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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 430 403
Rank change year-on-year +9 -27 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 244 295 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.53% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.56% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 196 195 242
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,450 £56,658
25th Percentile £72,027 £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 £85,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £104,825
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 54,223 52,219 48,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.42% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,503 27,758 37,761
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,174 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £78,656
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,918
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.11% -3.01%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 +27 197 £87,431 +9.29% 212
UK excluding London +23 144 £80,000 - 187
Work from Home +41 81 £80,000 - 101
London +42 72 £92,500 +23.01% 48
North of England +51 51 £95,000 +18.75% 48
Yorkshire +7 23 £95,000 +16.92% 20
North West +37 22 £95,000 +13.43% 25
Midlands +14 22 £77,500 +2.79% 30
South West +16 16 £70,000 +1.82% 17
East of England +27 13 £100,000 -2.44% 31
Scotland +12 13 £80,000 - 6
South East -34 13 £78,750 -4.55% 49
West Midlands +24 12 £80,000 - 16
Wales +7 11 £80,000 +24.51% 7
East Midlands -8 10 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North East +11 5 £95,000 +18.75% 3
Northern Ireland -10 5 £80,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, 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 61 (25.00%) Azure
2 54 (22.13%) Agile
3 44 (18.03%) Roadmaps
4 40 (16.39%) DevOps
5 34 (13.93%) Enterprise Architecture
5 34 (13.93%) Mentoring
6 32 (13.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 31 (12.70%) Microsoft
8 30 (12.30%) AWS
8 30 (12.30%) Python
8 30 (12.30%) SC Cleared
8 30 (12.30%) Security Cleared
9 29 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (11.07%) Microservices
11 26 (10.66%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (10.25%) Django
12 25 (10.25%) Technical Architecture
13 24 (9.84%) CI/CD
14 23 (9.43%) Node.js
15 22 (9.02%) Event-Driven
16 21 (8.61%) React
16 21 (8.61%) Technology Roadmap
17 19 (7.79%) AI
17 19 (7.79%) PaaS
17 19 (7.79%) TOGAF
17 19 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
18 18 (7.38%) Analytics
18 18 (7.38%) Project Delivery
19 17 (6.97%) Middleware

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 (2.05%) 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 (2.05%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (2.05%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (2.05%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.00%) Azure
2 30 (12.30%) AWS
3 19 (7.79%) PaaS
4 14 (5.74%) SaaS
5 12 (4.92%) Azure AKS
6 10 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (4.10%) GCP
7 9 (3.69%) Azure Event Grid
7 9 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.28%) Serverless
9 7 (2.87%) OCI
10 6 (2.46%) IaaS
10 6 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.82%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.28%) Broadband
2 5 (2.05%) Firewall
3 4 (1.64%) LAN
3 4 (1.64%) 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 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.05%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.82%) Tick Data
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%) 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
Development Applications
1 12 (4.92%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.28%) GitLab
2 8 (3.28%) SonarQube
3 6 (2.46%) Git
4 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (15.16%) Public Sector
1 37 (15.16%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (7.38%) Marketing
4 12 (4.92%) Finance
4 12 (4.92%) Legal
5 8 (3.28%) Games
6 7 (2.87%) Law
7 5 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.05%) General Ledger
7 5 (2.05%) Retail
8 4 (1.64%) Banking
9 3 (1.23%) Back Office
9 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Digital Health
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.25%) Django
2 23 (9.43%) Node.js
3 21 (8.61%) React
4 17 (6.97%) Middleware
5 11 (4.51%) .NET
6 9 (3.69%) REST
7 8 (3.28%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (3.28%) SOAP
7 8 (3.28%) Visualforce
8 6 (2.46%) Web Services
9 5 (2.05%) gRPC
9 5 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.64%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.64%) Celery
10 4 (1.64%) Flask
10 4 (1.64%) Kafka
10 4 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.64%) RESTful
10 4 (1.64%) Spring
10 4 (1.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.64%) Digital Signage
4 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
5 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.82%) Hedge funds
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%) 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 (2.05%) Windows
2 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (22.13%) Agile
2 44 (18.03%) Roadmaps
3 40 (16.39%) DevOps
4 34 (13.93%) Enterprise Architecture
4 34 (13.93%) Mentoring
5 32 (13.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 29 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (11.07%) Microservices
8 26 (10.66%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (10.25%) Technical Architecture
10 24 (9.84%) CI/CD
11 22 (9.02%) Event-Driven
12 21 (8.61%) Technology Roadmap
13 19 (7.79%) AI
13 19 (7.79%) TOGAF
13 19 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
14 18 (7.38%) Analytics
14 18 (7.38%) Project Delivery
15 17 (6.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.30%) Python
2 13 (5.33%) SQL
3 10 (4.10%) C#
4 8 (3.28%) Apex Code
4 8 (3.28%) SOQL
4 8 (3.28%) SOSL
5 5 (2.05%) Java
6 2 (0.82%) ABAP
6 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (12.30%) SC Cleared
1 30 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 6 (2.46%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.46%) RIBA
4 5 (2.05%) Degree
5 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.64%) 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%) GDPR
2 1 (0.41%) GRC
2 1 (0.41%) HL7
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
2 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (4.92%) Docker
2 5 (2.05%) 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 14 (5.74%) 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 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.97%) Oracle
3 16 (6.56%) Palantir
4 14 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.69%) Informatica
6 8 (3.28%) Splunk
7 5 (2.05%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.64%) Google
8 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.64%) 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