Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 474 402
Rank change year-on-year +107 -72 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 327 219 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.48% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 262 141 337
10th Percentile £63,269 £57,660 £56,400
25th Percentile £72,315 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,400
% change year-on-year -3.03% +9.42% -5.75%

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 61,342 45,212 71,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.63% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 38,572 23,464 55,607
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +73 250 £80,000 -3.03% 107
UK excluding London +70 185 £80,000 -3.03% 87
Work from Home +82 126 £80,000 -3.03% 54
London +57 88 £90,000 +12.50% 48
North of England +36 75 £80,000 - 25
North West +36 38 £80,000 -8.57% 8
Yorkshire -6 29 £80,000 - 13
Scotland +10 23 £90,000 - 11
Midlands 0 21 £80,000 +8.47% 3
East of England +30 17 £100,000 +2.56% 2
Wales +5 16 £77,415 +50.32% 4
South West 0 15 £70,000 - 6
West Midlands +15 13 £80,000 - 3
South East -40 11 £80,000 -3.03% 33
North East 0 8 £84,216 -3.75% 4
East Midlands -16 8 £60,500 +4.93%
Northern Ireland -15 7 £80,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 February 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 78 (23.85%) Agile
2 71 (21.71%) Azure
3 59 (18.04%) DevOps
4 58 (17.74%) Roadmaps
5 51 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (14.68%) AWS
7 46 (14.07%) Mentoring
8 42 (12.84%) Enterprise Architecture
9 41 (12.54%) Security Cleared
10 39 (11.93%) Architectural Patterns
10 39 (11.93%) SC Cleared
11 38 (11.62%) Technical Architecture
12 37 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (10.70%) Technology Roadmap
14 34 (10.40%) Event-Driven
15 33 (10.09%) Analytics
15 33 (10.09%) Microsoft
16 32 (9.79%) Project Delivery
16 32 (9.79%) TOGAF
17 29 (8.87%) CI/CD
17 29 (8.87%) Design Patterns
18 28 (8.56%) Technical Leadership
19 27 (8.26%) Technology Strategy
20 26 (7.95%) Microservices
21 25 (7.65%) Migration
21 25 (7.65%) PaaS
21 25 (7.65%) Python
22 24 (7.34%) Service Delivery
23 23 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
23 23 (7.03%) Strategic Thinking

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 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.22%) Confluence
2 4 (1.22%) Documentum
2 4 (1.22%) SAS
3 2 (0.61%) CMS
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.61%) Revit
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (21.71%) Azure
2 48 (14.68%) AWS
3 25 (7.65%) PaaS
4 21 (6.42%) SaaS
5 19 (5.81%) GCP
6 10 (3.06%) Azure AKS
6 10 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.06%) Serverless
7 9 (2.75%) Azure Event Grid
7 9 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.14%) IaaS
8 7 (2.14%) OCI
9 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.22%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.22%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.22%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.28%) Broadband
2 7 (2.14%) Firewall
3 5 (1.53%) LAN
3 5 (1.53%) SSL
3 5 (1.53%) VPN
3 5 (1.53%) WAN
4 4 (1.22%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.22%) Wireless
4 4 (1.22%) WLAN
5 3 (0.92%) DNS
5 3 (0.92%) Internet
6 2 (0.61%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) IPsec
7 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.36%) Metadata
3 5 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (1.53%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.22%) Redis
5 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.61%) Power BI
6 1 (0.31%) DB2
6 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.31%) MySQL
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.28%) GitLab
1 14 (4.28%) Jenkins
1 14 (4.28%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.53%) Git
3 4 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 64 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 29 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.95%) Marketing
5 20 (6.12%) Finance
6 18 (5.50%) Law
7 15 (4.59%) Legal
8 14 (4.28%) Games
9 9 (2.75%) Local Government
10 7 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.14%) Banking
10 7 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.53%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.22%) Retail
13 3 (0.92%) Police
14 2 (0.61%) Back Office
14 2 (0.61%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.73%) Node.js
2 21 (6.42%) Django
2 21 (6.42%) React
3 19 (5.81%) Middleware
4 14 (4.28%) Lightning Web Components
4 14 (4.28%) REST
4 14 (4.28%) SOAP
4 14 (4.28%) Visualforce
5 8 (2.45%) .NET
6 7 (2.14%) Web Services
7 5 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.53%) Spring
8 4 (1.22%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.22%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.22%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.22%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.22%) Spring MVC
9 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.03%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.45%) IoT
3 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.53%) PKI
4 5 (1.53%) Synthetic Data
5 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.22%) Digital Signage
5 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.31%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.31%) Blog
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.92%) Windows
1 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (23.85%) Agile
2 59 (18.04%) DevOps
3 58 (17.74%) Roadmaps
4 51 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (14.07%) Mentoring
6 42 (12.84%) Enterprise Architecture
7 39 (11.93%) Architectural Patterns
8 38 (11.62%) Technical Architecture
9 37 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (10.70%) Technology Roadmap
11 34 (10.40%) Event-Driven
12 33 (10.09%) Analytics
13 32 (9.79%) Project Delivery
13 32 (9.79%) TOGAF
14 29 (8.87%) CI/CD
14 29 (8.87%) Design Patterns
15 28 (8.56%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (8.26%) Technology Strategy
17 26 (7.95%) Microservices
18 25 (7.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.65%) Python
2 14 (4.28%) Apex Code
2 14 (4.28%) SOQL
2 14 (4.28%) SOSL
3 12 (3.67%) SQL
4 9 (2.75%) C#
4 9 (2.75%) Java
5 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) ABAP
6 1 (0.31%) Go
6 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.31%) Ruby
6 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 39 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.67%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.75%) RIBA
5 7 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.14%) Degree
6 5 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.22%) CCNA
7 4 (1.22%) CISSP
7 4 (1.22%) CITP
7 4 (1.22%) CWNA
8 1 (0.31%) CCNP
8 1 (0.31%) CISM
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.22%) GDPR
3 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.61%) NCSC
3 2 (0.61%) NIST
3 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
System Software
1 10 (3.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.22%) Terraform
4 3 (0.92%) Ansible
5 2 (0.61%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.31%) CASB
Vendors
1 33 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.42%) Salesforce
3 18 (5.50%) Oracle
4 16 (4.89%) Palantir
5 14 (4.28%) Splunk
6 12 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.06%) Google
8 9 (2.75%) Informatica
9 8 (2.45%) YouTube
10 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.22%) Meraki
11 4 (1.22%) OpenText
11 4 (1.22%) Pega
11 4 (1.22%) Workday
12 3 (0.92%) Databricks
13 2 (0.61%) Adobe
13 2 (0.61%) SAP
13 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.61%) VMware
14 1 (0.31%) Netskope