Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 532 369
Rank change year-on-year +221 -163 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 634 148 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.30% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 442 116 434
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -8.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -11.59%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 99,805 44,765 79,346
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.92% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,253 26,575 53,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

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 11 August 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
England +158 459 £85,000 +3.03% 155
UK excluding London +161 393 £85,000 +3.03% 97
Work from Home +93 196 £85,000 +3.03% 64
North of England +100 182 £85,000 +6.25% 34
London +44 126 £95,000 +10.14% 78
North West +46 74 £85,000 -2.86% 16
North East -2 58 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Yorkshire +8 50 £87,431 +24.90% 6
Midlands -21 45 £87,431 +24.90% 9
West Midlands -10 39 £87,431 +9.29% 7
South West -39 36 £50,000 -39.39% 8
Wales -30 31 £80,000 +11.89% 8
Scotland +32 29 £85,000 +21.43% 9
East of England -3 28 £95,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 3
South East -43 24 £97,500 +18.18% 24
East Midlands -23 6 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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 featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 121 (19.09%) Agile
2 117 (18.45%) Azure
3 105 (16.56%) Security Cleared
4 86 (13.56%) Technical Architecture
5 82 (12.93%) AWS
5 82 (12.93%) SC Cleared
6 81 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
7 80 (12.62%) Mentoring
7 80 (12.62%) Microsoft
8 78 (12.30%) AI
9 77 (12.15%) DevOps
10 74 (11.67%) CI/CD
11 71 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (11.04%) Roadmaps
13 66 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (8.68%) Architectural Patterns
15 53 (8.36%) Coaching
16 49 (7.73%) Decision-Making
17 46 (7.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 42 (6.62%) Architecture Governance
18 42 (6.62%) Design Patterns
18 42 (6.62%) Event-Driven
18 42 (6.62%) Integration Patterns
19 41 (6.47%) Microservices
20 39 (6.15%) Enterprise Architecture
21 38 (5.99%) SaaS
22 34 (5.36%) Analytics
23 32 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
23 32 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
23 32 (5.05%) Technology Roadmap

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (0.79%) Confluence
1 5 (0.79%) SAS
2 4 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.32%) Camunda
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.21%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.26%) Revit
3 2 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.16%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Oracle Utilities
1 6 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.16%) Findur
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (18.45%) Azure
2 82 (12.93%) AWS
3 38 (5.99%) SaaS
4 31 (4.89%) GCP
5 23 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.68%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.37%) GitHub
8 11 (1.74%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.74%) dbt
9 10 (1.58%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.58%) PaaS
10 9 (1.42%) Azure AKS
10 9 (1.42%) Serverless
11 7 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (0.95%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.21%) CTI
1 14 (2.21%) VoIP
2 11 (1.74%) Broadband
3 10 (1.58%) Network Security
4 9 (1.42%) VPN
5 8 (1.26%) LAN
5 8 (1.26%) WAN
6 7 (1.10%) Firewall
6 7 (1.10%) WLAN
7 6 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.95%) iSCSI
7 6 (0.95%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.32%) Wireless
10 1 (0.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.21%) Data Lake
2 11 (1.74%) Metadata
3 8 (1.26%) Power BI
4 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.32%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.16%) Db2
8 1 (0.16%) MySQL
8 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Miner
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Jenkins
1 13 (2.05%) SonarQube
2 12 (1.89%) GitLab
3 6 (0.95%) Git
4 5 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.16%) Maven
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 116 (18.30%) Public Sector
2 84 (13.25%) Social Skills
3 56 (8.83%) Finance
4 48 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.31%) Legal
6 20 (3.15%) Marketing
7 15 (2.37%) Law
8 14 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.74%) Games
10 6 (0.95%) Police
11 5 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.79%) Aviation
12 4 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Banking
13 3 (0.47%) Local Government
13 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.15%) REST
2 18 (2.84%) SOAP
3 17 (2.68%) Middleware
4 14 (2.21%) Kafka
5 12 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
5 12 (1.89%) Visualforce
6 11 (1.74%) PySpark
7 10 (1.58%) .NET
8 8 (1.26%) Spring
9 7 (1.10%) CSS
9 7 (1.10%) HTML
10 5 (0.79%) OAuth
10 5 (0.79%) RESTful
11 4 (0.63%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.63%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.63%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (0.63%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.63%) OpenID
11 4 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.63%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.21%) IVR
5 13 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.26%) CMDB
7 8 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.95%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 4 (0.63%) Blog
9 4 (0.63%) IoT
9 4 (0.63%) Life Science
10 2 (0.32%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.32%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.32%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.32%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.10%) Windows
2 6 (0.95%) Linux
3 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.09%) Agile
2 86 (13.56%) Technical Architecture
3 81 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
4 80 (12.62%) Mentoring
5 78 (12.30%) AI
6 77 (12.15%) DevOps
7 74 (11.67%) CI/CD
8 71 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (11.04%) Roadmaps
10 66 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 55 (8.68%) Architectural Patterns
12 53 (8.36%) Coaching
13 49 (7.73%) Decision-Making
14 46 (7.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 42 (6.62%) Architecture Governance
15 42 (6.62%) Design Patterns
15 42 (6.62%) Event-Driven
15 42 (6.62%) Integration Patterns
16 41 (6.47%) Microservices
17 39 (6.15%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (4.89%) Python
2 21 (3.31%) C#
3 16 (2.52%) Java
4 12 (1.89%) Apex Code
4 12 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.89%) SOQL
4 12 (1.89%) SOSL
5 7 (1.10%) Bicep
5 7 (1.10%) Go
6 5 (0.79%) SQL
6 5 (0.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.32%) Ruby
7 2 (0.32%) X++
8 1 (0.16%) ABAP
8 1 (0.16%) COBOL
8 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.16%) R
8 1 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 105 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 82 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (2.68%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.37%) Degree
5 7 (1.10%) RIBA
6 6 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.95%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.47%) CCNA
9 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.47%) CISSP
9 3 (0.47%) CWNA
10 2 (0.32%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.37%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.26%) GDPR
3 6 (0.95%) PMO
4 4 (0.63%) QA
5 3 (0.47%) IFRS
5 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.47%) WCAG
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) PSD2
7 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (3.00%) Docker
2 16 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.37%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.10%) vSphere
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.26%) Terraform
3 6 (0.95%) Avamar
3 6 (0.95%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.95%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.95%) VxRail
4 3 (0.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Argo
5 2 (0.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.16%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 19 (3.00%) ServiceNow
4 16 (2.52%) VMware
5 15 (2.37%) Cisco
6 14 (2.21%) Avaya
6 14 (2.21%) Genesys
6 14 (2.21%) Splunk
7 13 (2.05%) Computacenter
8 12 (1.89%) Databricks
8 12 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.89%) Oracle
9 10 (1.58%) Google
10 9 (1.42%) SAP
11 6 (0.95%) 3PAR
11 6 (0.95%) CyberArk
11 6 (0.95%) Dell
11 6 (0.95%) Isilon
11 6 (0.95%) NetApp
11 6 (0.95%) Veeam