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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 454 467
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 -89
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 289 215 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.53% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 182 97 309
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 £96,875 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £104,750 £102,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,641 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.17% +4.65% -

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 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 14 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 14 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 +3 234 £79,669 +6.22% 113
UK excluding London -53 138 £75,000 +6.17% 67
Work from Home +67 134 £80,000 - 52
London -2 98 £100,000 +14.29% 58
North of England -13 37 £78,500 +42.62% 8
South East -15 31 £75,000 +2.74% 25
Midlands -30 26 £72,500 +10.35% 9
South West -39 19 £70,000 -12.50% 9
West Midlands -22 16 £78,750 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire -57 15 £90,000 +24.14% 1
Wales -16 14 £69,973 -4.06% 8
North West -2 12 £77,500 +82.35% 5
East Midlands -23 10 £65,000 +73.33% 1
North East - 10 £68,750 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -20 4 £70,000 +55.56% 1
East of England -18 2 £88,750 +10.94% 8

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 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.77%) CMS
2 8 (2.77%) Confluence
3 4 (1.38%) Documentum
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.69%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 81 (28.03%) AWS
2 76 (26.30%) Azure
3 32 (11.07%) GCP
4 28 (9.69%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.88%) PaaS
7 14 (4.84%) SaaS
8 13 (4.50%) PowerApps
9 11 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.46%) IaaS
11 8 (2.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (2.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.73%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.73%) OCI
14 5 (1.73%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
16 3 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
16 3 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.73%) Broadband
2 2 (0.69%) Firewall
2 2 (0.69%) LAN
2 2 (0.69%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.69%) WAN
2 2 (0.69%) WLAN
3 1 (0.35%) AMQP
3 1 (0.35%) DHCP
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.50%) Metadata
2 12 (4.15%) Power BI
3 8 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.38%) MySQL
6 4 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (1.04%) Redis
8 2 (0.69%) Big Data
8 2 (0.69%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (3.46%) Git
2 8 (2.77%) JIRA
3 6 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.38%) Yeoman
5 3 (1.04%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.04%) JUnit
5 3 (1.04%) Maven
5 3 (1.04%) Mockito
6 2 (0.69%) Gatling
6 2 (0.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 98 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 74 (25.61%) Public Sector
3 67 (23.18%) Finance
4 50 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (13.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (8.30%) Legal
7 22 (7.61%) Law
8 14 (4.84%) Retail
9 13 (4.50%) Marketing
10 10 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (3.11%) Banking
12 7 (2.42%) Local Government
12 7 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.08%) Back Office
14 5 (1.73%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.73%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (1.04%) Aviation
16 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 151 (52.25%) Architect
2 51 (17.65%) Technical Architect
3 50 (17.30%) Solutions Architect
4 40 (13.84%) Lead
5 32 (11.07%) Senior
6 25 (8.65%) Developer
7 20 (6.92%) Lead Architect
8 19 (6.57%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (6.23%) Enterprise Architect
10 16 (5.54%) Data Architect
11 14 (4.84%) Technical Leader
12 12 (4.15%) Consultant
13 9 (3.11%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.11%) Principal Architect
14 8 (2.77%) Principal Consultant
14 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow Architect
14 8 (2.77%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.42%) Senior Developer
16 6 (2.08%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.23%) React
2 14 (4.84%) .NET
3 11 (3.81%) Node.js
4 9 (3.11%) RESTful
5 8 (2.77%) REST
6 7 (2.42%) Spring
7 6 (2.08%) Kafka
7 6 (2.08%) Middleware
8 5 (1.73%) Next.js
9 4 (1.38%) Backbone.js
9 4 (1.38%) CSS
9 4 (1.38%) Laravel
9 4 (1.38%) Playwright
9 4 (1.38%) React Native
10 3 (1.04%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.04%) LangChain
11 2 (0.69%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.69%) PySpark
11 2 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.15%) Virtual Team
2 19 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.08%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) NHS
11 3 (1.04%) BBC
11 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.11%) Android
1 9 (3.11%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.38%) Linux
2 4 (1.38%) Windows
2 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.80%) Agile
2 78 (26.99%) AI
3 68 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 64 (22.15%) CI/CD
5 52 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (17.30%) DevOps
8 44 (15.22%) Analytics
9 43 (14.88%) Data Modelling
10 42 (14.53%) Software Engineering
11 37 (12.80%) Mentoring
11 37 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (12.46%) Project Management
13 35 (12.11%) Microservices
13 35 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (10.73%) Decision-Making
16 29 (10.03%) SDLC
17 28 (9.69%) Machine Learning
17 28 (9.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.80%) Python
2 30 (10.38%) SQL
3 25 (8.65%) Java
4 15 (5.19%) C#
4 15 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.19%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.81%) Go
6 9 (3.11%) Scala
7 8 (2.77%) VBA
8 7 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.38%) PHP
10 3 (1.04%) Bash
11 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.69%) C++
11 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.69%) Degree
4 16 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.46%) DBS Check
5 10 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.77%) APMP
6 8 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.77%) MBA
7 7 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.08%) CREST Certified
8 6 (2.08%) OSCP
8 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.73%) CISM
9 5 (1.73%) CISSP
10 4 (1.38%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.19%) GDPR
2 12 (4.15%) QA
3 11 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.73%) NIST
6 4 (1.38%) GRC
6 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.04%) IFRS
8 2 (0.69%) COBIT
8 2 (0.69%) WCAG
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 10 (3.46%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.35%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.35%) Argo
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.19%) SAP
3 14 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.46%) Oracle
6 8 (2.77%) Google
6 8 (2.77%) YouTube
7 6 (2.08%) OpenText
8 4 (1.38%) Pega
9 3 (1.04%) Databricks
9 3 (1.04%) Sparx
10 2 (0.69%) Aderant
10 2 (0.69%) Foundry
10 2 (0.69%) HP
10 2 (0.69%) iManage
10 2 (0.69%) Intapp
10 2 (0.69%) Palantir
10 2 (0.69%) VMware
11 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.35%) Progress