Technical Architect Job Trends in England

Technical Architect
UK > England

The median Technical Architect salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 439 426
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 197 242 255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.53% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 163 152 183
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,028
25th Percentile £73,375 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 47,256 45,608 43,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 92.79% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,666 24,168 34,377
10th Percentile £28,523 £33,235 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -0.79%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in England

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in England

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

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 3 January 2026. 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
London +64 69 £95,000 +25.99% 39
North of England +52 54 £95,000 +18.75% 28
North West +44 25 £95,000 +13.43% 14
Yorkshire +16 23 £95,000 +16.92% 12
Midlands +8 21 £77,500 +2.79% 17
South West +14 16 £70,000 +1.82% 12
East of England +28 15 £100,000 - 17
West Midlands +22 12 £80,000 - 9
South East -40 12 £75,000 -9.09% 35
East Midlands -12 9 £65,000 -7.14% 7
North East +6 5 £95,000 +18.75% 2
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 January 2026, Technical Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 54 (27.41%) Azure
2 36 (18.27%) Agile
3 32 (16.24%) Architectural Patterns
3 32 (16.24%) Enterprise Architecture
3 32 (16.24%) Mentoring
4 31 (15.74%) Microsoft
4 31 (15.74%) Roadmaps
5 28 (14.21%) DevOps
6 26 (13.20%) SC Cleared
6 26 (13.20%) Security Cleared
7 25 (12.69%) Microservices
7 25 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
8 23 (11.68%) AWS
9 20 (10.15%) PaaS
10 19 (9.64%) Analytics
10 19 (9.64%) Project Delivery
10 19 (9.64%) Technical Architecture
11 18 (9.14%) Translating Business Requirements
12 17 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (8.63%) Middleware
12 17 (8.63%) Presales
13 15 (7.61%) Oracle
13 15 (7.61%) SaaS
13 15 (7.61%) Service Delivery
14 14 (7.11%) CI/CD
14 14 (7.11%) Containerisation
14 14 (7.11%) Python
15 13 (6.60%) Customer Engagement
15 13 (6.60%) ITSM

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.02%) CMS
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (2.54%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (2.54%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.41%) Azure
2 23 (11.68%) AWS
3 20 (10.15%) PaaS
4 15 (7.61%) SaaS
5 12 (6.09%) Azure AKS
6 9 (4.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 9 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.57%) GCP
7 7 (3.55%) Serverless
8 6 (3.05%) IaaS
8 6 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.54%) OCI
10 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) Firewall
2 4 (2.03%) LAN
2 4 (2.03%) WAN
3 3 (1.52%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.52%) Wireless
3 3 (1.52%) WLAN
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.54%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.02%) Redis
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) DB2
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.51%) Power BI
6 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.51%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Git
2 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.09%) Legal
4 11 (5.58%) Marketing
5 10 (5.08%) Finance
5 10 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.06%) Law
7 5 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.54%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.03%) Banking
8 4 (2.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Back Office
10 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.63%) Middleware
2 11 (5.58%) Django
3 10 (5.08%) .NET
3 10 (5.08%) Node.js
4 8 (4.06%) React
5 5 (2.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (2.03%) Spring
7 3 (1.52%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.52%) Celery
7 3 (1.52%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.52%) Flask
7 3 (1.52%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.52%) gRPC
7 3 (1.52%) Kafka
7 3 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.52%) RESTful
7 3 (1.52%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.03%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) IoT
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.51%) PKI
7 1 (0.51%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.03%) Windows
2 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.27%) Agile
2 32 (16.24%) Architectural Patterns
2 32 (16.24%) Enterprise Architecture
2 32 (16.24%) Mentoring
3 31 (15.74%) Roadmaps
4 28 (14.21%) DevOps
5 25 (12.69%) Microservices
5 25 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (9.64%) Analytics
6 19 (9.64%) Project Delivery
6 19 (9.64%) Technical Architecture
7 18 (9.14%) Translating Business Requirements
8 17 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (8.63%) Presales
9 15 (7.61%) Service Delivery
10 14 (7.11%) CI/CD
10 14 (7.11%) Containerisation
11 13 (6.60%) Customer Engagement
11 13 (6.60%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.11%) Python
2 11 (5.58%) SQL
3 8 (4.06%) C#
4 6 (3.05%) Java
5 2 (1.02%) ABAP
6 1 (0.51%) Go
6 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (13.20%) SC Cleared
1 26 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.05%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.05%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.05%) RIBA
3 5 (2.54%) Degree
4 4 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.52%) CCNA
5 3 (1.52%) CWNA
5 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) CCNP
7 1 (0.51%) CISM
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) MBA
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.02%) NCSC
1 2 (1.02%) NIST
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) GRC
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
2 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.52%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.51%) Ansible
2 1 (0.51%) CASB
2 1 (0.51%) PowerCLI
2 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.51%) Terraform
2 1 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.61%) Oracle
3 12 (6.09%) Palantir
4 9 (4.57%) Informatica
5 6 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.03%) Workday
8 3 (1.52%) Google
8 3 (1.52%) Meraki
8 3 (1.52%) SAP
8 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.02%) Adobe
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) VMware
10 1 (0.51%) Dell
10 1 (0.51%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.51%) Juniper
10 1 (0.51%) NetApp
10 1 (0.51%) Netskope
10 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds