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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 457 490
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 -106
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 307 222 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 193 98 305
10th Percentile £65,000 £38,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,596 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,188 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £103,370
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -

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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -2 251 £79,669 +6.22% 166
UK excluding London -29 152 £75,000 +3.45% 106
Work from Home +91 139 £80,000 - 105
London +3 103 £100,000 +23.46% 83
North of England -25 37 £78,500 +42.62% 13
South East -14 35 £75,000 +2.74% 38
Midlands -26 30 £73,750 +8.18% 8
South West -56 20 £67,500 -15.63% 18
West Midlands -30 19 £82,500 +10.00% 6
Wales -12 15 £69,986 -4.04% 8
Yorkshire -42 15 £90,000 +24.14% 4
North West 0 12 £77,500 +82.35% 6
East Midlands -27 11 £65,000 +73.33% 2
North East - 10 £68,750 - 3
East of England -16 6 £100,000 +25.00% 21
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -17 4 £70,000 +55.56% 1

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 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.61%) Confluence
3 7 (2.28%) CMS
4 4 (1.30%) Documentum
5 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.36%) AWS
2 79 (25.73%) Azure
3 35 (11.40%) GCP
4 30 (9.77%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.54%) PaaS
7 15 (4.89%) SaaS
8 14 (4.56%) PowerApps
9 13 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.26%) IaaS
11 9 (2.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (2.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.95%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.63%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.63%) OCI
15 4 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 3 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.93%) Broadband
2 2 (0.65%) Firewall
2 2 (0.65%) LAN
2 2 (0.65%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.65%) WAN
2 2 (0.65%) WLAN
3 1 (0.33%) AMQP
3 1 (0.33%) DHCP
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.56%) Metadata
2 12 (3.91%) Power BI
3 11 (3.58%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.93%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.61%) Semantic Layer
6 7 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.30%) MySQL
8 4 (1.30%) Redis
9 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.65%) Big Data
10 2 (0.65%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 13 (4.23%) Git
2 10 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.61%) JIRA
4 5 (1.63%) Yeoman
5 4 (1.30%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.30%) JUnit
6 3 (0.98%) Maven
6 3 (0.98%) Mockito
7 2 (0.65%) Gatling
7 2 (0.65%) Selenium
7 2 (0.65%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.33%) GitLab
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 102 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 75 (24.43%) Public Sector
3 68 (22.15%) Finance
4 48 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (14.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (7.49%) Legal
7 22 (7.17%) Law
8 14 (4.56%) Retail
9 12 (3.91%) Marketing
10 10 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.61%) Banking
12 7 (2.28%) Local Government
12 7 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.63%) Back Office
13 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.98%) Aviation
15 3 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (50.16%) Architect
2 51 (16.61%) Technical Architect
3 49 (15.96%) Solutions Architect
4 44 (14.33%) Lead
5 37 (12.05%) Senior
6 28 (9.12%) Developer
7 20 (6.51%) Lead Architect
7 20 (6.51%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (6.19%) Enterprise Architect
9 16 (5.21%) Data Architect
9 16 (5.21%) Technical Leader
10 12 (3.91%) Consultant
11 10 (3.26%) Engineering Manager
11 10 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.93%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.61%) Principal Architect
13 8 (2.61%) Principal Consultant
13 8 (2.61%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (2.61%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.61%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.17%) React
2 15 (4.89%) .NET
2 15 (4.89%) Node.js
3 10 (3.26%) REST
3 10 (3.26%) RESTful
4 7 (2.28%) Middleware
4 7 (2.28%) Spring
5 6 (1.95%) Kafka
6 5 (1.63%) CSS
6 5 (1.63%) Laravel
6 5 (1.63%) Next.js
6 5 (1.63%) Playwright
7 4 (1.30%) Backbone.js
7 4 (1.30%) React Native
8 3 (0.98%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.98%) LangChain
8 3 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.65%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.65%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.70%) Virtual Team
2 23 (7.49%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.28%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.63%) NHS
10 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.93%) Android
1 9 (2.93%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.30%) Linux
2 4 (1.30%) Windows
2 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.27%) Agile
2 83 (27.04%) AI
3 73 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 72 (23.45%) Roadmaps
5 53 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (16.61%) DevOps
7 47 (15.31%) Data Modelling
8 46 (14.98%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (14.01%) Mentoring
9 43 (14.01%) Software Engineering
10 42 (13.68%) Analytics
11 38 (12.38%) Microservices
12 36 (11.73%) Project Management
13 35 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (10.42%) Decision-Making
14 32 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (10.10%) Data Architecture
15 31 (10.10%) SDLC
16 28 (9.12%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.01%) Python
2 34 (11.07%) SQL
3 25 (8.14%) Java
4 20 (6.51%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.86%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.21%) C#
7 11 (3.58%) Go
8 9 (2.93%) Scala
9 8 (2.61%) VBA
10 7 (2.28%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.63%) PHP
12 3 (0.98%) Bash
12 3 (0.98%) C++
13 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.33%) Ruby
14 1 (0.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.31%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.45%) Degree
4 17 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.58%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.61%) APMP
7 8 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.61%) MBA
8 7 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.95%) CISM
9 6 (1.95%) CISSP
9 6 (1.95%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.95%) OSCP
9 6 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.63%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.89%) Data Quality
1 15 (4.89%) GDPR
2 14 (4.56%) QA
3 7 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.95%) NIST
5 5 (1.63%) GRC
5 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.98%) IFRS
8 2 (0.65%) COBIT
8 2 (0.65%) WCAG
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (3.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.33%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) Argo
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.89%) Salesforce
2 15 (4.89%) SAP
3 12 (3.91%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.26%) Oracle
5 8 (2.61%) Google
5 8 (2.61%) YouTube
6 6 (1.95%) OpenText
7 4 (1.30%) Pega
8 3 (0.98%) Databricks
8 3 (0.98%) Sparx
9 2 (0.65%) Aderant
9 2 (0.65%) Foundry
9 2 (0.65%) HP
9 2 (0.65%) iManage
9 2 (0.65%) Intapp
9 2 (0.65%) Palantir
9 2 (0.65%) VMware
10 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.33%) Progress