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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 443 403
Rank change year-on-year +24 -40 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 243 286 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.56% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 196 188 239
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,725 £56,200
25th Percentile £72,875 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +33 197 £87,431 +9.29% 211
UK excluding London +27 147 £80,000 - 192
Work from Home +50 82 £80,000 - 75
London +20 69 £93,750 +24.34% 46
North of England +50 53 £95,000 +18.75% 39
North West +34 24 £90,000 +7.46% 20
Yorkshire +15 23 £95,000 +16.92% 17
Midlands +10 22 £77,500 +2.79% 35
South West +11 16 £70,000 +1.82% 22
East of England +28 15 £100,000 - 31
Scotland +19 13 £80,000 - 7
West Midlands +8 12 £80,000 - 18
South East -37 12 £75,000 -9.09% 48
Wales +3 11 £80,000 +24.51% 9
East Midlands -8 10 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North East +6 5 £95,000 +18.75% 2
Northern Ireland -6 5 £80,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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 58 (23.87%) Azure
2 53 (21.81%) Agile
3 44 (18.11%) Roadmaps
4 38 (15.64%) DevOps
5 34 (13.99%) Enterprise Architecture
6 33 (13.58%) Mentoring
7 32 (13.17%) Architectural Patterns
8 31 (12.76%) Microsoft
9 30 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (12.35%) SC Cleared
9 30 (12.35%) Security Cleared
10 29 (11.93%) AWS
11 28 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (11.11%) Python
13 25 (10.29%) Microservices
13 25 (10.29%) Technical Architecture
13 25 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (9.88%) Django
15 23 (9.47%) Node.js
16 22 (9.05%) CI/CD
17 21 (8.64%) Event-Driven
17 21 (8.64%) React
17 21 (8.64%) Technology Roadmap
18 19 (7.82%) PaaS
18 19 (7.82%) Project Delivery
18 19 (7.82%) TOGAF
18 19 (7.82%) Translating Business Requirements
19 18 (7.41%) Analytics
19 18 (7.41%) Service Delivery
20 17 (7.00%) AI

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 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.82%) CMS
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.06%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (2.06%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (23.87%) Azure
2 29 (11.93%) AWS
3 19 (7.82%) PaaS
4 15 (6.17%) SaaS
5 12 (4.94%) Azure AKS
6 9 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 9 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (3.70%) GCP
7 8 (3.29%) Serverless
8 7 (2.88%) OCI
9 6 (2.47%) IaaS
9 6 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.82%) Azure Stack
13 2 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.29%) Broadband
2 5 (2.06%) Firewall
3 4 (1.65%) LAN
3 4 (1.65%) WAN
4 3 (1.23%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.23%) Wireless
4 3 (1.23%) WLAN
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) DB2
5 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) Power BI
5 1 (0.41%) Redis
5 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 11 (4.53%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.29%) GitLab
2 8 (3.29%) SonarQube
3 4 (1.65%) Git
General
1 37 (15.23%) Public Sector
2 36 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (7.82%) Marketing
5 12 (4.94%) Legal
6 11 (4.53%) Finance
7 8 (3.29%) Games
8 7 (2.88%) Law
9 5 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.06%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.65%) Banking
10 4 (1.65%) Retail
11 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Back Office
12 2 (0.82%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.41%) Electronics
13 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.88%) Django
2 23 (9.47%) Node.js
3 21 (8.64%) React
4 17 (7.00%) Middleware
5 10 (4.12%) .NET
6 8 (3.29%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (3.29%) REST
6 8 (3.29%) SOAP
6 8 (3.29%) Visualforce
7 6 (2.47%) Web Services
8 5 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.65%) Spring
10 3 (1.23%) Celery
10 3 (1.23%) Flask
10 3 (1.23%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.23%) Kafka
10 3 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.23%) RESTful
10 3 (1.23%) Spring MVC
10 3 (1.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.65%) Digital Signage
4 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
5 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.41%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) IoT
7 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.41%) PKI
7 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.06%) Windows
2 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.81%) Agile
2 44 (18.11%) Roadmaps
3 38 (15.64%) DevOps
4 34 (13.99%) Enterprise Architecture
5 33 (13.58%) Mentoring
6 32 (13.17%) Architectural Patterns
7 30 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.29%) Microservices
9 25 (10.29%) Technical Architecture
9 25 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (9.05%) CI/CD
11 21 (8.64%) Event-Driven
11 21 (8.64%) Technology Roadmap
12 19 (7.82%) Project Delivery
12 19 (7.82%) TOGAF
12 19 (7.82%) Translating Business Requirements
13 18 (7.41%) Analytics
13 18 (7.41%) Service Delivery
14 17 (7.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.11%) Python
2 11 (4.53%) SQL
3 8 (3.29%) Apex Code
3 8 (3.29%) C#
3 8 (3.29%) SOQL
3 8 (3.29%) SOSL
4 5 (2.06%) Java
5 2 (0.82%) ABAP
6 1 (0.41%) Go
6 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (12.35%) SC Cleared
1 30 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.29%) AWS Certification
3 6 (2.47%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.47%) RIBA
4 5 (2.06%) Degree
5 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.23%) CCNA
6 3 (1.23%) CWNA
6 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.82%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) CISM
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) MBA
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.82%) NCSC
1 2 (0.82%) NIST
2 1 (0.41%) GRC
2 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
2 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 10 (4.12%) Docker
2 5 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) CASB
3 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.00%) Oracle
3 16 (6.58%) Palantir
4 14 (5.76%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.70%) Informatica
6 8 (3.29%) Splunk
7 5 (2.06%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.65%) Google
8 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.65%) Workday
9 3 (1.23%) Meraki
9 3 (1.23%) SAP
10 2 (0.82%) Adobe
10 2 (0.82%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (0.82%) Foundry
10 2 (0.82%) Juniper
10 2 (0.82%) VMware
10 2 (0.82%) YouTube
11 1 (0.41%) NetApp
11 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds