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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 526 368
Rank change year-on-year +234 -158 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 717 144 543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.29% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.32% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 496 113 383
10th Percentile £60,062 £61,268 £49,400
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -8.61%

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 105,368 44,470 74,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 89.68% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,550 26,183 45,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +184 534 £85,855 +4.07% 207
UK excluding London +177 477 £85,000 +3.03% 107
North of England +113 222 £85,000 +3.03% 28
Work from Home +96 212 £85,000 +3.03% 105
London +17 124 £95,000 +5.56% 120
North West +63 88 £85,000 -5.56% 21
North East 0 68 £85,000 +21.43% 3
Yorkshire +10 66 £82,500 - 4
Midlands -5 62 £88,000 +25.71% 19
West Midlands +8 55 £88,000 +10.00% 16
South West -24 51 £75,000 -9.09% 14
Wales -33 42 £80,000 +11.89% 3
East of England -2 35 £100,000 - 6
South East -30 26 £82,500 - 29
Scotland +25 24 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 - 1
East Midlands -31 7 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 128 (17.85%) Agile
2 125 (17.43%) Azure
3 124 (17.29%) Security Cleared
4 116 (16.18%) Technical Architecture
5 101 (14.09%) SC Cleared
6 100 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
7 97 (13.53%) AWS
8 94 (13.11%) AI
9 93 (12.97%) Mentoring
10 90 (12.55%) Microsoft
11 79 (11.02%) CI/CD
12 75 (10.46%) Roadmaps
13 70 (9.76%) DevOps
14 69 (9.62%) Coaching
15 67 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 66 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
18 51 (7.11%) Decision-Making
18 51 (7.11%) Microservices
19 49 (6.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 46 (6.42%) Integration Patterns
21 44 (6.14%) SaaS
22 42 (5.86%) Event-Driven
23 41 (5.72%) Architecture Governance
24 40 (5.58%) Enterprise Architecture
25 38 (5.30%) GCP
26 37 (5.16%) Design Patterns
27 35 (4.88%) Analytics
28 34 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
28 34 (4.74%) Project Delivery

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 11 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.14%) Apache
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.14%) Camunda
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.95%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.26%) Revit
3 2 (0.28%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.84%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.14%) Findur
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.43%) Azure
2 97 (13.53%) AWS
3 44 (6.14%) SaaS
4 38 (5.30%) GCP
5 32 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.23%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.09%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.81%) GitHub
8 13 (1.81%) IaaS
9 12 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.67%) Serverless
10 11 (1.53%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.53%) dbt
10 11 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.53%) PaaS
11 10 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.39%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.39%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.95%) CTI
1 14 (1.95%) VoIP
2 12 (1.67%) LAN
2 12 (1.67%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) Firewall
3 11 (1.53%) VPN
3 11 (1.53%) WAN
4 8 (1.12%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.98%) WLAN
6 6 (0.84%) Broadband
6 6 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.84%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.84%) Wireless
7 3 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.14%) DNS
8 1 (0.14%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.12%) Power BI
3 6 (0.84%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.70%) Metadata
4 5 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.28%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.14%) Db2
7 1 (0.14%) MySQL
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.14%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.14%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Jenkins
1 8 (1.12%) SonarQube
2 7 (0.98%) GitLab
3 6 (0.84%) JIRA
4 5 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) Maven
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 137 (19.11%) Public Sector
2 84 (11.72%) Social Skills
3 58 (8.09%) Finance
4 49 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.79%) Legal
6 16 (2.23%) Marketing
7 14 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.67%) Law
9 7 (0.98%) Police
10 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.84%) Games
11 4 (0.56%) Banking
11 4 (0.56%) Local Government
11 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.42%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.42%) Aviation
12 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.14%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.04%) Terraform
2 26 (3.63%) Middleware
3 15 (2.09%) Kafka
3 15 (2.09%) REST
4 13 (1.81%) SOAP
5 11 (1.53%) PySpark
6 10 (1.39%) .NET
7 7 (0.98%) CSS
7 7 (0.98%) HTML
7 7 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (0.98%) Spring
7 7 (0.98%) Visualforce
8 5 (0.70%) OAuth
8 5 (0.70%) RESTful
8 5 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.56%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.56%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.56%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.77%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.79%) Data Centre
3 17 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (1.95%) IVR
5 13 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.12%) CMDB
8 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.56%) Blog
10 4 (0.56%) Life Science
11 3 (0.42%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.28%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.28%) IoT
12 2 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.39%) Linux
1 10 (1.39%) Windows
2 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (17.85%) Agile
2 116 (16.18%) Technical Architecture
3 100 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
4 94 (13.11%) AI
5 93 (12.97%) Mentoring
6 79 (11.02%) CI/CD
7 75 (10.46%) Roadmaps
8 70 (9.76%) DevOps
9 69 (9.62%) Coaching
10 67 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 66 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
13 51 (7.11%) Decision-Making
13 51 (7.11%) Microservices
14 49 (6.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 46 (6.42%) Integration Patterns
16 42 (5.86%) Event-Driven
17 41 (5.72%) Architecture Governance
18 40 (5.58%) Enterprise Architecture
19 37 (5.16%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.46%) Python
2 24 (3.35%) C#
3 16 (2.23%) Java
4 13 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.26%) Bicep
6 7 (0.98%) Apex Code
6 7 (0.98%) Go
6 7 (0.98%) SOQL
6 7 (0.98%) SOSL
7 5 (0.70%) SQL
7 5 (0.70%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.42%) ABAP
8 3 (0.42%) X++
9 1 (0.14%) COBOL
9 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.14%) R
9 1 (0.14%) RPG
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 124 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.51%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.09%) Degree
5 14 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.12%) RIBA
9 7 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.84%) Dell Certification
11 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.56%) CCIE
12 4 (0.56%) CCNA
12 4 (0.56%) CCNP
12 4 (0.56%) CISSP
13 3 (0.42%) CWNA
14 2 (0.28%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.81%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.84%) GDPR
2 6 (0.84%) PMO
3 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.56%) QA
4 3 (0.42%) GRC
4 3 (0.42%) IFRS
4 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (2.65%) Docker
3 18 (2.51%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.84%) vSphere
6 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.84%) Avamar
2 6 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.84%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.84%) VxRail
3 3 (0.42%) Grafana
3 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) Argo
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.91%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.07%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.07%) VMware
4 19 (2.65%) Cisco
5 18 (2.51%) Computacenter
6 17 (2.37%) Google
7 14 (1.95%) Avaya
7 14 (1.95%) Genesys
7 14 (1.95%) Oracle
8 12 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.53%) Databricks
9 11 (1.53%) SAP
10 10 (1.39%) Adobe
10 10 (1.39%) Workday
11 9 (1.26%) Splunk
12 8 (1.12%) NetApp
12 8 (1.12%) Veeam
13 6 (0.84%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.84%) Isilon