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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 472 431
Rank change year-on-year +110 -41 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 430 164 546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.44% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 331 129 389
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -6.25%

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 79,387 37,056 88,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 89.35% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 50,792 23,295 66,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +78 324 £82,957 +0.55% 93
UK excluding London +47 230 £85,000 +3.03% 74
Work from Home +98 175 £80,500 -2.42% 24
London +71 116 £81,000 -10.00% 21
North of England +20 99 £87,431 +2.86% 22
Yorkshire -11 43 £85,000 +25.93% 8
North West -1 42 £87,431 -7.97% 10
Scotland +1 29 £90,000 +28.57% 2
Midlands -30 24 £80,000 +14.29% 12
East of England -12 22 £100,000 +2.56% 14
South West -46 19 £62,384 +3.97% 11
West Midlands -3 18 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North East -23 14 £91,716 +11.17% 4
South East -74 14 £85,000 +3.03% 15
Wales -25 13 £70,000 +35.92% 1
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -50 6 £45,000 -21.96% 7

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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 85 (19.77%) Agile
2 81 (18.84%) Azure
3 72 (16.74%) DevOps
4 60 (13.95%) Roadmaps
5 56 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (12.79%) Mentoring
7 51 (11.86%) Technical Architecture
8 47 (10.93%) AWS
8 47 (10.93%) Microsoft
9 46 (10.70%) Security Cleared
10 40 (9.30%) Project Delivery
10 40 (9.30%) Technology Roadmap
11 39 (9.07%) Event-Driven
11 39 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (9.07%) TOGAF
12 38 (8.84%) SC Cleared
13 37 (8.60%) CI/CD
14 36 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
14 36 (8.37%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (8.14%) Design Patterns
16 34 (7.91%) Analytics
17 33 (7.67%) Migration
17 33 (7.67%) Technology Strategy
18 31 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
19 30 (6.98%) Service Delivery
20 28 (6.51%) AI
20 28 (6.51%) Microservices
21 27 (6.28%) Community of Practice
21 27 (6.28%) SaaS
21 27 (6.28%) Salesforce

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 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.40%) Confluence
3 5 (1.16%) SAS
4 4 (0.93%) Documentum
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.47%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.47%) Revit
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Findur
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 81 (18.84%) Azure
2 47 (10.93%) AWS
3 27 (6.28%) SaaS
4 24 (5.58%) PaaS
5 23 (5.35%) GCP
6 12 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.09%) IaaS
9 8 (1.86%) OCI
9 8 (1.86%) Serverless
10 6 (1.40%) Azure AKS
10 6 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.19%) Broadband
2 8 (1.86%) Firewall
3 7 (1.63%) VPN
4 6 (1.40%) LAN
4 6 (1.40%) WAN
5 5 (1.16%) SSL
6 4 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.93%) Wireless
6 4 (0.93%) WLAN
7 3 (0.70%) DNS
7 3 (0.70%) Internet
8 2 (0.47%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.26%) Metadata
2 7 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.16%) Power BI
5 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.93%) Redis
6 1 (0.23%) Big Data
6 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (4.19%) GitLab
1 18 (4.19%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.19%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.40%) Git
2 6 (1.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 72 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.12%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.91%) Finance
4 32 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.98%) Marketing
6 19 (4.42%) Law
6 19 (4.42%) Legal
7 18 (4.19%) Games
8 9 (2.09%) Local Government
9 8 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.40%) Banking
11 5 (1.16%) Aviation
11 5 (1.16%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.16%) Police
12 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.88%) Middleware
2 19 (4.42%) SOAP
3 18 (4.19%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.19%) REST
3 18 (4.19%) Visualforce
4 16 (3.72%) Node.js
5 15 (3.49%) Django
5 15 (3.49%) React
6 7 (1.63%) .NET
7 6 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.16%) Spring
9 4 (0.93%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.93%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.93%) Hibernate
9 4 (0.93%) Spring MVC
10 3 (0.70%) RESTful
11 2 (0.47%) OAuth
11 2 (0.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.09%) IoT
5 8 (1.86%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.16%) PKI
6 5 (1.16%) Synthetic Data
7 4 (0.93%) CMDB
7 4 (0.93%) Digital Signage
7 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.47%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.47%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.23%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.70%) Linux
1 3 (0.70%) Windows
1 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.77%) Agile
2 72 (16.74%) DevOps
3 60 (13.95%) Roadmaps
4 56 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (12.79%) Mentoring
6 51 (11.86%) Technical Architecture
7 40 (9.30%) Project Delivery
7 40 (9.30%) Technology Roadmap
8 39 (9.07%) Event-Driven
8 39 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (9.07%) TOGAF
9 37 (8.60%) CI/CD
10 36 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
10 36 (8.37%) Enterprise Architecture
11 35 (8.14%) Design Patterns
12 34 (7.91%) Analytics
13 33 (7.67%) Migration
13 33 (7.67%) Technology Strategy
14 31 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (6.98%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.88%) Python
2 18 (4.19%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.19%) SOQL
2 18 (4.19%) SOSL
3 11 (2.56%) SQL
4 10 (2.33%) Java
5 9 (2.09%) C#
6 3 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.47%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) ABAP
8 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.23%) Go
8 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.23%) R
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.33%) Degree
3 10 (2.33%) RIBA
4 8 (1.86%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.93%) CCNA
8 4 (0.93%) CISSP
8 4 (0.93%) CITP
8 4 (0.93%) CWNA
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) CCNP
11 1 (0.23%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.09%) GDPR
2 7 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.70%) IFRS
4 3 (0.70%) PMO
4 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.47%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) vSphere
4 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.63%) Terraform
3 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.70%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Avamar
6 1 (0.23%) CASB
6 1 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.28%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.19%) Splunk
5 17 (3.95%) Oracle
6 16 (3.72%) Palantir
7 12 (2.79%) Google
8 9 (2.09%) YouTube
9 6 (1.40%) OpenText
10 5 (1.16%) Informatica
10 5 (1.16%) SAP
10 5 (1.16%) VMware
11 4 (0.93%) Databricks
11 4 (0.93%) Meraki
11 4 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.93%) Pega
12 2 (0.47%) Adobe
12 2 (0.47%) Computacenter
12 2 (0.47%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds