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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 447 476
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 -94
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 340 226 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 208 89 318
10th Percentile £63,744 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,700 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.16% -6.14% +3.70%

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 67,549 40,838 86,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 92.97% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45,324 21,582 61,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 June 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 June 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 +17 275 £80,000 +6.67% 168
UK excluding London -12 168 £75,000 +14.16% 70
Work from Home +85 157 £78,750 -1.56% 83
London +11 116 £100,000 +21.95% 100
North of England -17 40 £81,250 +12.07% 22
South East -13 37 £75,000 -6.25% 14
Midlands -12 31 £73,750 +47.67% 6
South West -50 22 £41,250 -48.44% 16
West Midlands -23 21 £82,500 +13.29% 4
Wales - 21 £69,973 - 3
Yorkshire -36 14 £90,000 +24.14% 9
North West +2 13 £70,000 +43.53% 6
North East - 13 £70,000 - 7
East Midlands -26 10 £65,000 +73.33% 2
East of England -15 8 £100,000 +25.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
Scotland -12 4 £70,000 +55.56% 5

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 (2.65%) Confluence
1 9 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.47%) CMS
3 4 (1.18%) Documentum
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.59%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 92 (27.06%) AWS
1 92 (27.06%) Azure
2 44 (12.94%) GCP
3 29 (8.53%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.71%) PaaS
5 16 (4.71%) SaaS
6 14 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (3.82%) PowerApps
8 10 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 9 (2.65%) IaaS
9 9 (2.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 6 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
10 6 (1.76%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.76%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.47%) OCI
12 4 (1.18%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.18%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.53%) Broadband
2 7 (2.06%) LAN
2 7 (2.06%) WAN
3 6 (1.76%) Unified Communications
3 6 (1.76%) WLAN
4 3 (0.88%) Network Security
5 2 (0.59%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) AMQP
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) WebEx
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.41%) BigQuery
1 15 (4.41%) Metadata
2 11 (3.24%) Power BI
2 11 (3.24%) Semantic Layer
3 10 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.65%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.18%) Redis
9 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.59%) Big Data
10 2 (0.59%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.59%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.29%) Git
2 13 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.94%) JUnit
4 9 (2.65%) JIRA
5 6 (1.76%) Claude Code
6 5 (1.47%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.47%) Maven
6 5 (1.47%) Mockito
6 5 (1.47%) Subversion
6 5 (1.47%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.59%) Gatling
7 2 (0.59%) Selenium
7 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 115 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 84 (24.71%) Public Sector
3 76 (22.35%) Finance
4 55 (16.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.35%) Legal
7 23 (6.76%) Law
8 14 (4.12%) Retail
9 12 (3.53%) Marketing
10 9 (2.65%) Banking
11 8 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.06%) Local Government
12 7 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.88%) Aviation
14 3 (0.88%) Back Office
15 2 (0.59%) Advertising
15 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (49.12%) Architect
2 57 (16.76%) Technical Architect
3 52 (15.29%) Lead
4 50 (14.71%) Solutions Architect
5 44 (12.94%) Senior
6 30 (8.82%) Developer
7 24 (7.06%) Lead Architect
8 21 (6.18%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (5.29%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
10 17 (5.00%) Technical Leader
11 16 (4.71%) Consultant
12 13 (3.82%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
14 10 (2.94%) Principal Architect
15 9 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (2.65%) Head of Architecture
15 9 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (2.65%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.65%) React
2 18 (5.29%) Node.js
3 16 (4.71%) .NET
4 15 (4.41%) RESTful
5 13 (3.82%) REST
6 11 (3.24%) Spring
7 8 (2.35%) Kafka
7 8 (2.35%) Middleware
8 6 (1.76%) Web Services
9 5 (1.47%) CSS
9 5 (1.47%) J2EE
9 5 (1.47%) Next.js
9 5 (1.47%) Playwright
9 5 (1.47%) Struts
10 4 (1.18%) Backbone.js
10 4 (1.18%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.88%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.88%) LangChain
11 3 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.59%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 30 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.35%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.76%) NHS
9 6 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.88%) BBC
12 3 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.35%) Android
1 8 (2.35%) Apple iOS
1 8 (2.35%) Linux
2 6 (1.76%) Windows
2 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (32.65%) Agile
2 90 (26.47%) AI
3 88 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 81 (23.82%) Roadmaps
5 60 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (17.35%) Mentoring
7 55 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
8 52 (15.29%) DevOps
9 49 (14.41%) Data Modelling
10 45 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 44 (12.94%) Microservices
12 43 (12.65%) Software Engineering
13 41 (12.06%) Analytics
14 37 (10.88%) Data Architecture
14 37 (10.88%) Decision-Making
14 37 (10.88%) Project Management
14 37 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (9.71%) SDLC
16 31 (9.12%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (15.00%) Python
2 40 (11.76%) SQL
3 35 (10.29%) Java
4 28 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.29%) C#
6 17 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.24%) Go
8 10 (2.94%) Scala
9 9 (2.65%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.06%) C++
10 7 (2.06%) VBA
11 5 (1.47%) Bash
11 5 (1.47%) Perl
12 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.59%) PHP
12 2 (0.59%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) X++
13 1 (0.29%) ABAP
13 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 58 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.29%) Degree
4 24 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.53%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.65%) CISSP
7 9 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.06%) APMP
8 7 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.06%) MBA
9 6 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.76%) CISM
9 6 (1.76%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.76%) OSCP
9 6 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.47%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.59%) GDPR
3 14 (4.12%) QA
4 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.65%) NIST
5 7 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.47%) GRC
7 4 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.88%) COBIT
8 3 (0.88%) IFRS
8 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.59%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 15 (4.41%) Docker
2 11 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) IAG
Systems Management
1 22 (6.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.82%) Terraform
3 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Argo
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.00%) SAP
3 16 (4.71%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.53%) Oracle
4 12 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.65%) Google
6 8 (2.35%) YouTube
7 6 (1.76%) OpenText
8 4 (1.18%) Pega
9 3 (0.88%) Databricks
9 3 (0.88%) HP
9 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.88%) VMware
10 2 (0.59%) Aderant
10 2 (0.59%) Foundry
10 2 (0.59%) iManage
10 2 (0.59%) Intapp
10 2 (0.59%) Palantir
11 1 (0.29%) Concur
11 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace