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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 435 386
Rank change year-on-year -21 -49 +12
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 243 250 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.55% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.58% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 137 130 398
10th Percentile £62,500 £38,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £57,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,716 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +0.30% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £116,500 £103,875 £109,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,641 £65,050
% change year-on-year +6.17% +8.59% -7.07%

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 56,699 42,799 69,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.53% 93.38% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34,103 21,982 53,104
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -36 200 £75,000 +2.74% 137
UK excluding London -58 125 £75,000 +6.17% 99
Work from Home +60 119 £77,500 +6.53% 78
London +28 78 £80,000 +3.56% 59
South East -15 32 £75,000 - 43
Midlands -34 30 £72,500 -0.68% 13
North of England -51 24 £74,915 +76.27% 18
South West -9 18 £72,500 -3.33% 10
West Midlands -21 17 £72,500 -3.33% 9
East Midlands -30 13 £72,500 +56.76% 4
North West -32 11 £74,830 +76.07% 8
Wales -2 9 £67,586 -7.33% 3
Yorkshire -39 8 £88,750 +22.41% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £74,830 - 2
North East - 5 £67,500 - 7
Scotland -29 4 £74,830 +66.29% 2
East of England -1 2 £71,250 -10.94% 10

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 16 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.76%) CMS
3 5 (2.06%) Confluence
4 4 (1.65%) Documentum
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 72 (29.63%) AWS
2 66 (27.16%) Azure
3 29 (11.93%) GCP
4 26 (10.70%) Power Platform
5 24 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (7.00%) PowerApps
7 11 (4.53%) SaaS
8 8 (3.29%) PaaS
9 7 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.06%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.06%) IaaS
10 5 (2.06%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.65%) OCI
12 3 (1.23%) GitHub
12 3 (1.23%) Kontent
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.82%) Google Analytics
13 2 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) Firewall
1 4 (1.65%) IP Telephony
1 4 (1.65%) PSTN
1 4 (1.65%) VoIP
2 1 (0.41%) AMQP
2 1 (0.41%) DHCP
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) Network Security
2 1 (0.41%) SSH
2 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.58%) Power BI
2 13 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.53%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.29%) Metadata
5 6 (2.47%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.47%) Redis
6 5 (2.06%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.23%) MySQL
9 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.41%) DB2
10 1 (0.41%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Git
2 6 (2.47%) JIRA
3 3 (1.23%) JUnit
3 3 (1.23%) Maven
4 2 (0.82%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.82%) JMeter
4 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.82%) Mockito
4 2 (0.82%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 109 (44.86%) Social Skills
2 70 (28.81%) Public Sector
3 61 (25.10%) Finance
4 52 (21.40%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (13.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (12.76%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (9.47%) Law
8 18 (7.41%) Marketing
9 17 (7.00%) Retail
10 16 (6.58%) Legal
11 9 (3.70%) Banking
12 7 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.88%) Local Government
13 6 (2.47%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.47%) Telecoms
14 5 (2.06%) Back Office
14 5 (2.06%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 129 (53.09%) Architect
2 49 (20.16%) Solutions Architect
3 42 (17.28%) Technical Architect
4 29 (11.93%) Lead
5 26 (10.70%) Senior
6 21 (8.64%) Developer
7 18 (7.41%) Lead Architect
8 14 (5.76%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) Consultant
9 13 (5.35%) Enterprise Architect
9 13 (5.35%) Principal Consultant
9 13 (5.35%) Technical Leader
10 11 (4.53%) Data Architect
11 10 (4.12%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (2.47%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.47%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.47%) Senior Penetration Tester
13 6 (2.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.41%) React
2 13 (5.35%) .NET
3 11 (4.53%) REST
3 11 (4.53%) Web Services
4 10 (4.12%) Node.js
5 9 (3.70%) CSS
5 9 (3.70%) Spring
6 8 (3.29%) Next.js
7 7 (2.88%) Kafka
8 6 (2.47%) Django
8 6 (2.47%) RESTful
9 5 (2.06%) HTML
9 5 (2.06%) Memcached
10 4 (1.65%) LangChain
10 4 (1.65%) Middleware
10 4 (1.65%) SOAP
11 3 (1.23%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.23%) Laravel
11 3 (1.23%) React Native
12 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.23%) Virtual Team
2 36 (14.81%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.29%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.47%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.47%) Low-Code
10 5 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.65%) IVR
11 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.23%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.29%) Android
1 8 (3.29%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.23%) Linux
3 2 (0.82%) Windows
3 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (36.21%) Agile
2 61 (25.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (23.87%) AI
4 52 (21.40%) Decision-Making
5 50 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (18.93%) Analytics
6 46 (18.93%) Roadmaps
7 42 (17.28%) CI/CD
7 42 (17.28%) Project Management
8 40 (16.46%) DevOps
9 34 (13.99%) Data Modelling
10 32 (13.17%) Enterprise Architecture
11 31 (12.76%) Customer Experience
11 31 (12.76%) Strategic Thinking
12 29 (11.93%) Software Engineering
13 28 (11.52%) IT Strategy
13 28 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (11.52%) Technology Strategy
14 27 (11.11%) Due Diligence
14 27 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.99%) Python
2 23 (9.47%) SQL
3 21 (8.64%) Java
4 14 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.76%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.35%) VBA
6 12 (4.94%) C#
7 10 (4.12%) Go
8 6 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.06%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.06%) Scala
10 3 (1.23%) PHP
11 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.82%) Bash
11 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.17%) Degree
4 19 (7.82%) Master's Degree
5 13 (5.35%) APMP
5 13 (5.35%) MBA
6 12 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.70%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.88%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.88%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.47%) CREST Certified
10 6 (2.47%) OSCP
11 5 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.65%) CITP
13 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.82%) CISM
14 2 (0.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.12%) GDPR
2 9 (3.70%) QA
3 6 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.41%) GRC
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (2.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.88%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Argo
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.94%) Google
3 10 (4.12%) SAP
4 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.29%) Oracle
6 7 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.88%) YouTube
7 5 (2.06%) Pega
8 4 (1.65%) Avaya
8 4 (1.65%) Cisco
8 4 (1.65%) Genesys
8 4 (1.65%) OpenText
9 3 (1.23%) Sparx
10 2 (0.82%) Aderant
10 2 (0.82%) Databricks
10 2 (0.82%) Foundry
10 2 (0.82%) iManage
10 2 (0.82%) Intapp
10 2 (0.82%) Palantir
11 1 (0.41%) Ariba