Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 378 616
Rank change year-on-year -38 +238 -109
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 575 909 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.87% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.95% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 398 401 475
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,250 £53,418
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,188 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,410 £105,000 £112,500
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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -18 473 £82,500 -2.94% 89
UK excluding London -67 316 £75,000 -6.25% 65
London +21 191 £85,000 - 37
Work from Home -58 185 £70,000 -10.26% 64
North of England +10 72 £70,000 -17.65% 12
South West -14 64 £80,000 +6.67% 6
South East +34 58 £90,000 +2.86% 14
East of England -3 47 £85,000 - 9
North West -14 35 £76,450 +22.32% 4
Yorkshire +84 34 £67,500 -20.59% 6
Midlands -15 34 £65,050 -13.27% 9
Wales +11 23 £64,412 -12.81% 6
West Midlands +16 21 £75,000 - 4
Scotland -88 16 £72,500 -9.38% 12
East Midlands -27 13 £62,500 -28.57% 5
North East -8 3 £75,400 -20.63% 2
Northern Ireland +18 2 £75,400 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 186 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 181 (31.48%) Azure
3 150 (26.09%) Security Cleared
4 147 (25.57%) Agile
5 146 (25.39%) Microsoft
6 136 (23.65%) Roadmaps
7 126 (21.91%) AWS
8 116 (20.17%) DevOps
9 112 (19.48%) Technical Leadership
10 110 (19.13%) SC Cleared
11 100 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (15.13%) Microservices
12 87 (15.13%) Degree
13 84 (14.61%) Mentoring
14 79 (13.74%) Technical Architecture
15 78 (13.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 77 (13.39%) Finance
17 76 (13.22%) .NET
18 75 (13.04%) C#
19 74 (12.87%) Java
20 70 (12.17%) Kubernetes
21 63 (10.96%) Public Sector
22 62 (10.78%) Linux
23 61 (10.61%) Management Information System
24 59 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
25 58 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
26 56 (9.74%) Cloud Native
27 55 (9.57%) Power Platform
28 53 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
29 51 (8.87%) Open Source

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 18 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.70%) Drupal
3 3 (0.52%) CMS
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.35%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.57%) Elite 3E
2 9 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 181 (31.48%) Azure
2 126 (21.91%) AWS
3 55 (9.57%) Power Platform
4 40 (6.96%) SaaS
5 38 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (5.57%) PowerApps
7 29 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.70%) GCP
9 24 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (3.65%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.96%) PaaS
12 12 (2.09%) Azure AKS
12 12 (2.09%) Azure App Service
13 11 (1.91%) dbt
13 11 (1.91%) IaaS
14 8 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.22%) Azure API Management
16 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
17 5 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.13%) Firewall
2 17 (2.96%) LAN
3 11 (1.91%) DNS
4 8 (1.39%) WAN
4 8 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.39%) Wireless
5 6 (1.04%) Broadband
6 4 (0.70%) Intranet
6 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.52%) CTI
7 3 (0.52%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) Extranet
8 2 (0.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) SSL
8 2 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.35%) VPN
9 1 (0.17%) AMQP
9 1 (0.17%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.09%) Relational Database
2 34 (5.91%) Power BI
3 30 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.57%) CockroachDB
4 9 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.57%) MySQL
5 7 (1.22%) Big Data
6 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.52%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.52%) Redis
8 3 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.52%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 45 (7.83%) Git
2 31 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.09%) GitLab
4 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.39%) Jaeger
6 4 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.70%) JUnit
6 4 (0.70%) Maven
7 3 (0.52%) JIRA
7 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.17%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.17%) jMock
9 1 (0.17%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 186 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 77 (13.39%) Finance
4 63 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.04%) Banking
6 29 (5.04%) Retail
7 28 (4.87%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (4.35%) Legal
9 23 (4.00%) Marketing
10 16 (2.78%) Law
11 14 (2.43%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.26%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.74%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.22%) Police
16 7 (1.22%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.22%) .NET
2 32 (5.57%) React
3 30 (5.22%) REST
4 24 (4.17%) HTML
5 22 (3.83%) .NET Core
5 22 (3.83%) Web Services
6 21 (3.65%) Entity Framework
7 20 (3.48%) Kafka
7 20 (3.48%) XML
8 18 (3.13%) ASP.NET
8 18 (3.13%) JSON
8 18 (3.13%) Node.js
8 18 (3.13%) Spring
9 17 (2.96%) RESTful
10 16 (2.78%) OAuth
11 15 (2.61%) .NET Framework
11 15 (2.61%) Middleware
11 15 (2.61%) Spring Boot
12 14 (2.43%) SOAP
13 13 (2.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 56 (9.74%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (4.70%) PKI
5 25 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 24 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (3.65%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.61%) Cyberattack
11 14 (2.43%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.26%) iPhone
12 13 (2.26%) NHS
13 12 (2.09%) Private Cloud
14 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.57%) Robotics
15 9 (1.57%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.39%) PropTech
17 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 62 (10.78%) Linux
2 18 (3.13%) Android
2 18 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.09%) Windows
4 2 (0.35%) CentOS
4 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (25.57%) Agile
2 136 (23.65%) Roadmaps
3 116 (20.17%) DevOps
4 112 (19.48%) Technical Leadership
5 100 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (15.13%) Microservices
7 84 (14.61%) Mentoring
8 79 (13.74%) Technical Architecture
9 59 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
10 58 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 53 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
12 51 (8.87%) Open Source
13 50 (8.70%) Architectural Design
13 50 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
13 50 (8.70%) Migration
14 48 (8.35%) Coaching
15 44 (7.65%) Project Management
16 43 (7.48%) Computer Science
17 41 (7.13%) Actionable Insight
17 41 (7.13%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 75 (13.04%) C#
2 74 (12.87%) Java
3 47 (8.17%) Python
4 46 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.35%) C
5 25 (4.35%) SQL
6 9 (1.57%) Perl
7 8 (1.39%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.22%) Bash
8 7 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.04%) ABAP
9 6 (1.04%) PHP
10 5 (0.87%) C++
11 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.35%) Swift
14 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.17%) SOQL
14 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 150 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 110 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 87 (15.13%) Degree
4 38 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 19 (3.30%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.96%) CISSP
8 17 (2.96%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.43%) CISM
11 13 (2.26%) OSCP
12 11 (1.91%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.87%) CCIE
16 4 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.52%) PhD
17 3 (0.52%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.57%) QA
2 8 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.52%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (7.48%) Docker
2 20 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (12.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.48%) Ansible
3 9 (1.57%) Puppet
4 8 (1.39%) Kiali
5 5 (0.87%) Terraform
6 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Consul
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) vRealize
7 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 146 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.04%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.65%) Google
5 18 (3.13%) Oracle
6 17 (2.96%) SAP
7 12 (2.09%) Cisco
8 11 (1.91%) BMC
9 10 (1.74%) VMware
10 9 (1.57%) HP
10 9 (1.57%) Remedy
11 8 (1.39%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.39%) Splunk
12 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.04%) Databricks
14 5 (0.87%) Meraki
15 4 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.70%) Solace
15 4 (0.70%) Sparx
16 3 (0.52%) BiZZdesign