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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 538 350
Rank change year-on-year +261 -188 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 775 142 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 546 104 359
10th Percentile £63,744 £59,630 £47,230
25th Percentile £75,000 £71,011 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

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 109,260 44,699 69,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 89.81% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,288 25,844 39,771
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -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 9 October 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 October 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 +200 590 £87,431 +2.86% 260
UK excluding London +187 522 £85,000 +3.03% 127
North of England +123 243 £85,000 +3.03% 46
Work from Home +92 204 £80,000 -3.03% 97
London +11 126 £97,500 +8.33% 131
North West +64 96 £85,855 +7.43% 27
North East - 74 £85,000 - 11
Yorkshire +28 73 £85,855 -9.63% 8
South West -11 70 £75,000 -9.09% 13
Midlands +1 63 £88,000 +15.54% 23
West Midlands +5 56 £88,000 -9.74% 20
Wales -30 49 £80,000 +3.34% 6
East of England -6 37 £100,000 +11.11% 8
South East -38 31 £80,000 -3.03% 22
Northern Ireland -57 23 £82,500 +10.25% 1
Scotland +14 15 £85,000 +13.59% 8
East Midlands -34 7 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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.

1 145 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 139 (17.94%) Agile
3 133 (17.16%) Azure
4 122 (15.74%) SC Cleared
5 117 (15.10%) Technical Architecture
6 110 (14.19%) AI
6 110 (14.19%) Technical Leadership
7 109 (14.06%) AWS
8 98 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 91 (11.74%) Microsoft
10 83 (10.71%) Roadmaps
11 79 (10.19%) CI/CD
12 74 (9.55%) Coaching
13 70 (9.03%) DevOps
14 69 (8.90%) Architectural Patterns
15 67 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 60 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (7.48%) Analytics
17 58 (7.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 57 (7.35%) Decision-Making
19 52 (6.71%) Enterprise Architecture
20 49 (6.32%) Architecture Governance
20 49 (6.32%) GCP
21 47 (6.06%) Microservices
22 46 (5.94%) Integration Patterns
23 45 (5.81%) Translating Business Requirements
24 42 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
25 41 (5.29%) SaaS
26 40 (5.16%) Project Delivery
27 39 (5.03%) Event-Driven

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 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.81%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.29%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.77%) Oracle Utilities
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 133 (17.16%) Azure
2 109 (14.06%) AWS
3 49 (6.32%) GCP
4 41 (5.29%) SaaS
5 37 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.32%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.32%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (2.19%) Serverless
8 15 (1.94%) GitHub
8 15 (1.94%) PaaS
9 12 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.55%) IaaS
10 11 (1.42%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.42%) dbt
11 10 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (1.29%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.81%) CTI
1 14 (1.81%) VoIP
2 13 (1.68%) Network Security
3 12 (1.55%) LAN
4 10 (1.29%) Firewall
4 10 (1.29%) WAN
5 9 (1.16%) Unified Communications
5 9 (1.16%) VPN
6 7 (0.90%) Wireless
6 7 (0.90%) WLAN
7 6 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.26%) Broadband
9 2 (0.26%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.26%) DNS
9 2 (0.26%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.42%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.77%) Power BI
3 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.52%) Metadata
4 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.26%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.13%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Db2
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.52%) Git
2 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 148 (19.10%) Public Sector
2 82 (10.58%) Social Skills
3 61 (7.87%) Finance
4 46 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.32%) Legal
6 14 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.42%) Law
8 10 (1.29%) Marketing
9 7 (0.90%) Police
10 6 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.52%) Banking
12 4 (0.52%) Local Government
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Retail
15 1 (0.13%) Automotive
15 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.13%) Terraform
2 31 (4.00%) Middleware
3 16 (2.06%) .NET
4 15 (1.94%) REST
5 14 (1.81%) Kafka
6 10 (1.29%) PySpark
7 8 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
7 8 (1.03%) SOAP
8 7 (0.90%) CSS
8 7 (0.90%) HTML
8 7 (0.90%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.90%) OAuth
8 7 (0.90%) Spring
9 6 (0.77%) LangChain
9 6 (0.77%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.77%) OpenID
9 6 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.52%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.52%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (2.32%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.94%) IVR
5 14 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.77%) Blog
10 6 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (0.77%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 5 (0.65%) CMDB
12 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.52%) Life Science
12 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.39%) Blockchain
13 3 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.42%) Windows
2 10 (1.29%) Linux
3 6 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (17.94%) Agile
2 117 (15.10%) Technical Architecture
3 110 (14.19%) AI
3 110 (14.19%) Technical Leadership
4 98 (12.65%) Mentoring
5 83 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 79 (10.19%) CI/CD
7 74 (9.55%) Coaching
8 70 (9.03%) DevOps
9 69 (8.90%) Architectural Patterns
10 67 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 60 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (7.48%) Analytics
12 58 (7.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 57 (7.35%) Decision-Making
14 52 (6.71%) Enterprise Architecture
15 49 (6.32%) Architecture Governance
16 47 (6.06%) Microservices
17 46 (5.94%) Integration Patterns
18 45 (5.81%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 30 (3.87%) C#
1 30 (3.87%) Python
2 18 (2.32%) Java
3 15 (1.94%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.16%) Bicep
5 7 (0.90%) Go
6 5 (0.65%) SQL
6 5 (0.65%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.39%) ABAP
7 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.39%) SOQL
7 3 (0.39%) SOSL
7 3 (0.39%) X++
8 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.26%) Solidity
9 1 (0.13%) COBOL
9 1 (0.13%) RPG
9 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 23 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.81%) Degree
7 11 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.03%) RIBA
9 6 (0.77%) Dell Certification
9 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CCIE
10 5 (0.65%) CCNA
10 5 (0.65%) CCNP
10 5 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.52%) CISSP
12 3 (0.39%) CWNA
13 2 (0.26%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (0.90%) GDPR
4 6 (0.77%) PMO
5 4 (0.52%) QA
6 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.39%) GRC
7 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.32%) Docker
1 18 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.77%) vSphere
4 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.90%) Ansible
3 6 (0.77%) Avamar
3 6 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.77%) VxRail
4 3 (0.39%) Grafana
5 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 91 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 21 (2.71%) Cisco
3 21 (2.71%) Computacenter
3 21 (2.71%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.71%) VMware
4 16 (2.06%) Google
5 15 (1.94%) Genesys
6 14 (1.81%) Avaya
7 13 (1.68%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.55%) Oracle
9 11 (1.42%) Adobe
9 11 (1.42%) Databricks
10 10 (1.29%) Workday
11 9 (1.16%) NetApp
11 9 (1.16%) SAP
11 9 (1.16%) Veeam
12 6 (0.77%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.77%) Dell
12 6 (0.77%) Isilon