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 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 544 349
Rank change year-on-year +231 -195 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 643 146 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.29% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 446 114 436
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,275
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.60% -8.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,438 £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 100,469 44,986 78,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.94% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 68,644 26,650 52,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

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 16 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 16 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 +162 465 £85,000 +3.03% 174
UK excluding London +156 402 £85,000 +3.03% 112
Work from Home +96 194 £85,000 +3.03% 78
North of England +94 184 £85,000 +3.03% 40
London +31 127 £95,000 +10.14% 87
North West +53 73 £85,000 -2.86% 19
North East -7 58 £85,000 +21.43% 13
Yorkshire +13 53 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Midlands +3 47 £87,431 +24.90% 9
West Midlands 0 41 £87,431 +9.29% 7
South West -42 39 £50,000 -39.39% 14
Wales -30 34 £80,000 +11.89% 10
Scotland +25 29 £85,000 +21.43% 7
East of England -4 28 £95,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 5
South East -47 24 £97,500 +18.18% 25
East Midlands -23 6 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 123 (19.13%) Agile
2 117 (18.20%) Azure
3 110 (17.11%) Security Cleared
4 89 (13.84%) Technical Architecture
5 87 (13.53%) SC Cleared
6 85 (13.22%) Microsoft
7 84 (13.06%) AWS
7 84 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
8 80 (12.44%) AI
9 77 (11.98%) CI/CD
10 76 (11.82%) Mentoring
11 74 (11.51%) DevOps
12 68 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (10.58%) Roadmaps
13 66 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 54 (8.40%) Coaching
15 53 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
16 48 (7.47%) Decision-Making
16 48 (7.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 42 (6.53%) Architecture Governance
17 42 (6.53%) Microservices
17 42 (6.53%) SaaS
18 41 (6.38%) Design Patterns
18 41 (6.38%) Event-Driven
18 41 (6.38%) Integration Patterns
19 37 (5.75%) Enterprise Architecture
20 32 (4.98%) Analytics
20 32 (4.98%) Python
21 31 (4.82%) Architectural Design
21 31 (4.82%) GCP

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 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.31%) Camunda
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.18%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.24%) Revit
3 2 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.16%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.93%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.31%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.16%) Findur
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (18.20%) Azure
2 84 (13.06%) AWS
3 42 (6.53%) SaaS
4 31 (4.82%) GCP
5 26 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 15 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.18%) GitHub
8 11 (1.71%) dbt
9 10 (1.56%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.56%) Azure AKS
9 10 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.56%) PaaS
10 9 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (1.40%) IaaS
10 9 (1.40%) Serverless
11 8 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (0.93%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.18%) CTI
1 14 (2.18%) VoIP
2 11 (1.71%) Broadband
3 10 (1.56%) Network Security
3 10 (1.56%) VPN
4 9 (1.40%) Firewall
4 9 (1.40%) LAN
4 9 (1.40%) WAN
5 7 (1.09%) WLAN
6 6 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.93%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.47%) Wireless
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) DNS
8 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.56%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.09%) Power BI
3 6 (0.93%) Metadata
3 6 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.62%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.31%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.16%) Db2
7 1 (0.16%) MySQL
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (2.02%) Jenkins
1 13 (2.02%) SonarQube
2 12 (1.87%) GitLab
3 6 (0.93%) JIRA
4 5 (0.78%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.16%) Maven
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 118 (18.35%) Public Sector
2 80 (12.44%) Social Skills
3 57 (8.86%) Finance
4 50 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.27%) Legal
5 21 (3.27%) Marketing
6 14 (2.18%) Law
7 13 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.71%) Games
9 6 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.93%) Police
10 5 (0.78%) Aviation
11 4 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.62%) Local Government
12 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.31%) Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.27%) Middleware
2 20 (3.11%) REST
3 18 (2.80%) SOAP
4 15 (2.33%) Kafka
5 12 (1.87%) Lightning Web Components
5 12 (1.87%) Visualforce
6 11 (1.71%) PySpark
7 9 (1.40%) .NET
8 8 (1.24%) Spring
9 7 (1.09%) CSS
9 7 (1.09%) HTML
10 5 (0.78%) OAuth
10 5 (0.78%) RESTful
11 4 (0.62%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.62%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.62%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (0.62%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.62%) OpenID
11 4 (0.62%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.62%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 16 (2.49%) Data Centre
3 15 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.18%) IVR
5 13 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.24%) CMDB
9 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.93%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.62%) Blog
10 4 (0.62%) Life Science
11 2 (0.31%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.31%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.31%) IoT
11 2 (0.31%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.16%) Autonomous Agent
12 1 (0.16%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.24%) Windows
2 7 (1.09%) Linux
3 6 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (19.13%) Agile
2 89 (13.84%) Technical Architecture
3 84 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
4 80 (12.44%) AI
5 77 (11.98%) CI/CD
6 76 (11.82%) Mentoring
7 74 (11.51%) DevOps
8 68 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (10.58%) Roadmaps
9 66 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (8.40%) Coaching
11 53 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
12 48 (7.47%) Decision-Making
12 48 (7.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 42 (6.53%) Architecture Governance
13 42 (6.53%) Microservices
14 41 (6.38%) Design Patterns
14 41 (6.38%) Event-Driven
14 41 (6.38%) Integration Patterns
15 37 (5.75%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.98%) Python
2 22 (3.42%) C#
3 17 (2.64%) Java
4 12 (1.87%) Apex Code
4 12 (1.87%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.87%) SOQL
4 12 (1.87%) SOSL
5 8 (1.24%) Bicep
6 7 (1.09%) Go
7 5 (0.78%) SQL
8 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.31%) ABAP
9 2 (0.31%) X++
10 1 (0.16%) COBOL
10 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.16%) R
10 1 (0.16%) RPG
10 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 110 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.80%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.49%) Degree
5 7 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.09%) RIBA
6 6 (0.93%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.47%) CCNA
9 3 (0.47%) CISSP
9 3 (0.47%) CWNA
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.31%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) CCIE
11 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.09%) GDPR
3 6 (0.93%) PMO
4 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.62%) QA
5 3 (0.47%) IFRS
5 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.47%) WCAG
6 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) PSD2
7 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (2.95%) Docker
2 17 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.93%) vSphere
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (4.35%) Terraform
2 26 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.93%) Avamar
3 6 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.93%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.93%) VxRail
4 3 (0.47%) Grafana
4 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.20%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 17 (2.64%) VMware
5 16 (2.49%) Cisco
6 14 (2.18%) Avaya
6 14 (2.18%) Genesys
6 14 (2.18%) Oracle
6 14 (2.18%) Splunk
7 13 (2.02%) Computacenter
8 12 (1.87%) Google
8 12 (1.87%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.71%) Databricks
10 10 (1.56%) SAP
11 6 (0.93%) 3PAR
11 6 (0.93%) Adobe
11 6 (0.93%) Dell
11 6 (0.93%) Isilon
11 6 (0.93%) NetApp
11 6 (0.93%) Veeam