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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 533 359
Rank change year-on-year +211 -174 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 593 158 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.32% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.36% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 419 121 503
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £51,398
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -11.59%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £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 94,649 44,285 87,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.20% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,854 26,220 61,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,082
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £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 23 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 23 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 +131 408 £85,000 +3.03% 103
UK excluding London +139 361 £85,000 +3.03% 67
Work from Home +117 210 £80,500 -2.42% 51
North of England +99 162 £85,000 - 27
London +35 119 £90,000 +2.86% 51
North West +58 73 £80,000 -8.57% 10
Yorkshire +8 47 £85,000 +21.43% 4
North East -13 42 £85,000 +21.43% 13
Midlands -9 40 £85,000 +25.93% 6
Scotland +53 39 £85,000 +21.43% 6
West Midlands -9 34 £85,000 +6.25% 6
Wales -20 34 £80,000 +11.89% 5
South West -32 31 £50,000 -41.18% 8
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 3
East of England +11 21 £95,000 +18.75% 6
South East -38 15 £100,000 +21.21% 9
East Midlands -27 6 - -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 118 (19.90%) Agile
2 110 (18.55%) Azure
3 92 (15.51%) Security Cleared
4 81 (13.66%) DevOps
5 78 (13.15%) Microsoft
6 77 (12.98%) AWS
7 76 (12.82%) AI
8 75 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (12.65%) Roadmaps
9 74 (12.48%) SC Cleared
9 74 (12.48%) Technical Architecture
10 72 (12.14%) CI/CD
11 71 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
12 70 (11.80%) Mentoring
13 69 (11.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 52 (8.77%) Event-Driven
15 45 (7.59%) Design Patterns
16 44 (7.42%) Architectural Patterns
17 43 (7.25%) Coaching
18 41 (6.91%) Architecture Governance
18 41 (6.91%) Decision-Making
19 40 (6.75%) Technology Roadmap
20 39 (6.58%) Enterprise Architecture
21 38 (6.41%) Microservices
22 37 (6.24%) Analytics
22 37 (6.24%) Integration Patterns
23 34 (5.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
23 34 (5.73%) TOGAF
24 33 (5.56%) Salesforce
25 32 (5.40%) 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 6 (1.01%) Confluence
2 5 (0.84%) SAS
3 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Documentum
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.36%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.69%) 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 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.67%) 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
1 110 (18.55%) Azure
2 77 (12.98%) AWS
3 31 (5.23%) SaaS
4 26 (4.38%) GCP
5 20 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.36%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.19%) GitHub
9 11 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.85%) dbt
10 10 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.52%) PaaS
12 8 (1.35%) Serverless
13 7 (1.18%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (1.01%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.04%) Broadband
2 14 (2.36%) CTI
2 14 (2.36%) VoIP
3 9 (1.52%) Network Security
4 8 (1.35%) LAN
4 8 (1.35%) VPN
4 8 (1.35%) WAN
5 7 (1.18%) Firewall
5 7 (1.18%) WLAN
6 6 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (1.01%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.01%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.34%) Wireless
9 1 (0.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.36%) Data Lake
2 12 (2.02%) Metadata
3 8 (1.35%) Power BI
4 6 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.84%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.34%) Redis
8 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.17%) Big Data
9 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 20 (3.37%) Jenkins
1 20 (3.37%) SonarQube
2 19 (3.20%) GitLab
3 6 (1.01%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.17%) RStudio
General
1 101 (17.03%) Public Sector
2 91 (15.35%) Social Skills
3 48 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (6.58%) Finance
5 23 (3.88%) Marketing
6 18 (3.04%) Games
6 18 (3.04%) Legal
7 17 (2.87%) Law
8 14 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.01%) Police
10 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (0.84%) Aviation
10 5 (0.84%) Local Government
11 4 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.38%) REST
2 24 (4.05%) SOAP
3 19 (3.20%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.20%) Visualforce
4 14 (2.36%) Kafka
4 14 (2.36%) Middleware
5 11 (1.85%) PySpark
6 8 (1.35%) .NET
7 6 (1.01%) Spring
8 4 (0.67%) CSS
8 4 (0.67%) HTML
8 4 (0.67%) OAuth
8 4 (0.67%) RESTful
8 4 (0.67%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.51%) OpenID
10 2 (0.34%) Django
10 2 (0.34%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.34%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.22%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.36%) IVR
4 14 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.35%) CMDB
7 7 (1.18%) IoT
8 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.01%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.34%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.34%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.34%) Life Science
10 2 (0.34%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.34%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.18%) Windows
2 5 (0.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.67%) Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (19.90%) Agile
2 81 (13.66%) DevOps
3 76 (12.82%) AI
4 75 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (12.65%) Roadmaps
5 74 (12.48%) Technical Architecture
6 72 (12.14%) CI/CD
7 71 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
8 70 (11.80%) Mentoring
9 69 (11.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 52 (8.77%) Event-Driven
11 45 (7.59%) Design Patterns
12 44 (7.42%) Architectural Patterns
13 43 (7.25%) Coaching
14 41 (6.91%) Architecture Governance
14 41 (6.91%) Decision-Making
15 40 (6.75%) Technology Roadmap
16 39 (6.58%) Enterprise Architecture
17 38 (6.41%) Microservices
18 37 (6.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.72%) Python
2 19 (3.20%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.20%) SOQL
2 19 (3.20%) SOSL
3 15 (2.53%) C#
4 13 (2.19%) Java
5 9 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.01%) Bicep
7 5 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.67%) Go
8 4 (0.67%) SQL
9 2 (0.34%) Ruby
9 2 (0.34%) X++
10 1 (0.17%) COBOL
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.17%) RPG
Qualifications
1 92 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.02%) Degree
5 9 (1.52%) RIBA
6 6 (1.01%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.51%) CCNA
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.51%) CISSP
9 3 (0.51%) CWNA
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.34%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) CITP
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.53%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.01%) GDPR
3 6 (1.01%) PMO
4 3 (0.51%) IFRS
4 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.51%) WCAG
5 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.34%) QA
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
6 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (2.87%) Docker
2 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.36%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.18%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.05%) Terraform
3 6 (1.01%) Avamar
3 6 (1.01%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.01%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.01%) VxRail
4 2 (0.34%) Argo
4 2 (0.34%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.71%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.54%) Splunk
5 15 (2.53%) Cisco
5 15 (2.53%) VMware
6 14 (2.36%) Avaya
6 14 (2.36%) Genesys
7 12 (2.02%) Computacenter
7 12 (2.02%) Databricks
7 12 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.35%) Google
8 8 (1.35%) SAP
9 7 (1.18%) Oracle
10 6 (1.01%) 3PAR
10 6 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.01%) Dell
10 6 (1.01%) Isilon
10 6 (1.01%) NetApp
10 6 (1.01%) Veeam