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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 444 476
Rank change year-on-year -15 +32 -91
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 302 222 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 190 98 305
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 £99,750 £87,188 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £103,370
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -

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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 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 19 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 -12 247 £79,669 +6.22% 117
UK excluding London -42 148 £75,000 +3.45% 65
Work from Home +94 139 £80,000 - 57
London -8 103 £100,000 +23.46% 64
North of England -14 37 £78,500 +42.62% 12
South East -18 34 £75,000 +2.74% 19
Midlands -23 30 £73,750 +8.18% 7
West Midlands -15 19 £82,500 +10.00% 6
South West -50 19 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Wales -19 15 £69,986 -4.04% 8
Yorkshire -45 15 £90,000 +24.14% 3
North West +3 12 £77,500 +82.35% 6
East Midlands -23 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
North East - 10 £68,750 - 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
East of England -18 4 £100,000 +25.00% 7
Scotland -21 4 £70,000 +55.56% 1

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 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.65%) Confluence
3 7 (2.32%) CMS
4 4 (1.32%) Documentum
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.81%) AWS
2 79 (26.16%) Azure
3 34 (11.26%) GCP
4 29 (9.60%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.63%) PaaS
7 15 (4.97%) SaaS
8 13 (4.30%) PowerApps
9 12 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.31%) IaaS
11 8 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (2.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.66%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.66%) OCI
14 5 (1.66%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 3 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.65%) Broadband
2 2 (0.66%) Firewall
2 2 (0.66%) LAN
2 2 (0.66%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.66%) WAN
2 2 (0.66%) WLAN
3 1 (0.33%) AMQP
3 1 (0.33%) DHCP
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.64%) Metadata
2 12 (3.97%) Power BI
3 10 (3.31%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.98%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.32%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.32%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.32%) MySQL
8 4 (1.32%) Redis
9 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.66%) Big Data
10 2 (0.66%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 12 (3.97%) Git
2 9 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.65%) JIRA
4 5 (1.66%) Yeoman
5 4 (1.32%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.99%) JUnit
6 3 (0.99%) Maven
6 3 (0.99%) Mockito
7 2 (0.66%) Gatling
7 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.33%) GitLab
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 101 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 75 (24.83%) Public Sector
3 67 (22.19%) Finance
4 48 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (14.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (7.62%) Legal
7 22 (7.28%) Law
8 14 (4.64%) Retail
9 12 (3.97%) Marketing
10 10 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.98%) Banking
12 7 (2.32%) Local Government
12 7 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.66%) Back Office
13 5 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.99%) Aviation
15 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 154 (50.99%) Architect
2 51 (16.89%) Technical Architect
3 49 (16.23%) Solutions Architect
4 42 (13.91%) Lead
5 36 (11.92%) Senior
6 27 (8.94%) Developer
7 20 (6.62%) Lead Architect
7 20 (6.62%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (6.29%) Enterprise Architect
9 16 (5.30%) Data Architect
9 16 (5.30%) Technical Leader
10 12 (3.97%) Consultant
11 10 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.98%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (2.98%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.65%) Principal Architect
13 8 (2.65%) Principal Consultant
13 8 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (2.65%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.65%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.95%) React
2 15 (4.97%) .NET
3 14 (4.64%) Node.js
4 10 (3.31%) REST
5 9 (2.98%) RESTful
6 7 (2.32%) Middleware
6 7 (2.32%) Spring
7 6 (1.99%) Kafka
8 5 (1.66%) CSS
8 5 (1.66%) Laravel
8 5 (1.66%) Next.js
8 5 (1.66%) Playwright
9 4 (1.32%) Backbone.js
9 4 (1.32%) React Native
10 3 (0.99%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.99%) LangChain
10 3 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.66%) EDI
11 2 (0.66%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.91%) Virtual Team
2 22 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.32%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.99%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.66%) NHS
10 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.98%) Android
1 9 (2.98%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.32%) Linux
2 4 (1.32%) Windows
2 4 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (31.46%) Agile
2 82 (27.15%) AI
3 72 (23.84%) CI/CD
4 70 (23.18%) Roadmaps
5 53 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (16.89%) DevOps
8 45 (14.90%) Data Modelling
9 44 (14.57%) Technical Leadership
10 43 (14.24%) Analytics
10 43 (14.24%) Software Engineering
11 41 (13.58%) Mentoring
12 38 (12.58%) Microservices
13 36 (11.92%) Project Management
13 36 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (10.60%) Decision-Making
14 32 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (10.26%) SDLC
16 30 (9.93%) Data Architecture
17 28 (9.27%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.58%) Python
2 33 (10.93%) SQL
3 24 (7.95%) Java
4 18 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 18 (5.96%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.30%) C#
6 11 (3.64%) Go
7 9 (2.98%) Scala
8 8 (2.65%) VBA
9 7 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.66%) PHP
11 3 (0.99%) Bash
12 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.66%) C++
12 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
13 1 (0.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.27%) Degree
4 16 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.31%) DBS Check
5 10 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.65%) APMP
6 8 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.65%) MBA
7 7 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.99%) CISM
8 6 (1.99%) CISSP
8 6 (1.99%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.99%) OSCP
8 6 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.66%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.97%) GDPR
2 14 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.64%) QA
3 7 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.99%) NIST
5 5 (1.66%) GRC
5 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.99%) IFRS
8 2 (0.66%) COBIT
8 2 (0.66%) WCAG
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (3.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.66%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.33%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) Argo
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.97%) SAP
3 14 (4.64%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.97%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.31%) Oracle
6 8 (2.65%) Google
6 8 (2.65%) YouTube
7 6 (1.99%) OpenText
8 4 (1.32%) Pega
9 3 (0.99%) Databricks
9 3 (0.99%) Sparx
10 2 (0.66%) Aderant
10 2 (0.66%) Foundry
10 2 (0.66%) HP
10 2 (0.66%) iManage
10 2 (0.66%) Intapp
10 2 (0.66%) Palantir
10 2 (0.66%) VMware
11 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.33%) Progress