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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 528 406
Rank change year-on-year +167 -122 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 416 136 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.35% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 311 109 417
10th Percentile £55,000 £66,180 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,596 £72,500 £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 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,670
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,431 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.98% +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 84,240 38,844 90,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.44% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,564 23,127 66,916
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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% -5.66%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +121 309 £85,000 +3.03% 71
UK excluding London +53 211 £87,431 +5.98% 60
Work from Home +123 178 £85,000 +3.03% 39
London +67 113 £81,000 -10.00% 26
North of England +23 89 £85,000 - 15
Yorkshire -14 38 £85,000 +25.93% 2
North West +8 37 £85,000 -5.56% 12
Scotland +18 28 £90,000 +28.57% 2
East of England +10 27 £100,000 +17.65% 3
Midlands -16 21 £80,000 +10.34% 7
South West -39 16 £50,000 -13.04% 7
North East -23 14 £86,716 +23.88% 1
West Midlands -20 13 £83,716 +15.47% 1
South East -65 12 £85,000 +3.03% 15
Wales -26 10 £68,779 +6.43% 10
East Midlands -24 8 £45,000 -37.93% 6
Northern Ireland - 8 £95,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 87 (20.91%) Azure
2 84 (20.19%) Agile
3 68 (16.35%) DevOps
4 57 (13.70%) AWS
5 56 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (13.46%) Roadmaps
6 52 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
7 51 (12.26%) Mentoring
7 51 (12.26%) Security Cleared
8 47 (11.30%) Microsoft
9 45 (10.82%) Event-Driven
10 42 (10.10%) CI/CD
10 42 (10.10%) SC Cleared
11 40 (9.62%) Design Patterns
12 39 (9.38%) Project Delivery
13 38 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (9.13%) Technology Roadmap
14 36 (8.65%) TOGAF
15 35 (8.41%) Migration
16 32 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
16 32 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (7.45%) AI
18 30 (7.21%) Service Delivery
19 29 (6.97%) Analytics
19 29 (6.97%) Salesforce
19 29 (6.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 28 (6.73%) Microservices
20 28 (6.73%) SaaS
20 28 (6.73%) Technology Strategy

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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.44%) Confluence
3 5 (1.20%) SAS
4 4 (0.96%) Documentum
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.48%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.48%) Revit
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.24%) Findur
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 87 (20.91%) Azure
2 57 (13.70%) AWS
3 28 (6.73%) SaaS
4 24 (5.77%) GCP
5 23 (5.53%) PaaS
6 13 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.88%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.16%) IaaS
9 8 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.92%) OCI
9 8 (1.92%) Serverless
10 6 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.44%) GitHub
10 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (1.20%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.33%) Broadband
2 8 (1.92%) Firewall
3 7 (1.68%) LAN
3 7 (1.68%) VPN
3 7 (1.68%) WAN
4 5 (1.20%) SSL
4 5 (1.20%) WLAN
5 4 (0.96%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.96%) Wireless
6 3 (0.72%) DNS
6 3 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.72%) Internet
6 3 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.48%) Network Security
8 1 (0.24%) IPsec
8 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.37%) Metadata
2 9 (2.16%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.96%) Power BI
5 4 (0.96%) Redis
5 4 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.48%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.24%) Big Data
7 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.24%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Miner
Development Applications
1 18 (4.33%) GitLab
1 18 (4.33%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.33%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.44%) JIRA
3 4 (0.96%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.24%) RStudio
General
1 74 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 36 (8.65%) Finance
4 30 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.97%) Marketing
6 18 (4.33%) Games
6 18 (4.33%) Law
7 12 (2.88%) Legal
8 9 (2.16%) Local Government
9 7 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.44%) Banking
10 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.44%) Police
11 5 (1.20%) Aviation
11 5 (1.20%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.96%) Retail
13 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.48%) Back Office
14 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.05%) Middleware
2 20 (4.81%) SOAP
3 19 (4.57%) REST
4 18 (4.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (4.33%) Visualforce
5 7 (1.68%) Kafka
6 6 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.44%) PySpark
7 5 (1.20%) .NET
8 4 (0.96%) Django
8 4 (0.96%) Node.js
8 4 (0.96%) React
9 3 (0.72%) OAuth
9 3 (0.72%) RESTful
9 3 (0.72%) Spring
10 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.48%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.48%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.48%) OpenID
10 2 (0.48%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.37%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.16%) IoT
6 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.20%) CMDB
7 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.20%) PKI
7 5 (1.20%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 2 (0.48%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Windows
1 3 (0.72%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (20.19%) Agile
2 68 (16.35%) DevOps
3 56 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 56 (13.46%) Roadmaps
4 52 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 51 (12.26%) Mentoring
6 45 (10.82%) Event-Driven
7 42 (10.10%) CI/CD
8 40 (9.62%) Design Patterns
9 39 (9.38%) Project Delivery
10 38 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.13%) Technology Roadmap
11 36 (8.65%) TOGAF
12 35 (8.41%) Migration
13 32 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
13 32 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
13 32 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (7.45%) AI
15 30 (7.21%) Service Delivery
16 29 (6.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.33%) Apex Code
1 18 (4.33%) Python
1 18 (4.33%) SOQL
1 18 (4.33%) SOSL
2 10 (2.40%) C#
2 10 (2.40%) Java
3 8 (1.92%) SQL
4 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.48%) Ruby
7 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.24%) Go
7 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.40%) RIBA
4 9 (2.16%) Degree
5 8 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.96%) CCNA
9 4 (0.96%) CISSP
9 4 (0.96%) CITP
9 4 (0.96%) CWNA
10 3 (0.72%) Dell Certification
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.24%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) CCNP
12 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.16%) GDPR
3 5 (1.20%) PMO
4 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.72%) IFRS
4 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.48%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.20%) vSphere
4 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.64%) Terraform
3 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 3 (0.72%) Avamar
4 3 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (0.72%) VxRail
5 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.24%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) CASB
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.97%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.33%) Splunk
5 16 (3.85%) Palantir
6 13 (3.13%) Oracle
7 11 (2.64%) YouTube
8 10 (2.40%) Google
9 9 (2.16%) Databricks
10 7 (1.68%) VMware
11 6 (1.44%) Computacenter
11 6 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.44%) OpenText
12 5 (1.20%) SAP
13 4 (0.96%) Meraki
13 4 (0.96%) Pega
14 3 (0.72%) 3PAR
14 3 (0.72%) Isilon
14 3 (0.72%) Nimble Storage
14 3 (0.72%) Veeam