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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 534 358
Rank change year-on-year +251 -176 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 769 136 535
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.27% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.30% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 536 101 368
10th Percentile £63,744 £59,630 £46,951
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,938
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 £78,750
% change year-on-year +3.03% +4.76% -4.55%

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 109,737 44,641 70,718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 89.74% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 74,771 25,775 40,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 4 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 4 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 +196 584 £87,431 +2.86% 273
UK excluding London +206 513 £85,000 +3.03% 144
North of England +129 242 £85,000 - 49
Work from Home +100 213 £85,000 +3.03% 112
London +8 127 £95,000 +5.56% 139
North West +68 96 £86,643 +1.93% 32
North East - 74 £85,000 - 10
Yorkshire +20 72 £87,431 -7.97% 7
South West -8 67 £75,000 -9.09% 15
Midlands +2 62 £88,000 +13.55% 24
West Midlands +6 55 £88,000 -9.74% 20
Wales -29 46 £80,000 - 6
East of England +1 38 £100,000 +11.11% 7
South East -38 29 £80,000 -3.03% 30
Northern Ireland - 23 £82,500 - 1
Scotland +9 15 £85,000 - 13
East Midlands -44 7 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 145 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.95%) Agile
3 129 (16.78%) Azure
4 122 (15.86%) SC Cleared
5 116 (15.08%) Technical Architecture
6 111 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
7 110 (14.30%) AI
7 110 (14.30%) AWS
8 98 (12.74%) Mentoring
9 89 (11.57%) Microsoft
10 83 (10.79%) Roadmaps
11 79 (10.27%) CI/CD
12 74 (9.62%) Coaching
13 68 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
13 68 (8.84%) DevOps
14 67 (8.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 61 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (7.54%) Decision-Making
16 58 (7.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 52 (6.76%) Analytics
17 52 (6.76%) Enterprise Architecture
18 48 (6.24%) Architecture Governance
18 48 (6.24%) GCP
18 48 (6.24%) Integration Patterns
18 48 (6.24%) Microservices
19 44 (5.72%) Translating Business Requirements
20 43 (5.59%) SaaS
21 41 (5.33%) Infrastructure as Code
22 40 (5.20%) Event-Driven
22 40 (5.20%) Project Delivery

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 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.78%) Oracle Utilities
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.26%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (16.78%) Azure
2 110 (14.30%) AWS
3 48 (6.24%) GCP
4 43 (5.59%) SaaS
5 37 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.34%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.21%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.95%) GitHub
8 15 (1.95%) PaaS
8 15 (1.95%) Serverless
9 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.56%) IaaS
10 11 (1.43%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.43%) dbt
11 10 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.30%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.82%) CTI
1 14 (1.82%) VoIP
2 13 (1.69%) Network Security
3 12 (1.56%) LAN
4 11 (1.43%) Firewall
5 10 (1.30%) WAN
6 9 (1.17%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.17%) VPN
7 7 (0.91%) Wireless
7 7 (0.91%) WLAN
8 6 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.78%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.26%) Broadband
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.26%) DNS
10 2 (0.26%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.43%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.78%) Power BI
3 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.52%) Metadata
4 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.26%) 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 (0.91%) Claude Code
2 5 (0.65%) Git
2 5 (0.65%) JIRA
3 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 149 (19.38%) Public Sector
2 84 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 62 (8.06%) Finance
4 46 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (2.47%) Legal
6 15 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.43%) Law
7 11 (1.43%) Marketing
8 7 (0.91%) Police
9 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.52%) Banking
10 4 (0.52%) Local Government
10 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Retail
13 1 (0.13%) Automotive
13 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.03%) Terraform
2 30 (3.90%) Middleware
3 15 (1.95%) REST
4 14 (1.82%) Kafka
5 10 (1.30%) PySpark
6 9 (1.17%) .NET
7 8 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
7 8 (1.04%) SOAP
8 7 (0.91%) CSS
8 7 (0.91%) HTML
8 7 (0.91%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.91%) OAuth
8 7 (0.91%) Spring
9 6 (0.78%) LangChain
9 6 (0.78%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.78%) OpenID
9 6 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.52%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.52%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.60%) Data Centre
2 20 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (1.95%) IVR
5 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 6 (0.78%) CMDB
8 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (0.65%) Blog
10 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.52%) Life Science
10 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.39%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.26%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.56%) Windows
2 11 (1.43%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (17.95%) Agile
2 116 (15.08%) Technical Architecture
3 111 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
4 110 (14.30%) AI
5 98 (12.74%) Mentoring
6 83 (10.79%) Roadmaps
7 79 (10.27%) CI/CD
8 74 (9.62%) Coaching
9 68 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
9 68 (8.84%) DevOps
10 67 (8.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (7.54%) Decision-Making
12 58 (7.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 52 (6.76%) Analytics
13 52 (6.76%) Enterprise Architecture
14 48 (6.24%) Architecture Governance
14 48 (6.24%) Integration Patterns
14 48 (6.24%) Microservices
15 44 (5.72%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (4.03%) Python
2 23 (2.99%) C#
3 19 (2.47%) Java
4 14 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.17%) Bicep
6 7 (0.91%) Go
7 5 (0.65%) SQL
7 5 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.39%) ABAP
8 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.39%) SOQL
8 3 (0.39%) SOSL
8 3 (0.39%) X++
9 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
9 2 (0.26%) Solidity
10 1 (0.13%) COBOL
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 145 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 22 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.82%) Degree
7 10 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.17%) RIBA
9 8 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.78%) Dell Certification
11 5 (0.65%) CCIE
11 5 (0.65%) CCNA
11 5 (0.65%) CCNP
11 5 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.52%) CISSP
13 3 (0.39%) CWNA
14 2 (0.26%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (0.78%) GDPR
3 6 (0.78%) PMO
4 4 (0.52%) QA
5 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.39%) GRC
6 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) NCSC
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) SEPA
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.47%) Docker
2 18 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.78%) vSphere
4 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.78%) Ansible
2 6 (0.78%) Avamar
2 6 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.78%) VxRail
3 4 (0.52%) Grafana
4 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 89 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.90%) ServiceNow
3 23 (2.99%) Computacenter
4 21 (2.73%) Cisco
4 21 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.73%) VMware
5 16 (2.08%) Google
6 15 (1.95%) Genesys
7 14 (1.82%) Avaya
8 13 (1.69%) Oracle
9 12 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.43%) Adobe
10 11 (1.43%) Databricks
11 10 (1.30%) Workday
12 9 (1.17%) NetApp
12 9 (1.17%) SAP
12 9 (1.17%) Veeam
13 6 (0.78%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.78%) Dell
13 6 (0.78%) Isilon