Technical Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 390 410
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 147 179 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.52% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 128 130 86
10th Percentile £63,857 £50,675 £53,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £81,225
% change year-on-year +6.25% -1.51% -4.44%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 37,803 34,118 30,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 92.97% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22,898 16,838 23,053
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England +48 54 £95,000 +18.75% 27
North West +38 25 £95,000 +13.43% 14
Yorkshire +14 23 £95,000 +16.92% 12
Midlands +8 21 £77,500 +2.79% 18
South West +13 16 £70,000 +1.82% 14
East of England +28 15 £100,000 - 17
Scotland +9 13 £80,000 - 3
West Midlands +20 12 £80,000 - 11
South East -38 12 £75,000 -9.09% 35
Wales +5 11 £80,000 +24.51% 6
East Midlands -2 9 £65,000 -7.14% 6
North East +5 5 £95,000 +18.75% 1
Northern Ireland -6 5 £80,000 - 2
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 26 (17.69%) Agile
1 26 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (16.33%) Python
3 23 (15.65%) Django
3 23 (15.65%) Roadmaps
4 21 (14.29%) Node.js
5 20 (13.61%) Mentoring
5 20 (13.61%) React
6 19 (12.93%) Azure
7 18 (12.24%) AWS
8 16 (10.88%) Palantir
9 14 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 14 (9.52%) Presales
9 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (9.52%) SaaS
9 14 (9.52%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (8.84%) DevOps
10 13 (8.84%) ITSM
10 13 (8.84%) Microservices
10 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
10 13 (8.84%) Security Cleared
11 12 (8.16%) Design Patterns
11 12 (8.16%) Event-Driven
11 12 (8.16%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.48%) Analytics
12 11 (7.48%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (7.48%) Jenkins
12 11 (7.48%) Technical Debt
12 11 (7.48%) Technology Roadmap
12 11 (7.48%) TOGAF

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.93%) Azure
2 18 (12.24%) AWS
3 14 (9.52%) SaaS
4 5 (3.40%) GCP
4 5 (3.40%) IaaS
4 5 (3.40%) PaaS
5 4 (2.72%) Serverless
6 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.36%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.44%) Broadband
2 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) Internet
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.68%) DB2
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.44%) GitLab
2 8 (5.44%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 25 (17.01%) Public Sector
2 21 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.24%) Marketing
4 14 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.48%) Legal
6 8 (5.44%) Games
7 4 (2.72%) Law
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 2 (1.36%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.36%) Finance
8 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Electronics
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.65%) Django
2 21 (14.29%) Node.js
3 20 (13.61%) React
4 8 (5.44%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (5.44%) REST
4 8 (5.44%) SOAP
4 8 (5.44%) Visualforce
5 6 (4.08%) .NET
5 6 (4.08%) Middleware
6 5 (3.40%) Web Services
7 3 (2.04%) Celery
7 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.04%) Flask
7 3 (2.04%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.04%) gRPC
7 3 (2.04%) Kafka
7 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.04%) RESTful
7 3 (2.04%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.72%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) IoT
6 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
1 1 (0.68%) VMS
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.69%) Agile
1 26 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (15.65%) Roadmaps
3 20 (13.61%) Mentoring
4 14 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 14 (9.52%) Presales
4 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (9.52%) Technical Architecture
5 13 (8.84%) DevOps
5 13 (8.84%) ITSM
5 13 (8.84%) Microservices
6 12 (8.16%) Design Patterns
6 12 (8.16%) Event-Driven
6 12 (8.16%) Project Delivery
7 11 (7.48%) Analytics
7 11 (7.48%) Architectural Patterns
7 11 (7.48%) Technical Debt
7 11 (7.48%) Technology Roadmap
7 11 (7.48%) TOGAF
8 10 (6.80%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.33%) Python
2 8 (5.44%) Apex Code
2 8 (5.44%) SOQL
2 8 (5.44%) SOSL
3 4 (2.72%) C#
4 3 (2.04%) Java
5 2 (1.36%) ABAP
6 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
1 13 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.72%) RIBA
3 3 (2.04%) Degree
4 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.68%) CCNP
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.68%) CISSP
5 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) MBA
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.68%) GRC
1 1 (0.68%) NCSC
1 1 (0.68%) NIST
1 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) CASB
2 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (10.88%) Palantir
2 8 (5.44%) Salesforce
2 8 (5.44%) Splunk
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) Dell
5 1 (0.68%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.68%) Google
5 1 (0.68%) Juniper
5 1 (0.68%) NetApp
5 1 (0.68%) Netskope
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) VMware
5 1 (0.68%) Workday