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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 529 352
Rank change year-on-year +257 -177 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 800 140 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.29% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.32% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 570 102 348
10th Percentile £61,605 £59,630 £46,951
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,500 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +1.56% -

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 110,105 43,964 67,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 89.90% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74,779 25,831 38,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +197 612 £85,855 +1.01% 74
UK excluding London +197 552 £80,500 -0.92% 67
North of England +124 244 £85,000 - 25
Work from Home +84 200 £80,000 -3.03% 43
London -2 127 £100,000 +11.11% 14
North West +54 98 £85,855 +1.01% 13
South West +4 78 £75,000 -6.25% 12
North East - 75 £85,000 - 8
Yorkshire +26 71 £80,000 -15.79% 4
Midlands +10 71 £87,431 +25.05% 14
West Midlands +7 60 £88,000 +2.13% 10
Wales -27 53 £80,000 +3.34% 4
East of England -9 41 £82,160 -8.71% 2
South East -38 33 £80,000 -3.03% 7
Northern Ireland -60 23 £82,500 +10.25%
Scotland +10 18 £82,500 +10.25% 3
East Midlands -32 11 £70,000 +7.69% 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 155 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 142 (17.75%) Azure
3 137 (17.13%) Agile
4 132 (16.50%) SC Cleared
5 119 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
5 119 (14.88%) Technical Leadership
6 110 (13.75%) AI
7 108 (13.50%) AWS
8 100 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 97 (12.13%) Mentoring
10 91 (11.38%) Roadmaps
11 81 (10.13%) CI/CD
12 78 (9.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 75 (9.38%) Coaching
14 67 (8.38%) DevOps
14 67 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 66 (8.25%) Decision-Making
16 59 (7.38%) Architecture Governance
16 59 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (7.25%) C#
18 57 (7.13%) Analytics
18 57 (7.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 51 (6.38%) Enterprise Architecture
20 49 (6.13%) Design Patterns
21 48 (6.00%) GCP
21 48 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
22 47 (5.88%) Microservices
23 46 (5.75%) Integration Patterns
24 45 (5.63%) Migration
24 45 (5.63%) 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 9 (1.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.25%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.75%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.75%) Azure
2 108 (13.50%) AWS
3 48 (6.00%) GCP
4 40 (5.00%) SaaS
5 38 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.25%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (2.13%) Serverless
8 15 (1.88%) GitHub
9 14 (1.75%) PaaS
10 12 (1.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (1.38%) Azure AKS
11 11 (1.38%) dbt
11 11 (1.38%) IaaS
12 10 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (1.25%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.75%) CTI
1 14 (1.75%) VoIP
2 12 (1.50%) LAN
2 12 (1.50%) Network Security
3 10 (1.25%) Firewall
3 10 (1.25%) WAN
4 9 (1.13%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.13%) VPN
5 7 (0.88%) Wireless
5 7 (0.88%) WLAN
6 5 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (0.63%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) DNS
8 2 (0.25%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.38%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.75%) Power BI
3 5 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.38%) Metadata
6 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.25%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.13%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Db2
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.50%) Git
2 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.50%) JIRA
2 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 144 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 89 (11.13%) Social Skills
3 62 (7.75%) Finance
4 47 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.25%) Legal
6 14 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.38%) Law
8 10 (1.25%) Marketing
9 7 (0.88%) Police
10 5 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.50%) Banking
11 4 (0.50%) Local Government
11 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.25%) Retail
14 1 (0.13%) Automotive
14 1 (0.13%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.50%) .NET
2 32 (4.00%) Terraform
3 31 (3.88%) Middleware
4 16 (2.00%) REST
5 14 (1.75%) Kafka
6 10 (1.25%) PySpark
7 8 (1.00%) Model Context Protocol
7 8 (1.00%) SOAP
8 7 (0.88%) CSS
8 7 (0.88%) HTML
8 7 (0.88%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.88%) OAuth
8 7 (0.88%) Spring
9 6 (0.75%) LangChain
9 6 (0.75%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.75%) OpenID
9 6 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.50%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.50%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.50%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 19 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (1.88%) IVR
5 10 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.75%) Blog
9 6 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (0.63%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (0.50%) CMDB
11 4 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.50%) Life Science
12 3 (0.38%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.38%) CBDC
12 3 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.25%) Linux
1 10 (1.25%) Windows
2 5 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.25%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (17.13%) Agile
2 119 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
2 119 (14.88%) Technical Leadership
3 110 (13.75%) AI
4 97 (12.13%) Mentoring
5 91 (11.38%) Roadmaps
6 81 (10.13%) CI/CD
7 78 (9.75%) Architectural Patterns
8 75 (9.38%) Coaching
9 67 (8.38%) DevOps
9 67 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 66 (8.25%) Decision-Making
11 59 (7.38%) Architecture Governance
11 59 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (7.13%) Analytics
12 57 (7.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 51 (6.38%) Enterprise Architecture
14 49 (6.13%) Design Patterns
15 48 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 58 (7.25%) C#
2 30 (3.75%) Python
3 19 (2.38%) Java
4 16 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.13%) Bicep
6 7 (0.88%) Go
7 5 (0.63%) SQL
7 5 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.38%) ABAP
8 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.38%) Solidity
8 3 (0.38%) SOQL
8 3 (0.38%) SOSL
8 3 (0.38%) X++
9 2 (0.25%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.13%) COBOL
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
10 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 132 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.75%) Degree
7 12 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.00%) RIBA
9 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.63%) CCIE
10 5 (0.63%) CCNA
10 5 (0.63%) CCNP
10 5 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.63%) Dell Certification
11 4 (0.50%) CISSP
12 3 (0.38%) CWNA
13 2 (0.25%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.88%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (0.88%) GDPR
4 5 (0.63%) PMO
5 4 (0.50%) QA
6 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.38%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.25%) Docker
1 18 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.63%) vSphere
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.00%) Ansible
3 5 (0.63%) Avamar
3 5 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
3 5 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (0.63%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (0.63%) VxRail
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 100 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.25%) ServiceNow
3 21 (2.63%) Cisco
3 21 (2.63%) Computacenter
3 21 (2.63%) VMware
4 20 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.00%) Google
6 15 (1.88%) Genesys
7 14 (1.75%) Avaya
8 13 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.50%) Oracle
10 11 (1.38%) Adobe
11 10 (1.25%) Databricks
11 10 (1.25%) SAP
11 10 (1.25%) Workday
12 8 (1.00%) NetApp
12 8 (1.00%) Veeam
13 5 (0.63%) 3PAR
13 5 (0.63%) Isilon
13 5 (0.63%) Splunk