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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 484 417
Rank change year-on-year +129 -67 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 433 156 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.41% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 333 122 398
10th Percentile £58,011 £60,989 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £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 £91,875 £92,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,410
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 83,161 37,674 90,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 89.04% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 53,383 23,465 66,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +93 322 £84,957 +2.98% 60
UK excluding London +44 231 £85,000 +3.03% 45
Work from Home +104 177 £85,000 +3.03% 24
London +70 112 £80,500 -12.97% 28
North of England +24 102 £87,431 -0.08% 13
Yorkshire -19 44 £86,216 +27.73% 2
North West 0 43 £88,716 -4.09% 11
Scotland +4 29 £90,000 +28.57%
East of England -2 26 £100,000 +11.11% 6
Midlands -26 24 £80,000 +14.29% 4
West Midlands -11 18 £80,000 +10.34% 2
South West -42 16 £50,000 -16.67% 7
North East -30 15 £88,431 +7.19%
Wales -26 12 £70,000 +22.81% 3
South East -74 12 £85,000 +3.03% 13
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -43 6 £45,000 -21.96% 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 83 (19.17%) Agile
2 79 (18.24%) Azure
3 67 (15.47%) DevOps
4 56 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (12.93%) Mentoring
4 56 (12.93%) Roadmaps
5 49 (11.32%) Technical Architecture
6 47 (10.85%) AWS
7 45 (10.39%) Security Cleared
8 43 (9.93%) Microsoft
9 40 (9.24%) Event-Driven
9 40 (9.24%) Project Delivery
10 39 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (8.78%) Technology Roadmap
12 37 (8.55%) SC Cleared
12 37 (8.55%) TOGAF
13 36 (8.31%) Analytics
13 36 (8.31%) Design Patterns
14 35 (8.08%) CI/CD
15 34 (7.85%) Enterprise Architecture
15 34 (7.85%) Migration
16 33 (7.62%) Architectural Patterns
17 31 (7.16%) Service Delivery
17 31 (7.16%) Technology Strategy
18 30 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
19 29 (6.70%) AI
20 28 (6.47%) Microservices
20 28 (6.47%) SaaS
20 28 (6.47%) Salesforce
21 26 (6.00%) ITSM

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 (1.15%) SAS
4 4 (0.92%) 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 (1.15%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.92%) 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 (18.24%) Azure
2 47 (10.85%) AWS
3 28 (6.47%) SaaS
4 24 (5.54%) PaaS
5 23 (5.31%) GCP
6 11 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.08%) IaaS
8 8 (1.85%) OCI
9 7 (1.62%) Serverless
10 6 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.15%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.92%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.92%) GitHub
12 4 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.16%) Broadband
2 8 (1.85%) Firewall
3 7 (1.62%) VPN
4 6 (1.39%) LAN
4 6 (1.39%) WAN
5 5 (1.15%) SSL
6 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.92%) Wireless
6 4 (0.92%) 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 (3.23%) Metadata
2 6 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.15%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.92%) Power BI
4 4 (0.92%) Redis
5 1 (0.23%) Big Data
5 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.23%) MySQL
5 1 (0.23%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.23%) SAS Enterprise Miner
Development Applications
1 18 (4.16%) GitLab
1 18 (4.16%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.16%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.39%) JIRA
3 5 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 72 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.70%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.85%) Finance
4 30 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (6.93%) Marketing
5 19 (4.39%) Law
5 19 (4.39%) Legal
6 18 (4.16%) Games
7 9 (2.08%) Local Government
8 7 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.39%) Banking
9 6 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.39%) Police
10 5 (1.15%) Aviation
10 5 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.92%) Retail
12 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.08%) Middleware
2 19 (4.39%) SOAP
3 18 (4.16%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.16%) REST
3 18 (4.16%) Visualforce
4 14 (3.23%) Django
4 14 (3.23%) Node.js
4 14 (3.23%) React
5 6 (1.39%) .NET
5 6 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.92%) Spring
7 3 (0.69%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.69%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.69%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.69%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.69%) Kafka
7 3 (0.69%) RESTful
7 3 (0.69%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.54%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.08%) IoT
5 8 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.15%) PKI
7 5 (1.15%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (0.92%) CMDB
8 4 (0.92%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.46%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.46%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.46%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.69%) Windows
1 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.17%) Agile
2 67 (15.47%) DevOps
3 56 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 56 (12.93%) Mentoring
3 56 (12.93%) Roadmaps
4 49 (11.32%) Technical Architecture
5 40 (9.24%) Event-Driven
5 40 (9.24%) Project Delivery
6 39 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (8.78%) Technology Roadmap
8 37 (8.55%) TOGAF
9 36 (8.31%) Analytics
9 36 (8.31%) Design Patterns
10 35 (8.08%) CI/CD
11 34 (7.85%) Enterprise Architecture
11 34 (7.85%) Migration
12 33 (7.62%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (7.16%) Service Delivery
13 31 (7.16%) Technology Strategy
14 30 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.08%) Python
2 18 (4.16%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.16%) SOQL
2 18 (4.16%) 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 45 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 37 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.31%) Degree
3 10 (2.31%) RIBA
4 8 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.92%) CCNA
7 4 (0.92%) CISSP
7 4 (0.92%) CITP
7 4 (0.92%) CWNA
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.46%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) CCNP
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.08%) GDPR
2 8 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.92%) 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 9 (2.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.92%) 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 12 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.85%) 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 43 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.47%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.16%) Splunk
5 16 (3.70%) Palantir
6 15 (3.46%) Oracle
7 11 (2.54%) Google
8 10 (2.31%) YouTube
9 6 (1.39%) OpenText
9 6 (1.39%) VMware
10 5 (1.15%) Databricks
11 4 (0.92%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.92%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.92%) Informatica
11 4 (0.92%) Meraki
11 4 (0.92%) Pega
11 4 (0.92%) SAP
12 3 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.46%) Nimble Storage
13 2 (0.46%) Veeam