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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 444 477
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 -122
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 364 247 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.53% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.58% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 221 94 338
10th Percentile £62,084 £51,548 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,870
% change year-on-year +3.45% -1.85% +13.65%

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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 -17 271 £80,000 +3.23% 178
UK excluding London -7 190 £75,000 +3.45% 117
Work from Home +81 171 £80,000 - 109
London -19 111 £100,000 +21.95% 89
North of England -29 39 £79,250 +9.31% 36
South East -35 34 £75,000 - 31
Midlands -22 29 £73,750 +13.46% 12
South West -54 25 £31,000 -61.25% 13
Wales - 24 £69,986 - 5
West Midlands -17 21 £82,500 +10.00% 9
Northern Ireland - 18 £70,000 - 10
North West +4 15 £70,000 +27.17% 16
North East - 13 £78,500 - 9
East of England -13 12 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -38 11 £90,000 +24.14% 12
Scotland +3 9 £75,000 +66.67% 6
East Midlands -23 8 £65,000 - 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 12 (3.30%) Confluence
2 9 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.10%) Documentum
4 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 115 (31.59%) Azure
2 99 (27.20%) AWS
3 49 (13.46%) GCP
4 44 (12.09%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
6 20 (5.49%) SaaS
7 19 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (4.67%) PaaS
9 14 (3.85%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.75%) IaaS
10 10 (2.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 9 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 8 (2.20%) Serverless
13 7 (1.92%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.92%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.77%) LAN
1 21 (5.77%) WAN
2 16 (4.40%) Broadband
3 6 (1.65%) Unified Communications
3 6 (1.65%) WLAN
4 3 (0.82%) Firewall
4 3 (0.82%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) AMQP
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) WebEx
5 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.49%) BigQuery
2 15 (4.12%) Metadata
2 15 (4.12%) Semantic Layer
3 12 (3.30%) Power BI
4 11 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.37%) MySQL
10 3 (0.82%) Big Data
10 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.55%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.55%) Redis
11 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.77%) Git
2 17 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.85%) JUnit
4 13 (3.57%) JIRA
5 9 (2.47%) Eclipse
5 9 (2.47%) Subversion
6 6 (1.65%) Claude Code
7 5 (1.37%) Maven
7 5 (1.37%) Mockito
7 5 (1.37%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.82%) Selenium
9 2 (0.55%) Gatling
9 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) GitLab
10 1 (0.27%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 130 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.00%) Finance
3 88 (24.18%) Public Sector
4 55 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (9.34%) Law
7 25 (6.87%) Legal
8 20 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.47%) Banking
11 7 (1.92%) Local Government
12 6 (1.65%) Marketing
12 6 (1.65%) Retail
13 5 (1.37%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.82%) Aviation
14 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.55%) Advertising
15 2 (0.55%) Legal Technology
15 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.55%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 189 (51.92%) Architect
2 65 (17.86%) Technical Architect
3 60 (16.48%) Lead
4 47 (12.91%) Solutions Architect
5 44 (12.09%) Senior
6 31 (8.52%) Developer
7 24 (6.59%) Lead Architect
8 21 (5.77%) Technical Leader
9 19 (5.22%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.22%) Systems Architect
10 18 (4.95%) Data Architect
11 17 (4.67%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (4.40%) Consultant
12 16 (4.40%) Enterprise Architect
13 13 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (3.30%) Head of Architecture
15 11 (3.02%) Engineering Manager
16 10 (2.75%) Data Engineer
16 10 (2.75%) Principal Architect
17 9 (2.47%) Head of Technical Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.07%) React
2 24 (6.59%) Node.js
3 21 (5.77%) RESTful
4 16 (4.40%) .NET
5 13 (3.57%) J2EE
6 12 (3.30%) Spring
7 11 (3.02%) Middleware
7 11 (3.02%) REST
7 11 (3.02%) Web Services
8 9 (2.47%) Kafka
8 9 (2.47%) Struts
9 8 (2.20%) Next.js
10 7 (1.92%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.37%) CSS
11 5 (1.37%) Playwright
11 5 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
12 4 (1.10%) AWS CDK
12 4 (1.10%) Backbone.js
12 4 (1.10%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.26%) Virtual Team
3 15 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.92%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.65%) NHS
8 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.82%) BBC
10 3 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.47%) Linux
2 8 (2.20%) Windows
2 8 (2.20%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.65%) Android
3 6 (1.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (34.07%) Agile
2 105 (28.85%) Roadmaps
3 97 (26.65%) CI/CD
4 94 (25.82%) AI
5 75 (20.60%) Mentoring
6 67 (18.41%) Technical Leadership
7 65 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (16.76%) DevOps
10 50 (13.74%) Data Modelling
11 49 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
11 49 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (13.19%) Software Engineering
13 46 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (12.64%) Microservices
14 44 (12.09%) Data Architecture
15 43 (11.81%) Decision-Making
16 42 (11.54%) Analytics
17 41 (11.26%) Technology Strategy
18 40 (10.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.11%) Python
2 43 (11.81%) Java
3 41 (11.26%) SQL
4 35 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.49%) C#
7 12 (3.30%) C++
8 9 (2.47%) Perl
8 9 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.47%) Scala
9 7 (1.92%) VBA
10 5 (1.37%) Bash
10 5 (1.37%) Go
11 3 (0.82%) X++
12 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.55%) Bicep
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 59 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.44%) Degree
4 26 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.30%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.47%) CISSP
8 7 (1.92%) APMP
8 7 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.92%) MBA
9 6 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.65%) CISM
9 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.37%) CCSP
10 5 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.10%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.04%) GDPR
3 21 (5.77%) QA
4 19 (5.22%) GRC
5 9 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.47%) NIST
6 8 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.82%) COBIT
8 3 (0.82%) IFRS
8 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 19 (5.22%) Docker
2 13 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.82%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) IAG
Systems Management
1 20 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.22%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) Grafana
3 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 66 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.22%) SAP
3 17 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.57%) Oracle
4 13 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.47%) Google
5 9 (2.47%) YouTube
6 6 (1.65%) OpenText
7 5 (1.37%) Pega
8 3 (0.82%) Databricks
8 3 (0.82%) HP
8 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.82%) VMware
9 2 (0.55%) Aderant
9 2 (0.55%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.55%) iManage
9 2 (0.55%) Intapp
9 2 (0.55%) Litera
9 2 (0.55%) Splunk
10 1 (0.27%) Palantir