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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 519 412
Rank change year-on-year +153 -107 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 418 135 581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.35% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 312 108 417
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,720 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,596 £72,188 £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 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,216 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.50% +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 84,369 38,923 91,211
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.45% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 55,003 23,201 67,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%
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 9 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 9 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 +139 312 £84,957 +2.98% 70
UK excluding London +57 212 £86,216 +4.50% 58
Work from Home +128 179 £85,000 +3.03% 39
London +61 114 £81,000 -12.43% 26
North of England +14 90 £85,000 - 15
North West +11 38 £85,000 -5.56% 12
Yorkshire -16 38 £85,000 +25.93% 2
Scotland +12 28 £90,000 +28.57% 3
East of England +17 27 £100,000 +17.65% 3
Midlands -28 21 £80,000 +10.34% 6
South West -35 17 £50,000 -13.04% 7
North East -34 14 £86,716 +23.88% 1
West Midlands -29 13 £83,716 +15.47%
South East -51 12 £85,000 +3.03% 15
Wales -28 9 £67,586 +4.58% 8
East Midlands -19 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 9 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 88 (21.05%) Azure
2 85 (20.33%) Agile
3 68 (16.27%) DevOps
4 58 (13.88%) AWS
5 57 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 56 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (12.68%) Security Cleared
8 52 (12.44%) Technical Architecture
9 51 (12.20%) Mentoring
10 48 (11.48%) Microsoft
11 46 (11.00%) Event-Driven
12 44 (10.53%) SC Cleared
13 43 (10.29%) CI/CD
14 40 (9.57%) Design Patterns
15 39 (9.33%) Project Delivery
16 38 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
17 36 (8.61%) TOGAF
18 35 (8.37%) Migration
19 33 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
20 32 (7.66%) Enterprise Architecture
20 32 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
21 31 (7.42%) AI
22 30 (7.18%) Service Delivery
22 30 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 29 (6.94%) Analytics
23 29 (6.94%) Salesforce
24 28 (6.70%) Decision-Making
24 28 (6.70%) Microservices
24 28 (6.70%) SaaS

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 (2.15%) 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 88 (21.05%) Azure
2 58 (13.88%) AWS
3 28 (6.70%) SaaS
4 24 (5.74%) GCP
5 23 (5.50%) PaaS
6 13 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.87%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.15%) IaaS
9 8 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.91%) OCI
9 8 (1.91%) Serverless
10 7 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.67%) GitHub
11 6 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.20%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.31%) Broadband
2 8 (1.91%) Firewall
3 7 (1.67%) LAN
3 7 (1.67%) VPN
3 7 (1.67%) 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 (3.35%) Metadata
2 10 (2.39%) 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 (4.31%) GitLab
1 18 (4.31%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.31%) 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 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.75%) Public Sector
3 36 (8.61%) Finance
4 30 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.94%) Marketing
6 18 (4.31%) Games
6 18 (4.31%) Law
7 12 (2.87%) Legal
8 9 (2.15%) Local Government
9 7 (1.67%) 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 (5.02%) Middleware
2 20 (4.78%) SOAP
3 19 (4.55%) REST
4 18 (4.31%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (4.31%) Visualforce
5 8 (1.91%) Kafka
6 7 (1.67%) PySpark
7 6 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.20%) .NET
8 5 (1.20%) Django
9 4 (0.96%) Node.js
9 4 (0.96%) React
10 3 (0.72%) OAuth
10 3 (0.72%) RESTful
10 3 (0.72%) Spring
11 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.48%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.48%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.48%) OpenID
11 2 (0.48%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.46%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.35%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.15%) IoT
6 8 (1.91%) 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 85 (20.33%) Agile
2 68 (16.27%) DevOps
3 57 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 56 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (12.44%) Technical Architecture
6 51 (12.20%) Mentoring
7 46 (11.00%) Event-Driven
8 43 (10.29%) CI/CD
9 40 (9.57%) Design Patterns
10 39 (9.33%) Project Delivery
11 38 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
12 36 (8.61%) TOGAF
13 35 (8.37%) Migration
14 33 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
15 32 (7.66%) Enterprise Architecture
15 32 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (7.42%) AI
17 30 (7.18%) Service Delivery
17 30 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.78%) Python
2 18 (4.31%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.31%) SOQL
2 18 (4.31%) SOSL
3 10 (2.39%) C#
3 10 (2.39%) Java
4 8 (1.91%) SQL
5 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.48%) Ruby
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.24%) Go
8 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.39%) RIBA
4 9 (2.15%) Degree
5 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.67%) 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 (2.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.15%) 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 (2.15%) Docker
2 7 (1.67%) 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 (2.87%) Kubernetes
1 12 (2.87%) Terraform
2 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.72%) Ansible
3 3 (0.72%) Avamar
3 3 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
3 3 (0.72%) VxRail
4 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.24%) Argo
5 1 (0.24%) CASB
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.94%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.02%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.31%) Splunk
5 16 (3.83%) Palantir
6 13 (3.11%) Oracle
7 11 (2.63%) YouTube
8 10 (2.39%) Databricks
8 10 (2.39%) Google
9 7 (1.67%) VMware
10 6 (1.44%) Computacenter
10 6 (1.44%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.44%) OpenText
11 5 (1.20%) SAP
12 4 (0.96%) Meraki
12 4 (0.96%) Pega
13 3 (0.72%) 3PAR
13 3 (0.72%) Isilon
13 3 (0.72%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (0.72%) Veeam