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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 528 360
Rank change year-on-year +245 -168 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 766 142 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.29% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.32% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 530 107 377
10th Percentile £63,038 £60,428 £49,115
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -3.03%
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 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%

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 108,680 43,895 71,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 89.63% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,405 25,767 42,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +196 577 £87,431 +5.98% 294
UK excluding London +176 509 £85,000 +3.03% 163
North of England +121 240 £85,000 +6.25% 61
Work from Home +104 230 £85,000 +3.03% 123
London +14 128 £95,000 +5.56% 136
North West +53 95 £85,855 -10.57% 38
North East 0 73 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Yorkshire +23 72 £85,855 +4.07% 11
Midlands -11 64 £88,000 +25.71% 35
South West -20 61 £75,000 -9.09% 15
West Midlands +4 57 £88,000 +10.00% 33
Wales -35 45 £80,000 - 4
East of England -1 39 £100,000 - 7
South East -44 25 £80,000 -3.03% 33
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 -
Scotland +21 20 £85,000 +21.43% 10
East Midlands -31 7 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 139 (18.15%) Agile
1 139 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 128 (16.71%) Azure
3 121 (15.80%) Technical Architecture
4 115 (15.01%) SC Cleared
5 110 (14.36%) Technical Leadership
6 108 (14.10%) AI
7 105 (13.71%) AWS
8 103 (13.45%) Mentoring
9 97 (12.66%) Microsoft
10 83 (10.84%) Roadmaps
11 80 (10.44%) CI/CD
12 76 (9.92%) Coaching
13 72 (9.40%) DevOps
14 69 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 66 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
16 59 (7.70%) Decision-Making
16 59 (7.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 53 (6.92%) Microservices
18 49 (6.40%) Enterprise Architecture
18 49 (6.40%) Integration Patterns
19 46 (6.01%) Architecture Governance
20 45 (5.87%) Analytics
20 45 (5.87%) SaaS
21 44 (5.74%) Event-Driven
21 44 (5.74%) Translating Business Requirements
22 42 (5.48%) GCP
22 42 (5.48%) Project Delivery
23 39 (5.09%) Microsoft 365

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 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.65%) Confluence
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.83%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.17%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.78%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.26%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 128 (16.71%) Azure
2 105 (13.71%) AWS
3 45 (5.87%) SaaS
4 42 (5.48%) GCP
5 39 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.96%) GitHub
9 14 (1.83%) Power Platform
10 13 (1.70%) IaaS
10 13 (1.70%) PaaS
11 12 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (1.57%) Serverless
12 11 (1.44%) Azure AKS
12 11 (1.44%) dbt
13 10 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.31%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.83%) CTI
1 14 (1.83%) VoIP
2 13 (1.70%) LAN
2 13 (1.70%) Network Security
3 12 (1.57%) Firewall
4 11 (1.44%) VPN
4 11 (1.44%) WAN
5 9 (1.17%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.91%) Wireless
6 7 (0.91%) WLAN
7 6 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.78%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.52%) Broadband
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.26%) DNS
10 2 (0.26%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.44%) Data Lake
2 7 (0.91%) Power BI
3 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.52%) Metadata
4 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.26%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.13%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.13%) Db2
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Claude Code
2 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
3 5 (0.65%) Git
3 5 (0.65%) GitLab
3 5 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 151 (19.71%) Public Sector
2 88 (11.49%) Social Skills
3 62 (8.09%) Finance
4 48 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.61%) Legal
6 15 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (1.83%) Marketing
8 12 (1.57%) Law
9 9 (1.17%) Police
10 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.52%) Banking
12 4 (0.52%) Local Government
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Games
14 2 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Retail
15 1 (0.13%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.31%) Middleware
2 29 (3.79%) Terraform
3 16 (2.09%) REST
4 14 (1.83%) Kafka
5 11 (1.44%) PySpark
6 10 (1.31%) SOAP
7 9 (1.17%) .NET
8 8 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (0.91%) CSS
9 7 (0.91%) HTML
9 7 (0.91%) Langfuse
9 7 (0.91%) OAuth
9 7 (0.91%) Spring
10 6 (0.78%) OpenID
10 6 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
11 5 (0.65%) LangChain
11 5 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (0.65%) LlamaIndex
12 4 (0.52%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.52%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 19 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (1.96%) IVR
5 10 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.04%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.04%) CMDB
8 7 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 5 (0.65%) Blog
11 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.52%) Life Science
12 3 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.26%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.57%) Windows
2 11 (1.44%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (18.15%) Agile
2 121 (15.80%) Technical Architecture
3 110 (14.36%) Technical Leadership
4 108 (14.10%) AI
5 103 (13.45%) Mentoring
6 83 (10.84%) Roadmaps
7 80 (10.44%) CI/CD
8 76 (9.92%) Coaching
9 72 (9.40%) DevOps
10 69 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 66 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
12 59 (7.70%) Decision-Making
12 59 (7.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 53 (6.92%) Microservices
14 49 (6.40%) Enterprise Architecture
14 49 (6.40%) Integration Patterns
15 46 (6.01%) Architecture Governance
16 45 (5.87%) Analytics
17 44 (5.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.18%) Python
2 23 (3.00%) C#
3 18 (2.35%) Java
4 13 (1.70%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.17%) Bicep
6 7 (0.91%) Go
7 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.65%) SOQL
7 5 (0.65%) SOSL
7 5 (0.65%) SQL
7 5 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.39%) ABAP
8 3 (0.39%) X++
9 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) COBOL
10 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
10 1 (0.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 139 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 115 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 19 (2.48%) DV Cleared
4 18 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.96%) Degree
6 13 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.04%) RIBA
9 6 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.78%) Dell Certification
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CCIE
10 5 (0.65%) CCNA
10 5 (0.65%) CCNP
11 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.52%) CISSP
12 3 (0.39%) CWNA
13 2 (0.26%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.78%) GDPR
2 6 (0.78%) PMO
3 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (0.52%) QA
4 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.39%) GRC
4 3 (0.39%) IFRS
4 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.13%) NCSC
6 1 (0.13%) PSD2
6 1 (0.13%) SEPA
6 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.48%) Active Directory
1 19 (2.48%) Docker
1 19 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.78%) vSphere
4 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.78%) Avamar
2 6 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.78%) VxRail
3 4 (0.52%) Grafana
4 3 (0.39%) Ansible
4 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 97 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.31%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.87%) VMware
5 21 (2.74%) Cisco
5 21 (2.74%) Computacenter
6 16 (2.09%) Google
7 15 (1.96%) Genesys
8 14 (1.83%) Avaya
8 14 (1.83%) Oracle
9 12 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.44%) Databricks
11 10 (1.31%) Adobe
11 10 (1.31%) SAP
11 10 (1.31%) Workday
12 9 (1.17%) NetApp
12 9 (1.17%) Veeam
13 7 (0.91%) Splunk
14 6 (0.78%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.78%) Nimble Storage