Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 372 420
Rank change year-on-year -159 +48 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 145 542 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.69% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.73% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 114 380 289
10th Percentile £61,422 £49,779 £56,200
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -6.06% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £75,400 £82,500
% change year-on-year +9.42% -8.61% +6.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Top 16 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 18 September 2025. 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 -138 123 £82,500 +3.13% 136
UK excluding London -121 82 £82,500 +9.42% 132
Work from Home -21 60 £82,500 +9.78% 57
London -26 49 £90,000 +19.56% 45
South East +2 24 £82,500 - 37
North of England -9 22 £80,000 +6.10% 28
Midlands +9 18 £70,000 - 19
West Midlands +27 13 £80,000 +6.45% 11
Yorkshire +17 10 £82,500 +20.00% 5
North West -3 9 £96,000 +20.00% 16
Scotland +28 7 £70,000 -12.50% 16
East Midlands +10 5 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Wales -27 5 £71,500 +21.70% 4
South West +31 4 £82,500 +3.13% 11
North East +11 2 £70,000 -12.50% 7
East of England -50 2 - - 11

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Technical Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 68 (46.90%) Azure
2 49 (33.79%) Technical Leadership
3 42 (28.97%) Roadmaps
4 40 (27.59%) DevOps
5 35 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 31 (21.38%) Microservices
6 31 (21.38%) AWS
7 30 (20.69%) .NET
7 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
8 29 (20.00%) GDPR
9 28 (19.31%) Design Patterns
10 27 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.24%) Docker
12 24 (16.55%) SQL
13 23 (15.86%) Event-Driven
14 22 (15.17%) CI/CD
14 22 (15.17%) GCP
14 22 (15.17%) C#
14 22 (15.17%) Analytics
14 22 (15.17%) Technical Architecture
15 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
15 21 (14.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 21 (14.48%) REST
15 21 (14.48%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (13.79%) gRPC
16 20 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (13.79%) Microsoft
17 19 (13.10%) Git
18 18 (12.41%) High Availability

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.14%) nginx
2 2 (1.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.38%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.69%) Mendix
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.38%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.38%) Revit
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.76%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.38%) Shopify
4 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.90%) Azure
2 31 (21.38%) AWS
3 22 (15.17%) GCP
4 21 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (11.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 16 (11.03%) SonarCloud
7 8 (5.52%) OCI
8 6 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.14%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.14%) SaaS
9 5 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.45%) Serverless
10 4 (2.76%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.07%) PaaS
11 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.90%) Network Security
2 8 (5.52%) DNS
3 6 (4.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (2.76%) Firewall
5 2 (1.38%) Broadband
5 2 (1.38%) LAN
5 2 (1.38%) PBX
5 2 (1.38%) SAN
5 2 (1.38%) Skype
5 2 (1.38%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.38%) VoIP
5 2 (1.38%) WAN
6 1 (0.69%) NAS
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
6 1 (0.69%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.38%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Git
2 16 (11.03%) MSBuild
2 16 (11.03%) Octopus Deploy
2 16 (11.03%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (11.03%) Visual Studio
3 8 (5.52%) GitLab
4 6 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.72%) Retail
3 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.21%) Law
5 8 (5.52%) Finance
6 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.45%) Marketing
8 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Back Office
10 2 (1.38%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.69%) .NET
2 21 (14.48%) REST
3 20 (13.79%) gRPC
4 17 (11.72%) CSS
4 17 (11.72%) HTML
5 16 (11.03%) ASP.NET
5 16 (11.03%) Bootstrap
5 16 (11.03%) JSON
5 16 (11.03%) XML
6 8 (5.52%) Kafka
7 5 (3.45%) Node.js
7 5 (3.45%) RESTful
8 4 (2.76%) Celery
8 4 (2.76%) Django
8 4 (2.76%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.76%) Flask
8 4 (2.76%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.76%) SOAP
8 4 (2.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.14%) Private Cloud
3 6 (4.14%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.14%) Smartphone
4 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Media Streaming
6 3 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.38%) Blog
7 2 (1.38%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.38%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.38%) Home Automation
7 2 (1.38%) IoT
7 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.38%) Social Media
7 2 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.59%) Windows
2 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.79%) Technical Leadership
2 42 (28.97%) Roadmaps
3 40 (27.59%) DevOps
4 35 (24.14%) Mentoring
5 31 (21.38%) Microservices
6 28 (19.31%) Design Patterns
7 27 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.86%) Event-Driven
9 22 (15.17%) Analytics
9 22 (15.17%) CI/CD
9 22 (15.17%) Technical Architecture
10 21 (14.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 21 (14.48%) Performance Optimisation
11 18 (12.41%) Code Quality
11 18 (12.41%) High Availability
12 17 (11.72%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (11.72%) MVC
13 16 (11.03%) API Integration
13 16 (11.03%) Data Encryption
13 16 (11.03%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.55%) SQL
2 22 (15.17%) C#
3 18 (12.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.52%) Java
4 8 (5.52%) Python
5 3 (2.07%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.38%) ABAP
6 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.38%) SOQL
6 2 (1.38%) SOSL
7 1 (0.69%) Go
7 1 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.28%) Degree
3 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.52%) CCNA
4 8 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.52%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (4.83%) CCNP
6 6 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.38%) MCP
9 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CCIE
10 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.00%) GDPR
2 14 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.28%) HIPAA
3 12 (8.28%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.76%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) HL7
5 1 (0.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (17.24%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.76%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.21%) Terraform
3 4 (2.76%) Grafana
3 4 (2.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.69%) Istio
4 1 (0.69%) Marathon
4 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.59%) Oracle
3 6 (4.14%) F5
4 5 (3.45%) Google
5 4 (2.76%) Extreme Networks
5 4 (2.76%) Gigya
5 4 (2.76%) Juniper
5 4 (2.76%) PayPal
5 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.76%) SAP
6 3 (2.07%) Cisco
6 3 (2.07%) Workday
7 2 (1.38%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.38%) Facebook
7 2 (1.38%) NEC
7 2 (1.38%) Polycom
7 2 (1.38%) Ribbon
7 2 (1.38%) Samsung
7 2 (1.38%) Sony
7 2 (1.38%) Splunk