Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 452 421
Rank change year-on-year +56 -31 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 280 252 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.52% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 227 164 299
10th Percentile £63,919 £60,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -5.06%

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 57,632 48,152 66,101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.24% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 35,882 24,796 51,733
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 30 January 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 January 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 +50 221 £85,000 +3.03% 106
UK excluding London +35 158 £80,000 - 104
Work from Home +68 101 £80,000 -3.03% 63
London +49 80 £90,000 +10.77% 47
North of England +38 59 £87,931 +9.91% 31
North West +37 29 £90,000 +5.88% 12
Yorkshire +1 24 £83,716 +3.03% 14
Midlands +6 19 £78,750 +4.44% 12
East of England +35 17 £100,000 -4.76% 1
Scotland +4 17 £80,000 - 18
South West +16 16 £70,000 - 7
Wales +3 14 £80,000 +24.51% 9
West Midlands +9 11 £80,000 - 12
South East -30 11 £80,000 -3.03% 24
East Midlands -11 8 £60,500 -13.57%
North East -2 6 £91,716 +14.64% 5
Northern Ireland -12 5 £80,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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 67 (23.93%) Agile
2 57 (20.36%) Azure
3 55 (19.64%) Roadmaps
4 50 (17.86%) DevOps
5 45 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (14.64%) Enterprise Architecture
7 40 (14.29%) AWS
8 37 (13.21%) Mentoring
9 35 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
10 34 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (12.14%) Technical Architecture
11 33 (11.79%) SC Cleared
12 30 (10.71%) Microsoft
12 30 (10.71%) Technology Roadmap
13 29 (10.36%) Project Delivery
14 28 (10.00%) Event-Driven
14 28 (10.00%) TOGAF
15 25 (8.93%) CI/CD
15 25 (8.93%) PaaS
15 25 (8.93%) Python
16 24 (8.57%) Analytics
16 24 (8.57%) Service Delivery
16 24 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (8.21%) Design Patterns
17 23 (8.21%) Microservices
17 23 (8.21%) Node.js
18 22 (7.86%) Technology Strategy
19 21 (7.50%) Django
19 21 (7.50%) Migration

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 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) Confluence
2 4 (1.43%) Documentum
3 2 (0.71%) CMS
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (20.36%) Azure
2 40 (14.29%) AWS
3 25 (8.93%) PaaS
4 20 (7.14%) SaaS
5 11 (3.93%) GCP
6 10 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (3.21%) Azure AKS
7 9 (3.21%) Azure Event Grid
7 9 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (3.21%) Serverless
8 8 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.50%) IaaS
9 7 (2.50%) OCI
10 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.29%) Broadband
2 6 (2.14%) Firewall
3 5 (1.79%) SSL
3 5 (1.79%) VPN
4 4 (1.43%) LAN
4 4 (1.43%) WAN
5 3 (1.07%) DNS
5 3 (1.07%) Internet
5 3 (1.07%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.07%) Wireless
5 3 (1.07%) WLAN
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.43%) Metadata
3 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) DB2
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Power BI
5 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.29%) GitLab
1 12 (4.29%) Jenkins
1 12 (4.29%) SonarQube
2 4 (1.43%) JIRA
3 3 (1.07%) Git
General
1 53 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (8.57%) Marketing
5 17 (6.07%) Finance
6 14 (5.00%) Legal
7 12 (4.29%) Games
7 12 (4.29%) Law
8 6 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Banking
9 5 (1.79%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.79%) Local Government
10 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
11 2 (0.71%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.21%) Node.js
2 21 (7.50%) Django
2 21 (7.50%) React
3 18 (6.43%) Middleware
4 12 (4.29%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (4.29%) REST
4 12 (4.29%) SOAP
4 12 (4.29%) Visualforce
5 7 (2.50%) Web Services
6 6 (2.14%) .NET
7 5 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.43%) Spring
9 3 (1.07%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.07%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.07%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.07%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.07%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.07%) Spring MVC
10 2 (0.71%) OAuth
10 2 (0.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.14%) IoT
5 5 (1.79%) PKI
6 4 (1.43%) Digital Signage
6 4 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.07%) Synthetic Data
7 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.36%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.43%) Windows
1 4 (1.43%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (23.93%) Agile
2 55 (19.64%) Roadmaps
3 50 (17.86%) DevOps
4 45 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (14.64%) Enterprise Architecture
6 37 (13.21%) Mentoring
7 35 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
8 34 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (12.14%) Technical Architecture
9 30 (10.71%) Technology Roadmap
10 29 (10.36%) Project Delivery
11 28 (10.00%) Event-Driven
11 28 (10.00%) TOGAF
12 25 (8.93%) CI/CD
13 24 (8.57%) Analytics
13 24 (8.57%) Service Delivery
13 24 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.21%) Design Patterns
14 23 (8.21%) Microservices
15 22 (7.86%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.93%) Python
2 12 (4.29%) Apex Code
2 12 (4.29%) SOQL
2 12 (4.29%) SOSL
3 11 (3.93%) SQL
4 9 (3.21%) C#
4 9 (3.21%) Java
5 2 (0.71%) Go
5 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.36%) ABAP
6 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.29%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.50%) RIBA
5 6 (2.14%) Degree
6 5 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.43%) CITP
8 3 (1.07%) CCNA
8 3 (1.07%) CISSP
8 3 (1.07%) CWNA
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.07%) GDPR
2 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.71%) NCSC
2 2 (0.71%) NIST
2 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.71%) PMO
3 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.43%) Terraform
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.36%) CASB
5 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 30 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.43%) Oracle
2 18 (6.43%) Salesforce
3 16 (5.71%) Palantir
4 12 (4.29%) Splunk
5 11 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.21%) Informatica
7 7 (2.50%) YouTube
8 6 (2.14%) Google
9 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.43%) OpenText
10 4 (1.43%) Pega
10 4 (1.43%) Workday
11 3 (1.07%) Meraki
12 2 (0.71%) Adobe
12 2 (0.71%) Databricks
12 2 (0.71%) SAP
13 1 (0.36%) Netskope
13 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
13 1 (0.36%) VMware