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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 477 412
Rank change year-on-year +114 -65 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 366 176 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.45% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 287 121 371
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,163
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,400
% change year-on-year -3.03% +9.42% -5.75%

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 68,739 38,903 80,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.47% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,768 23,119 61,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.23%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +86 275 £80,000 -3.03% 75
UK excluding London +56 201 £80,000 -3.03% 44
Work from Home +92 143 £80,000 -3.03% 40
London +66 102 £90,000 +1.12% 39
North of England +22 78 £80,000 -5.88% 9
North West +12 37 £82,500 -2.94% 2
Yorkshire -12 31 £80,000 - 4
Scotland +6 30 £85,000 +41.67%
Midlands -11 22 £80,000 +12.28% 4
South West -14 18 £70,000 +16.67% 8
East of England 0 17 £100,000 +2.56% 1
West Midlands +14 14 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Wales -9 14 £72,415 +40.61%
South East -55 12 £85,000 +3.03% 22
North East -16 10 £84,216 -11.35% 3
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 -
East Midlands -30 8 £60,500 +12.39%

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 88 (24.04%) Agile
2 78 (21.31%) Azure
3 69 (18.85%) DevOps
4 61 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 59 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (13.93%) AWS
7 49 (13.39%) Mentoring
7 49 (13.39%) Security Cleared
8 45 (12.30%) SC Cleared
8 45 (12.30%) Technical Architecture
9 42 (11.48%) Event-Driven
9 42 (11.48%) TOGAF
10 41 (11.20%) Architectural Patterns
11 40 (10.93%) Technology Roadmap
12 39 (10.66%) Microsoft
13 38 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (10.11%) CI/CD
14 37 (10.11%) Enterprise Architecture
15 36 (9.84%) Design Patterns
15 36 (9.84%) Project Delivery
16 31 (8.47%) Analytics
17 30 (8.20%) Migration
18 29 (7.92%) Technology Strategy
19 28 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
20 27 (7.38%) Community of Practice
20 27 (7.38%) Microservices
20 27 (7.38%) Salesforce
20 27 (7.38%) Scrum
21 26 (7.10%) Architectural Design
21 26 (7.10%) 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 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.09%) Confluence
2 4 (1.09%) Documentum
2 4 (1.09%) SAS
3 2 (0.55%) Camunda
3 2 (0.55%) CMS
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.55%) Revit
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (21.31%) Azure
2 51 (13.93%) AWS
3 25 (6.83%) SaaS
4 24 (6.56%) PaaS
5 21 (5.74%) GCP
6 11 (3.01%) Serverless
7 10 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.46%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (2.19%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (1.91%) IaaS
10 7 (1.91%) OCI
11 6 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.09%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.46%) Broadband
2 7 (1.91%) Firewall
3 5 (1.37%) LAN
3 5 (1.37%) SSL
3 5 (1.37%) VPN
3 5 (1.37%) WAN
4 4 (1.09%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.09%) Wireless
4 4 (1.09%) WLAN
5 3 (0.82%) DNS
5 3 (0.82%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) IPsec
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.55%) Metadata
2 12 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.09%) Redis
6 3 (0.82%) Power BI
7 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.27%) DB2
8 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.27%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (5.46%) GitLab
1 20 (5.46%) Jenkins
1 20 (5.46%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.37%) Git
3 4 (1.09%) JIRA
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 67 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.12%) Public Sector
3 38 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (8.74%) Marketing
5 26 (7.10%) Finance
6 20 (5.46%) Games
6 20 (5.46%) Law
7 17 (4.64%) Legal
8 9 (2.46%) Local Government
9 8 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.91%) Banking
10 7 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.09%) Retail
13 3 (0.82%) Aviation
13 3 (0.82%) Police
14 2 (0.55%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.01%) Node.js
2 21 (5.74%) Django
2 21 (5.74%) React
3 20 (5.46%) Lightning Web Components
3 20 (5.46%) Middleware
3 20 (5.46%) REST
3 20 (5.46%) SOAP
3 20 (5.46%) Visualforce
4 9 (2.46%) .NET
5 7 (1.91%) Web Services
6 6 (1.64%) Spring
7 5 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.09%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.09%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.09%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.09%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.09%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.09%) Spring MVC
9 2 (0.55%) OAuth
9 2 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.19%) IoT
5 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.37%) PKI
6 5 (1.37%) Synthetic Data
7 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.09%) Digital Signage
7 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.27%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.04%) Agile
2 69 (18.85%) DevOps
3 61 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 59 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (13.39%) Mentoring
6 45 (12.30%) Technical Architecture
7 42 (11.48%) Event-Driven
7 42 (11.48%) TOGAF
8 41 (11.20%) Architectural Patterns
9 40 (10.93%) Technology Roadmap
10 38 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (10.11%) CI/CD
11 37 (10.11%) Enterprise Architecture
12 36 (9.84%) Design Patterns
12 36 (9.84%) Project Delivery
13 31 (8.47%) Analytics
14 30 (8.20%) Migration
15 29 (7.92%) Technology Strategy
16 28 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (7.38%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.83%) Python
2 20 (5.46%) Apex Code
2 20 (5.46%) SOQL
2 20 (5.46%) SOSL
3 12 (3.28%) SQL
4 11 (3.01%) C#
5 10 (2.73%) Java
6 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.27%) ABAP
7 1 (0.27%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) Ruby
7 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.46%) RIBA
5 8 (2.19%) Degree
6 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.37%) CISSP
8 4 (1.09%) CCNA
8 4 (1.09%) CITP
8 4 (1.09%) CWNA
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) CCNP
11 1 (0.27%) CISM
11 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.91%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.64%) GDPR
3 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.55%) NCSC
4 2 (0.55%) NIST
4 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.55%) PMO
4 2 (0.55%) WCAG
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 10 (2.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.55%) vSphere
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.64%) Terraform
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.27%) CASB
Vendors
1 39 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.38%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.46%) Splunk
4 18 (4.92%) Oracle
5 16 (4.37%) Palantir
6 12 (3.28%) Google
6 12 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.19%) Informatica
7 8 (2.19%) YouTube
8 5 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.37%) OpenText
9 4 (1.09%) Meraki
9 4 (1.09%) Pega
9 4 (1.09%) SAP
10 3 (0.82%) Databricks
11 2 (0.55%) Adobe
11 2 (0.55%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.55%) VMware
12 1 (0.27%) Netskope
12 1 (0.27%) Workday