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 3 months leading to 29 May 2026.

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

3 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 430 357
Rank change year-on-year +93 -73 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 244 78 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.34% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 168 65 220
10th Percentile £51,750 £67,750 £51,750
25th Percentile £64,756 £77,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,431 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.98% +17.86% -17.65%

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 49,912 23,030 42,338
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 90.01% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 34,050 12,386 28,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -9.09%

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 3 months to 29 May 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 3 months to 29 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +41 167 £87,500 +4.48% 117
UK excluding London +48 130 £87,431 +5.98% 95
Work from Home +100 96 £90,000 +7.46% 63
London -2 53 £80,000 -15.79% 51
North of England +27 52 £90,026 +2.89% 35
North West +41 24 £90,000 -6.25% 13
Yorkshire -14 18 £95,000 +10.14% 11
Scotland +34 14 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South West -35 14 £50,000 -31.03% 10
East of England -7 13 £95,000 -
Midlands -5 12 £87,431 -2.85% 6
South East -9 11 £100,000 +21.21% 23
North East -27 10 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Wales -31 10 £74,986 +4.88% 17
West Midlands -18 7 £87,431 -6.74% 6
East Midlands -5 5 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 99 (22.05%) Azure
2 84 (18.71%) Agile
3 72 (16.04%) AWS
4 71 (15.81%) DevOps
5 68 (15.14%) Security Cleared
6 57 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (12.69%) Roadmaps
7 54 (12.03%) Microsoft
8 53 (11.80%) CI/CD
8 53 (11.80%) SC Cleared
8 53 (11.80%) Technical Architecture
9 51 (11.36%) Event-Driven
9 51 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 41 (9.13%) Design Patterns
11 39 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (8.46%) Technology Roadmap
13 37 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (7.80%) TOGAF
15 34 (7.57%) Migration
15 34 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (7.57%) Project Delivery
16 33 (7.35%) Microservices
16 33 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (7.13%) Architectural Patterns
18 31 (6.90%) AI
18 31 (6.90%) Decision-Making
19 30 (6.68%) Analytics
19 30 (6.68%) Data Modelling
19 30 (6.68%) GCP
20 29 (6.46%) Enterprise Architecture

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 6 (1.34%) Confluence
2 5 (1.11%) SAS
2 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.89%) Documentum
4 2 (0.45%) Camunda
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Revit
2 2 (0.45%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.45%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.22%) Findur
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (22.05%) Azure
2 72 (16.04%) AWS
3 30 (6.68%) GCP
4 25 (5.57%) SaaS
5 21 (4.68%) PaaS
6 14 (3.12%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.45%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.45%) GitHub
9 10 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (2.00%) IaaS
11 8 (1.78%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.78%) Serverless
12 7 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.34%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.11%) OCI
15 4 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.01%) Broadband
2 10 (2.23%) LAN
2 10 (2.23%) WAN
3 8 (1.78%) Firewall
3 8 (1.78%) WLAN
4 7 (1.56%) Unified Communications
4 7 (1.56%) VPN
5 6 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.34%) iSCSI
6 5 (1.11%) SSL
7 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) DNS
8 3 (0.67%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) IPsec
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.12%) Data Lake
1 14 (3.12%) Metadata
2 6 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.34%) Power BI
3 5 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.89%) Redis
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (4.01%) GitLab
1 18 (4.01%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.01%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.34%) JIRA
3 4 (0.89%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.22%) RStudio
General
1 87 (19.38%) Public Sector
2 80 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.69%) Finance
4 34 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.79%) Marketing
6 18 (4.01%) Games
6 18 (4.01%) Law
7 13 (2.90%) Legal
8 9 (2.00%) Local Government
9 6 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.34%) Police
10 5 (1.11%) Aviation
10 5 (1.11%) Banking
11 4 (0.89%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.12%) SOAP
2 22 (4.90%) REST
3 18 (4.01%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.01%) Visualforce
4 15 (3.34%) Middleware
5 12 (2.67%) Kafka
6 11 (2.45%) PySpark
7 5 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.89%) .NET
8 4 (0.89%) RESTful
9 3 (0.67%) OAuth
9 3 (0.67%) Spring
10 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.45%) Django
10 2 (0.45%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.45%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.45%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.45%) OpenID
10 2 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.79%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.00%) IoT
7 8 (1.78%) CMDB
8 7 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.34%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 5 (1.11%) PKI
11 4 (0.89%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.45%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.45%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.45%) Digital Signage
13 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.34%) Windows
2 4 (0.89%) Linux
2 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (18.71%) Agile
2 71 (15.81%) DevOps
3 57 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (12.69%) Roadmaps
4 53 (11.80%) CI/CD
4 53 (11.80%) Technical Architecture
5 51 (11.36%) Event-Driven
5 51 (11.36%) Mentoring
6 41 (9.13%) Design Patterns
7 39 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
8 38 (8.46%) Technology Roadmap
9 37 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (7.80%) TOGAF
11 34 (7.57%) Migration
11 34 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (7.57%) Project Delivery
12 33 (7.35%) Microservices
12 33 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (7.13%) Architectural Patterns
14 31 (6.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.35%) Python
2 18 (4.01%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.01%) SOQL
2 18 (4.01%) SOSL
3 12 (2.67%) Java
4 11 (2.45%) C#
5 6 (1.34%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.34%) SQL
6 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.45%) Ruby
8 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.22%) Go
8 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.45%) RIBA
4 10 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.00%) Degree
6 6 (1.34%) Dell Certification
7 5 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.89%) CCNA
8 4 (0.89%) CISSP
8 4 (0.89%) CITP
8 4 (0.89%) CWNA
9 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.23%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.00%) GDPR
3 8 (1.78%) PMO
4 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.67%) IFRS
5 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.67%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (2.67%) Docker
2 9 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.56%) vSphere
4 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (4.23%) Terraform
2 15 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.34%) Avamar
3 6 (1.34%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.34%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.34%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.34%) VxRail
4 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.22%) Argo
5 1 (0.22%) CASB
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.01%) Salesforce
3 25 (5.57%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.45%) Splunk
5 16 (3.56%) Palantir
6 14 (3.12%) Databricks
7 10 (2.23%) Google
8 9 (2.00%) VMware
8 9 (2.00%) YouTube
9 8 (1.78%) Oracle
10 6 (1.34%) 3PAR
10 6 (1.34%) Computacenter
10 6 (1.34%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.34%) Dell
10 6 (1.34%) Isilon
10 6 (1.34%) NetApp
10 6 (1.34%) Nimble Storage
10 6 (1.34%) OpenText
10 6 (1.34%) SAP
10 6 (1.34%) Veeam