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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 524 406
Rank change year-on-year +167 -118 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 445 129 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.30% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.34% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 328 101 443
10th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £64,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,431 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.98% +10.00% -6.25%

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 87,062 38,144 94,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 89.31% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,930 21,418 69,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +117 323 £85,000 +3.03% 118
UK excluding London +87 237 £87,431 +5.98% 98
Work from Home +126 187 £85,000 +3.03% 67
London +31 106 £80,000 -15.79% 50
North of England +47 103 £85,000 - 32
North West +33 48 £87,431 -2.85% 13
Yorkshire -14 40 £85,000 +21.43% 9
Scotland +24 29 £90,000 +28.57% 3
East of England -8 24 £100,000 +17.65%
Midlands -24 21 £80,000 +3.23% 8
South West -41 20 £50,000 -31.03% 11
South East -41 16 £100,000 +21.21% 24
Wales -27 15 £69,973 -2.14% 20
North East -31 15 £85,000 +21.43% 11
West Midlands -30 11 £87,431 -2.85% 6
East Midlands -20 10 £45,000 -37.93% 2
Northern Ireland - 9 £95,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 98 (22.02%) Azure
2 84 (18.88%) Agile
3 72 (16.18%) AWS
4 71 (15.96%) DevOps
5 68 (15.28%) Security Cleared
6 57 (12.81%) Roadmaps
7 56 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (11.91%) SC Cleared
9 52 (11.69%) CI/CD
9 52 (11.69%) Microsoft
9 52 (11.69%) Technical Architecture
10 51 (11.46%) Event-Driven
10 51 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 41 (9.21%) Design Patterns
12 39 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (8.54%) Technology Roadmap
14 37 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (7.87%) TOGAF
16 34 (7.64%) Migration
16 34 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (7.64%) Project Delivery
17 33 (7.42%) Microservices
18 32 (7.19%) Architectural Patterns
18 32 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
19 31 (6.97%) AI
19 31 (6.97%) Decision-Making
20 30 (6.74%) Analytics
20 30 (6.74%) Data Modelling
20 30 (6.74%) GCP
21 28 (6.29%) Architectural Design

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 6 (1.35%) Confluence
1 6 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.12%) SAS
3 4 (0.90%) Documentum
4 2 (0.45%) Camunda
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Revit
2 2 (0.45%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.45%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.22%) Findur
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (22.02%) Azure
2 72 (16.18%) AWS
3 30 (6.74%) GCP
4 25 (5.62%) SaaS
5 21 (4.72%) PaaS
6 14 (3.15%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.47%) GitHub
9 10 (2.25%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (2.02%) IaaS
11 8 (1.80%) Serverless
12 7 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.35%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.12%) OCI
15 4 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.04%) Broadband
2 9 (2.02%) LAN
2 9 (2.02%) WAN
3 8 (1.80%) Firewall
4 7 (1.57%) VPN
4 7 (1.57%) WLAN
5 6 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.35%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.35%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.12%) SSL
7 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.90%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) DNS
8 3 (0.67%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) IPsec
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.15%) Data Lake
1 14 (3.15%) Metadata
2 6 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.35%) Power BI
3 5 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (1.12%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.12%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.90%) Redis
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (4.04%) GitLab
1 18 (4.04%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.04%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.35%) JIRA
3 4 (0.90%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.22%) RStudio
General
1 86 (19.33%) Public Sector
2 79 (17.75%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.76%) Finance
4 34 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.84%) Marketing
6 18 (4.04%) Games
6 18 (4.04%) Law
7 13 (2.92%) Legal
8 9 (2.02%) Local Government
9 6 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.35%) Police
10 5 (1.12%) Aviation
10 5 (1.12%) Banking
11 4 (0.90%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.17%) SOAP
2 22 (4.94%) REST
3 18 (4.04%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.04%) Visualforce
4 16 (3.60%) Middleware
5 12 (2.70%) Kafka
6 11 (2.47%) PySpark
7 5 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.90%) .NET
8 4 (0.90%) RESTful
9 3 (0.67%) OAuth
9 3 (0.67%) Spring
10 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.45%) Django
10 2 (0.45%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.45%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.45%) OpenID
10 2 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.82%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.02%) IoT
6 8 (1.80%) CMDB
7 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.35%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (1.12%) PKI
10 4 (0.90%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.45%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.45%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.45%) Digital Signage
12 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.45%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.35%) Windows
2 4 (0.90%) Linux
2 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (18.88%) Agile
2 71 (15.96%) DevOps
3 57 (12.81%) Roadmaps
4 56 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (11.69%) CI/CD
5 52 (11.69%) Technical Architecture
6 51 (11.46%) Event-Driven
6 51 (11.46%) Mentoring
7 41 (9.21%) Design Patterns
8 39 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
9 38 (8.54%) Technology Roadmap
10 37 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (7.87%) TOGAF
12 34 (7.64%) Migration
12 34 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (7.64%) Project Delivery
13 33 (7.42%) Microservices
14 32 (7.19%) Architectural Patterns
14 32 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (6.97%) AI
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.39%) Python
2 18 (4.04%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.04%) SOQL
2 18 (4.04%) SOSL
3 12 (2.70%) Java
4 11 (2.47%) C#
5 6 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.35%) SQL
6 5 (1.12%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.45%) Ruby
8 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.22%) Go
8 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.47%) RIBA
4 10 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.02%) Degree
6 6 (1.35%) Dell Certification
7 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.90%) CCNA
8 4 (0.90%) CISSP
8 4 (0.90%) CITP
8 4 (0.90%) CWNA
9 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.02%) GDPR
3 8 (1.80%) PMO
4 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.67%) IFRS
5 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.67%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (2.70%) Docker
2 9 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.57%) vSphere
4 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (4.27%) Terraform
2 15 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.35%) Avamar
3 6 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.35%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.35%) VxRail
4 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.22%) Argo
5 1 (0.22%) CASB
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.07%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.39%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.49%) Splunk
5 16 (3.60%) Palantir
6 14 (3.15%) Databricks
7 10 (2.25%) Google
8 9 (2.02%) VMware
8 9 (2.02%) YouTube
9 8 (1.80%) Oracle
10 6 (1.35%) 3PAR
10 6 (1.35%) Computacenter
10 6 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.35%) Dell
10 6 (1.35%) Isilon
10 6 (1.35%) NetApp
10 6 (1.35%) Nimble Storage
10 6 (1.35%) OpenText
10 6 (1.35%) SAP
10 6 (1.35%) Veeam