Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £83,781 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 526 382
Rank change year-on-year +174 -144 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 486 151 726
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.34% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.38% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 341 114 530
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £64,500 £76,563 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,781 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +9.78% -8.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -9.09%

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 88,490 40,188 103,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.54% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 60,699 22,814 74,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 June 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 June 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 +95 333 £80,000 -3.03% 105
UK excluding London +107 263 £85,000 +3.03% 100
Work from Home +116 185 £83,781 +1.55% 54
North of England +72 117 £85,000 - 48
London +38 114 £80,000 -13.51% 22
North West +49 57 £85,000 -5.56% 19
Yorkshire -4 39 £80,000 -7.25% 10
Scotland +35 32 £85,000 +21.43% 3
Wales -21 27 £80,000 +11.89% 4
Midlands -18 23 £85,000 +11.48% 8
North East -30 21 £80,000 +14.29% 19
East of England +4 19 £100,000 +17.65% 1
South West -46 19 £50,000 -31.03% 6
West Midlands -15 15 £87,431 -2.85% 7
South East -47 14 £100,000 +21.21% 23
Northern Ireland - 13 £95,000 - 8
East Midlands -27 8 £45,000 -30.77% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 102 (20.99%) Azure
2 93 (19.14%) Agile
3 82 (16.87%) DevOps
4 81 (16.67%) AWS
5 68 (13.99%) Security Cleared
6 65 (13.37%) CI/CD
6 65 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (13.37%) Roadmaps
7 63 (12.96%) Technical Architecture
8 58 (11.93%) Mentoring
9 57 (11.73%) Microsoft
10 55 (11.32%) Event-Driven
11 54 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
12 50 (10.29%) SC Cleared
13 45 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 42 (8.64%) Design Patterns
15 40 (8.23%) Technology Roadmap
16 37 (7.61%) Decision-Making
16 37 (7.61%) TOGAF
17 36 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
17 36 (7.41%) Microservices
18 34 (7.00%) Data Modelling
18 34 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 33 (6.79%) Architectural Patterns
19 33 (6.79%) Migration
20 32 (6.58%) AI
20 32 (6.58%) Coaching
20 32 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
21 31 (6.38%) Salesforce
22 30 (6.17%) GCP

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 8 (1.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.03%) SAS
3 4 (0.82%) Documentum
3 4 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (1.85%) Revit
2 2 (0.41%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.41%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.21%) Findur
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 102 (20.99%) Azure
2 81 (16.67%) AWS
3 30 (6.17%) GCP
4 26 (5.35%) SaaS
5 17 (3.50%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.29%) PaaS
7 14 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.26%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.26%) GitHub
9 10 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.65%) Serverless
12 7 (1.44%) IaaS
13 6 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.23%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 4 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.70%) Broadband
2 7 (1.44%) VPN
3 6 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (1.23%) iSCSI
3 6 (1.23%) LAN
3 6 (1.23%) WAN
4 5 (1.03%) Firewall
4 5 (1.03%) Unified Communications
4 5 (1.03%) WLAN
5 4 (0.82%) SSL
6 3 (0.62%) DNS
6 3 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.41%) Internet
8 1 (0.21%) CTI
8 1 (0.21%) IPsec
8 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.21%) VoIP
8 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.88%) Data Lake
1 14 (2.88%) Metadata
2 8 (1.65%) Power BI
3 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.82%) Redis
6 2 (0.41%) MySQL
6 2 (0.41%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.21%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.91%) GitLab
1 19 (3.91%) Jenkins
1 19 (3.91%) SonarQube
2 8 (1.65%) JIRA
3 3 (0.62%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.21%) RStudio
General
1 86 (17.70%) Public Sector
1 86 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.61%) Finance
3 31 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (4.94%) Marketing
5 19 (3.91%) Law
6 18 (3.70%) Games
7 14 (2.88%) Legal
8 9 (1.85%) Local Government
9 7 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.23%) Police
11 5 (1.03%) Aviation
11 5 (1.03%) Banking
12 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.21%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.35%) REST
2 24 (4.94%) SOAP
3 19 (3.91%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.91%) Visualforce
4 15 (3.09%) Kafka
5 11 (2.26%) Middleware
5 11 (2.26%) PySpark
6 6 (1.23%) .NET
6 6 (1.23%) RESTful
7 5 (1.03%) OAuth
7 5 (1.03%) Spring
8 4 (0.82%) CSS
8 4 (0.82%) HTML
8 4 (0.82%) OpenID
8 4 (0.82%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.41%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.41%) Web Services
9 2 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.14%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.85%) IoT
7 8 (1.65%) CMDB
7 8 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.82%) PKI
10 4 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.62%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.41%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.41%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.41%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.44%) Windows
2 5 (1.03%) Linux
2 5 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (19.14%) Agile
2 82 (16.87%) DevOps
3 65 (13.37%) CI/CD
3 65 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 65 (13.37%) Roadmaps
4 63 (12.96%) Technical Architecture
5 58 (11.93%) Mentoring
6 55 (11.32%) Event-Driven
7 54 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 45 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (8.64%) Design Patterns
10 40 (8.23%) Technology Roadmap
11 37 (7.61%) Decision-Making
11 37 (7.61%) TOGAF
12 36 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
12 36 (7.41%) Microservices
13 34 (7.00%) Data Modelling
13 34 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (6.79%) Architectural Patterns
14 33 (6.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (5.76%) Python
2 19 (3.91%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.91%) SOQL
2 19 (3.91%) SOSL
3 15 (3.09%) Java
4 13 (2.67%) C#
5 10 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.23%) SQL
7 5 (1.03%) Go
7 5 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.41%) Ruby
8 2 (0.41%) X++
9 1 (0.21%) Bicep
9 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 50 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.47%) Degree
3 12 (2.47%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.44%) RIBA
5 6 (1.23%) Dell Certification
6 5 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.82%) CISSP
7 4 (0.82%) CITP
8 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.21%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) CCNA
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CWNA
9 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.85%) GDPR
3 8 (1.65%) PMO
4 5 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.62%) IFRS
5 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.62%) WCAG
6 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 17 (3.50%) Docker
2 10 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.44%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (4.12%) Kubernetes
1 20 (4.12%) Terraform
2 6 (1.23%) Avamar
2 6 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (1.23%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (1.23%) VxRail
3 5 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.41%) Ansible
4 2 (0.41%) Grafana
4 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 57 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 27 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.32%) Splunk
5 14 (2.88%) Databricks
6 10 (2.06%) VMware
7 9 (1.85%) Google
7 9 (1.85%) YouTube
8 7 (1.44%) SAP
9 6 (1.23%) 3PAR
9 6 (1.23%) Computacenter
9 6 (1.23%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.23%) Dell
9 6 (1.23%) Isilon
9 6 (1.23%) NetApp
9 6 (1.23%) Nimble Storage
9 6 (1.23%) OpenText
9 6 (1.23%) Oracle
9 6 (1.23%) Veeam
10 4 (0.82%) Palantir