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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 541 359
Rank change year-on-year +237 -182 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 661 144 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 458 112 432
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -8.91%
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 101,401 44,799 79,009
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 89.89% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 69,411 26,484 52,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £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 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.25% -4.63% -5.21%

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 22 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 22 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 +160 481 £85,000 +3.03% 103
UK excluding London +165 421 £85,000 +3.03% 86
North of England +104 195 £85,000 +13.33% 42
Work from Home +94 195 £85,000 +3.03% 48
London +32 126 £95,000 +8.57% 33
North West +55 78 £85,000 -2.86% 17
North East +8 61 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Yorkshire +11 56 £85,000 +21.43% 14
Midlands -8 49 £87,431 +24.90% 7
West Midlands +4 43 £87,431 +9.29% 6
South West -34 43 £72,500 -12.12% 9
Wales -23 36 £80,000 +11.89% 6
Scotland +32 29 £85,000 +21.43% 3
East of England +2 29 £95,000 - 2
South East -30 25 £95,000 +15.15% 18
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 -
East Midlands -22 6 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 (18.91%) Agile
2 120 (18.15%) Azure
3 112 (16.94%) Security Cleared
4 90 (13.62%) SC Cleared
4 90 (13.62%) Technical Architecture
5 88 (13.31%) AWS
6 87 (13.16%) Microsoft
7 85 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
8 84 (12.71%) AI
9 80 (12.10%) CI/CD
10 77 (11.65%) Mentoring
11 71 (10.74%) DevOps
11 71 (10.74%) Roadmaps
12 67 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 66 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (8.32%) Coaching
15 53 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
16 49 (7.41%) Decision-Making
16 49 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 44 (6.66%) SaaS
18 42 (6.35%) Architecture Governance
18 42 (6.35%) Integration Patterns
19 41 (6.20%) Design Patterns
19 41 (6.20%) Microservices
20 39 (5.90%) Event-Driven
21 36 (5.45%) Enterprise Architecture
22 33 (4.99%) GCP
22 33 (4.99%) Infrastructure as Code
23 32 (4.84%) Analytics
23 32 (4.84%) Python

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 10 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.30%) Camunda
4 1 (0.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.36%) Revit
3 2 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.15%) Findur
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 120 (18.15%) Azure
2 88 (13.31%) AWS
3 44 (6.66%) SaaS
4 33 (4.99%) GCP
5 28 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.27%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.12%) GitHub
9 11 (1.66%) Azure AKS
9 11 (1.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (1.66%) dbt
9 11 (1.66%) PaaS
10 10 (1.51%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.51%) IaaS
10 10 (1.51%) Serverless
11 8 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.06%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.12%) CTI
1 14 (2.12%) VoIP
2 11 (1.66%) Broadband
2 11 (1.66%) Network Security
2 11 (1.66%) VPN
3 10 (1.51%) Firewall
3 10 (1.51%) LAN
3 10 (1.51%) WAN
4 7 (1.06%) WLAN
5 6 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (0.91%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.61%) Wireless
7 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.51%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.06%) Power BI
3 6 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.76%) Metadata
4 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.61%) 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%) Db2
7 1 (0.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.15%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (1.97%) Jenkins
1 13 (1.97%) SonarQube
2 12 (1.82%) GitLab
3 6 (0.91%) JIRA
4 5 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 119 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 80 (12.10%) Social Skills
3 55 (8.32%) Finance
4 51 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.18%) Marketing
6 20 (3.03%) Legal
7 13 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (1.97%) Law
8 11 (1.66%) Games
9 7 (1.06%) Police
10 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.76%) Aviation
12 4 (0.61%) Local Government
13 3 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.30%) Banking
14 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.39%) Terraform
2 22 (3.33%) Middleware
3 20 (3.03%) REST
4 18 (2.72%) SOAP
5 15 (2.27%) Kafka
6 12 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
6 12 (1.82%) Visualforce
7 11 (1.66%) PySpark
8 9 (1.36%) .NET
9 7 (1.06%) CSS
9 7 (1.06%) HTML
9 7 (1.06%) Spring
10 5 (0.76%) OAuth
10 5 (0.76%) RESTful
10 5 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.61%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (0.61%) Entity Framework
11 4 (0.61%) OpenID
11 4 (0.61%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.57%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.12%) IVR
3 14 (2.12%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.21%) CMDB
6 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.91%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 4 (0.61%) Blog
9 4 (0.61%) Life Science
10 2 (0.30%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.30%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.30%) IoT
10 2 (0.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.21%) Linux
1 8 (1.21%) Windows
2 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (18.91%) Agile
2 90 (13.62%) Technical Architecture
3 85 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
4 84 (12.71%) AI
5 80 (12.10%) CI/CD
6 77 (11.65%) Mentoring
7 71 (10.74%) DevOps
7 71 (10.74%) Roadmaps
8 67 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 55 (8.32%) Coaching
11 53 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
12 49 (7.41%) Decision-Making
12 49 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 42 (6.35%) Architecture Governance
13 42 (6.35%) Integration Patterns
14 41 (6.20%) Design Patterns
14 41 (6.20%) Microservices
15 39 (5.90%) Event-Driven
16 36 (5.45%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.84%) Python
2 23 (3.48%) C#
3 16 (2.42%) Java
4 12 (1.82%) Apex Code
4 12 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.82%) SOQL
4 12 (1.82%) SOSL
5 9 (1.36%) Bicep
6 7 (1.06%) Go
7 5 (0.76%) SQL
8 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.45%) ABAP
10 2 (0.30%) X++
11 1 (0.15%) COBOL
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.15%) R
11 1 (0.15%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 112 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.42%) Degree
5 8 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.21%) RIBA
6 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.91%) Dell Certification
8 5 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.45%) CCNA
9 3 (0.45%) CISSP
9 3 (0.45%) CWNA
10 2 (0.30%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) CCIE
10 2 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.12%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.91%) GDPR
2 6 (0.91%) PMO
3 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.61%) QA
4 3 (0.45%) IFRS
4 3 (0.45%) 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 (2.87%) Docker
1 19 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.91%) 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 27 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.91%) Avamar
2 6 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.91%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.91%) VxRail
3 3 (0.45%) Grafana
3 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 23 (3.48%) ServiceNow
4 19 (2.87%) VMware
5 17 (2.57%) Cisco
6 14 (2.12%) Avaya
6 14 (2.12%) Genesys
6 14 (2.12%) Oracle
6 14 (2.12%) Splunk
7 13 (1.97%) Computacenter
8 12 (1.82%) Google
8 12 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.66%) Databricks
9 11 (1.66%) SAP
10 7 (1.06%) Adobe
11 6 (0.91%) 3PAR
11 6 (0.91%) Dell
11 6 (0.91%) Isilon
11 6 (0.91%) NetApp
11 6 (0.91%) Veeam