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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 368 614
Rank change year-on-year -56 +246 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 603 910 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.90% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.98% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 414 385 459
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,500 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,985 £102,500 £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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 7 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 7 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 -18 494 £82,500 -2.94% 96
UK excluding London -63 343 £75,000 -6.25% 64
London +16 192 £85,000 - 41
Work from Home -64 185 £70,000 -12.50% 56
North of England -2 78 £70,000 -15.15% 12
South West -37 69 £80,000 +4.92% 9
South East +28 58 £90,000 +2.86% 15
East of England +9 54 £85,000 - 11
Yorkshire +71 37 £68,750 -19.12% 4
North West -17 37 £76,450 +22.32% 7
Midlands -22 36 £65,050 -13.27% 9
Wales +11 26 £61,912 +33.98% 7
West Midlands +7 21 £75,000 - 4
Scotland -89 19 £73,950 -13.00% 4
East Midlands -29 15 £60,000 -31.43% 5
North East -8 4 £68,950 -27.42% 1
Northern Ireland +15 3 £75,400 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 185 (30.68%) Azure
1 185 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 154 (25.54%) Agile
3 152 (25.21%) Security Cleared
4 149 (24.71%) Microsoft
5 144 (23.88%) Roadmaps
6 124 (20.56%) AWS
7 117 (19.40%) DevOps
8 111 (18.41%) SC Cleared
9 106 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
10 100 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
11 93 (15.42%) Degree
12 84 (13.93%) Technical Architecture
13 83 (13.76%) Mentoring
13 83 (13.76%) Microservices
14 82 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 79 (13.10%) Finance
16 74 (12.27%) .NET
17 73 (12.11%) C#
17 73 (12.11%) Linux
18 70 (11.61%) Java
19 68 (11.28%) Kubernetes
19 68 (11.28%) Cloud Native
20 62 (10.28%) Management Information System
21 60 (9.95%) Power Platform
21 60 (9.95%) Public Sector
22 59 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
23 56 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
24 55 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
25 52 (8.62%) Coaching

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 20 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.66%) Drupal
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.33%) Confluence
4 2 (0.33%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.33%) Elite 3E
2 8 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 185 (30.68%) Azure
2 124 (20.56%) AWS
3 60 (9.95%) Power Platform
4 41 (6.80%) Dynamics 365
5 39 (6.47%) SaaS
6 33 (5.47%) PowerApps
7 32 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.48%) GCP
9 26 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (3.48%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.82%) PaaS
12 12 (1.99%) Azure AKS
12 12 (1.99%) Azure App Service
13 11 (1.82%) dbt
13 11 (1.82%) IaaS
14 8 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.16%) Azure API Management
16 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 5 (0.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.15%) Firewall
2 17 (2.82%) LAN
3 10 (1.66%) DNS
4 9 (1.49%) WAN
4 9 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.33%) Wireless
6 6 (1.00%) Broadband
7 4 (0.66%) Intranet
7 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.50%) CTI
8 3 (0.50%) Internet
8 3 (0.50%) VPN
9 2 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.33%) Extranet
9 2 (0.33%) PBX
9 2 (0.33%) RTP
9 2 (0.33%) SAN
9 2 (0.33%) SSL
9 2 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.80%) Power BI
1 35 (5.80%) Relational Database
2 27 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.49%) CockroachDB
6 8 (1.33%) MySQL
7 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.83%) Big Data
8 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.50%) Redis
10 3 (0.50%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (7.46%) Git
2 31 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.99%) GitLab
4 9 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.33%) Jaeger
6 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.66%) JUnit
6 4 (0.66%) Maven
7 3 (0.50%) JIRA
7 3 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.33%) MLflow
8 2 (0.33%) 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
1 185 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (13.10%) Finance
4 60 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (5.31%) Banking
7 30 (4.98%) Aerospace
7 30 (4.98%) Retail
8 29 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.81%) Marketing
10 22 (3.65%) Legal
11 16 (2.65%) Law
12 13 (2.16%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.82%) Retail Banking
14 10 (1.66%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.16%) Police
17 6 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.27%) .NET
2 32 (5.31%) React
3 27 (4.48%) REST
4 23 (3.81%) HTML
5 22 (3.65%) .NET Core
6 21 (3.48%) Entity Framework
6 21 (3.48%) Web Services
7 19 (3.15%) XML
8 18 (2.99%) ASP.NET
8 18 (2.99%) Kafka
9 17 (2.82%) JSON
9 17 (2.82%) Node.js
9 17 (2.82%) RESTful
10 15 (2.49%) .NET Framework
10 15 (2.49%) Middleware
10 15 (2.49%) OAuth
10 15 (2.49%) Spring
11 13 (2.16%) Hibernate
12 12 (1.99%) Django
12 12 (1.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.28%) Management Information System
3 27 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (4.15%) PKI
5 22 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.15%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.49%) Cyberattack
9 14 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.16%) iPhone
10 13 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (2.16%) NHS
11 12 (1.99%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.33%) PropTech
14 7 (1.16%) Robotics
15 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (12.11%) Linux
2 21 (3.48%) Android
2 21 (3.48%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.99%) Windows
4 3 (0.50%) CentOS
4 3 (0.50%) Unix
5 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (25.54%) Agile
2 144 (23.88%) Roadmaps
3 117 (19.40%) DevOps
4 106 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
5 100 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (13.93%) Technical Architecture
7 83 (13.76%) Mentoring
7 83 (13.76%) Microservices
8 59 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
9 56 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 55 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (8.62%) Coaching
12 51 (8.46%) Project Management
13 50 (8.29%) Architectural Design
13 50 (8.29%) Migration
14 48 (7.96%) Open Source
15 47 (7.79%) Architectural Patterns
16 43 (7.13%) Computer Science
17 41 (6.80%) Actionable Insight
17 41 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 73 (12.11%) C#
2 70 (11.61%) Java
3 46 (7.63%) JavaScript
3 46 (7.63%) Python
4 26 (4.31%) C
5 24 (3.98%) SQL
6 8 (1.33%) Perl
6 8 (1.33%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.16%) Bash
7 7 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.00%) PHP
9 5 (0.83%) ABAP
9 5 (0.83%) C++
10 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Swift
12 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) SOQL
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 152 (25.21%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.41%) SC Cleared
3 93 (15.42%) Degree
4 38 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.82%) CISSP
8 17 (2.82%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.32%) CISM
10 14 (2.32%) DV Cleared
11 13 (2.16%) OSCP
12 8 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.16%) PhD
14 5 (0.83%) CCIE
15 4 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.49%) QA
3 6 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.83%) GDPR
5 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.50%) ISO 9000
6 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (6.80%) Docker
2 20 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.66%) KVM
6 3 (0.50%) Xen
7 2 (0.33%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.32%) Ansible
3 9 (1.49%) Puppet
4 8 (1.33%) Kiali
5 5 (0.83%) Terraform
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.17%) Consul
8 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.17%) Kibana
8 1 (0.17%) logstash
8 1 (0.17%) Nagios
8 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 149 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.81%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.48%) Google
5 18 (2.99%) Oracle
5 18 (2.99%) SAP
6 13 (2.16%) Cisco
7 10 (1.66%) BMC
7 10 (1.66%) VMware
8 8 (1.33%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.33%) HP
8 8 (1.33%) Remedy
8 8 (1.33%) Splunk
9 7 (1.16%) ANSYS
9 7 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.00%) Databricks
10 6 (1.00%) Meraki
11 4 (0.66%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.66%) mParticle
11 4 (0.66%) Sparx