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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 468 442
Rank change year-on-year +110 -26 -131
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 569 210 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.42% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.48% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 321 81 254
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,159
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £77,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +3.13% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £73,625 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.64% -1.83% +11.11%

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +41 402 £83,750 +4.69% 286
UK excluding London +79 373 £74,830 +1.64% 131
Work from Home +139 299 £77,500 -3.13% 129
London -7 138 £100,000 +17.65% 190
North of England +28 98 £85,000 +19.30% 28
Northern Ireland - 71 £74,830 -
Midlands -13 50 £74,830 +15.12% 22
West Midlands +10 48 £76,415 +0.38% 17
South West -48 44 £37,500 - 18
North East - 44 £85,000 - 6
South East -28 43 £80,000 +6.67% 42
North West +15 38 £74,830 +24.67% 16
Wales -44 32 £70,000 -2.78% 2
Scotland +21 23 £74,830 +19.73% 15
Yorkshire -35 16 £90,000 +14.29% 6
East of England -29 12 £100,000 +37.93% 5
East Midlands -31 2 £70,000 +7.69% 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 (1.58%) Confluence
2 7 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) JBoss
4 1 (0.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.88%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (39.19%) Azure
2 159 (27.94%) AWS
3 66 (11.60%) Cloud Computing
4 60 (10.54%) Power Platform
5 56 (9.84%) GCP
6 37 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.57%) dbt
8 23 (4.04%) SaaS
9 22 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.46%) PaaS
11 13 (2.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (2.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 12 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.11%) Serverless
13 10 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.76%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.58%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.58%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.65%) LAN
1 72 (12.65%) WAN
2 16 (2.81%) Broadband
3 10 (1.76%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.58%) Firewall
5 6 (1.05%) WLAN
6 5 (0.88%) Network Security
7 3 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.53%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.53%) VPN
7 3 (0.53%) Wireless
8 1 (0.18%) 5G
8 1 (0.18%) Value-Added Service
8 1 (0.18%) WebEx
8 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (3.69%) BigQuery
3 18 (3.16%) Metadata
4 16 (2.81%) MySQL
5 15 (2.64%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.64%) Semantic Layer
6 13 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.05%) Power BI
9 6 (1.05%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.88%) Big Data
10 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.35%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (7.73%) Git
2 31 (5.45%) JUnit
3 21 (3.69%) Eclipse
4 19 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.34%) Subversion
5 18 (3.16%) JIRA
6 10 (1.76%) Maven
6 10 (1.76%) Mockito
7 7 (1.23%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.70%) Selenium
8 4 (0.70%) Yeoman
9 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.35%) Gatling
9 2 (0.35%) GitLab
9 2 (0.35%) JMeter
9 2 (0.35%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 253 (44.46%) Social Skills
2 187 (32.86%) Finance
3 126 (22.14%) Public Sector
4 104 (18.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 78 (13.71%) Presentation Skills
6 70 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (9.67%) Law
8 30 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.57%) Legal
10 20 (3.51%) Banking
11 15 (2.64%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.28%) Marketing
13 11 (1.93%) Military
13 11 (1.93%) Retail
14 9 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.23%) Aviation
15 7 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.05%) Police
17 4 (0.70%) Local Government
17 4 (0.70%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 333 (58.52%) Architect
2 116 (20.39%) Technical Architect
3 102 (17.93%) Lead
4 73 (12.83%) Solutions Architect
5 69 (12.13%) Systems Architect
6 61 (10.72%) Developer
7 55 (9.67%) Senior
8 42 (7.38%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.85%) Lead Architect
9 39 (6.85%) Technical Leader
10 23 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (3.69%) Data Architect
11 21 (3.69%) Junior
12 18 (3.16%) Consultant
12 18 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 17 (2.99%) Junior Developer
13 17 (2.99%) Junior Java Developer
14 16 (2.81%) Enterprise Architect
14 16 (2.81%) ERP Architect
15 15 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.25%) React
2 38 (6.68%) RESTful
3 31 (5.45%) Terraform
4 27 (4.75%) Jakarta EE
4 27 (4.75%) Spring
5 26 (4.57%) REST
6 25 (4.39%) Node.js
7 21 (3.69%) Middleware
8 20 (3.51%) Web Services
9 19 (3.34%) Struts
10 18 (3.16%) Kafka
11 17 (2.99%) Spring Boot
12 16 (2.81%) .NET
13 14 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (2.28%) Hibernate
15 12 (2.11%) Next.js
16 11 (1.93%) JPA
17 10 (1.76%) Playwright
18 8 (1.41%) JSP
19 7 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.91%) Virtual Team
3 28 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.46%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.28%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.41%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.23%) Blog
13 7 (1.23%) PMI
13 7 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.05%) Life Science
14 6 (1.05%) NHS
15 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.51%) Linux
2 10 (1.76%) Windows
3 9 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.88%) Unix
5 2 (0.35%) Android
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (34.80%) Roadmaps
2 182 (31.99%) Agile
3 148 (26.01%) AI
4 139 (24.43%) Mentoring
5 137 (24.08%) CI/CD
6 129 (22.67%) Technical Leadership
7 117 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 109 (19.16%) Containerisation
9 104 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (18.10%) Project Delivery
11 99 (17.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 97 (17.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 93 (16.34%) Risk Management
14 91 (15.99%) DevOps
15 90 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 84 (14.76%) Microservices
17 83 (14.59%) Business Strategy
18 78 (13.71%) Business Case
18 78 (13.71%) Migration
19 77 (13.53%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 79 (13.88%) Java
2 71 (12.48%) Python
3 63 (11.07%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.96%) SQL
5 33 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.57%) C#
7 22 (3.87%) C++
8 19 (3.34%) Perl
9 14 (2.46%) Scala
10 10 (1.76%) Bash
10 10 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.23%) ABAP
12 5 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.70%) C
13 4 (0.70%) Go
13 4 (0.70%) X++
14 2 (0.35%) Bicep
14 2 (0.35%) PHP
14 2 (0.35%) SOQL
14 2 (0.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 132 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 113 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.37%) Degree
4 42 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.11%) CISSP
8 10 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.76%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.05%) CCNP
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.70%) CCSP
13 4 (0.70%) CISM
14 3 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (12.13%) GRC
2 52 (9.14%) QA
3 29 (5.10%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 18 (3.16%) GDPR
5 10 (1.76%) NIST
6 9 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.53%) COBIT
8 3 (0.53%) IFRS
8 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) NCSC
9 2 (0.35%) WCAG
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (7.21%) Docker
2 17 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) NDS
3 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 36 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.46%) Grafana
2 14 (2.46%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.88%) Ansible
4 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 142 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.03%) SAP
3 26 (4.57%) Oracle
4 24 (4.22%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.93%) Splunk
8 7 (1.23%) YouTube
9 6 (1.05%) VMware
10 5 (0.88%) Databricks
10 5 (0.88%) Google
10 5 (0.88%) OpenText
11 4 (0.70%) Aruba
11 4 (0.70%) Cisco
11 4 (0.70%) Mitel
11 4 (0.70%) Okta
12 3 (0.53%) HP
12 3 (0.53%) Juniper
12 3 (0.53%) NetIQ
12 3 (0.53%) Zscaler