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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 529 350
Rank change year-on-year +253 -179 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 786 143 516
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.32% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 558 105 355
10th Percentile £61,621 £59,630 £46,115
25th Percentile £71,636 £71,349 £64,875
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 £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +1.59%

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 109,200 44,128 68,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 89.77% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,173 25,691 39,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -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 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -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 12 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 12 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 +193 598 £87,431 +2.86% 236
UK excluding London +200 538 £85,000 +3.03% 125
North of England +129 243 £85,000 - 42
Work from Home +77 206 £80,000 -3.03% 87
London +5 124 £100,000 +11.11% 111
North West +60 98 £85,855 +1.01% 24
North East - 74 £85,000 - 9
South West -5 73 £75,000 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire +21 71 £85,855 -9.63% 9
Midlands +6 67 £88,000 +15.54% 23
West Midlands +7 57 £88,000 -9.74% 19
Wales -22 52 £80,000 +3.34% 9
East of England -1 40 £90,000 - 5
South East -33 32 £80,000 -3.03% 20
Northern Ireland -52 23 £82,500 +10.25%
Scotland +9 17 £85,000 +13.59% 8
East Midlands -27 10 £70,000 +7.69% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 143 (18.19%) Azure
3 139 (17.68%) Agile
4 131 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 118 (15.01%) Technical Architecture
5 118 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
6 111 (14.12%) AI
7 109 (13.87%) AWS
8 100 (12.72%) Microsoft
9 98 (12.47%) Mentoring
10 92 (11.70%) Roadmaps
11 80 (10.18%) CI/CD
12 77 (9.80%) Architectural Patterns
13 75 (9.54%) Coaching
14 69 (8.78%) DevOps
15 68 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 65 (8.27%) Decision-Making
17 60 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (7.38%) Architecture Governance
19 57 (7.25%) Analytics
19 57 (7.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 52 (6.62%) Enterprise Architecture
21 49 (6.23%) GCP
22 48 (6.11%) Design Patterns
22 48 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
23 47 (5.98%) Microservices
24 46 (5.85%) C#
25 45 (5.73%) Integration Patterns
25 45 (5.73%) Technology Roadmap
26 44 (5.60%) Migration

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 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.78%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.27%) 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 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.76%) Oracle Utilities
3 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 143 (18.19%) Azure
2 109 (13.87%) AWS
3 49 (6.23%) GCP
4 41 (5.22%) SaaS
5 38 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.29%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (2.16%) Serverless
8 15 (1.91%) GitHub
8 15 (1.91%) PaaS
9 12 (1.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.53%) IaaS
10 11 (1.40%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.40%) dbt
11 10 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.78%) CTI
1 14 (1.78%) VoIP
2 12 (1.53%) LAN
2 12 (1.53%) Network Security
3 10 (1.27%) Firewall
3 10 (1.27%) WAN
4 9 (1.15%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.15%) VPN
5 7 (0.89%) Wireless
5 7 (0.89%) WLAN
6 6 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.76%) 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 (1.40%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.76%) Power BI
3 5 (0.64%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.51%) 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 (0.89%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.51%) Git
2 4 (0.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.51%) JIRA
2 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 145 (18.45%) Public Sector
2 90 (11.45%) Social Skills
3 61 (7.76%) Finance
4 47 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.29%) Legal
6 14 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.40%) Law
8 10 (1.27%) Marketing
9 7 (0.89%) Police
10 6 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.51%) Banking
12 4 (0.51%) Local Government
12 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Retail
15 1 (0.13%) Automotive
15 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.20%) Terraform
2 32 (4.07%) .NET
3 31 (3.94%) Middleware
4 15 (1.91%) REST
5 14 (1.78%) Kafka
6 10 (1.27%) PySpark
7 8 (1.02%) Model Context Protocol
7 8 (1.02%) SOAP
8 7 (0.89%) CSS
8 7 (0.89%) HTML
8 7 (0.89%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.89%) OAuth
8 7 (0.89%) Spring
9 6 (0.76%) LangChain
9 6 (0.76%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.76%) OpenID
9 6 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.51%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.51%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.18%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.91%) IVR
5 14 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.76%) Blog
10 6 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (0.51%) CMDB
11 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.51%) Life Science
12 3 (0.38%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.38%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.25%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.40%) Windows
2 10 (1.27%) Linux
3 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (17.68%) Agile
2 118 (15.01%) Technical Architecture
2 118 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
3 111 (14.12%) AI
4 98 (12.47%) Mentoring
5 92 (11.70%) Roadmaps
6 80 (10.18%) CI/CD
7 77 (9.80%) Architectural Patterns
8 75 (9.54%) Coaching
9 69 (8.78%) DevOps
10 68 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 65 (8.27%) Decision-Making
12 60 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (7.38%) Architecture Governance
14 57 (7.25%) Analytics
14 57 (7.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 52 (6.62%) Enterprise Architecture
16 48 (6.11%) Design Patterns
16 48 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (5.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.85%) C#
2 30 (3.82%) Python
3 18 (2.29%) Java
4 15 (1.91%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.15%) Bicep
6 7 (0.89%) Go
7 5 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.51%) SQL
9 3 (0.38%) ABAP
9 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.38%) SOQL
9 3 (0.38%) SOSL
9 3 (0.38%) X++
10 2 (0.25%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.25%) Solidity
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
11 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 131 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.78%) Degree
7 12 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.02%) RIBA
9 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.76%) Dell Certification
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.64%) CCIE
11 5 (0.64%) CCNA
11 5 (0.64%) CCNP
11 5 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.51%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) CWNA
14 2 (0.25%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.91%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (0.89%) GDPR
4 6 (0.76%) PMO
5 4 (0.51%) QA
6 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.38%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.29%) Docker
3 17 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.76%) vSphere
5 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.02%) Ansible
3 6 (0.76%) Avamar
3 6 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.76%) 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 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.31%) ServiceNow
3 22 (2.80%) VMware
4 21 (2.67%) Cisco
4 21 (2.67%) Computacenter
5 20 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.04%) Google
7 15 (1.91%) Genesys
8 14 (1.78%) Avaya
9 13 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.53%) Oracle
11 11 (1.40%) Adobe
12 10 (1.27%) Databricks
12 10 (1.27%) Workday
13 9 (1.15%) NetApp
13 9 (1.15%) SAP
13 9 (1.15%) Veeam
14 6 (0.76%) 3PAR
14 6 (0.76%) Dell
14 6 (0.76%) Isilon