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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 479 418
Rank change year-on-year +122 -61 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 399 164 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.45% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 312 126 375
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% -7.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,038
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,770
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -3.85%

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 73,572 36,772 85,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 89.92% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,294 23,163 64,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £79,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +75 300 £80,000 -3.03% 107
UK excluding London +40 221 £80,000 -3.03% 89
Work from Home +103 158 £80,000 -3.03% 60
London +53 108 £85,000 -5.56% 32
North of England +2 87 £85,000 - 31
North West +2 40 £85,000 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -17 36 £82,500 +22.22% 12
Scotland +1 32 £85,000 +21.43% 5
Midlands -19 25 £80,000 +14.29% 11
South West -21 20 £67,800 +13.00% 7
East of England -11 19 £100,000 +2.56% 13
West Midlands -6 17 £80,000 +14.29% 11
Wales -18 14 £72,415 +40.61% 2
South East -70 13 £85,000 +3.03% 22
North East -18 11 £88,431 +7.19% 8
Northern Ireland - 11 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -43 8 £60,500 +12.39%

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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 91 (22.81%) Agile
2 84 (21.05%) Azure
3 71 (17.79%) DevOps
4 64 (16.04%) Roadmaps
5 61 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (13.03%) Technical Architecture
7 51 (12.78%) AWS
7 51 (12.78%) Mentoring
8 50 (12.53%) Security Cleared
9 44 (11.03%) Event-Driven
9 44 (11.03%) Microsoft
9 44 (11.03%) SC Cleared
10 42 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
10 42 (10.53%) TOGAF
11 38 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 38 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (9.52%) Project Delivery
12 37 (9.27%) Architectural Patterns
12 37 (9.27%) Design Patterns
13 35 (8.77%) Enterprise Architecture
14 33 (8.27%) Analytics
14 33 (8.27%) Technology Strategy
15 32 (8.02%) Migration
16 29 (7.27%) Community of Practice
17 28 (7.02%) Salesforce
17 28 (7.02%) Scrum
17 28 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
18 27 (6.77%) Architectural Design
18 27 (6.77%) Microservices
18 27 (6.77%) Service 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 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) SAS
3 4 (1.00%) Documentum
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.50%) Revit
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 84 (21.05%) Azure
2 51 (12.78%) AWS
3 26 (6.52%) SaaS
4 23 (5.76%) PaaS
5 22 (5.51%) GCP
6 12 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.01%) IaaS
9 8 (2.01%) OCI
9 8 (2.01%) Serverless
10 7 (1.75%) Azure AKS
10 7 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.50%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.00%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.00%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.26%) Broadband
2 7 (1.75%) Firewall
2 7 (1.75%) VPN
3 6 (1.50%) LAN
3 6 (1.50%) WAN
4 5 (1.25%) SSL
5 4 (1.00%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.00%) Wireless
5 4 (1.00%) WLAN
6 3 (0.75%) DNS
6 3 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) IPsec
7 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.26%) Metadata
2 10 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.25%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.25%) Power BI
5 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.00%) Redis
6 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Big Data
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 21 (5.26%) GitLab
1 21 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 21 (5.26%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.25%) Git
2 5 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.25%) RStudio
General
1 71 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.54%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (8.27%) Marketing
5 28 (7.02%) Finance
6 21 (5.26%) Games
6 21 (5.26%) Law
7 18 (4.51%) Legal
8 9 (2.26%) Local Government
9 7 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Banking
11 5 (1.25%) Aviation
11 5 (1.25%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.25%) Police
12 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.00%) Retail
13 2 (0.50%) Back Office
13 2 (0.50%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.76%) Middleware
2 22 (5.51%) Node.js
2 22 (5.51%) SOAP
3 21 (5.26%) Django
3 21 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (5.26%) React
3 21 (5.26%) REST
3 21 (5.26%) Visualforce
4 9 (2.26%) .NET
5 7 (1.75%) Web Services
6 6 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.25%) Spring
8 4 (1.00%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.00%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.00%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.00%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.00%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.75%) RESTful
10 2 (0.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.02%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.01%) IoT
5 8 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.25%) PKI
7 5 (1.25%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (1.00%) Digital Signage
8 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.50%) CMDB
10 2 (0.50%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.25%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.25%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (22.81%) Agile
2 71 (17.79%) DevOps
3 64 (16.04%) Roadmaps
4 61 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (13.03%) Technical Architecture
6 51 (12.78%) Mentoring
7 44 (11.03%) Event-Driven
8 42 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
8 42 (10.53%) TOGAF
9 38 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 38 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (9.52%) Project Delivery
10 37 (9.27%) Architectural Patterns
10 37 (9.27%) Design Patterns
11 35 (8.77%) Enterprise Architecture
12 33 (8.27%) Analytics
12 33 (8.27%) Technology Strategy
13 32 (8.02%) Migration
14 29 (7.27%) Community of Practice
15 28 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.52%) Python
2 21 (5.26%) Apex Code
2 21 (5.26%) SOQL
2 21 (5.26%) SOSL
3 11 (2.76%) C#
3 11 (2.76%) SQL
4 9 (2.26%) Java
5 3 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.25%) ABAP
6 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.25%) Go
6 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.25%) R
6 1 (0.25%) Ruby
6 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.51%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.26%) Degree
4 9 (2.26%) RIBA
5 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.00%) CCNA
8 4 (1.00%) CISSP
8 4 (1.00%) CITP
8 4 (1.00%) CWNA
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.25%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.50%) GDPR
3 5 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.50%) PMO
4 2 (0.50%) WCAG
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.26%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.50%) vSphere
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.50%) Terraform
3 3 (0.75%) Ansible
4 2 (0.50%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) CASB
Vendors
1 44 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.02%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.26%) Splunk
4 17 (4.26%) Oracle
5 16 (4.01%) Palantir
6 15 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.01%) Google
8 9 (2.26%) YouTube
9 6 (1.50%) Informatica
9 6 (1.50%) OpenText
10 5 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.25%) SAP
11 4 (1.00%) Meraki
11 4 (1.00%) Pega
11 4 (1.00%) VMware
12 3 (0.75%) Databricks
13 2 (0.50%) Adobe
13 2 (0.50%) SolarWinds
14 1 (0.25%) OpenLink
14 1 (0.25%) Workday