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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 537 363
Rank change year-on-year +236 -174 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 665 144 600
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 461 112 436
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,275
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.60% -8.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £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 101,876 44,986 79,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 89.87% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 69,841 26,672 51,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,292 £47,602 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.05% -4.80% -4.76%

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 24 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 24 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 +171 485 £85,000 +3.03% 83
UK excluding London +159 425 £85,000 +3.03% 65
North of England +114 199 £85,000 +13.33% 26
Work from Home +97 193 £85,000 +3.03% 44
London +41 125 £95,000 +8.57% 30
North West +51 79 £85,000 -2.86% 12
North East +5 62 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Yorkshire +22 58 £82,500 +17.86% 8
Midlands -8 49 £87,431 +24.90% 7
South West -29 44 £73,750 -10.61% 9
West Midlands +12 43 £87,431 +9.29% 6
Wales -22 38 £80,000 +11.89% 4
East of England 0 29 £95,000 - 1
Scotland +27 26 £85,000 +21.43% 3
South East -34 25 £95,000 +15.15% 16
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 -
East Midlands -22 6 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 122 (18.35%) Agile
2 119 (17.89%) Azure
3 113 (16.99%) Security Cleared
4 91 (13.68%) SC Cleared
4 91 (13.68%) Technical Architecture
5 88 (13.23%) AWS
6 87 (13.08%) Microsoft
7 85 (12.78%) AI
7 85 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
8 77 (11.58%) CI/CD
8 77 (11.58%) Mentoring
9 68 (10.23%) DevOps
9 68 (10.23%) Roadmaps
10 66 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 64 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (8.27%) Coaching
13 53 (7.97%) Architectural Patterns
14 49 (7.37%) Decision-Making
14 49 (7.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 44 (6.62%) SaaS
16 42 (6.32%) Architecture Governance
16 42 (6.32%) Integration Patterns
17 41 (6.17%) Microservices
18 38 (5.71%) Design Patterns
19 36 (5.41%) Enterprise Architecture
19 36 (5.41%) Event-Driven
20 33 (4.96%) GCP
20 33 (4.96%) Infrastructure as Code
21 32 (4.81%) Analytics
21 32 (4.81%) Python

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 10 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.15%) Camunda
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.11%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.35%) Revit
3 2 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.90%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.15%) Findur
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 119 (17.89%) Azure
2 88 (13.23%) AWS
3 44 (6.62%) SaaS
4 33 (4.96%) GCP
5 29 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.41%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.26%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.11%) GitHub
9 11 (1.65%) Azure AKS
9 11 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (1.65%) dbt
9 11 (1.65%) PaaS
10 10 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.50%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.50%) IaaS
10 10 (1.50%) Serverless
11 8 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.05%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.11%) CTI
1 14 (2.11%) VoIP
2 11 (1.65%) Network Security
2 11 (1.65%) VPN
3 10 (1.50%) Firewall
3 10 (1.50%) LAN
3 10 (1.50%) WAN
4 8 (1.20%) Broadband
5 7 (1.05%) WLAN
6 6 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.90%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.90%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.60%) Wireless
8 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.50%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.05%) Power BI
3 6 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.75%) Metadata
4 5 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.30%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Db2
7 1 (0.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.15%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.50%) Jenkins
1 10 (1.50%) SonarQube
2 9 (1.35%) GitLab
3 6 (0.90%) JIRA
4 5 (0.75%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 119 (17.89%) Public Sector
2 80 (12.03%) Social Skills
3 55 (8.27%) Finance
4 48 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (3.01%) Legal
6 18 (2.71%) Marketing
7 13 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (1.95%) Law
8 8 (1.20%) Games
9 7 (1.05%) Police
10 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.60%) Aviation
11 4 (0.60%) Local Government
12 3 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.36%) Terraform
2 22 (3.31%) Middleware
3 17 (2.56%) REST
4 15 (2.26%) Kafka
4 15 (2.26%) SOAP
5 11 (1.65%) PySpark
6 9 (1.35%) .NET
6 9 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (1.35%) Visualforce
7 7 (1.05%) CSS
7 7 (1.05%) HTML
7 7 (1.05%) Spring
8 5 (0.75%) OAuth
8 5 (0.75%) RESTful
8 5 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.60%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.60%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.60%) OpenID
9 4 (0.60%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.06%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.11%) IVR
4 13 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.20%) CMDB
7 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.90%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.60%) Blog
10 4 (0.60%) Life Science
11 2 (0.30%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.30%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.30%) IoT
11 2 (0.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.20%) Linux
1 8 (1.20%) Windows
2 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (18.35%) Agile
2 91 (13.68%) Technical Architecture
3 85 (12.78%) AI
3 85 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
4 77 (11.58%) CI/CD
4 77 (11.58%) Mentoring
5 68 (10.23%) DevOps
5 68 (10.23%) Roadmaps
6 66 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 64 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (8.27%) Coaching
9 53 (7.97%) Architectural Patterns
10 49 (7.37%) Decision-Making
10 49 (7.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 42 (6.32%) Architecture Governance
11 42 (6.32%) Integration Patterns
12 41 (6.17%) Microservices
13 38 (5.71%) Design Patterns
14 36 (5.41%) Enterprise Architecture
14 36 (5.41%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.81%) Python
2 23 (3.46%) C#
3 16 (2.41%) Java
4 12 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.35%) Apex Code
5 9 (1.35%) Bicep
5 9 (1.35%) SOQL
5 9 (1.35%) SOSL
6 7 (1.05%) Go
7 5 (0.75%) SQL
8 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.45%) ABAP
10 2 (0.30%) X++
11 1 (0.15%) COBOL
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.15%) R
11 1 (0.15%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.71%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.41%) Degree
5 8 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.20%) RIBA
6 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.90%) Dell Certification
8 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.45%) CCNA
9 3 (0.45%) CISSP
9 3 (0.45%) CWNA
10 2 (0.30%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) CCIE
10 2 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.90%) GDPR
2 6 (0.90%) PMO
3 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.60%) QA
4 3 (0.45%) IFRS
4 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.30%) GRC
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.30%) WCAG
6 1 (0.15%) PSD2
6 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (2.86%) Docker
1 19 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.90%) vSphere
5 2 (0.30%) Firmware
5 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.90%) Avamar
2 6 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.90%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.90%) VxRail
3 3 (0.45%) Grafana
3 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.61%) Salesforce
2 24 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 19 (2.86%) VMware
4 17 (2.56%) Cisco
5 14 (2.11%) Avaya
5 14 (2.11%) Genesys
5 14 (2.11%) Oracle
6 13 (1.95%) Computacenter
7 12 (1.80%) Google
7 12 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.65%) Databricks
8 11 (1.65%) SAP
8 11 (1.65%) Splunk
9 7 (1.05%) Adobe
10 6 (0.90%) 3PAR
10 6 (0.90%) Dell
10 6 (0.90%) Isilon
10 6 (0.90%) NetApp
10 6 (0.90%) Veeam