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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 458 473
Rank change year-on-year +84 +15 -142
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 477 246 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 276 94 297
10th Percentile £59,375 £51,140 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £60,000
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 £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% +15.38%

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
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% - -8.71%
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 24 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 24 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 -1 318 £78,502 +2.95% 189
UK excluding London +57 295 £74,830 +15.12% 93
Work from Home +143 273 £77,500 -3.13% 76
London -3 124 £100,000 +21.95% 112
Northern Ireland - 67 £74,830 - 3
North of England +4 64 £74,830 +3.21% 31
Midlands -21 37 £74,830 +15.12% 8
South East -27 36 £75,000 - 24
West Midlands -11 33 £74,915 +15.25% 5
South West -47 30 £29,500 -63.13% 14
Wales - 29 £70,000 - 4
North West +11 28 £74,830 +24.67% 13
North East - 24 £76,665 - 11
Scotland +17 20 £74,830 +66.29% 7
East of England -13 12 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -31 12 £90,000 +20.00% 7
East Midlands -35 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 (1.89%) Confluence
2 7 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.42%) 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 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.84%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 187 (39.20%) Azure
2 125 (26.21%) AWS
3 62 (13.00%) Cloud Computing
4 58 (12.16%) Power Platform
5 49 (10.27%) GCP
6 45 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.24%) dbt
8 19 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (3.77%) SaaS
10 13 (2.73%) PaaS
11 12 (2.52%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (2.10%) IaaS
13 10 (2.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (2.10%) Serverless
14 8 (1.68%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.68%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.47%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.63%) LAN
1 65 (13.63%) WAN
2 16 (3.35%) Broadband
3 9 (1.89%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.26%) WLAN
5 5 (1.05%) Firewall
5 5 (1.05%) Network Security
6 3 (0.63%) Internet
6 3 (0.63%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) AMQP
7 1 (0.21%) WebEx
7 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.40%) BigQuery
2 17 (3.56%) Metadata
3 15 (3.14%) Semantic Layer
4 14 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.10%) Power BI
7 9 (1.89%) MySQL
8 8 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.05%) Big Data
12 4 (0.84%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.42%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.87%) Git
2 19 (3.98%) JUnit
3 18 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.73%) Eclipse
5 12 (2.52%) Subversion
6 11 (2.31%) JIRA
7 6 (1.26%) Claude Code
7 6 (1.26%) Maven
7 6 (1.26%) Mockito
8 5 (1.05%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.84%) Selenium
10 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.42%) Gatling
10 2 (0.42%) JMeter
10 2 (0.42%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.42%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.42%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
General
1 222 (46.54%) Social Skills
2 151 (31.66%) Finance
3 101 (21.17%) Public Sector
4 97 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (14.05%) Presentation Skills
6 54 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (11.32%) Law
7 31 (6.50%) Legal
8 18 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.31%) Banking
10 8 (1.68%) Marketing
11 6 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.26%) Retail
12 4 (0.84%) Advertising
12 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.84%) Local Government
12 4 (0.84%) Public Speaking
13 3 (0.63%) Aviation
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.42%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 282 (59.12%) Architect
2 74 (15.51%) Technical Architect
3 64 (13.42%) Solutions Architect
4 63 (13.21%) Lead
4 63 (13.21%) Systems Architect
5 50 (10.48%) Senior
6 41 (8.60%) Developer
7 26 (5.45%) Java Developer
8 22 (4.61%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (4.40%) Data Architect
10 19 (3.98%) Enterprise Architect
10 19 (3.98%) Technical Leader
11 17 (3.56%) Consultant
12 16 (3.35%) Lead Architect
13 15 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 15 (3.14%) ERP Architect
14 13 (2.73%) Junior
14 13 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.52%) Junior Developer
15 12 (2.52%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.60%) React
2 25 (5.24%) Node.js
2 25 (5.24%) RESTful
3 18 (3.77%) Jakarta EE
4 17 (3.56%) Spring
5 16 (3.35%) Middleware
6 15 (3.14%) .NET
6 15 (3.14%) REST
7 14 (2.94%) Web Services
8 12 (2.52%) Struts
9 11 (2.31%) Kafka
9 11 (2.31%) Spring Boot
10 10 (2.10%) Next.js
11 8 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.47%) Playwright
13 6 (1.26%) Hibernate
13 6 (1.26%) JSP
13 6 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
14 5 (1.05%) CSS
14 5 (1.05%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.22%) Virtual Team
3 19 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.26%) NHS
10 4 (0.84%) Blog
10 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.84%) Life Science
11 3 (0.63%) BBC
11 3 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.52%) Linux
2 9 (1.89%) Windows
3 8 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.84%) Android
4 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (34.38%) Agile
2 157 (32.91%) Roadmaps
3 116 (24.32%) AI
4 111 (23.27%) CI/CD
5 102 (21.38%) Mentoring
6 95 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 89 (18.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 87 (18.24%) Containerisation
9 80 (16.77%) Project Delivery
10 79 (16.56%) Business Strategy
11 78 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (15.51%) DevOps
12 74 (15.51%) Technical Leadership
13 73 (15.30%) Risk Management
14 71 (14.88%) Information Security
15 68 (14.26%) Enterprise Architecture
16 67 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 66 (13.84%) Migration
18 65 (13.63%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.37%) Python
2 54 (11.32%) Java
3 43 (9.01%) JavaScript
3 43 (9.01%) SQL
4 24 (5.03%) TypeScript
5 19 (3.98%) C#
6 15 (3.14%) C++
7 12 (2.52%) Perl
8 10 (2.10%) Scala
9 9 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.26%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.26%) Bash
11 5 (1.05%) VBA
12 4 (0.84%) Go
13 3 (0.63%) C
13 3 (0.63%) X++
14 2 (0.42%) Bicep
14 2 (0.42%) PHP
14 2 (0.42%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 103 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 90 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.85%) Degree
4 35 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.52%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.31%) CISSP
7 9 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.26%) CISM
10 5 (1.05%) APMP
10 5 (1.05%) CCSP
10 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.05%) MBA
11 4 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.63%) CCNA
12 3 (0.63%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (13.21%) GRC
2 32 (6.71%) QA
3 27 (5.66%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.61%) GDPR
5 11 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.10%) NIST
7 5 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.63%) COBIT
8 3 (0.63%) IFRS
8 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.42%) WCAG
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (5.03%) Docker
2 15 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.42%) NDS
5 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 25 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.19%) Terraform
3 7 (1.47%) Grafana
3 7 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 129 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.45%) SAP
3 22 (4.61%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.35%) Oracle
5 15 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.68%) Google
8 5 (1.05%) Splunk
8 5 (1.05%) YouTube
9 4 (0.84%) OpenText
10 3 (0.63%) HP
10 3 (0.63%) Mitel
10 3 (0.63%) Okta
10 3 (0.63%) VMware
11 2 (0.42%) Aderant
11 2 (0.42%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.42%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.42%) iManage
11 2 (0.42%) Intapp
11 2 (0.42%) Litera