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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 547 357
Rank change year-on-year +243 -190 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 658 145 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 456 113 435
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,938 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -8.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -10.27%

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 101,050 44,873 78,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.93% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,068 26,506 52,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 +172 479 £85,000 +3.03% 168
UK excluding London +164 417 £85,000 +3.03% 128
Work from Home +103 195 £85,000 +3.03% 71
North of England +122 193 £85,000 +3.03% 55
London +31 128 £95,000 +10.14% 64
North West +50 77 £85,000 -2.86% 21
North East -1 60 £85,000 +21.43% 14
Yorkshire +15 56 £85,000 +21.43% 20
Midlands +4 48 £87,431 +24.90% 16
West Midlands +1 42 £87,431 +9.29% 13
South West -34 41 £50,000 -39.39% 10
Wales -30 35 £80,000 +11.89% 7
Scotland +21 29 £85,000 +21.43% 4
East of England +7 29 £95,000 - 6
South East -35 25 £95,000 +15.15% 25
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 6
East Midlands -25 6 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 124 (18.84%) Agile
2 119 (18.09%) Azure
3 111 (16.87%) Security Cleared
4 91 (13.83%) Technical Architecture
5 88 (13.37%) SC Cleared
6 87 (13.22%) AWS
6 87 (13.22%) Microsoft
7 86 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
8 83 (12.61%) AI
9 78 (11.85%) CI/CD
10 77 (11.70%) Mentoring
11 72 (10.94%) DevOps
12 70 (10.64%) Roadmaps
13 68 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 55 (8.36%) Coaching
16 52 (7.90%) Architectural Patterns
17 49 (7.45%) Decision-Making
17 49 (7.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 44 (6.69%) SaaS
19 42 (6.38%) Architecture Governance
19 42 (6.38%) Integration Patterns
19 42 (6.38%) Microservices
20 41 (6.23%) Design Patterns
21 39 (5.93%) Event-Driven
22 36 (5.47%) Enterprise Architecture
23 32 (4.86%) Analytics
23 32 (4.86%) GCP
23 32 (4.86%) Python
23 32 (4.86%) 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 10 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.30%) Camunda
4 1 (0.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.13%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.37%) Revit
3 2 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.15%) Findur
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 119 (18.09%) Azure
2 87 (13.22%) AWS
3 44 (6.69%) SaaS
4 32 (4.86%) GCP
5 28 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.28%) Entra ID
6 15 (2.28%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.13%) GitHub
8 11 (1.67%) dbt
8 11 (1.67%) PaaS
9 10 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.52%) Azure AKS
9 10 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 10 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.52%) IaaS
9 10 (1.52%) Serverless
10 8 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.06%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.13%) CTI
1 14 (2.13%) VoIP
2 11 (1.67%) Broadband
3 10 (1.52%) Firewall
3 10 (1.52%) LAN
3 10 (1.52%) Network Security
3 10 (1.52%) VPN
3 10 (1.52%) WAN
4 7 (1.06%) WLAN
5 6 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (0.91%) iSCSI
5 6 (0.91%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.61%) Wireless
7 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.06%) Power BI
3 6 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.76%) Metadata
4 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.30%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.15%) Db2
7 1 (0.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.15%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (1.98%) Jenkins
1 13 (1.98%) SonarQube
2 12 (1.82%) GitLab
3 6 (0.91%) JIRA
4 5 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 118 (17.93%) Public Sector
2 81 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 55 (8.36%) Finance
4 50 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.19%) Marketing
6 20 (3.04%) Legal
7 13 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (1.98%) Law
8 11 (1.67%) Games
9 7 (1.06%) Police
10 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.76%) Aviation
12 4 (0.61%) Local Government
13 3 (0.46%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.30%) Banking
14 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.26%) Terraform
2 22 (3.34%) Middleware
3 20 (3.04%) REST
4 18 (2.74%) SOAP
5 15 (2.28%) Kafka
6 12 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
6 12 (1.82%) Visualforce
7 11 (1.67%) PySpark
8 9 (1.37%) .NET
9 8 (1.22%) Spring
10 7 (1.06%) CSS
10 7 (1.06%) HTML
11 5 (0.76%) OAuth
11 5 (0.76%) RESTful
11 5 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (0.61%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (0.61%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.61%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.61%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.58%) Data Centre
3 15 (2.28%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.13%) IVR
5 13 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.22%) CMDB
7 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.91%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.91%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 4 (0.61%) Blog
9 4 (0.61%) Life Science
10 2 (0.30%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.30%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.30%) IoT
10 2 (0.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.22%) Linux
1 8 (1.22%) Windows
2 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (18.84%) Agile
2 91 (13.83%) Technical Architecture
3 86 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
4 83 (12.61%) AI
5 78 (11.85%) CI/CD
6 77 (11.70%) Mentoring
7 72 (10.94%) DevOps
8 70 (10.64%) Roadmaps
9 68 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 55 (8.36%) Coaching
12 52 (7.90%) Architectural Patterns
13 49 (7.45%) Decision-Making
13 49 (7.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 42 (6.38%) Architecture Governance
14 42 (6.38%) Integration Patterns
14 42 (6.38%) Microservices
15 41 (6.23%) Design Patterns
16 39 (5.93%) Event-Driven
17 36 (5.47%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.86%) Python
2 23 (3.50%) C#
3 17 (2.58%) Java
4 12 (1.82%) Apex Code
4 12 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.82%) SOQL
4 12 (1.82%) SOSL
5 8 (1.22%) Bicep
6 7 (1.06%) Go
7 5 (0.76%) SQL
8 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.46%) ABAP
10 2 (0.30%) X++
11 1 (0.15%) COBOL
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.15%) R
11 1 (0.15%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 111 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 18 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.43%) Degree
5 8 (1.22%) RIBA
6 7 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.91%) Dell Certification
8 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.46%) CCNA
9 3 (0.46%) CISSP
9 3 (0.46%) CWNA
10 2 (0.30%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) CCIE
10 2 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.91%) GDPR
2 6 (0.91%) PMO
3 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.61%) QA
4 3 (0.46%) IFRS
4 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.30%) GRC
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.30%) WCAG
6 1 (0.15%) PSD2
6 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (2.89%) Docker
2 18 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.91%) vSphere
6 2 (0.30%) Firmware
6 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.91%) Avamar
2 6 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.91%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.91%) VxRail
3 3 (0.46%) Grafana
3 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 18 (2.74%) VMware
5 17 (2.58%) Cisco
6 14 (2.13%) Avaya
6 14 (2.13%) Genesys
6 14 (2.13%) Oracle
6 14 (2.13%) Splunk
7 13 (1.98%) Computacenter
8 12 (1.82%) Google
8 12 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.67%) Databricks
9 11 (1.67%) SAP
10 7 (1.06%) Adobe
11 6 (0.91%) 3PAR
11 6 (0.91%) Dell
11 6 (0.91%) Isilon
11 6 (0.91%) NetApp
11 6 (0.91%) Veeam