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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 512 416
Rank change year-on-year +159 -96 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 430 136 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.35% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 317 108 416
10th Percentile £55,000 £69,130 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,105 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -11.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,400 £97,400
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 84,829 38,939 91,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.48% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 55,870 22,758 66,964
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 15 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 15 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 +133 316 £85,000 +3.03% 80
UK excluding London +68 216 £87,431 +5.98% 63
Work from Home +145 183 £85,000 +3.03% 36
London +50 112 £80,500 -15.26% 38
North of England +46 93 £85,000 - 17
North West +31 41 £86,216 -4.21% 13
Yorkshire -17 38 £85,000 +25.93% 1
Scotland +18 27 £90,000 +28.57% 1
East of England +9 24 £100,000 +17.65% 2
Midlands -25 21 £80,000 +8.47% 5
South West -36 19 £50,000 -16.67% 6
North East -25 14 £86,716 +23.88% 3
South East -50 14 £90,000 +9.09% 16
West Midlands -27 12 £87,431 +16.57% 3
Wales -27 10 £68,779 +6.43% 15
East Midlands -15 9 £45,000 -37.93% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 £95,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 89 (20.70%) Azure
2 86 (20.00%) Agile
3 69 (16.05%) DevOps
4 63 (14.65%) Security Cleared
5 60 (13.95%) AWS
6 57 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (12.79%) Roadmaps
8 52 (12.09%) Mentoring
9 51 (11.86%) Microsoft
10 50 (11.63%) Technical Architecture
11 49 (11.40%) SC Cleared
12 48 (11.16%) Event-Driven
13 45 (10.47%) CI/CD
14 40 (9.30%) Design Patterns
15 39 (9.07%) Project Delivery
16 38 (8.84%) Technology Roadmap
17 37 (8.60%) Architectural Patterns
17 37 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (8.60%) TOGAF
18 35 (8.14%) Migration
18 35 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
19 32 (7.44%) Microservices
19 32 (7.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 31 (7.21%) AI
20 31 (7.21%) Analytics
20 31 (7.21%) Enterprise Architecture
21 29 (6.74%) Salesforce
21 29 (6.74%) Service Delivery
22 28 (6.51%) Architectural Design
22 28 (6.51%) Decision-Making

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 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.40%) Confluence
3 5 (1.16%) SAS
4 4 (0.93%) Documentum
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.47%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.47%) Revit
2 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.23%) Findur
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 89 (20.70%) Azure
2 60 (13.95%) AWS
3 28 (6.51%) SaaS
4 24 (5.58%) GCP
4 24 (5.58%) PaaS
5 14 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.26%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.56%) IaaS
7 9 (2.09%) Serverless
8 8 (1.86%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.86%) GitHub
8 8 (1.86%) OCI
9 7 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.19%) Broadband
2 8 (1.86%) Firewall
2 8 (1.86%) LAN
2 8 (1.86%) WAN
3 7 (1.63%) VPN
4 6 (1.40%) WLAN
5 5 (1.16%) SSL
5 5 (1.16%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.93%) Wireless
7 3 (0.70%) DNS
7 3 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.70%) Internet
7 3 (0.70%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.47%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.26%) Metadata
2 11 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.40%) Power BI
4 5 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.93%) Redis
6 2 (0.47%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.23%) Big Data
7 1 (0.23%) MySQL
7 1 (0.23%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.23%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (4.19%) GitLab
1 18 (4.19%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.19%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.40%) JIRA
3 4 (0.93%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 77 (17.91%) Public Sector
2 75 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.07%) Finance
4 31 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (6.51%) Marketing
6 18 (4.19%) Games
7 17 (3.95%) Law
8 14 (3.26%) Legal
9 9 (2.09%) Local Government
10 6 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.40%) Police
11 5 (1.16%) Aviation
11 5 (1.16%) Banking
11 5 (1.16%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Retail
13 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.35%) Middleware
2 22 (5.12%) SOAP
3 21 (4.88%) REST
4 18 (4.19%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (4.19%) Visualforce
5 9 (2.09%) Kafka
6 8 (1.86%) PySpark
7 6 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.93%) .NET
9 3 (0.70%) OAuth
9 3 (0.70%) RESTful
9 3 (0.70%) Spring
10 2 (0.47%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.47%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.47%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.47%) OpenID
10 2 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.47%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.05%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.26%) Data Centre
2 14 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.09%) IoT
5 7 (1.63%) CMDB
5 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.16%) PKI
8 4 (0.93%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.70%) Synthetic Data
9 3 (0.70%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 2 (0.47%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.40%) Windows
2 4 (0.93%) Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (20.00%) Agile
2 69 (16.05%) DevOps
3 57 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (12.79%) Roadmaps
5 52 (12.09%) Mentoring
6 50 (11.63%) Technical Architecture
7 48 (11.16%) Event-Driven
8 45 (10.47%) CI/CD
9 40 (9.30%) Design Patterns
10 39 (9.07%) Project Delivery
11 38 (8.84%) Technology Roadmap
12 37 (8.60%) Architectural Patterns
12 37 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (8.60%) TOGAF
13 35 (8.14%) Migration
13 35 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (7.44%) Microservices
14 32 (7.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (7.21%) AI
15 31 (7.21%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.19%) Apex Code
1 18 (4.19%) Python
1 18 (4.19%) SOQL
1 18 (4.19%) SOSL
2 10 (2.33%) Java
3 9 (2.09%) C#
4 7 (1.63%) SQL
5 4 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.47%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.23%) Go
8 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (2.33%) RIBA
4 9 (2.09%) Degree
5 8 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.16%) CISSP
8 4 (0.93%) CCNA
8 4 (0.93%) CITP
8 4 (0.93%) CWNA
9 3 (0.70%) Dell Certification
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CCNP
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.09%) GDPR
3 5 (1.16%) PMO
4 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.70%) IFRS
4 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.47%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.09%) Docker
2 7 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.16%) vSphere
4 4 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) Firmware
5 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.49%) Terraform
2 12 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.70%) Ansible
4 3 (0.70%) Avamar
4 3 (0.70%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (0.70%) VxRail
5 2 (0.47%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) CASB
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.74%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.65%) Splunk
5 16 (3.72%) Palantir
6 12 (2.79%) Oracle
7 11 (2.56%) Databricks
8 9 (2.09%) Google
8 9 (2.09%) YouTube
9 7 (1.63%) VMware
10 6 (1.40%) Computacenter
10 6 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.40%) OpenText
11 5 (1.16%) SAP
12 4 (0.93%) Meraki
12 4 (0.93%) Pega
13 3 (0.70%) 3PAR
13 3 (0.70%) Isilon
13 3 (0.70%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (0.70%) Veeam