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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 533 415
Rank change year-on-year +163 -118 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 443 134 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.30% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.34% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 327 107 420
10th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £57,375
25th Percentile £65,596 £73,750 £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 £103,700 £97,320
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 86,118 39,518 92,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.61% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,984 22,887 67,462
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 20 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 20 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 +124 326 £85,000 +3.03% 86
UK excluding London +79 228 £90,000 +9.09% 74
Work from Home +142 186 £85,000 +3.03% 38
London +62 112 £80,000 -14.67% 36
North of England +46 98 £85,000 - 26
North West +39 45 £88,716 -1.43% 18
Yorkshire -10 38 £85,000 +25.93% 6
Scotland +24 28 £90,000 +28.57% 1
East of England +5 25 £100,000 +17.65% 1
Midlands -20 22 £80,000 +10.34% 5
South West -47 19 £50,000 -31.03% 8
South East -43 17 £100,000 +21.21% 18
North East -27 15 £85,000 +21.43% 3
West Midlands -28 12 £87,431 +9.29% 2
Wales -20 11 £69,973 +7.65% 15
East Midlands -23 10 £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 20 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 94 (21.22%) Azure
2 89 (20.09%) Agile
3 71 (16.03%) DevOps
4 68 (15.35%) Security Cleared
5 66 (14.90%) AWS
6 57 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (12.64%) Roadmaps
8 54 (12.19%) Microsoft
8 54 (12.19%) SC Cleared
9 53 (11.96%) Mentoring
10 51 (11.51%) Technical Architecture
11 50 (11.29%) Event-Driven
12 48 (10.84%) CI/CD
13 41 (9.26%) Design Patterns
14 39 (8.80%) Technology Roadmap
15 38 (8.58%) Project Delivery
15 38 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
17 36 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (8.13%) TOGAF
18 35 (7.90%) Microservices
18 35 (7.90%) Migration
19 34 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 31 (7.00%) AI
20 31 (7.00%) Analytics
21 30 (6.77%) Decision-Making
21 30 (6.77%) Enterprise Architecture
22 29 (6.55%) Architectural Design
22 29 (6.55%) Stakeholder Management
23 28 (6.32%) Data Modelling

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 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.35%) Confluence
3 5 (1.13%) SAS
4 4 (0.90%) Documentum
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Revit
2 2 (0.45%) ArchiCAD
3 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.23%) Findur
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.22%) Azure
2 66 (14.90%) AWS
3 27 (6.09%) GCP
3 27 (6.09%) SaaS
4 24 (5.42%) PaaS
5 14 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.48%) IaaS
7 10 (2.26%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.26%) GitHub
8 9 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
8 9 (2.03%) Serverless
9 8 (1.81%) OCI
10 7 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.35%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.90%) Nutanix
13 4 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.06%) Broadband
2 8 (1.81%) Firewall
2 8 (1.81%) LAN
2 8 (1.81%) WAN
3 7 (1.58%) VPN
4 6 (1.35%) WLAN
5 5 (1.13%) SSL
5 5 (1.13%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (0.90%) iSCSI
6 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.90%) Wireless
7 3 (0.68%) DNS
7 3 (0.68%) Internet
8 2 (0.45%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.16%) Metadata
2 13 (2.93%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.35%) Power BI
4 5 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.13%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.90%) Redis
6 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.45%) 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 (4.06%) GitLab
1 18 (4.06%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.06%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.35%) JIRA
3 4 (0.90%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 82 (18.51%) Public Sector
2 76 (17.16%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.80%) Finance
4 31 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.09%) Marketing
6 18 (4.06%) Games
7 17 (3.84%) Law
8 14 (3.16%) Legal
9 9 (2.03%) Local Government
10 6 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.35%) Police
11 5 (1.13%) Aviation
11 5 (1.13%) Banking
11 5 (1.13%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.68%) Retail
14 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.97%) Middleware
1 22 (4.97%) SOAP
2 21 (4.74%) REST
3 18 (4.06%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.06%) Visualforce
4 11 (2.48%) Kafka
5 10 (2.26%) PySpark
6 6 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.90%) .NET
8 3 (0.68%) OAuth
8 3 (0.68%) RESTful
8 3 (0.68%) Spring
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.45%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.45%) OpenID
9 2 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.03%) IoT
6 7 (1.58%) CMDB
6 7 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.13%) PKI
9 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.90%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 3 (0.68%) Digital Signage
10 3 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.68%) Synthetic Data
11 2 (0.45%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.45%) Operational Technology
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 89 (20.09%) Agile
2 71 (16.03%) DevOps
3 57 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (12.64%) Roadmaps
5 53 (11.96%) Mentoring
6 51 (11.51%) Technical Architecture
7 50 (11.29%) Event-Driven
8 48 (10.84%) CI/CD
9 41 (9.26%) Design Patterns
10 39 (8.80%) Technology Roadmap
11 38 (8.58%) Project Delivery
11 38 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (8.13%) TOGAF
14 35 (7.90%) Microservices
14 35 (7.90%) Migration
15 34 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (7.00%) AI
16 31 (7.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.74%) Python
2 18 (4.06%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.06%) SOQL
2 18 (4.06%) SOSL
3 11 (2.48%) Java
4 10 (2.26%) C#
5 7 (1.58%) SQL
6 5 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.45%) 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 68 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.26%) DV Cleared
3 10 (2.26%) RIBA
4 9 (2.03%) Degree
5 8 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.13%) CISSP
8 4 (0.90%) CCNA
8 4 (0.90%) CITP
8 4 (0.90%) CWNA
8 4 (0.90%) Dell Certification
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.45%) 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 (2.26%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.03%) GDPR
3 6 (1.35%) PMO
4 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.68%) IFRS
5 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.68%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 10 (2.26%) Docker
2 8 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.35%) vSphere
4 5 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.84%) Terraform
2 13 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.90%) Avamar
4 4 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (0.90%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (0.90%) VxRail
5 3 (0.68%) Ansible
6 2 (0.45%) 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 54 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.32%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.51%) Splunk
5 16 (3.61%) Palantir
6 13 (2.93%) Databricks
7 12 (2.71%) Oracle
8 9 (2.03%) Google
8 9 (2.03%) YouTube
9 8 (1.81%) VMware
10 6 (1.35%) Computacenter
10 6 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.35%) OpenText
11 5 (1.13%) SAP
12 4 (0.90%) Dell
12 4 (0.90%) Meraki
12 4 (0.90%) NetApp
12 4 (0.90%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (0.90%) Pega
12 4 (0.90%) Veeam