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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 511 383
Rank change year-on-year +176 -128 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 557 164 699
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.34% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.37% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 393 124 521
10th Percentile £55,602 £60,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -9.73%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,313 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -10.45%

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 92,011 43,811 97,193
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 89.90% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 63,054 25,783 69,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +134 380 £85,000 +3.03% 111
UK excluding London +126 320 £85,000 +3.03% 82
Work from Home +118 199 £85,000 +3.03% 44
North of England +83 140 £85,000 - 32
London +39 117 £80,500 -10.56% 36
North West +49 64 £85,000 -5.56% 15
Yorkshire +2 42 £85,000 -1.45% 6
Scotland +37 37 £85,000 +21.43% 3
North East -12 34 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Wales -19 33 £80,000 +11.89% 4
Midlands -15 31 £87,431 +24.90% 12
South West -36 28 £50,000 -41.18% 14
West Midlands -10 25 £87,431 -2.85% 12
East of England +3 21 £95,000 +18.75% 3
Northern Ireland - 20 £95,000 - 3
South East -60 14 £100,000 +21.21% 13
East Midlands -27 6 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 July 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.

1 117 (21.01%) Agile
2 112 (20.11%) Azure
3 88 (15.80%) Security Cleared
4 87 (15.62%) DevOps
5 84 (15.08%) AWS
6 79 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 79 (14.18%) Roadmaps
7 76 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
8 73 (13.11%) Mentoring
9 72 (12.93%) Microsoft
10 71 (12.75%) CI/CD
11 68 (12.21%) SC Cleared
12 64 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
13 62 (11.13%) AI
13 62 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (9.87%) Event-Driven
15 45 (8.08%) Design Patterns
16 44 (7.90%) Coaching
17 43 (7.72%) Technology Roadmap
18 42 (7.54%) Architectural Patterns
18 42 (7.54%) Enterprise Architecture
19 41 (7.36%) Decision-Making
20 39 (7.00%) TOGAF
21 38 (6.82%) Analytics
22 37 (6.64%) Migration
23 36 (6.46%) Microservices
24 35 (6.28%) Architecture Governance
24 35 (6.28%) Integration Patterns
24 35 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
25 34 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management

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 (1.62%) Confluence
2 5 (0.90%) SAS
3 4 (0.72%) Documentum
3 4 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.36%) Camunda
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.15%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.80%) Revit
3 2 (0.36%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.36%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.36%) Oracle Utilities
2 2 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.18%) Findur
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (20.11%) Azure
2 84 (15.08%) AWS
3 32 (5.75%) SaaS
4 29 (5.21%) GCP
5 18 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.51%) PaaS
7 12 (2.15%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.15%) GitHub
8 11 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (1.44%) Serverless
11 7 (1.26%) IaaS
12 6 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.08%) dbt
12 6 (1.08%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.23%) Broadband
2 12 (2.15%) CTI
2 12 (2.15%) VoIP
3 10 (1.80%) VPN
4 7 (1.26%) Firewall
4 7 (1.26%) LAN
4 7 (1.26%) Network Security
4 7 (1.26%) WAN
5 6 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.08%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.08%) WLAN
6 5 (0.90%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.72%) DNS
7 4 (0.72%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) Internet
8 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.51%) Data Lake
1 14 (2.51%) Metadata
2 8 (1.44%) Power BI
3 6 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.36%) MySQL
6 2 (0.36%) Redis
6 2 (0.36%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.18%) Big Data
7 1 (0.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 20 (3.59%) Jenkins
1 20 (3.59%) SonarQube
2 19 (3.41%) GitLab
3 9 (1.62%) JIRA
4 3 (0.54%) Git
5 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.18%) Maven
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.18%) RStudio
General
1 101 (18.13%) Public Sector
2 96 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.18%) Finance
4 39 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (4.13%) Marketing
6 19 (3.41%) Law
7 18 (3.23%) Games
8 17 (3.05%) Legal
9 16 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.62%) Local Government
11 7 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.08%) Police
13 5 (0.90%) Aviation
14 4 (0.72%) Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.18%) Advertising
17 1 (0.18%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.67%) REST
2 24 (4.31%) SOAP
3 19 (3.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.41%) Visualforce
4 15 (2.69%) Kafka
5 13 (2.33%) Middleware
6 11 (1.97%) PySpark
7 7 (1.26%) .NET
8 6 (1.08%) OAuth
8 6 (1.08%) RESTful
9 5 (0.90%) OpenID
9 5 (0.90%) Spring
10 4 (0.72%) CSS
10 4 (0.72%) HTML
10 4 (0.72%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.54%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.36%) SAML
12 2 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
12 2 (0.36%) Web Services
12 2 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.69%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.15%) IVR
7 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.44%) CMDB
8 8 (1.44%) IoT
9 7 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.08%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (0.72%) PKI
11 4 (0.72%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.54%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.36%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.36%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.36%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.44%) Windows
2 6 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.90%) Linux
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (21.01%) Agile
2 87 (15.62%) DevOps
3 79 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 79 (14.18%) Roadmaps
4 76 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
5 73 (13.11%) Mentoring
6 71 (12.75%) CI/CD
7 64 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
8 62 (11.13%) AI
8 62 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 55 (9.87%) Event-Driven
10 45 (8.08%) Design Patterns
11 44 (7.90%) Coaching
12 43 (7.72%) Technology Roadmap
13 42 (7.54%) Architectural Patterns
13 42 (7.54%) Enterprise Architecture
14 41 (7.36%) Decision-Making
15 39 (7.00%) TOGAF
16 38 (6.82%) Analytics
17 37 (6.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.39%) Python
2 19 (3.41%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.41%) SOQL
2 19 (3.41%) SOSL
3 16 (2.87%) Java
4 15 (2.69%) C#
5 10 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.08%) SQL
7 5 (0.90%) Go
7 5 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.72%) Bicep
9 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.36%) Ruby
9 2 (0.36%) X++
10 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.87%) DV Cleared
4 13 (2.33%) Degree
5 8 (1.44%) RIBA
6 6 (1.08%) Dell Certification
6 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.72%) CISSP
8 4 (0.72%) CITP
9 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.36%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.36%) CCNA
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.36%) CWNA
10 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.51%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.62%) GDPR
4 8 (1.44%) PMO
5 3 (0.54%) IFRS
5 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.54%) WCAG
6 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) PSD2
7 1 (0.18%) QA
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.87%) Docker
2 13 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.26%) vSphere
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (4.31%) Terraform
2 22 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.08%) Avamar
3 6 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.08%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.08%) VxRail
4 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Argo
4 2 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 72 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.57%) Salesforce
3 28 (5.03%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.77%) Splunk
5 14 (2.51%) Databricks
6 13 (2.33%) Cisco
6 13 (2.33%) VMware
7 12 (2.15%) Avaya
7 12 (2.15%) Genesys
8 10 (1.80%) Computacenter
9 9 (1.62%) Google
9 9 (1.62%) YouTube
10 8 (1.44%) Oracle
11 7 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.26%) SAP
12 6 (1.08%) 3PAR
12 6 (1.08%) Dell
12 6 (1.08%) NetApp
12 6 (1.08%) OpenText
12 6 (1.08%) Veeam