -25 6 £100,000 +25.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -21 4 £70,000 +55.56% 7

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 10 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.75%) Confluence
3 6 (1.83%) CMS
4 4 (1.22%) Documentum
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 91 (27.83%) AWS
2 88 (26.91%) Azure
3 40 (12.23%) GCP
4 31 (9.48%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.89%) PaaS
6 16 (4.89%) SaaS
7 14 (4.28%) PowerApps
8 13 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 9 (2.75%) IaaS
10 9 (2.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.83%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.53%) OCI
13 4 (1.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.75%) Broadband
2 5 (1.53%) LAN
2 5 (1.53%) Unified Communications
2 5 (1.53%) WAN
2 5 (1.53%) WLAN
3 3 (0.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) AMQP
4 1 (0.31%) Firewall
4 1 (0.31%) VPN
4 1 (0.31%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.28%) Metadata
2 12 (3.67%) BigQuery
2 12 (3.67%) Power BI
3 10 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (2.45%) Semantic Layer
6 7 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.22%) MySQL
7 4 (1.22%) Redis
8 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.61%) Big Data
9 2 (0.61%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.89%) Git
2 10 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.75%) JIRA
4 8 (2.45%) JUnit
5 6 (1.83%) Claude Code
6 5 (1.53%) Maven
6 5 (1.53%) Mockito
6 5 (1.53%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.92%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.92%) Subversion
8 2 (0.61%) Gatling
8 2 (0.61%) Selenium
8 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.31%) GitLab
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
General
1 112 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.77%) Public Sector
3 72 (22.02%) Finance
4 50 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (14.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (7.34%) Legal
7 22 (6.73%) Law
8 14 (4.28%) Retail
9 12 (3.67%) Marketing
10 10 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.75%) Banking
12 7 (2.14%) Local Government
12 7 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.53%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.22%) Back Office
14 4 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Aviation
15 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (49.54%) Architect
2 51 (15.60%) Technical Architect
3 49 (14.98%) Lead
3 49 (14.98%) Solutions Architect
4 41 (12.54%) Senior
5 31 (9.48%) Developer
6 23 (7.03%) Lead Architect
7 20 (6.12%) Enterprise Architect
7 20 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (5.20%) Data Architect
9 16 (4.89%) Consultant
9 16 (4.89%) Technical Leader
10 11 (3.36%) Engineering Manager
10 11 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (3.36%) Java Developer
11 9 (2.75%) Principal Architect
11 9 (2.75%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.75%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.45%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (2.45%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.95%) React
2 15 (4.59%) .NET
2 15 (4.59%) Node.js
3 13 (3.98%) RESTful
4 11 (3.36%) REST
5 9 (2.75%) Spring
6 8 (2.45%) Middleware
7 6 (1.83%) Kafka
8 5 (1.53%) CSS
8 5 (1.53%) Next.js
8 5 (1.53%) Playwright
9 4 (1.22%) Backbone.js
9 4 (1.22%) Laravel
9 4 (1.22%) Web Services
10 3 (0.92%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.92%) J2EE
10 3 (0.92%) LangChain
10 3 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.92%) React Native
10 3 (0.92%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.23%) Virtual Team
2 25 (7.65%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.45%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.83%) NHS
9 6 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.45%) Android
1 8 (2.45%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.14%) Linux
3 5 (1.53%) Windows
3 5 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (32.11%) Agile
2 87 (26.61%) AI
3 81 (24.77%) CI/CD
4 77 (23.55%) Roadmaps
5 57 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (15.90%) DevOps
8 51 (15.60%) Mentoring
9 49 (14.98%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (14.37%) Data Modelling
11 44 (13.46%) Software Engineering
12 42 (12.84%) Analytics
13 41 (12.54%) Microservices
13 41 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (11.31%) Project Management
15 34 (10.40%) Decision-Making
15 34 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (10.09%) Data Architecture
16 33 (10.09%) SDLC
17 31 (9.48%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.37%) Python
2 38 (11.62%) SQL
3 31 (9.48%) Java
4 26 (7.95%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.81%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.20%) C#
7 11 (3.36%) Go
8 10 (3.06%) Scala
9 9 (2.75%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.45%) VBA
11 5 (1.53%) Bash
11 5 (1.53%) C++
12 4 (1.22%) PHP
13 3 (0.92%) Perl
14 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.61%) Ruby
15 1 (0.31%) ABAP
15 1 (0.31%) X++
Qualifications
1 60 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 52 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.09%) Degree
4 21 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.67%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.06%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.75%) CISSP
8 8 (2.45%) APMP
8 8 (2.45%) MBA
9 7 (2.14%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.83%) CISM
10 6 (1.83%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.83%) OSCP
10 6 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.53%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.50%) GDPR
2 17 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.28%) QA
4 9 (2.75%) NIST
5 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.53%) GRC
8 4 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.92%) COBIT
9 3 (0.92%) IFRS
9 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.61%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (3.98%) Docker
2 9 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.92%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.31%) IAG
Systems Management
1 20 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.98%) Terraform
3 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Argo
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.89%) Salesforce
2 16 (4.89%) SAP
3 12 (3.67%) Oracle
3 12 (3.67%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.75%) Google
5 8 (2.45%) YouTube
6 6 (1.83%) OpenText
7 4 (1.22%) Pega
8 3 (0.92%) Databricks
8 3 (0.92%) HP
8 3 (0.92%) Sparx
8 3 (0.92%) VMware
9 2 (0.61%) Aderant
9 2 (0.61%) Foundry
9 2 (0.61%) iManage
9 2 (0.61%) Intapp
9 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.61%) Palantir
10 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace