Technical Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 231 229
Rank change year-on-year +95 -2 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 34 13 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.11% 0.19% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.20% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 10
10th Percentile - - £63,375
25th Percentile £81,250 £65,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £67,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -22.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile - £90,000 £93,125
South East median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.86% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,511 6,377 5,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.90% 94.70% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 4,541 3,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire +68 30 £82,500 -2.94% 3
Buckinghamshire +34 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Oxfordshire - 2 £105,000 - 1
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 3 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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 30 (88.24%) Microservices
2 29 (85.29%) .NET
2 29 (85.29%) Azure
3 28 (82.35%) C#
3 28 (82.35%) SQL
3 28 (82.35%) DevOps
3 28 (82.35%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (79.41%) Code Quality
4 27 (79.41%) HTML
4 27 (79.41%) JavaScript
4 27 (79.41%) CSS
4 27 (79.41%) Git
5 26 (76.47%) Performance Testing
5 26 (76.47%) Team Foundation Server
5 26 (76.47%) JSON
5 26 (76.47%) XML
5 26 (76.47%) ASP.NET
5 26 (76.47%) Visual Studio
5 26 (76.47%) MVC
5 26 (76.47%) Design Patterns
5 26 (76.47%) Event-Driven
5 26 (76.47%) SonarCloud
5 26 (76.47%) Azure Service Bus
5 26 (76.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 26 (76.47%) gRPC
5 26 (76.47%) Data Encryption
5 26 (76.47%) GDPR
5 26 (76.47%) Performance Optimisation
5 26 (76.47%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (76.47%) Docker

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) Azure
2 28 (82.35%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (76.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 26 (76.47%) Azure Service Bus
3 26 (76.47%) SonarCloud
4 4 (11.76%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.94%) IaaS
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) NAS
1 1 (2.94%) SAN
1 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (76.47%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (79.41%) Git
2 26 (76.47%) MSBuild
2 26 (76.47%) Octopus Deploy
2 26 (76.47%) Team Foundation Server
2 26 (76.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (67.65%) Retail
2 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (85.29%) .NET
2 27 (79.41%) CSS
2 27 (79.41%) HTML
3 26 (76.47%) ASP.NET
3 26 (76.47%) Bootstrap
3 26 (76.47%) gRPC
3 26 (76.47%) JSON
3 26 (76.47%) REST
3 26 (76.47%) XML
4 2 (5.88%) React
5 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) CSS3
5 1 (2.94%) HTML5
5 1 (2.94%) Middleware
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) SAP Basis
5 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (2.94%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Clustering
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (2.94%) FMCG
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) PKI
2 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) Microservices
2 28 (82.35%) DevOps
3 27 (79.41%) Code Quality
4 26 (76.47%) API Integration
4 26 (76.47%) Data Encryption
4 26 (76.47%) Design Patterns
4 26 (76.47%) Event-Driven
4 26 (76.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 26 (76.47%) MVC
4 26 (76.47%) Performance Optimisation
4 26 (76.47%) Performance Testing
5 23 (67.65%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (67.65%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning
9 2 (5.88%) Architectural Design
9 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Content Management
9 2 (5.88%) Software Architecture
9 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (82.35%) C#
1 28 (82.35%) SQL
2 27 (79.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.94%) MCSE
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (76.47%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.94%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (76.47%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.88%) SAP
1 2 (5.88%) VMware
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto