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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 518 358
Rank change year-on-year +217 -160 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 677 143 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 471 112 437
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,299 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -8.61%
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 £75,150
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -11.59%

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 102,340 44,909 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,155 26,648 51,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,775 £72,429
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +180 497 £85,000 +3.03% 111
UK excluding London +164 437 £85,000 +3.03% 68
North of England +111 208 £85,000 +13.33% 25
Work from Home +121 203 £85,000 +3.03% 52
London +25 124 £95,000 +8.57% 52
North West +61 82 £85,000 -2.86% 12
North East +1 66 £85,000 +21.43% 7
Yorkshire +14 60 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Midlands -3 50 £87,431 +24.90% 11
South West -32 45 £75,000 -9.09% 6
West Midlands +2 44 £87,431 +9.29% 8
Wales -24 38 £80,000 +11.89% 5
East of England +4 30 £100,000 - 3
Scotland +24 26 £85,000 +21.43% 4
South East -35 25 £95,000 +15.15% 14
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 - 1
East Midlands -19 6 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 125 (18.46%) Agile
2 122 (18.02%) Azure
3 113 (16.69%) Security Cleared
4 97 (14.33%) Technical Architecture
5 95 (14.03%) Technical Leadership
6 92 (13.59%) AWS
7 91 (13.44%) SC Cleared
8 90 (13.29%) Microsoft
9 88 (13.00%) AI
10 86 (12.70%) Mentoring
11 77 (11.37%) CI/CD
12 69 (10.19%) DevOps
13 68 (10.04%) Roadmaps
14 66 (9.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 64 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (9.31%) Coaching
17 58 (8.57%) Architectural Patterns
18 49 (7.24%) Decision-Making
18 49 (7.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 47 (6.94%) SaaS
20 46 (6.79%) Microservices
21 43 (6.35%) Integration Patterns
22 41 (6.06%) Architecture Governance
22 41 (6.06%) Event-Driven
23 38 (5.61%) Design Patterns
24 36 (5.32%) Enterprise Architecture
24 36 (5.32%) GCP
25 35 (5.17%) Analytics
26 33 (4.87%) Infrastructure as Code
27 32 (4.73%) Microsoft 365

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 13 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.15%) Camunda
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.07%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.33%) Revit
3 2 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.89%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.15%) Findur
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 122 (18.02%) Azure
2 92 (13.59%) AWS
3 47 (6.94%) SaaS
4 36 (5.32%) GCP
5 32 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.36%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.92%) GitHub
8 13 (1.92%) IaaS
9 11 (1.62%) Azure AKS
9 11 (1.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (1.62%) dbt
9 11 (1.62%) PaaS
9 11 (1.62%) Serverless
10 10 (1.48%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.48%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (1.48%) OneDrive
11 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.07%) CTI
1 14 (2.07%) VoIP
2 12 (1.77%) Network Security
3 11 (1.62%) LAN
3 11 (1.62%) VPN
4 10 (1.48%) Firewall
4 10 (1.48%) WAN
5 8 (1.18%) Broadband
6 7 (1.03%) WLAN
7 6 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.89%) iSCSI
7 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.74%) Wireless
9 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.15%) DNS
11 1 (0.15%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.48%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.03%) Power BI
3 6 (0.89%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.74%) Metadata
4 5 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.30%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.15%) Db2
7 1 (0.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.48%) Jenkins
1 10 (1.48%) SonarQube
2 9 (1.33%) GitLab
3 6 (0.89%) JIRA
4 5 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 127 (18.76%) Public Sector
2 81 (11.96%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.98%) Finance
4 48 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.95%) Legal
6 18 (2.66%) Marketing
7 13 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (1.92%) Law
8 8 (1.18%) Games
9 7 (1.03%) Police
10 6 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.59%) Aviation
11 4 (0.59%) Local Government
12 3 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.28%) Terraform
2 25 (3.69%) Middleware
3 17 (2.51%) REST
4 15 (2.22%) Kafka
4 15 (2.22%) SOAP
5 11 (1.62%) PySpark
6 9 (1.33%) .NET
6 9 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (1.33%) Visualforce
7 7 (1.03%) CSS
7 7 (1.03%) HTML
7 7 (1.03%) Spring
8 5 (0.74%) OAuth
8 5 (0.74%) RESTful
8 5 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.59%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.59%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.59%) Hibernate
9 4 (0.59%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.99%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.51%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.07%) IVR
4 13 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.62%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.18%) CMDB
9 7 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (0.89%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (0.59%) Blog
11 4 (0.59%) Life Science
12 3 (0.44%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.30%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.30%) IoT
13 2 (0.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.18%) Linux
1 8 (1.18%) Windows
2 6 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (18.46%) Agile
2 97 (14.33%) Technical Architecture
3 95 (14.03%) Technical Leadership
4 88 (13.00%) AI
5 86 (12.70%) Mentoring
6 77 (11.37%) CI/CD
7 69 (10.19%) DevOps
8 68 (10.04%) Roadmaps
9 66 (9.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 64 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (9.31%) Coaching
12 58 (8.57%) Architectural Patterns
13 49 (7.24%) Decision-Making
13 49 (7.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 46 (6.79%) Microservices
15 43 (6.35%) Integration Patterns
16 41 (6.06%) Architecture Governance
16 41 (6.06%) Event-Driven
17 38 (5.61%) Design Patterns
18 36 (5.32%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.73%) Python
2 23 (3.40%) C#
3 16 (2.36%) Java
4 13 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.33%) Apex Code
5 9 (1.33%) Bicep
5 9 (1.33%) SOQL
5 9 (1.33%) SOSL
6 7 (1.03%) Go
7 5 (0.74%) SQL
7 5 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.44%) ABAP
9 2 (0.30%) X++
10 1 (0.15%) COBOL
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.15%) R
10 1 (0.15%) RPG
10 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.66%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.36%) Degree
5 8 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.18%) RIBA
6 7 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (0.89%) Dell Certification
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.59%) CCNA
10 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.44%) CCIE
10 3 (0.44%) CCNP
10 3 (0.44%) CISSP
10 3 (0.44%) CWNA
11 2 (0.30%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.89%) GDPR
2 6 (0.89%) PMO
3 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.59%) QA
4 3 (0.44%) IFRS
4 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.30%) GRC
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.30%) WCAG
6 1 (0.15%) PSD2
6 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (2.81%) Docker
1 19 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.89%) vSphere
5 2 (0.30%) Firmware
5 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.89%) Avamar
2 6 (0.89%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.89%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.89%) VxRail
3 3 (0.44%) Grafana
3 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.15%) Argo
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.84%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.55%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.81%) VMware
5 18 (2.66%) Cisco
6 15 (2.22%) Google
7 14 (2.07%) Avaya
7 14 (2.07%) Genesys
7 14 (2.07%) Oracle
8 13 (1.92%) Computacenter
9 12 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.62%) Databricks
10 11 (1.62%) SAP
10 11 (1.62%) Splunk
11 10 (1.48%) Adobe
12 6 (0.89%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.89%) Dell
12 6 (0.89%) Isilon
12 6 (0.89%) NetApp
12 6 (0.89%) Veeam