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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 512 364
Rank change year-on-year +189 -148 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 581 161 688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.33% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.36% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 411 124 514
10th Percentile £59,223 £60,000 £51,715
25th Percentile £65,596 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -9.43%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -11.76%

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 93,983 44,278 92,243
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.92% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 64,514 26,221 65,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,596
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +131 394 £85,000 +3.03% 95
UK excluding London +127 349 £85,000 +3.03% 64
Work from Home +127 206 £83,781 +1.55% 41
North of England +93 155 £85,000 - 29
London +21 116 £85,000 -5.56% 40
North West +47 70 £80,000 -8.57% 12
Yorkshire +3 44 £85,000 +21.43% 4
North East -8 41 £85,000 +21.43% 13
Scotland +52 39 £85,000 +21.43% 1
Midlands -11 37 £85,000 +25.93% 6
Wales -22 35 £80,000 +11.89% 2
West Midlands +1 31 £85,000 +6.25% 6
South West -39 29 £50,000 -41.18% 11
Northern Ireland - 24 £85,000 - 4
East of England 0 21 £95,000 +18.75% 5
South East -50 14 £100,000 +21.21% 8
East Midlands -15 6 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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.

1 118 (20.31%) Agile
2 107 (18.42%) Azure
3 92 (15.83%) Security Cleared
4 82 (14.11%) DevOps
5 77 (13.25%) AI
5 77 (13.25%) AWS
5 77 (13.25%) Microsoft
6 75 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 75 (12.91%) Technical Architecture
7 74 (12.74%) Roadmaps
7 74 (12.74%) SC Cleared
8 71 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
9 70 (12.05%) CI/CD
9 70 (12.05%) Mentoring
10 68 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (9.29%) Event-Driven
12 46 (7.92%) Design Patterns
13 44 (7.57%) Architectural Patterns
13 44 (7.57%) Coaching
14 41 (7.06%) Decision-Making
14 41 (7.06%) Technology Roadmap
15 40 (6.88%) Enterprise Architecture
16 39 (6.71%) Analytics
16 39 (6.71%) Architecture Governance
17 37 (6.37%) Microservices
18 36 (6.20%) TOGAF
19 35 (6.02%) Integration Patterns
20 34 (5.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
21 33 (5.68%) Salesforce
22 32 (5.51%) Stakeholder Management

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 7 (1.20%) Confluence
2 5 (0.86%) SAS
3 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.34%) Camunda
4 2 (0.34%) Documentum
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.72%) Revit
3 2 (0.34%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.34%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle Utilities
3 2 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.17%) Findur
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 107 (18.42%) Azure
2 77 (13.25%) AWS
3 30 (5.16%) SaaS
4 26 (4.48%) GCP
5 19 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (3.10%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.24%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.24%) GitHub
8 11 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.89%) dbt
8 11 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (1.72%) PaaS
10 8 (1.38%) Serverless
11 6 (1.03%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.03%) Nutanix
12 5 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.10%) Broadband
2 14 (2.41%) CTI
2 14 (2.41%) VoIP
3 8 (1.38%) LAN
3 8 (1.38%) Network Security
3 8 (1.38%) WAN
4 7 (1.20%) Firewall
4 7 (1.20%) VPN
4 7 (1.20%) WLAN
5 6 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.03%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.03%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.34%) Wireless
8 1 (0.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.41%) Data Lake
2 13 (2.24%) Metadata
3 8 (1.38%) Power BI
4 6 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.86%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.34%) Redis
8 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.17%) Big Data
9 1 (0.17%) MySQL
9 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Miner
9 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.44%) Jenkins
1 20 (3.44%) SonarQube
2 19 (3.27%) GitLab
3 7 (1.20%) JIRA
4 3 (0.52%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.17%) RStudio
General
1 100 (17.21%) Public Sector
2 91 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 46 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (6.37%) Finance
5 23 (3.96%) Marketing
6 18 (3.10%) Games
6 18 (3.10%) Legal
7 17 (2.93%) Law
8 14 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.03%) Local Government
9 6 (1.03%) Police
10 5 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.86%) Aviation
11 4 (0.69%) Banking
12 3 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.48%) REST
2 24 (4.13%) SOAP
3 19 (3.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.27%) Visualforce
4 14 (2.41%) Kafka
4 14 (2.41%) Middleware
5 11 (1.89%) PySpark
6 7 (1.20%) .NET
7 5 (0.86%) Spring
8 4 (0.69%) CSS
8 4 (0.69%) HTML
8 4 (0.69%) OAuth
8 4 (0.69%) RESTful
8 4 (0.69%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.52%) OpenID
10 2 (0.34%) Django
10 2 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.34%) XML
11 1 (0.17%) EDI
11 1 (0.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.30%) Product Ownership
2 23 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.41%) IVR
6 13 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.38%) CMDB
9 7 (1.20%) IoT
10 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 3 (0.52%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.52%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.34%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.34%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.34%) Life Science
12 2 (0.34%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.20%) Windows
2 5 (0.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.69%) Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (20.31%) Agile
2 82 (14.11%) DevOps
3 77 (13.25%) AI
4 75 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (12.91%) Technical Architecture
5 74 (12.74%) Roadmaps
6 71 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
7 70 (12.05%) CI/CD
7 70 (12.05%) Mentoring
8 68 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 54 (9.29%) Event-Driven
10 46 (7.92%) Design Patterns
11 44 (7.57%) Architectural Patterns
11 44 (7.57%) Coaching
12 41 (7.06%) Decision-Making
12 41 (7.06%) Technology Roadmap
13 40 (6.88%) Enterprise Architecture
14 39 (6.71%) Analytics
14 39 (6.71%) Architecture Governance
15 37 (6.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.82%) Python
2 19 (3.27%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.27%) SOQL
2 19 (3.27%) SOSL
3 14 (2.41%) C#
4 13 (2.24%) Java
5 10 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.86%) Bicep
6 5 (0.86%) SQL
6 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.69%) Go
8 2 (0.34%) Ruby
8 2 (0.34%) X++
9 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (2.58%) DV Cleared
4 11 (1.89%) Degree
5 9 (1.55%) RIBA
6 6 (1.03%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.69%) CISSP
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.52%) CCNA
9 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.52%) CWNA
10 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.34%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.34%) CITP
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.58%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.20%) GDPR
4 6 (1.03%) PMO
5 3 (0.52%) IFRS
5 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
7 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.75%) Docker
2 14 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.20%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (3.96%) Kubernetes
1 23 (3.96%) Terraform
2 6 (1.03%) Avamar
2 6 (1.03%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (1.03%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (1.03%) VxRail
3 2 (0.34%) Argo
3 2 (0.34%) Grafana
3 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.68%) Salesforce
3 23 (3.96%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.61%) Splunk
5 15 (2.58%) Cisco
6 14 (2.41%) Avaya
6 14 (2.41%) Genesys
6 14 (2.41%) VMware
7 12 (2.07%) Computacenter
7 12 (2.07%) Databricks
7 12 (2.07%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.38%) Google
8 8 (1.38%) SAP
9 7 (1.20%) Oracle
10 6 (1.03%) 3PAR
10 6 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.03%) Dell
10 6 (1.03%) Isilon
10 6 (1.03%) NetApp
10 6 (1.03%) Veeam