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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 522 380
Rank change year-on-year +175 -142 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 511 154 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.33% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.37% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 355 117 527
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,576 £51,750
25th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -8.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -10.45%

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 90,569 41,555 99,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.51% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 62,167 23,987 72,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +116 350 £85,000 +3.03% 107
UK excluding London +113 279 £85,000 +3.03% 91
Work from Home +109 189 £85,000 +3.03% 57
North of England +47 121 £85,000 - 30
London +31 116 £80,000 -11.11% 37
North West +46 58 £85,000 -5.56% 14
Yorkshire +4 39 £85,000 -1.45% 3
Scotland +40 33 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Wales -24 28 £80,000 +11.89% 6
Midlands -27 25 £87,431 +24.90% 11
North East -26 24 £82,500 +17.86% 13
South West -41 24 £50,000 -31.03% 12
East of England +1 21 £100,000 +25.00% 5
West Midlands -16 19 £87,431 -2.85% 10
Northern Ireland - 15 £95,000 - 5
South East -47 14 £100,000 +21.21% 18
East Midlands -25 6 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 104 (20.35%) Agile
2 103 (20.16%) Azure
3 84 (16.44%) DevOps
4 82 (16.05%) AWS
5 76 (14.87%) Security Cleared
6 74 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 67 (13.11%) Mentoring
9 66 (12.92%) CI/CD
10 65 (12.72%) Technical Architecture
11 60 (11.74%) Microsoft
12 58 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
13 57 (11.15%) SC Cleared
14 55 (10.76%) Event-Driven
15 49 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 45 (8.81%) Design Patterns
17 42 (8.22%) Technology Roadmap
18 40 (7.83%) Coaching
19 39 (7.63%) AI
19 39 (7.63%) Architectural Patterns
19 39 (7.63%) Enterprise Architecture
19 39 (7.63%) TOGAF
20 37 (7.24%) Decision-Making
21 36 (7.05%) Analytics
22 35 (6.85%) Microservices
22 35 (6.85%) Migration
23 34 (6.65%) Problem-Solving
24 33 (6.46%) Data Modelling
24 33 (6.46%) Stakeholder Management
25 32 (6.26%) Integration Patterns

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 8 (1.57%) Confluence
2 5 (0.98%) SAS
3 4 (0.78%) Documentum
3 4 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) Revit
2 9 (1.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.20%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.39%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.20%) Findur
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (20.16%) Azure
2 82 (16.05%) AWS
3 29 (5.68%) GCP
3 29 (5.68%) SaaS
4 17 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.94%) PaaS
6 11 (2.15%) Amazon S3
6 11 (2.15%) GitHub
7 10 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
8 9 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.76%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.57%) Serverless
10 7 (1.37%) IaaS
11 6 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.17%) Nutanix
12 5 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.98%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.52%) Broadband
2 9 (1.76%) CTI
2 9 (1.76%) VoIP
3 8 (1.57%) VPN
4 7 (1.37%) Firewall
4 7 (1.37%) LAN
4 7 (1.37%) WAN
5 6 (1.17%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.17%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.17%) WLAN
6 5 (0.98%) Network Security
6 5 (0.98%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.78%) DNS
7 4 (0.78%) SSL
8 2 (0.39%) Internet
8 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.20%) IPsec
9 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.74%) Data Lake
1 14 (2.74%) Metadata
2 8 (1.57%) Power BI
3 6 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.98%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.78%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.59%) Redis
7 2 (0.39%) MySQL
7 2 (0.39%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.20%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.20%) SAS Enterprise Miner
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.72%) GitLab
1 19 (3.72%) Jenkins
1 19 (3.72%) SonarQube
2 8 (1.57%) JIRA
3 3 (0.59%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.20%) RStudio
General
1 91 (17.81%) Public Sector
2 87 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.24%) Finance
4 31 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.70%) Marketing
6 20 (3.91%) Law
7 18 (3.52%) Games
8 16 (3.13%) Legal
9 13 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.76%) Local Government
11 7 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.17%) Police
13 5 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.98%) Aviation
14 4 (0.78%) Banking
15 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.20%) Advertising
16 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.09%) REST
2 24 (4.70%) SOAP
3 19 (3.72%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.72%) Visualforce
4 15 (2.94%) Kafka
5 13 (2.54%) Middleware
6 11 (2.15%) PySpark
7 6 (1.17%) .NET
7 6 (1.17%) OAuth
7 6 (1.17%) RESTful
8 5 (0.98%) OpenID
8 5 (0.98%) Spring
9 4 (0.78%) CSS
9 4 (0.78%) HTML
9 4 (0.78%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.59%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.39%) SAML
11 2 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (0.39%) Web Services
11 2 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.76%) IoT
6 9 (1.76%) IVR
7 8 (1.57%) CMDB
7 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.17%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.78%) PKI
10 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.59%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.59%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.39%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.39%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.39%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.57%) Windows
2 6 (1.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.98%) Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (20.35%) Agile
2 84 (16.44%) DevOps
3 74 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 67 (13.11%) Mentoring
6 66 (12.92%) CI/CD
7 65 (12.72%) Technical Architecture
8 58 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
9 55 (10.76%) Event-Driven
10 49 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 45 (8.81%) Design Patterns
12 42 (8.22%) Technology Roadmap
13 40 (7.83%) Coaching
14 39 (7.63%) AI
14 39 (7.63%) Architectural Patterns
14 39 (7.63%) Enterprise Architecture
14 39 (7.63%) TOGAF
15 37 (7.24%) Decision-Making
16 36 (7.05%) Analytics
17 35 (6.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (5.68%) Python
2 19 (3.72%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.72%) SOQL
2 19 (3.72%) SOSL
3 16 (3.13%) Java
4 14 (2.74%) C#
5 10 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.17%) SQL
7 5 (0.98%) Go
7 5 (0.98%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.39%) Bicep
8 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.39%) Ruby
8 2 (0.39%) X++
9 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 57 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.35%) Degree
5 7 (1.37%) RIBA
6 6 (1.17%) Dell Certification
6 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.78%) CISSP
8 4 (0.78%) CITP
9 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.39%) CCNA
10 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.39%) CWNA
11 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.76%) GDPR
4 8 (1.57%) PMO
5 3 (0.59%) IFRS
5 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.59%) WCAG
6 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 16 (3.13%) Docker
2 11 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.37%) vSphere
4 2 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (4.11%) Terraform
2 20 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.17%) Avamar
3 6 (1.17%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.17%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.17%) VxRail
4 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.39%) Ansible
4 2 (0.39%) Grafana
4 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 60 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.07%) Salesforce
3 27 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.11%) Splunk
5 14 (2.74%) Databricks
6 11 (2.15%) VMware
7 10 (1.96%) Cisco
8 9 (1.76%) Avaya
8 9 (1.76%) Computacenter
8 9 (1.76%) Genesys
8 9 (1.76%) Google
8 9 (1.76%) YouTube
9 7 (1.37%) SAP
10 6 (1.17%) 3PAR
10 6 (1.17%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.17%) Dell
10 6 (1.17%) Isilon
10 6 (1.17%) NetApp
10 6 (1.17%) OpenText
10 6 (1.17%) Veeam