Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £84,957 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 508 386
Rank change year-on-year +156 -122 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 472 151 699
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.34% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.38% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 332 113 510
10th Percentile £55,000 £67,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,957 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 87,018 39,622 101,237
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.50% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,614 22,403 73,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,569
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +118 331 £82,957 +0.55% 96
UK excluding London +95 257 £85,000 +3.03% 89
Work from Home +114 188 £85,000 +3.03% 60
North of England +63 112 £85,000 - 42
London +37 112 £80,000 -13.51% 22
North West +58 54 £85,000 -5.56% 17
Yorkshire -1 41 £85,000 -1.45% 10
Scotland +34 31 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Wales -18 25 £80,000 +11.89% 3
East of England +1 22 £100,000 +17.65% 1
South West -45 21 £50,000 -31.03% 8
Midlands -16 19 £80,000 -3.03% 7
North East -24 17 £80,000 +14.29% 15
South East -50 14 £100,000 +21.21% 20
Northern Ireland - 13 £95,000 - 5
West Midlands -25 10 £87,431 -6.74% 6
East Midlands -26 9 £45,000 -37.93% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 99 (20.97%) Azure
2 86 (18.22%) Agile
3 80 (16.95%) AWS
4 77 (16.31%) DevOps
5 67 (14.19%) Security Cleared
6 63 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (13.14%) Roadmaps
8 61 (12.92%) CI/CD
9 59 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
10 55 (11.65%) Event-Driven
10 55 (11.65%) Microsoft
11 51 (10.81%) Mentoring
11 51 (10.81%) SC Cleared
12 42 (8.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 42 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (8.26%) Design Patterns
14 38 (8.05%) Technology Roadmap
15 36 (7.63%) Decision-Making
15 36 (7.63%) TOGAF
16 35 (7.42%) Migration
17 34 (7.20%) Microservices
18 33 (6.99%) Data Modelling
18 33 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 32 (6.78%) AI
19 32 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
20 31 (6.57%) Architectural Patterns
20 31 (6.57%) Enterprise Architecture
20 31 (6.57%) Project Delivery
21 30 (6.36%) Analytics
21 30 (6.36%) Salesforce

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 6 (1.27%) Confluence
2 5 (1.06%) SAS
2 5 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.85%) Documentum
4 2 (0.42%) Camunda
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Revit
2 2 (0.42%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.42%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.42%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.21%) Findur
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (20.97%) Azure
2 80 (16.95%) AWS
3 29 (6.14%) GCP
4 27 (5.72%) SaaS
5 16 (3.39%) PaaS
6 15 (3.18%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.33%) GitHub
9 10 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (1.69%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.48%) IaaS
11 7 (1.48%) Serverless
12 6 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.27%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.81%) Broadband
2 8 (1.69%) LAN
2 8 (1.69%) WAN
3 7 (1.48%) Firewall
3 7 (1.48%) VPN
3 7 (1.48%) WLAN
4 6 (1.27%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (1.27%) iSCSI
4 6 (1.27%) Unified Communications
5 5 (1.06%) SSL
6 3 (0.64%) DNS
6 3 (0.64%) Internet
6 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.64%) Wireless
7 2 (0.42%) Network Security
8 1 (0.21%) IPsec
8 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.97%) Data Lake
1 14 (2.97%) Metadata
2 7 (1.48%) Power BI
3 6 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.85%) Redis
6 2 (0.42%) MySQL
6 2 (0.42%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.21%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (4.03%) GitLab
1 19 (4.03%) Jenkins
1 19 (4.03%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.27%) JIRA
3 3 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.21%) RStudio
General
1 93 (19.70%) Public Sector
2 82 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 36 (7.63%) Finance
4 33 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (5.72%) Marketing
6 18 (3.81%) Games
7 17 (3.60%) Law
8 12 (2.54%) Legal
9 9 (1.91%) Local Government
10 7 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.27%) Police
12 5 (1.06%) Aviation
12 5 (1.06%) Banking
13 4 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.42%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.51%) REST
2 24 (5.08%) SOAP
3 19 (4.03%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (4.03%) Visualforce
4 15 (3.18%) Kafka
5 12 (2.54%) Middleware
6 11 (2.33%) PySpark
7 5 (1.06%) Spring
8 4 (0.85%) .NET
8 4 (0.85%) RESTful
8 4 (0.85%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.64%) OAuth
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.42%) Django
10 2 (0.42%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.42%) OpenID
10 2 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
11 1 (0.21%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 1 (0.21%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.30%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.91%) IoT
6 8 (1.69%) CMDB
6 8 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (1.06%) PKI
10 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.42%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.42%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.42%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.42%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.42%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.27%) Windows
2 4 (0.85%) Linux
2 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (18.22%) Agile
2 77 (16.31%) DevOps
3 63 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 62 (13.14%) Roadmaps
5 61 (12.92%) CI/CD
6 59 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
7 55 (11.65%) Event-Driven
8 51 (10.81%) Mentoring
9 42 (8.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
10 39 (8.26%) Design Patterns
11 38 (8.05%) Technology Roadmap
12 36 (7.63%) Decision-Making
12 36 (7.63%) TOGAF
13 35 (7.42%) Migration
14 34 (7.20%) Microservices
15 33 (6.99%) Data Modelling
15 33 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (6.78%) AI
16 32 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.08%) Python
2 19 (4.03%) Apex Code
2 19 (4.03%) SOQL
2 19 (4.03%) SOSL
3 15 (3.18%) Java
4 11 (2.33%) C#
5 6 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.27%) SQL
6 5 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.21%) Go
8 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.21%) R
8 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 67 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 51 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 9 (1.91%) RIBA
5 7 (1.48%) Degree
6 6 (1.27%) Dell Certification
7 5 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.85%) CISSP
8 4 (0.85%) CITP
8 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.64%) CCNA
9 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.64%) CWNA
10 2 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.21%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.12%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.91%) GDPR
3 8 (1.69%) PMO
4 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.64%) IFRS
5 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.64%) WCAG
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 14 (2.97%) Docker
2 9 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.48%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.48%) vSphere
4 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (4.03%) Terraform
2 17 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.27%) Avamar
3 6 (1.27%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.27%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.27%) VxRail
4 2 (0.42%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) CASB
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.36%) Salesforce
3 27 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.45%) Splunk
5 16 (3.39%) Palantir
6 14 (2.97%) Databricks
7 9 (1.91%) Google
7 9 (1.91%) VMware
7 9 (1.91%) YouTube
8 6 (1.27%) 3PAR
8 6 (1.27%) Computacenter
8 6 (1.27%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.27%) Dell
8 6 (1.27%) Isilon
8 6 (1.27%) NetApp
8 6 (1.27%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (1.27%) OpenText
8 6 (1.27%) Oracle
8 6 (1.27%) SAP
8 6 (1.27%) Veeam