Technical Architect Jobs

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £75,150 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 347 597
Rank change year-on-year -44 +250 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 674 921 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.97% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.06% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 471 360 459
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £53,418
25th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,150 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,050 £102,500 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect.

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
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 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 -6 547 £80,000 -5.88% 148
UK excluding London -62 406 £75,000 -6.25% 100
Work from Home -56 213 £70,000 -12.50% 95
London +15 201 £85,000 - 59
North of England -11 88 £70,000 -17.65% 22
South West -31 79 £80,000 +2.89% 14
East of England +8 60 £81,250 -4.41% 6
South East -14 60 £90,000 +7.46% 16
Midlands -17 52 £70,000 -6.67% 26
Wales +20 43 £56,250 +21.73% 9
Yorkshire +47 41 £70,000 -20.00% 4
North West -44 41 £75,400 +20.64% 14
West Midlands -7 29 £75,000 - 19
East Midlands -24 23 £65,025 -25.69% 7
Scotland -100 18 £75,400 -16.22% 6
Northern Ireland +3 6 £75,400 - 3
North East -13 6 £75,275 -20.76% 4

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Technical Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 190 (28.19%) Azure
2 180 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 175 (25.96%) Agile
4 159 (23.59%) Microsoft
5 158 (23.44%) Security Cleared
6 141 (20.92%) Roadmaps
7 130 (19.29%) AWS
8 121 (17.95%) SC Cleared
9 119 (17.66%) DevOps
10 108 (16.02%) Technical Architecture
10 108 (16.02%) Technical Leadership
11 101 (14.99%) Degree
12 100 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (14.69%) Mentoring
14 97 (14.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 85 (12.61%) Finance
16 84 (12.46%) Microservices
17 73 (10.83%) C#
18 72 (10.68%) .NET
18 72 (10.68%) Linux
19 70 (10.39%) Java
20 69 (10.24%) Power Platform
21 63 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
22 62 (9.20%) Cloud Native
22 62 (9.20%) Public Sector
23 60 (8.90%) Management Information System
24 58 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
25 57 (8.46%) Kubernetes
25 57 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
26 55 (8.16%) Project Management

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.59%) Drupal
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.30%) CMS
4 2 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.74%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 190 (28.19%) Azure
2 130 (19.29%) AWS
3 69 (10.24%) Power Platform
4 49 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
5 40 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (5.79%) SaaS
7 38 (5.64%) PowerApps
8 26 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (3.86%) GCP
9 22 (3.26%) Power Automate
10 20 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 18 (2.67%) dbt
12 14 (2.08%) PaaS
13 12 (1.78%) Azure AKS
13 12 (1.78%) Azure App Service
14 9 (1.34%) Serverless
15 8 (1.19%) IaaS
16 7 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.89%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.12%) Firewall
2 14 (2.08%) LAN
3 12 (1.78%) DNS
4 9 (1.34%) WAN
4 9 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.19%) Wireless
6 6 (0.89%) Broadband
7 4 (0.59%) Intranet
7 4 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.45%) CTI
8 3 (0.45%) Internet
9 2 (0.30%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.30%) Extranet
9 2 (0.30%) PBX
9 2 (0.30%) RTP
9 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.30%) VoIP
9 2 (0.30%) VPN
10 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.08%) Power BI
2 36 (5.34%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 11 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.34%) CockroachDB
7 7 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.89%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.74%) MySQL
9 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.59%) Big Data
11 3 (0.45%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.45%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.45%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (6.53%) Git
2 29 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.48%) GitLab
4 9 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.19%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.45%) JIRA
6 3 (0.45%) JUnit
6 3 (0.45%) Maven
6 3 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.30%) MLflow
7 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
General
1 180 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 97 (14.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 85 (12.61%) Finance
4 62 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (5.49%) Banking
7 35 (5.19%) Retail
8 34 (5.04%) Aerospace
9 30 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (3.86%) Marketing
11 20 (2.97%) Legal
12 18 (2.67%) Law
13 12 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.78%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.48%) Health Technology
16 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.19%) Police
17 7 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.68%) .NET
2 42 (6.23%) React
3 31 (4.60%) Node.js
4 26 (3.86%) Django
5 24 (3.56%) REST
6 22 (3.26%) .NET Core
7 21 (3.12%) Entity Framework
8 20 (2.97%) HTML
9 19 (2.82%) Kafka
10 18 (2.67%) ASP.NET
11 17 (2.52%) OAuth
11 17 (2.52%) XML
12 15 (2.23%) Middleware
13 14 (2.08%) .NET Framework
13 14 (2.08%) JSON
13 14 (2.08%) RESTful
13 14 (2.08%) Spring
14 13 (1.93%) Hibernate
14 13 (1.93%) Web Services
15 12 (1.78%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.90%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.56%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.26%) PKI
6 16 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (2.23%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.93%) NHS
10 12 (1.78%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.48%) iPhone
12 10 (1.48%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.19%) PropTech
14 7 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 72 (10.68%) Linux
2 24 (3.56%) Android
2 24 (3.56%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.93%) Windows
4 3 (0.45%) CentOS
4 3 (0.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (25.96%) Agile
2 141 (20.92%) Roadmaps
3 119 (17.66%) DevOps
4 108 (16.02%) Technical Architecture
4 108 (16.02%) Technical Leadership
5 100 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (14.69%) Mentoring
7 84 (12.46%) Microservices
8 63 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 57 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (8.16%) Project Management
12 53 (7.86%) Architectural Patterns
12 53 (7.86%) Open Source
13 51 (7.57%) Architectural Design
14 50 (7.42%) Coaching
15 47 (6.97%) TDD
16 43 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence
16 43 (6.38%) CRM
16 43 (6.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (10.83%) C#
2 70 (10.39%) Java
3 49 (7.27%) Python
4 43 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 27 (4.01%) SQL
6 26 (3.86%) C
7 8 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.89%) Bash
8 6 (0.89%) PHP
8 6 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.74%) C++
9 5 (0.74%) Perl
10 4 (0.59%) ABAP
11 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
12 2 (0.30%) Swift
12 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 158 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 121 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 101 (14.99%) Degree
4 37 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.08%) CISSP
9 12 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.63%) CISM
10 11 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.48%) OSCP
12 8 (1.19%) PhD
12 8 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.74%) CCIE
15 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.34%) GDPR
2 9 (1.34%) QA
3 7 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.30%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (5.19%) Docker
2 18 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.74%) KVM
5 4 (0.59%) Xen
6 2 (0.30%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.23%) Ansible
3 8 (1.19%) Kiali
4 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.74%) Puppet
6 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.45%) SCCM
8 2 (0.30%) Terraform
9 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.15%) Grafana
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 159 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.15%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.71%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.12%) Google
4 21 (3.12%) SAP
5 14 (2.08%) Oracle
6 11 (1.63%) Cisco
7 10 (1.48%) VMware
8 8 (1.19%) ANSYS
8 8 (1.19%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.19%) Splunk
9 7 (1.04%) BMC
9 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.89%) Databricks
10 6 (0.89%) Meraki
11 5 (0.74%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.74%) HP
11 5 (0.74%) mParticle
11 5 (0.74%) Remedy
12 4 (0.59%) Sparx