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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 483 421
Rank change year-on-year +133 -62 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 432 161 550
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.43% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 334 127 390
10th Percentile £58,011 £60,576 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,170
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -6.25%

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 81,705 37,434 89,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.27% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 52,263 23,569 66,364
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 23 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 23 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 +112 323 £82,957 +0.55% 63
UK excluding London +52 232 £85,000 +3.03% 43
Work from Home +132 180 £85,000 +3.03% 24
London +60 111 £80,000 -11.11% 27
North of England +17 102 £87,431 -0.08% 14
Yorkshire -10 44 £86,216 +27.73% 2
North West +1 43 £88,716 -4.09% 11
Scotland +3 29 £90,000 +28.57%
East of England -18 24 £100,000 +2.56% 5
Midlands -25 24 £80,000 +14.29% 3
West Midlands -15 18 £80,000 +10.34% 1
South West -37 18 £52,384 -12.69% 7
North East -33 15 £88,431 +7.19% 1
South East -66 13 £85,000 +3.03% 15
Wales -20 12 £70,000 +35.92%
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -47 6 £45,000 -21.96% 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 85 (19.68%) Agile
2 79 (18.29%) Azure
3 68 (15.74%) DevOps
4 58 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (13.43%) Roadmaps
5 57 (13.19%) Mentoring
6 50 (11.57%) Technical Architecture
7 47 (10.88%) AWS
8 44 (10.19%) Microsoft
8 44 (10.19%) Security Cleared
9 41 (9.49%) Project Delivery
10 39 (9.03%) Event-Driven
10 39 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (9.03%) Technology Roadmap
11 38 (8.80%) TOGAF
12 36 (8.33%) Analytics
12 36 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
12 36 (8.33%) SC Cleared
13 35 (8.10%) Design Patterns
14 34 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
14 34 (7.87%) CI/CD
15 33 (7.64%) Migration
15 33 (7.64%) Technology Strategy
16 32 (7.41%) Service Delivery
17 29 (6.71%) AI
17 29 (6.71%) Microservices
17 29 (6.71%) Technical Leadership
18 28 (6.48%) SaaS
19 27 (6.25%) Community of Practice
20 26 (6.02%) Architectural Design

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 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.39%) Confluence
3 5 (1.16%) SAS
4 4 (0.93%) Documentum
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.46%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.46%) Revit
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Findur
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 79 (18.29%) Azure
2 47 (10.88%) AWS
3 28 (6.48%) SaaS
4 24 (5.56%) GCP
4 24 (5.56%) PaaS
5 12 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.08%) IaaS
9 8 (1.85%) OCI
10 7 (1.62%) Serverless
11 6 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.16%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.93%) Azure Event Grid
13 4 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.17%) Broadband
2 8 (1.85%) Firewall
3 7 (1.62%) VPN
4 6 (1.39%) LAN
4 6 (1.39%) WAN
5 5 (1.16%) SSL
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.93%) Wireless
6 4 (0.93%) WLAN
7 3 (0.69%) DNS
7 3 (0.69%) Internet
7 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.46%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.46%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.24%) Metadata
2 6 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.93%) Power BI
4 4 (0.93%) Redis
5 1 (0.23%) Big Data
5 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.23%) MySQL
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (4.17%) GitLab
1 18 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.17%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.39%) Git
2 6 (1.39%) JIRA
3 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 74 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.97%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.87%) Finance
4 32 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.94%) Marketing
6 20 (4.63%) Law
7 19 (4.40%) Legal
8 18 (4.17%) Games
9 9 (2.08%) Local Government
10 8 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.39%) Banking
12 6 (1.39%) Police
13 5 (1.16%) Aviation
13 5 (1.16%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.93%) Retail
15 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.46%) Back Office
15 2 (0.46%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.32%) Middleware
2 19 (4.40%) SOAP
3 18 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.17%) REST
3 18 (4.17%) Visualforce
4 14 (3.24%) Django
4 14 (3.24%) Node.js
4 14 (3.24%) React
5 7 (1.62%) .NET
6 6 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.16%) Spring
8 4 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (0.93%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.93%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.93%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.69%) RESTful
10 2 (0.46%) Kafka
10 2 (0.46%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.31%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.31%) IoT
5 8 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.16%) PKI
7 5 (1.16%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (0.93%) CMDB
8 4 (0.93%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.46%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.46%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.46%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 1 (0.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.69%) Linux
1 3 (0.69%) Windows
1 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.68%) Agile
2 68 (15.74%) DevOps
3 58 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (13.43%) Roadmaps
4 57 (13.19%) Mentoring
5 50 (11.57%) Technical Architecture
6 41 (9.49%) Project Delivery
7 39 (9.03%) Event-Driven
7 39 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (9.03%) Technology Roadmap
8 38 (8.80%) TOGAF
9 36 (8.33%) Analytics
9 36 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 35 (8.10%) Design Patterns
11 34 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
11 34 (7.87%) CI/CD
12 33 (7.64%) Migration
12 33 (7.64%) Technology Strategy
13 32 (7.41%) Service Delivery
14 29 (6.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.63%) Python
2 18 (4.17%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.17%) SOQL
2 18 (4.17%) SOSL
3 10 (2.31%) SQL
4 9 (2.08%) C#
4 9 (2.08%) Java
5 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.46%) Ruby
6 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.23%) Go
6 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.23%) R
6 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (10.19%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.55%) Degree
4 10 (2.31%) RIBA
5 8 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.93%) CCNA
8 4 (0.93%) CISSP
8 4 (0.93%) CITP
8 4 (0.93%) CWNA
9 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.46%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) CCNP
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.08%) GDPR
2 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.93%) PMO
4 3 (0.69%) IFRS
4 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.31%) Docker
2 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.93%) vSphere
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.62%) Terraform
3 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) Avamar
5 2 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (0.46%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.46%) VxRail
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) CASB
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.17%) Splunk
5 16 (3.70%) Oracle
5 16 (3.70%) Palantir
6 12 (2.78%) Google
7 10 (2.31%) YouTube
8 6 (1.39%) OpenText
8 6 (1.39%) VMware
9 4 (0.93%) Databricks
9 4 (0.93%) Informatica
9 4 (0.93%) Meraki
9 4 (0.93%) Pega
9 4 (0.93%) SAP
10 3 (0.69%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.46%) Veeam