Technical Architect Jobs in England

Technical Architect
UK > England

The median Technical Architect salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 403 381
Rank change year-on-year -158 -22 +233
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 118 537 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.60% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.63% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 94 361 310
10th Percentile £70,000 £58,375 £63,228
25th Percentile £80,313 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,150 £85,000
% change year-on-year +9.78% -11.59% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
South East +58 40 £82,500 -8.33% 13
London -43 40 £95,000 +11.76% 64
North of England -31 16 £87,500 +25.00% 13
Midlands +27 13 £86,250 +23.21% 12
West Midlands +38 10 £97,500 +30.00% 9
North West -27 10 £96,000 +27.32% 6
South West +38 4 £72,500 -9.38% 19
Yorkshire +19 4 £86,250 +23.21% 6
East of England -5 4 £85,000 - 4
East Midlands +23 3 £72,500 +11.50% 3
North East +47 2 £70,000 -6.85% 1
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 60 (50.85%) Azure
2 48 (40.68%) Technical Leadership
3 46 (38.98%) DevOps
4 42 (35.59%) Design Patterns
4 42 (35.59%) .NET
5 41 (34.75%) Microservices
6 40 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (33.90%) GDPR
7 38 (32.20%) JavaScript
8 37 (31.36%) HTML
8 37 (31.36%) CSS
9 36 (30.51%) Docker
10 35 (29.66%) Performance Optimisation
10 35 (29.66%) Event-Driven
10 35 (29.66%) C#
10 35 (29.66%) REST
10 35 (29.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 34 (28.81%) SQL
11 34 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (27.97%) XML
12 33 (27.97%) MVC
12 33 (27.97%) Git
12 33 (27.97%) JSON
13 31 (26.27%) ASP.NET
13 31 (26.27%) Code Quality
13 31 (26.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 30 (25.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 30 (25.42%) SonarCloud
14 30 (25.42%) gRPC
14 30 (25.42%) Data Encryption

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.54%) nginx
1 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.85%) Mendix
3 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.85%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.85%) Azure
2 34 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (26.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 30 (25.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 30 (25.42%) SonarCloud
5 25 (21.19%) AWS
6 17 (14.41%) GCP
7 8 (6.78%) OCI
8 7 (5.93%) Serverless
9 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.24%) SaaS
10 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.54%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.54%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) DNS
2 4 (3.39%) Network Security
3 3 (2.54%) Firewall
4 2 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (1.69%) LAN
4 2 (1.69%) SAN
4 2 (1.69%) WAN
5 1 (0.85%) DHCP
5 1 (0.85%) Internet
5 1 (0.85%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) PBX
5 1 (0.85%) Skype
5 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.85%) Value-Added Service
5 1 (0.85%) VoIP
5 1 (0.85%) VPN
5 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.42%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.54%) Power BI
5 2 (1.69%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.69%) Big Data
5 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.69%) MySQL
5 2 (1.69%) OLTP
5 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (27.97%) Git
2 30 (25.42%) MSBuild
2 30 (25.42%) Octopus Deploy
2 30 (25.42%) Team Foundation Server
2 30 (25.42%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 28 (23.73%) Retail
2 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.63%) Finance
4 9 (7.63%) Law
5 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Publishing
7 4 (3.39%) Games
8 3 (2.54%) Banking
8 3 (2.54%) iGaming
8 3 (2.54%) Legal
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Automotive
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Online Betting
10 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.59%) .NET
2 37 (31.36%) CSS
2 37 (31.36%) HTML
3 35 (29.66%) REST
4 33 (27.97%) JSON
4 33 (27.97%) XML
5 31 (26.27%) ASP.NET
6 30 (25.42%) Bootstrap
6 30 (25.42%) gRPC
7 6 (5.08%) Kafka
8 5 (4.24%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (2.54%) React
9 3 (2.54%) WCF
10 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.69%) MACH
10 2 (1.69%) Spring
10 2 (1.69%) Spring MVC
11 1 (0.85%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.39%) Smartphone
6 3 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.54%) Mobile Games
6 3 (2.54%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.69%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.69%) FMCG
7 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Blog
8 1 (0.85%) CCTV
8 1 (0.85%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Windows
2 2 (1.69%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.68%) Technical Leadership
2 46 (38.98%) DevOps
3 42 (35.59%) Design Patterns
4 41 (34.75%) Microservices
5 40 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (29.66%) Event-Driven
6 35 (29.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 35 (29.66%) Performance Optimisation
7 33 (27.97%) MVC
8 31 (26.27%) Code Quality
9 30 (25.42%) API Integration
9 30 (25.42%) Data Encryption
9 30 (25.42%) Performance Testing
10 25 (21.19%) Roadmaps
11 18 (15.25%) Agile
11 18 (15.25%) CI/CD
11 18 (15.25%) Migration
12 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.86%) Architectural Design
13 14 (11.86%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.20%) JavaScript
2 35 (29.66%) C#
3 34 (28.81%) SQL
4 11 (9.32%) Java
5 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.54%) Python
7 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.85%) Bash
7 1 (0.85%) PHP
7 1 (0.85%) VB
7 1 (0.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.02%) Degree
3 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.54%) CCNA
8 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.69%) CCNP
8 2 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.69%) MCP
9 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.85%) MCSA
9 1 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (33.90%) GDPR
2 11 (9.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.63%) HIPAA
3 9 (7.63%) SOC 2
4 6 (5.08%) QA
5 3 (2.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (30.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.78%) Terraform
3 3 (2.54%) Grafana
3 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.69%) Ansible
4 2 (1.69%) Argo
4 2 (1.69%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.85%) Istio
5 1 (0.85%) Marathon
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.17%) Oracle
3 7 (5.93%) Google
4 6 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.24%) Databricks
6 3 (2.54%) Cisco
6 3 (2.54%) F5
6 3 (2.54%) SAP
6 3 (2.54%) VMware
7 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Facebook
8 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.85%) Gigya
8 1 (0.85%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.85%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.85%) Panasonic
8 1 (0.85%) PayPal
8 1 (0.85%) Ribbon
8 1 (0.85%) Samsung