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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 517 419
Rank change year-on-year +159 -98 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 439 139 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.35% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 326 110 416
10th Percentile £55,000 £69,710 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,596 £73,125 £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 £102,800 £97,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 85,613 39,653 91,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 89.71% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,627 23,002 67,400
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 18 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 18 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 +123 322 £85,000 +3.03% 88
UK excluding London +82 224 £90,000 +9.09% 73
Work from Home +162 186 £85,000 +3.03% 43
London +59 112 £80,000 -14.67% 39
North of England +40 95 £86,216 +1.43% 24
North West +43 43 £88,716 -1.43% 17
Yorkshire -6 38 £85,000 +25.93% 3
Scotland +19 28 £90,000 +28.57% 1
East of England +3 24 £100,000 +17.65% 1
Midlands -22 21 £80,000 +8.47% 6
South West -45 19 £50,000 -31.03% 7
South East -40 18 £95,000 +15.15% 19
North East -25 14 £86,716 +23.88% 5
West Midlands -18 12 £87,431 +16.57% 3
Wales -24 11 £69,973 +8.27% 15
East Midlands -26 9 £45,000 -37.93% 3
Northern Ireland - 8 £95,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 92 (20.96%) Azure
2 86 (19.59%) Agile
3 70 (15.95%) DevOps
4 67 (15.26%) Security Cleared
5 63 (14.35%) AWS
6 57 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (12.53%) Roadmaps
8 53 (12.07%) SC Cleared
9 52 (11.85%) Mentoring
9 52 (11.85%) Microsoft
10 51 (11.62%) Technical Architecture
11 49 (11.16%) Event-Driven
12 46 (10.48%) CI/CD
13 40 (9.11%) Design Patterns
14 39 (8.88%) Project Delivery
15 38 (8.66%) Technology Roadmap
16 37 (8.43%) Architectural Patterns
16 37 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (8.43%) TOGAF
17 35 (7.97%) Migration
17 35 (7.97%) Technical Leadership
18 33 (7.52%) Microservices
18 33 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 31 (7.06%) AI
19 31 (7.06%) Analytics
19 31 (7.06%) Enterprise Architecture
20 29 (6.61%) Decision-Making
20 29 (6.61%) Salesforce
20 29 (6.61%) Service Delivery
21 28 (6.38%) 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 9 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.37%) Confluence
3 5 (1.14%) SAS
4 4 (0.91%) Documentum
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.46%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Revit
2 2 (0.46%) ArchiCAD
3 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.46%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.23%) Findur
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 92 (20.96%) Azure
2 63 (14.35%) AWS
3 28 (6.38%) SaaS
4 25 (5.69%) GCP
5 24 (5.47%) PaaS
6 14 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.51%) IaaS
8 9 (2.05%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.05%) GitHub
8 9 (2.05%) Serverless
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (1.82%) OCI
10 7 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.37%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.10%) Broadband
2 8 (1.82%) Firewall
2 8 (1.82%) LAN
2 8 (1.82%) WAN
3 7 (1.59%) VPN
4 6 (1.37%) WLAN
5 5 (1.14%) SSL
5 5 (1.14%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (0.91%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.91%) Wireless
7 3 (0.68%) DNS
7 3 (0.68%) Internet
8 2 (0.46%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.19%) Metadata
2 12 (2.73%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.37%) Power BI
4 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.91%) Redis
6 2 (0.46%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.46%) 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 (4.10%) GitLab
1 18 (4.10%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.10%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.37%) JIRA
3 4 (0.91%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 79 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 75 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.88%) Finance
4 31 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (6.38%) Marketing
6 18 (4.10%) Games
7 17 (3.87%) Law
8 14 (3.19%) Legal
9 9 (2.05%) Local Government
10 6 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.37%) Police
11 5 (1.14%) Aviation
11 5 (1.14%) Banking
11 5 (1.14%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.91%) Retail
13 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.24%) Middleware
2 22 (5.01%) SOAP
3 21 (4.78%) REST
4 18 (4.10%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (4.10%) Visualforce
5 10 (2.28%) Kafka
6 9 (2.05%) PySpark
7 6 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.91%) .NET
9 3 (0.68%) OAuth
9 3 (0.68%) RESTful
9 3 (0.68%) Spring
10 2 (0.46%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.46%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.46%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.46%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.46%) OpenID
10 2 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.46%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.92%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.42%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.51%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.05%) IoT
6 7 (1.59%) CMDB
6 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.14%) PKI
9 4 (0.91%) Digital Signage
9 4 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.91%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 3 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.68%) Synthetic Data
11 2 (0.46%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.46%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.46%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.37%) Windows
2 4 (0.91%) Linux
2 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.59%) Agile
2 70 (15.95%) DevOps
3 57 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (12.53%) Roadmaps
5 52 (11.85%) Mentoring
6 51 (11.62%) Technical Architecture
7 49 (11.16%) Event-Driven
8 46 (10.48%) CI/CD
9 40 (9.11%) Design Patterns
10 39 (8.88%) Project Delivery
11 38 (8.66%) Technology Roadmap
12 37 (8.43%) Architectural Patterns
12 37 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (8.43%) TOGAF
13 35 (7.97%) Migration
13 35 (7.97%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (7.52%) Microservices
14 33 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (7.06%) AI
15 31 (7.06%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (4.33%) Python
2 18 (4.10%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.10%) SOQL
2 18 (4.10%) SOSL
3 10 (2.28%) Java
4 9 (2.05%) C#
5 7 (1.59%) SQL
6 4 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.46%) Ruby
9 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.23%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 53 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.28%) DV Cleared
3 10 (2.28%) RIBA
4 9 (2.05%) Degree
5 8 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.14%) CISSP
8 4 (0.91%) CCNA
8 4 (0.91%) CITP
8 4 (0.91%) CWNA
8 4 (0.91%) Dell Certification
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) CCNP
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.28%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.05%) GDPR
3 6 (1.37%) PMO
4 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.68%) IFRS
4 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.05%) Docker
2 8 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.37%) vSphere
4 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) Firmware
5 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.64%) Terraform
2 12 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.91%) Avamar
4 4 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (0.91%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (0.91%) VxRail
5 3 (0.68%) Ansible
6 2 (0.46%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.23%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) CASB
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.61%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.47%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.56%) Splunk
5 16 (3.64%) Palantir
6 12 (2.73%) Databricks
6 12 (2.73%) Oracle
7 9 (2.05%) Google
7 9 (2.05%) YouTube
8 8 (1.82%) VMware
9 6 (1.37%) Computacenter
9 6 (1.37%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.37%) OpenText
10 5 (1.14%) SAP
11 4 (0.91%) Dell
11 4 (0.91%) Meraki
11 4 (0.91%) NetApp
11 4 (0.91%) Nimble Storage
11 4 (0.91%) Pega
11 4 (0.91%) Veeam