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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 532 368
Rank change year-on-year +211 -164 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 618 151 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.30% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.34% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 433 117 431
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
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% -10.54%
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 97,595 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 66,719 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%

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 4 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 4 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 +167 441 £85,000 +3.03% 164
UK excluding London +154 383 £85,000 +3.03% 107
Work from Home +116 204 £85,000 +3.03% 64
North of England +103 179 £85,000 +3.03% 35
London +35 122 £95,000 +11.76% 82
North West +57 76 £85,000 -2.86% 16
North East -2 53 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Yorkshire +8 50 £87,431 +24.90% 12
Midlands -16 42 £87,431 +29.53% 13
West Midlands -9 36 £87,431 +9.29% 12
South West -27 35 £50,000 -41.18% 12
Scotland +33 32 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Wales -22 32 £80,000 +11.89% 7
East of England -2 25 £95,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 4
South East -41 19 £100,000 +21.21% 27
East Midlands -19 6 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 119 (19.26%) Agile
2 113 (18.28%) Azure
3 97 (15.70%) Security Cleared
4 82 (13.27%) Technical Architecture
5 79 (12.78%) AWS
5 79 (12.78%) Mentoring
5 79 (12.78%) Microsoft
6 78 (12.62%) AI
6 78 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
7 77 (12.46%) DevOps
7 77 (12.46%) SC Cleared
8 73 (11.81%) CI/CD
9 71 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (11.49%) Roadmaps
10 67 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 53 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
11 53 (8.58%) Coaching
12 49 (7.93%) Decision-Making
13 46 (7.44%) Event-Driven
14 42 (6.80%) Architecture Governance
14 42 (6.80%) Design Patterns
14 42 (6.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 39 (6.31%) Integration Patterns
16 38 (6.15%) Microservices
16 38 (6.15%) SaaS
17 36 (5.83%) Enterprise Architecture
18 35 (5.66%) Analytics
19 33 (5.34%) Technology Roadmap
20 31 (5.02%) Stakeholder Management
21 30 (4.85%) Infrastructure as Code

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 5 (0.81%) Confluence
1 5 (0.81%) SAS
2 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.32%) Camunda
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.27%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.46%) Revit
3 2 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.16%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.16%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle Utilities
3 2 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.16%) Findur
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (18.28%) Azure
2 79 (12.78%) AWS
3 38 (6.15%) SaaS
4 28 (4.53%) GCP
5 22 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.43%) GitHub
8 14 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.78%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.78%) dbt
10 10 (1.62%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.46%) PaaS
12 8 (1.29%) Serverless
13 7 (1.13%) Azure AKS
14 6 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (0.97%) Nutanix
15 5 (0.81%) IaaS
15 5 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.27%) Broadband
1 14 (2.27%) CTI
1 14 (2.27%) VoIP
2 9 (1.46%) Network Security
3 8 (1.29%) LAN
3 8 (1.29%) VPN
3 8 (1.29%) WAN
4 7 (1.13%) Firewall
4 7 (1.13%) WLAN
5 6 (0.97%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (0.97%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.97%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.32%) Wireless
8 1 (0.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.27%) Data Lake
2 12 (1.94%) Metadata
3 8 (1.29%) Power BI
4 6 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.32%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.16%) Db2
8 1 (0.16%) MySQL
8 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Miner
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (2.59%) Jenkins
1 16 (2.59%) SonarQube
2 15 (2.43%) GitLab
3 5 (0.81%) JIRA
4 4 (0.65%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.16%) Maven
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 113 (18.28%) Public Sector
2 82 (13.27%) Social Skills
3 55 (8.90%) Finance
4 47 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (3.72%) Marketing
6 21 (3.40%) Legal
7 14 (2.27%) Games
7 14 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.27%) Law
8 5 (0.81%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.81%) Aviation
8 5 (0.81%) Local Government
9 4 (0.65%) Police
10 3 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.49%) Banking
10 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.72%) REST
2 21 (3.40%) SOAP
3 17 (2.75%) Middleware
4 15 (2.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (2.43%) Visualforce
5 14 (2.27%) Kafka
6 11 (1.78%) PySpark
7 8 (1.29%) .NET
8 6 (0.97%) Spring
9 4 (0.65%) CSS
9 4 (0.65%) HTML
9 4 (0.65%) OAuth
9 4 (0.65%) RESTful
9 4 (0.65%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.49%) OpenID
10 3 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (0.32%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (0.32%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.59%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.27%) IVR
4 14 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.29%) CMDB
6 8 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.97%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (0.81%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.65%) Blog
10 4 (0.65%) IoT
10 4 (0.65%) Life Science
11 2 (0.32%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.32%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.32%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.32%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.13%) Windows
2 5 (0.81%) Linux
2 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (19.26%) Agile
2 82 (13.27%) Technical Architecture
3 79 (12.78%) Mentoring
4 78 (12.62%) AI
4 78 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
5 77 (12.46%) DevOps
6 73 (11.81%) CI/CD
7 71 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (11.49%) Roadmaps
8 67 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 53 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
9 53 (8.58%) Coaching
10 49 (7.93%) Decision-Making
11 46 (7.44%) Event-Driven
12 42 (6.80%) Architecture Governance
12 42 (6.80%) Design Patterns
12 42 (6.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 39 (6.31%) Integration Patterns
14 38 (6.15%) Microservices
15 36 (5.83%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.53%) Python
2 18 (2.91%) C#
3 15 (2.43%) Apex Code
3 15 (2.43%) Java
3 15 (2.43%) SOQL
3 15 (2.43%) SOSL
4 9 (1.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.97%) Bicep
6 5 (0.81%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.65%) Go
7 4 (0.65%) SQL
8 2 (0.32%) Ruby
8 2 (0.32%) X++
9 1 (0.16%) ABAP
9 1 (0.16%) COBOL
9 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.16%) R
9 1 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 97 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.59%) DV Cleared
4 12 (1.94%) Degree
5 8 (1.29%) RIBA
6 6 (0.97%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.49%) CCNA
9 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.49%) CISSP
9 3 (0.49%) CWNA
10 2 (0.32%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.43%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.13%) GDPR
4 6 (0.97%) PMO
5 4 (0.65%) QA
6 3 (0.49%) IFRS
6 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.49%) WCAG
7 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.16%) PSD2
8 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.59%) Docker
2 15 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.13%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.13%) vSphere
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (4.05%) Terraform
2 24 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.97%) Avamar
3 6 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.97%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.97%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.97%) VxRail
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Argo
4 2 (0.32%) Grafana
4 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.85%) Salesforce
3 20 (3.24%) ServiceNow
4 17 (2.75%) Splunk
5 15 (2.43%) Cisco
5 15 (2.43%) VMware
6 14 (2.27%) Avaya
6 14 (2.27%) Genesys
7 13 (2.10%) Computacenter
8 12 (1.94%) Databricks
8 12 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.46%) Oracle
9 9 (1.46%) SAP
10 8 (1.29%) Google
11 6 (0.97%) 3PAR
11 6 (0.97%) CyberArk
11 6 (0.97%) Isilon
11 6 (0.97%) NetApp
11 6 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
11 6 (0.97%) Veeam