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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 517 358
Rank change year-on-year +232 -159 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 769 143 543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.29% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.32% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 535 108 377
10th Percentile £63,259 £60,561 £49,115
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,750
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 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%

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 108,916 44,178 72,902
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.68% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 74,482 25,948 42,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,552 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,769
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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +201 582 £87,431 +5.98% 286
UK excluding London +177 509 £85,000 +3.03% 154
North of England +121 241 £85,000 +6.25% 60
Work from Home +107 225 £85,000 +3.03% 125
London +24 130 £95,000 +5.56% 137
North West +59 95 £85,855 -10.57% 37
Yorkshire +24 73 £86,643 +5.02% 11
North East +2 73 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Midlands -4 64 £88,000 +25.71% 30
South West -19 63 £75,000 -9.09% 16
West Midlands -2 57 £88,000 +10.00% 29
Wales -34 45 £80,000 - 4
East of England +4 39 £100,000 - 7
South East -51 25 £80,000 -3.03% 30
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 -
Scotland +11 17 £85,000 +21.43% 9
East Midlands -25 7 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 140 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 136 (17.69%) Agile
3 127 (16.51%) Azure
4 121 (15.73%) Technical Architecture
5 116 (15.08%) SC Cleared
6 111 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
7 107 (13.91%) AI
8 105 (13.65%) AWS
9 103 (13.39%) Mentoring
10 96 (12.48%) Microsoft
11 79 (10.27%) Roadmaps
12 78 (10.14%) CI/CD
13 76 (9.88%) Coaching
14 68 (8.84%) DevOps
14 68 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 66 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
15 66 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (7.67%) Decision-Making
16 59 (7.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 53 (6.89%) Microservices
18 50 (6.50%) Enterprise Architecture
18 50 (6.50%) Integration Patterns
19 46 (5.98%) Analytics
19 46 (5.98%) Architecture Governance
20 44 (5.72%) SaaS
20 44 (5.72%) Translating Business Requirements
21 43 (5.59%) GCP
22 42 (5.46%) Event-Driven
22 42 (5.46%) Project Delivery
23 39 (5.07%) Waterfall

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 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.65%) Confluence
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.17%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.78%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 127 (16.51%) Azure
2 105 (13.65%) AWS
3 44 (5.72%) SaaS
4 43 (5.59%) GCP
5 38 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.21%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.95%) GitHub
9 13 (1.69%) PaaS
9 13 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 12 (1.56%) IaaS
10 12 (1.56%) Serverless
11 11 (1.43%) Azure AKS
11 11 (1.43%) dbt
12 10 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (1.30%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.82%) CTI
1 14 (1.82%) VoIP
2 13 (1.69%) LAN
2 13 (1.69%) Network Security
3 12 (1.56%) Firewall
4 11 (1.43%) VPN
4 11 (1.43%) WAN
5 9 (1.17%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.91%) Wireless
6 7 (0.91%) WLAN
7 6 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.78%) 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%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.26%) DNS
9 2 (0.26%) GPON
10 1 (0.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.43%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.78%) 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%) Data Warehouse
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%) Db2
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Claude Code
2 5 (0.65%) Git
2 5 (0.65%) JIRA
3 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Maven
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 151 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 87 (11.31%) Social Skills
3 64 (8.32%) Finance
4 45 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.60%) Legal
6 15 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (1.56%) Law
8 11 (1.43%) Marketing
9 9 (1.17%) Police
10 6 (0.78%) 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%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Retail
15 1 (0.13%) Aviation
15 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.29%) Middleware
2 29 (3.77%) Terraform
3 14 (1.82%) Kafka
3 14 (1.82%) REST
4 10 (1.30%) PySpark
5 9 (1.17%) .NET
6 8 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (0.91%) CSS
7 7 (0.91%) HTML
7 7 (0.91%) Langfuse
7 7 (0.91%) OAuth
7 7 (0.91%) SOAP
7 7 (0.91%) Spring
8 6 (0.78%) OpenID
8 6 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (0.65%) LangChain
9 5 (0.65%) LlamaIndex
10 4 (0.52%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.52%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 19 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (1.95%) IVR
6 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.04%) CMDB
9 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 5 (0.65%) Blog
11 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.52%) Life Science
11 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.39%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.26%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.56%) Windows
2 11 (1.43%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (17.69%) Agile
2 121 (15.73%) Technical Architecture
3 111 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
4 107 (13.91%) AI
5 103 (13.39%) Mentoring
6 79 (10.27%) Roadmaps
7 78 (10.14%) CI/CD
8 76 (9.88%) Coaching
9 68 (8.84%) DevOps
9 68 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 66 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
10 66 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (7.67%) Decision-Making
11 59 (7.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 53 (6.89%) Microservices
13 50 (6.50%) Enterprise Architecture
13 50 (6.50%) Integration Patterns
14 46 (5.98%) Analytics
14 46 (5.98%) Architecture Governance
15 44 (5.72%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (4.03%) Python
2 23 (2.99%) C#
3 19 (2.47%) Java
4 14 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.17%) Bicep
6 7 (0.91%) Go
7 5 (0.65%) SQL
7 5 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.39%) ABAP
8 3 (0.39%) X++
9 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
9 2 (0.26%) Solidity
9 2 (0.26%) SOQL
9 2 (0.26%) SOSL
10 1 (0.13%) COBOL
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 140 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 116 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 19 (2.47%) DV Cleared
4 18 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.95%) Degree
6 13 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.04%) RIBA
9 6 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.78%) Dell Certification
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CCIE
10 5 (0.65%) CCNA
10 5 (0.65%) CCNP
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 15 (1.95%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.78%) GDPR
2 6 (0.78%) PMO
3 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.52%) QA
5 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.39%) GRC
5 3 (0.39%) IFRS
5 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) NCSC
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) SEPA
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.47%) Active Directory
1 19 (2.47%) Docker
1 19 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.78%) vSphere
4 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.78%) Avamar
2 6 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.78%) VxRail
3 4 (0.52%) Grafana
4 3 (0.39%) Ansible
4 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 96 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.29%) ServiceNow
3 22 (2.86%) VMware
4 21 (2.73%) Cisco
4 21 (2.73%) Computacenter
5 20 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.08%) Google
7 15 (1.95%) Genesys
8 14 (1.82%) Avaya
8 14 (1.82%) Oracle
9 12 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.43%) Databricks
11 10 (1.30%) Adobe
11 10 (1.30%) SAP
11 10 (1.30%) Workday
12 9 (1.17%) NetApp
12 9 (1.17%) Veeam
13 6 (0.78%) 3PAR
13 6 (0.78%) Dell
13 6 (0.78%) Isilon