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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 470 417
Rank change year-on-year +104 -53 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 374 169 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.40% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.44% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 295 119 369
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £91,075
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,400
% change year-on-year -3.03% +9.42% -5.75%

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 69,843 38,164 81,143
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 90.31% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,555 23,016 61,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,408 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,263
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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +84 280 £80,000 -3.03% 84
UK excluding London +48 204 £80,000 -3.03% 59
Work from Home +92 146 £80,000 -3.03% 45
London +52 105 £85,000 -5.56% 33
North of England +7 78 £80,000 -5.88% 16
North West +7 37 £82,500 -2.94% 4
Scotland +13 31 £85,000 +41.67% 1
Yorkshire -13 31 £80,000 +8.47% 7
Midlands -9 22 £80,000 +14.29% 7
South West -20 19 £70,000 +16.67% 8
East of England +3 17 £100,000 +2.56% 7
West Midlands +5 14 £80,000 +6.67% 7
Wales -18 14 £72,415 +40.61% 1
South East -59 13 £85,000 +3.03% 22
North East -17 10 £84,216 -11.35% 5
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 -
East Midlands -43 8 £60,500 +12.39%

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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 91 (24.33%) Agile
2 81 (21.66%) Azure
3 71 (18.98%) DevOps
4 63 (16.84%) Roadmaps
5 60 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (13.90%) AWS
7 50 (13.37%) Mentoring
7 50 (13.37%) Security Cleared
8 47 (12.57%) Technical Architecture
9 45 (12.03%) SC Cleared
10 42 (11.23%) Event-Driven
10 42 (11.23%) Technology Roadmap
10 42 (11.23%) TOGAF
11 41 (10.96%) Microsoft
12 40 (10.70%) Architectural Patterns
13 39 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (10.16%) CI/CD
14 38 (10.16%) Design Patterns
15 37 (9.89%) Enterprise Architecture
15 37 (9.89%) Project Delivery
16 32 (8.56%) Analytics
17 31 (8.29%) Migration
18 30 (8.02%) Technology Strategy
19 28 (7.49%) Community of Practice
19 28 (7.49%) Salesforce
19 28 (7.49%) Scrum
19 28 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
20 26 (6.95%) Architectural Design
20 26 (6.95%) Microservices
20 26 (6.95%) 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 7 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.34%) Confluence
2 5 (1.34%) SAS
3 4 (1.07%) Documentum
4 2 (0.53%) Camunda
4 2 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.53%) Revit
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (21.66%) Azure
2 52 (13.90%) AWS
3 25 (6.68%) SaaS
4 24 (6.42%) PaaS
5 22 (5.88%) GCP
6 11 (2.94%) Serverless
7 10 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.41%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (2.14%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (1.87%) IaaS
10 7 (1.87%) OCI
10 7 (1.87%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.07%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.61%) Broadband
2 7 (1.87%) Firewall
3 5 (1.34%) LAN
3 5 (1.34%) SSL
3 5 (1.34%) VPN
3 5 (1.34%) WAN
4 4 (1.07%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.07%) Wireless
4 4 (1.07%) WLAN
5 3 (0.80%) DNS
5 3 (0.80%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) IPsec
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.48%) Metadata
2 12 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.34%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.07%) Power BI
5 4 (1.07%) Redis
6 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.27%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.27%) SAS Enterprise Miner
8 1 (0.27%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 21 (5.61%) GitLab
1 21 (5.61%) Jenkins
1 21 (5.61%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.34%) Git
2 5 (1.34%) JIRA
3 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.27%) RStudio
General
1 69 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.04%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (8.82%) Marketing
5 26 (6.95%) Finance
6 21 (5.61%) Games
7 20 (5.35%) Law
8 17 (4.55%) Legal
9 9 (2.41%) Local Government
10 8 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.87%) Banking
11 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.34%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.07%) Aviation
13 4 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.07%) Retail
14 3 (0.80%) Police
15 2 (0.53%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.88%) Node.js
1 22 (5.88%) SOAP
2 21 (5.61%) Django
2 21 (5.61%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (5.61%) React
2 21 (5.61%) REST
2 21 (5.61%) Visualforce
3 20 (5.35%) Middleware
4 9 (2.41%) .NET
5 7 (1.87%) Web Services
6 6 (1.60%) Spring
7 5 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.07%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.07%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.07%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.07%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.07%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.07%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.80%) RESTful
10 2 (0.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.29%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.14%) IoT
6 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.34%) PKI
7 5 (1.34%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.07%) Digital Signage
8 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.07%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.53%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.27%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.27%) Blog
11 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.27%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (24.33%) Agile
2 71 (18.98%) DevOps
3 63 (16.84%) Roadmaps
4 60 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (13.37%) Mentoring
6 47 (12.57%) Technical Architecture
7 42 (11.23%) Event-Driven
7 42 (11.23%) Technology Roadmap
7 42 (11.23%) TOGAF
8 40 (10.70%) Architectural Patterns
9 39 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (10.16%) CI/CD
10 38 (10.16%) Design Patterns
11 37 (9.89%) Enterprise Architecture
11 37 (9.89%) Project Delivery
12 32 (8.56%) Analytics
13 31 (8.29%) Migration
14 30 (8.02%) Technology Strategy
15 28 (7.49%) Community of Practice
15 28 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.68%) Python
2 21 (5.61%) Apex Code
2 21 (5.61%) SOQL
2 21 (5.61%) SOSL
3 12 (3.21%) SQL
4 11 (2.94%) C#
5 10 (2.67%) Java
6 3 (0.80%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.27%) ABAP
7 1 (0.27%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) R
7 1 (0.27%) Ruby
7 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.41%) RIBA
5 8 (2.14%) Degree
6 7 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.07%) CCNA
9 4 (1.07%) CISSP
9 4 (1.07%) CITP
9 4 (1.07%) CWNA
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) CCNP
11 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.87%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.60%) GDPR
3 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.53%) PMO
4 2 (0.53%) WCAG
5 1 (0.27%) NCSC
5 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.67%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 15 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.60%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
4 2 (0.53%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.27%) CASB
Vendors
1 41 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.49%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.61%) Splunk
4 18 (4.81%) Oracle
5 16 (4.28%) Palantir
6 12 (3.21%) Google
6 12 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.41%) YouTube
8 8 (2.14%) Informatica
9 5 (1.34%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.34%) OpenText
10 4 (1.07%) Meraki
10 4 (1.07%) Pega
10 4 (1.07%) SAP
11 3 (0.80%) Databricks
11 3 (0.80%) VMware
12 2 (0.53%) Adobe
12 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
13 1 (0.27%) Netskope
13 1 (0.27%) Workday