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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 529 355
Rank change year-on-year +234 -174 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 684 147 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 477 116 421
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -8.61%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -11.59%

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 102,744 44,989 77,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 89.84% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70,528 26,760 49,758
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,888 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +186 501 £85,000 +3.03% 202
UK excluding London +167 447 £85,000 +3.03% 113
North of England +114 212 £85,000 +13.33% 41
Work from Home +99 205 £85,000 +3.03% 90
London +24 120 £95,000 +7.04% 115
North West +58 84 £85,000 -2.86% 22
Yorkshire +15 64 £80,000 +14.29% 7
North East 0 64 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Midlands -2 51 £87,431 +24.90% 14
South West -24 47 £75,000 -6.25% 14
West Midlands +11 45 £87,431 +9.29% 11
Wales -32 39 £80,000 +11.89% 7
East of England +17 32 £100,000 - 4
Scotland +16 26 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 2
South East -41 24 £92,500 +12.12% 26
East Midlands -25 6 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 (18.27%) Agile
2 122 (17.84%) Azure
3 115 (16.81%) Security Cleared
4 101 (14.77%) Technical Architecture
5 95 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
6 94 (13.74%) SC Cleared
7 92 (13.45%) AWS
8 90 (13.16%) Microsoft
9 88 (12.87%) AI
10 86 (12.57%) Mentoring
11 78 (11.40%) CI/CD
12 70 (10.23%) DevOps
13 69 (10.09%) Roadmaps
14 67 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 65 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (9.21%) Coaching
17 58 (8.48%) Architectural Patterns
18 49 (7.16%) Decision-Making
18 49 (7.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 46 (6.73%) Microservices
20 44 (6.43%) Integration Patterns
20 44 (6.43%) SaaS
21 41 (5.99%) Architecture Governance
21 41 (5.99%) Event-Driven
22 38 (5.56%) Design Patterns
23 36 (5.26%) Enterprise Architecture
23 36 (5.26%) GCP
24 35 (5.12%) Analytics
25 33 (4.82%) Infrastructure as Code
26 32 (4.68%) Python

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 11 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.15%) Camunda
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.05%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.32%) Revit
3 2 (0.29%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.88%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.15%) Findur
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 122 (17.84%) Azure
2 92 (13.45%) AWS
3 44 (6.43%) SaaS
4 36 (5.26%) GCP
5 31 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.34%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.19%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.90%) GitHub
8 13 (1.90%) IaaS
9 12 (1.75%) Serverless
10 11 (1.61%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (1.61%) dbt
10 11 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.61%) PaaS
11 10 (1.46%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.46%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.05%) CTI
1 14 (2.05%) VoIP
2 12 (1.75%) Network Security
3 11 (1.61%) LAN
3 11 (1.61%) VPN
4 10 (1.46%) Firewall
4 10 (1.46%) WAN
5 8 (1.17%) Broadband
6 7 (1.02%) WLAN
7 6 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.88%) iSCSI
7 6 (0.88%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.73%) Wireless
9 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.15%) DNS
11 1 (0.15%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.46%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.17%) Power BI
3 6 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.73%) Metadata
4 5 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.29%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.15%) Db2
7 1 (0.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.46%) Jenkins
1 10 (1.46%) SonarQube
2 9 (1.32%) GitLab
3 6 (0.88%) JIRA
4 5 (0.73%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 126 (18.42%) Public Sector
2 81 (11.84%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.89%) Finance
4 47 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.92%) Legal
6 18 (2.63%) Marketing
7 13 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.75%) Law
9 8 (1.17%) Games
10 7 (1.02%) Police
11 6 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.58%) Local Government
13 3 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Aviation
13 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.29%) Banking
14 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.24%) Terraform
2 25 (3.65%) Middleware
3 17 (2.49%) REST
4 15 (2.19%) Kafka
4 15 (2.19%) SOAP
5 11 (1.61%) PySpark
6 10 (1.46%) .NET
7 9 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.32%) Visualforce
8 7 (1.02%) CSS
8 7 (1.02%) HTML
8 7 (1.02%) Spring
9 5 (0.73%) OAuth
9 5 (0.73%) RESTful
9 5 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.58%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.58%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.58%) OpenID
10 4 (0.58%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.49%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.05%) IVR
4 13 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.17%) CMDB
10 7 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (0.88%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 4 (0.58%) Blog
12 4 (0.58%) Life Science
13 3 (0.44%) AI Agents
14 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.29%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.29%) IoT
14 2 (0.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.17%) Linux
1 8 (1.17%) Windows
2 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (18.27%) Agile
2 101 (14.77%) Technical Architecture
3 95 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
4 88 (12.87%) AI
5 86 (12.57%) Mentoring
6 78 (11.40%) CI/CD
7 70 (10.23%) DevOps
8 69 (10.09%) Roadmaps
9 67 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 65 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (9.21%) Coaching
12 58 (8.48%) Architectural Patterns
13 49 (7.16%) Decision-Making
13 49 (7.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 46 (6.73%) Microservices
15 44 (6.43%) Integration Patterns
16 41 (5.99%) Architecture Governance
16 41 (5.99%) Event-Driven
17 38 (5.56%) Design Patterns
18 36 (5.26%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.68%) Python
2 23 (3.36%) C#
3 16 (2.34%) Java
4 13 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.32%) Apex Code
5 9 (1.32%) Bicep
5 9 (1.32%) SOQL
5 9 (1.32%) SOSL
6 7 (1.02%) Go
7 5 (0.73%) SQL
7 5 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.44%) ABAP
8 3 (0.44%) X++
9 1 (0.15%) COBOL
9 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.15%) R
9 1 (0.15%) RPG
9 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 115 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 94 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 17 (2.49%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.19%) Degree
5 11 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.17%) RIBA
7 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.88%) Dell Certification
9 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.58%) CCNA
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.44%) CCIE
11 3 (0.44%) CCNP
11 3 (0.44%) CISSP
11 3 (0.44%) CWNA
12 2 (0.29%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.88%) GDPR
2 6 (0.88%) PMO
3 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.58%) QA
4 3 (0.44%) IFRS
4 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.29%) GRC
5 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.29%) WCAG
6 1 (0.15%) PSD2
6 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (2.78%) Docker
1 19 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.88%) vSphere
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.88%) Avamar
2 6 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.88%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.88%) VxRail
3 3 (0.44%) Grafana
3 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.15%) Argo
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.80%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.78%) VMware
5 18 (2.63%) Cisco
6 15 (2.19%) Computacenter
6 15 (2.19%) Google
7 14 (2.05%) Avaya
7 14 (2.05%) Genesys
7 14 (2.05%) Oracle
8 12 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.61%) Databricks
9 11 (1.61%) SAP
9 11 (1.61%) Splunk
10 10 (1.46%) Adobe
11 8 (1.17%) Workday
12 6 (0.88%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.88%) Dell
12 6 (0.88%) Nimble Storage