Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 347 584
Rank change year-on-year -54 +237 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 644 930 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.96% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.05% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 446 365 469
10th Percentile £55,500 £61,250 £53,484
25th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,650 £102,500 £113,750
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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -22 529 £80,000 -5.88% 109
UK excluding London -62 380 £75,000 -6.25% 72
Work from Home -56 201 £70,000 -12.50% 64
London +34 198 £85,000 - 46
North of England -4 83 £70,000 -17.65% 14
South West -31 75 £80,000 +2.89% 16
South East -3 61 £90,000 +2.86% 10
East of England +3 58 £85,000 - 6
Midlands -19 47 £65,050 -13.27% 16
Yorkshire +64 41 £70,000 -17.65% 2
North West -28 38 £75,400 +20.64% 9
Wales +11 36 £58,750 +27.14% 7
West Midlands +6 25 £75,000 - 11
East Midlands -25 22 £65,000 -25.71% 5
Scotland -91 16 £75,400 -16.22% 3
Northern Ireland +1 4 £75,400 - 2
North East -10 4 £68,950 -27.42% 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 189 (29.35%) Azure
2 179 (27.80%) Social Skills
3 166 (25.78%) Agile
4 156 (24.22%) Microsoft
5 150 (23.29%) Security Cleared
6 136 (21.12%) Roadmaps
7 123 (19.10%) AWS
8 115 (17.86%) DevOps
9 112 (17.39%) SC Cleared
10 104 (16.15%) Technical Leadership
11 100 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (15.53%) Degree
12 92 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 91 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 89 (13.82%) Technical Architecture
15 84 (13.04%) Finance
15 84 (13.04%) Microservices
16 74 (11.49%) C#
17 73 (11.34%) .NET
17 73 (11.34%) Linux
18 70 (10.87%) Java
19 67 (10.40%) Power Platform
20 64 (9.94%) Cloud Native
21 62 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
22 61 (9.47%) Public Sector
23 59 (9.16%) Management Information System
23 59 (9.16%) Kubernetes
24 58 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
25 57 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
26 53 (8.23%) 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 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.62%) Drupal
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.31%) CMS
4 2 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.78%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 189 (29.35%) Azure
2 123 (19.10%) AWS
3 67 (10.40%) Power Platform
4 47 (7.30%) Dynamics 365
5 39 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (5.90%) SaaS
7 37 (5.75%) PowerApps
8 26 (4.04%) GCP
9 25 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (3.42%) Power Automate
11 20 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (2.33%) PaaS
13 12 (1.86%) Azure AKS
13 12 (1.86%) Azure App Service
13 12 (1.86%) dbt
14 9 (1.40%) IaaS
15 8 (1.24%) Serverless
16 7 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.93%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.26%) Firewall
2 14 (2.17%) LAN
3 12 (1.86%) DNS
4 9 (1.40%) WAN
4 9 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.24%) Wireless
6 6 (0.93%) Broadband
7 4 (0.62%) Intranet
7 4 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.47%) CTI
8 3 (0.47%) Internet
9 2 (0.31%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.31%) Extranet
9 2 (0.31%) PBX
9 2 (0.31%) RTP
9 2 (0.31%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.31%) VoIP
9 2 (0.31%) VPN
10 1 (0.16%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.21%) Power BI
2 35 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 11 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.40%) CockroachDB
7 6 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.78%) MySQL
8 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.62%) Big Data
10 3 (0.47%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.47%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.47%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (6.83%) Git
2 29 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.55%) GitLab
4 9 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.24%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.47%) JIRA
6 3 (0.47%) JUnit
6 3 (0.47%) Maven
6 3 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.31%) MLflow
7 2 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
General
1 179 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (13.04%) Finance
4 61 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (5.75%) Banking
7 35 (5.43%) Retail
8 34 (5.28%) Aerospace
9 30 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (3.88%) Marketing
11 20 (3.11%) Legal
12 17 (2.64%) Law
13 12 (1.86%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.86%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.55%) Health Technology
16 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.24%) Police
17 7 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.34%) .NET
2 30 (4.66%) React
3 24 (3.73%) REST
4 22 (3.42%) .NET Core
5 21 (3.26%) Entity Framework
6 19 (2.95%) HTML
7 18 (2.80%) ASP.NET
7 18 (2.80%) Kafka
8 17 (2.64%) Node.js
8 17 (2.64%) OAuth
9 16 (2.48%) XML
10 15 (2.33%) Middleware
10 15 (2.33%) Web Services
11 14 (2.17%) .NET Framework
11 14 (2.17%) JSON
11 14 (2.17%) RESTful
11 14 (2.17%) Spring
12 13 (2.02%) Django
12 13 (2.02%) Hibernate
13 12 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.16%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.73%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.42%) PKI
6 16 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
6 16 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.02%) NHS
10 12 (1.86%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.71%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.55%) iPhone
12 10 (1.55%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.24%) PropTech
14 7 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 73 (11.34%) Linux
2 23 (3.57%) Android
2 23 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.02%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) CentOS
4 3 (0.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (25.78%) Agile
2 136 (21.12%) Roadmaps
3 115 (17.86%) DevOps
4 104 (16.15%) Technical Leadership
5 100 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 89 (13.82%) Technical Architecture
8 84 (13.04%) Microservices
9 62 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
10 58 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 57 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (8.23%) Project Management
13 50 (7.76%) Architectural Design
13 50 (7.76%) Coaching
14 48 (7.45%) Open Source
15 47 (7.30%) Architectural Patterns
16 44 (6.83%) CRM
16 44 (6.83%) Migration
17 43 (6.68%) Artificial Intelligence
18 41 (6.37%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 74 (11.49%) C#
2 70 (10.87%) Java
3 41 (6.37%) JavaScript
4 38 (5.90%) Python
5 27 (4.19%) SQL
6 26 (4.04%) C
7 8 (1.24%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.93%) Bash
8 6 (0.93%) PHP
8 6 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.78%) C++
9 5 (0.78%) Perl
10 4 (0.62%) ABAP
10 4 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.31%) Swift
12 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.16%) SOQL
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 150 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 112 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 100 (15.53%) Degree
4 37 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.17%) CISSP
9 12 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.71%) CISM
10 11 (1.71%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.55%) OSCP
12 8 (1.24%) PhD
12 8 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.78%) CCIE
15 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (1.40%) QA
2 8 (1.24%) GDPR
3 7 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.31%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (5.59%) Docker
2 18 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.78%) KVM
5 4 (0.62%) Xen
6 2 (0.31%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.48%) Ansible
3 8 (1.24%) Kiali
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.93%) Puppet
5 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.47%) SCCM
6 3 (0.47%) Terraform
7 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Kibana
7 1 (0.16%) logstash
7 1 (0.16%) Nagios
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 156 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 24 (3.73%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.26%) Google
4 21 (3.26%) SAP
5 14 (2.17%) Oracle
6 11 (1.71%) Cisco
7 10 (1.55%) VMware
8 8 (1.24%) ANSYS
8 8 (1.24%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.24%) Splunk
9 7 (1.09%) BMC
9 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.93%) Databricks
10 6 (0.93%) Meraki
11 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.78%) HP
11 5 (0.78%) mParticle
11 5 (0.78%) Remedy
12 4 (0.62%) Sparx