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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 452 384
Rank change year-on-year -4 -68 +2
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 220 266 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.53% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.58% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 122 142 405
10th Percentile £62,500 £38,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,674 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,188 £82,125 £88,750
90th Percentile £114,000 £100,650 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,830 £73,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.51% +12.31% -7.14%

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 53,044 45,908 65,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.73% 92.10% 88.26%
Number of salaries quoted 31,514 22,467 50,521
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -11 180 £75,000 - 76
UK excluding London -20 119 £74,830 +2.51% 56
Work from Home +60 114 £77,500 +2.79% 33
London +19 67 £78,750 +1.94% 36
South East +13 29 £75,000 - 27
Midlands -33 27 £72,500 -3.59% 8
North of England -30 25 £74,915 +76.27% 8
South West -6 16 £72,500 -3.33% 4
West Midlands -11 15 £72,500 -3.33% 7
North West -15 12 £74,830 +76.07% 4
East Midlands -15 12 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Wales +4 10 £67,586 -15.52% 1
Yorkshire -30 8 £88,750 +20.34% 3
Northern Ireland -13 6 £74,830 -6.46% 1
North East -2 5 £67,500 -15.63% 2
Scotland -25 4 £74,830 -10.65% 2
East of England +9 2 £71,250 -10.94% 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 14 (6.36%) CMS
2 12 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.27%) Confluence
4 4 (1.82%) Documentum
4 4 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.36%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.45%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.45%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 70 (31.82%) AWS
2 64 (29.09%) Azure
3 27 (12.27%) GCP
4 24 (10.91%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (6.82%) PowerApps
7 10 (4.55%) SaaS
8 6 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.73%) PaaS
9 5 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.27%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.36%) GitHub
10 3 (1.36%) IaaS
10 3 (1.36%) Kontent
10 3 (1.36%) OCI
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.91%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.82%) Firewall
1 4 (1.82%) IP Telephony
1 4 (1.82%) PSTN
1 4 (1.82%) VoIP
2 1 (0.45%) AMQP
2 1 (0.45%) DHCP
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) Network Security
2 1 (0.45%) SSH
2 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.91%) Power BI
3 12 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.73%) Metadata
5 6 (2.73%) Redis
6 5 (2.27%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.82%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.36%) MySQL
9 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.45%) DB2
10 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.18%) JIRA
2 5 (2.27%) Git
3 3 (1.36%) JUnit
3 3 (1.36%) Maven
4 2 (0.91%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.91%) JMeter
4 2 (0.91%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.91%) Mockito
4 2 (0.91%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 103 (46.82%) Social Skills
2 62 (28.18%) Public Sector
3 59 (26.82%) Finance
4 53 (24.09%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (9.09%) Law
7 16 (7.27%) Marketing
8 15 (6.82%) Retail
9 9 (4.09%) Legal
10 7 (3.18%) Banking
10 7 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.18%) Local Government
10 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.27%) Back Office
13 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 117 (53.18%) Architect
2 52 (23.64%) Solutions Architect
3 36 (16.36%) Technical Architect
4 28 (12.73%) Lead
5 21 (9.55%) Developer
6 20 (9.09%) Senior
7 18 (8.18%) Lead Architect
8 13 (5.91%) Technical Leader
9 12 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (5.00%) Consultant
10 11 (5.00%) Principal Consultant
10 11 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Data Architect
11 10 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
12 8 (3.64%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (2.73%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 5 (2.27%) Penetration Tester
14 5 (2.27%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.64%) React
2 14 (6.36%) .NET
3 12 (5.45%) REST
4 11 (5.00%) Web Services
5 10 (4.55%) Node.js
6 9 (4.09%) CSS
6 9 (4.09%) Spring
7 8 (3.64%) Next.js
8 7 (3.18%) Kafka
9 6 (2.73%) Django
9 6 (2.73%) RESTful
10 5 (2.27%) HTML
10 5 (2.27%) Memcached
11 4 (1.82%) LangChain
11 4 (1.82%) Middleware
11 4 (1.82%) SOAP
12 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
12 3 (1.36%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.36%) Laravel
12 3 (1.36%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.36%) Self-Motivation
1 36 (16.36%) Virtual Team
2 13 (5.91%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.09%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.18%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.73%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.73%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.82%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.82%) IVR
10 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.36%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.18%) Android
1 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (0.91%) Windows
3 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (36.36%) Agile
2 53 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 52 (23.64%) AI
4 49 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (21.82%) Decision-Making
6 44 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 43 (19.55%) Analytics
8 41 (18.64%) Project Management
9 40 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 39 (17.73%) DevOps
11 32 (14.55%) Strategic Thinking
12 31 (14.09%) Customer Experience
13 30 (13.64%) Data Modelling
13 30 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
14 28 (12.73%) IT Strategy
14 28 (12.73%) Microservices
15 27 (12.27%) B2B
15 27 (12.27%) Due Diligence
15 27 (12.27%) Software Engineering
15 27 (12.27%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.09%) Python
2 22 (10.00%) SQL
3 20 (9.09%) Java
4 15 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.91%) C#
7 11 (5.00%) VBA
8 9 (4.09%) Go
9 5 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.27%) Scala
10 3 (1.36%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) Bash
11 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.18%) Degree
4 18 (8.18%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.00%) APMP
5 11 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.00%) MBA
6 8 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.27%) CREST Certified
7 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.27%) OSCP
8 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.82%) CITP
9 3 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) IIBA
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) QA
2 6 (2.73%) GDPR
3 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.18%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.55%) Google
3 8 (3.64%) Oracle
4 7 (3.18%) SAP
5 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.73%) YouTube
6 5 (2.27%) Pega
7 4 (1.82%) Avaya
7 4 (1.82%) Cisco
7 4 (1.82%) Genesys
7 4 (1.82%) OpenText
8 3 (1.36%) Sparx
9 2 (0.91%) Foundry
9 2 (0.91%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.91%) Palantir
10 1 (0.45%) Adobe
10 1 (0.45%) Ariba
10 1 (0.45%) Databricks