Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £84,913 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 521 370
Rank change year-on-year +207 -151 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 586 164 696
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.33% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.37% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 417 125 520
10th Percentile £58,013 £60,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,913 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% +9.78% -8.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -11.76%

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 92,938 44,220 95,860
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,745 26,085 68,515
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +136 399 £85,000 +3.03% 111
UK excluding London +139 343 £85,000 +3.03% 84
Work from Home +122 210 £83,781 +1.55% 49
North of England +103 151 £85,000 - 31
London +46 119 £81,000 -10.00% 43
North West +46 71 £80,000 -8.57% 16
Yorkshire +6 43 £85,000 +21.43% 5
Scotland +42 38 £85,000 +21.43% 6
North East -20 37 £85,000 +21.43% 10
Wales -13 36 £80,000 +11.89% 5
Midlands -13 35 £85,000 +21.43% 10
West Midlands 0 29 £85,000 -5.56% 10
South West -35 28 £50,000 -41.18% 14
Northern Ireland - 23 £85,000 - 6
East of England +4 22 £95,000 +18.75% 3
South East -50 14 £100,000 +21.21% 11
East Midlands -28 6 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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.

1 125 (21.33%) Agile
2 113 (19.28%) Azure
3 95 (16.21%) Security Cleared
4 89 (15.19%) DevOps
5 85 (14.51%) AWS
6 84 (14.33%) Technical Architecture
7 81 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (13.65%) Roadmaps
9 77 (13.14%) Microsoft
10 76 (12.97%) Mentoring
11 75 (12.80%) AI
11 75 (12.80%) SC Cleared
12 72 (12.29%) CI/CD
13 69 (11.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 69 (11.77%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (9.39%) Event-Driven
15 46 (7.85%) Coaching
15 46 (7.85%) Design Patterns
16 44 (7.51%) Architectural Patterns
17 43 (7.34%) Decision-Making
17 43 (7.34%) Technology Roadmap
18 42 (7.17%) Enterprise Architecture
19 41 (7.00%) Analytics
20 39 (6.66%) TOGAF
21 38 (6.48%) Architecture Governance
21 38 (6.48%) Migration
22 36 (6.14%) Integration Patterns
22 36 (6.14%) Microservices
22 36 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
23 35 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management

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 (1.54%) Confluence
2 5 (0.85%) SAS
3 4 (0.68%) Documentum
3 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.39%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.71%) Revit
3 2 (0.34%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.34%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle Utilities
3 2 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.17%) Findur
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (19.28%) Azure
2 85 (14.51%) AWS
3 32 (5.46%) SaaS
4 29 (4.95%) GCP
5 18 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.07%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.39%) PaaS
7 13 (2.22%) GitHub
8 12 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.88%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.88%) dbt
9 11 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (1.37%) Serverless
12 7 (1.19%) IaaS
13 6 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.02%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.07%) Broadband
2 14 (2.39%) CTI
2 14 (2.39%) VoIP
3 10 (1.71%) VPN
4 8 (1.37%) Firewall
4 8 (1.37%) LAN
4 8 (1.37%) WAN
5 7 (1.19%) Network Security
5 7 (1.19%) WLAN
6 6 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (1.02%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.02%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.68%) DNS
7 4 (0.68%) SSL
8 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.34%) Wireless
10 1 (0.17%) IPsec
10 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.56%) Metadata
2 14 (2.39%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.37%) Power BI
4 6 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.34%) MySQL
7 2 (0.34%) Redis
7 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.17%) Big Data
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Miner
8 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.41%) Jenkins
1 20 (3.41%) SonarQube
2 19 (3.24%) GitLab
3 9 (1.54%) JIRA
4 3 (0.51%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.17%) RStudio
General
1 104 (17.75%) Public Sector
2 102 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 46 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (7.00%) Finance
5 24 (4.10%) Marketing
6 19 (3.24%) Law
7 18 (3.07%) Games
7 18 (3.07%) Legal
8 17 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.54%) Local Government
10 7 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.02%) Police
12 5 (0.85%) Aviation
13 4 (0.68%) Banking
14 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.17%) Advertising
16 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.44%) REST
2 24 (4.10%) SOAP
3 19 (3.24%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.24%) Visualforce
4 15 (2.56%) Kafka
5 14 (2.39%) Middleware
6 11 (1.88%) PySpark
7 7 (1.19%) .NET
8 6 (1.02%) OAuth
8 6 (1.02%) RESTful
9 5 (0.85%) OpenID
9 5 (0.85%) Spring
10 4 (0.68%) CSS
10 4 (0.68%) HTML
10 4 (0.68%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.51%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.34%) SAML
12 2 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
12 2 (0.34%) Web Services
12 2 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.27%) Cloud Native
1 25 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 17 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.39%) IVR
4 14 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.37%) CMDB
6 8 (1.37%) IoT
7 7 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.02%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 4 (0.68%) PKI
9 4 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.34%) Life Science
11 2 (0.34%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.34%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.37%) Windows
2 6 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.85%) Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (21.33%) Agile
2 89 (15.19%) DevOps
3 84 (14.33%) Technical Architecture
4 81 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 80 (13.65%) Roadmaps
6 76 (12.97%) Mentoring
7 75 (12.80%) AI
8 72 (12.29%) CI/CD
9 69 (11.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 69 (11.77%) Technical Leadership
10 55 (9.39%) Event-Driven
11 46 (7.85%) Coaching
11 46 (7.85%) Design Patterns
12 44 (7.51%) Architectural Patterns
13 43 (7.34%) Decision-Making
13 43 (7.34%) Technology Roadmap
14 42 (7.17%) Enterprise Architecture
15 41 (7.00%) Analytics
16 39 (6.66%) TOGAF
17 38 (6.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.12%) Python
2 19 (3.24%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.24%) SOQL
2 19 (3.24%) SOSL
3 16 (2.73%) Java
4 15 (2.56%) C#
5 10 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.02%) SQL
7 5 (0.85%) Go
7 5 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.68%) Bicep
9 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.34%) Ruby
9 2 (0.34%) X++
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 13 (2.22%) Degree
5 9 (1.54%) RIBA
6 6 (1.02%) Dell Certification
6 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.68%) CISSP
8 4 (0.68%) CITP
9 3 (0.51%) CCNA
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.51%) CWNA
10 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.34%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.54%) GDPR
4 8 (1.37%) PMO
5 3 (0.51%) IFRS
5 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
6 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
7 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.73%) Docker
2 13 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.19%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.19%) vSphere
4 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (4.10%) Terraform
2 22 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.02%) Avamar
3 6 (1.02%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.02%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.02%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.02%) VxRail
4 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Argo
4 2 (0.34%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 77 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.46%) Salesforce
3 28 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.58%) Splunk
5 15 (2.56%) Cisco
6 14 (2.39%) Avaya
6 14 (2.39%) Databricks
6 14 (2.39%) Genesys
7 13 (2.22%) VMware
8 12 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.88%) Computacenter
10 9 (1.54%) Google
10 9 (1.54%) YouTube
11 8 (1.37%) Oracle
11 8 (1.37%) SAP
12 6 (1.02%) 3PAR
12 6 (1.02%) Dell
12 6 (1.02%) NetApp
12 6 (1.02%) OpenText
12 6 (1.02%) Veeam