Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £84,957 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 514 376
Rank change year-on-year +200 -138 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 585 161 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.33% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.36% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 416 123 520
10th Percentile £59,311 £60,000 £51,745
25th Percentile £65,079 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,957 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +9.78% -9.73%
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 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -11.76%

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 93,080 44,133 95,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 89.80% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 63,762 26,055 68,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +128 397 £85,000 +3.03% 127
UK excluding London +142 349 £85,000 +3.03% 98
Work from Home +116 211 £81,000 -1.82% 66
North of England +96 157 £85,000 - 48
London +23 115 £85,000 -5.56% 40
North West +51 72 £82,500 -5.71% 23
Yorkshire +4 45 £85,000 +21.43% 11
North East -19 40 £85,000 +21.43% 14
Scotland +50 39 £85,000 +21.43% 3
Midlands -11 36 £82,500 +17.86% 10
Wales -21 35 £80,000 +11.89% 3
West Midlands -9 30 £82,500 -8.33% 9
South West -42 27 £50,000 -41.18% 15
Northern Ireland - 24 £85,000 - 3
East of England -2 21 £100,000 +25.00% 7
South East -44 14 £100,000 +21.21% 11
East Midlands -24 6 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 123 (21.03%) Agile
2 108 (18.46%) Azure
3 93 (15.90%) Security Cleared
4 85 (14.53%) DevOps
5 82 (14.02%) AWS
6 78 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
7 77 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (13.16%) Roadmaps
8 76 (12.99%) AI
9 75 (12.82%) Microsoft
10 74 (12.65%) Mentoring
10 74 (12.65%) SC Cleared
11 71 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
12 70 (11.97%) CI/CD
13 67 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 54 (9.23%) Event-Driven
15 46 (7.86%) Coaching
16 45 (7.69%) Design Patterns
17 43 (7.35%) Architectural Patterns
18 42 (7.18%) Decision-Making
18 42 (7.18%) Technology Roadmap
19 41 (7.01%) Enterprise Architecture
20 40 (6.84%) Analytics
21 38 (6.50%) Architecture Governance
22 37 (6.32%) TOGAF
23 36 (6.15%) Microservices
24 35 (5.98%) Integration Patterns
24 35 (5.98%) Migration
25 33 (5.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
25 33 (5.64%) Salesforce

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 (1.37%) Confluence
2 5 (0.85%) SAS
3 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.51%) Documentum
5 2 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.39%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.71%) Revit
3 2 (0.34%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.34%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle Utilities
3 2 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.17%) Findur
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (18.46%) Azure
2 82 (14.02%) AWS
3 30 (5.13%) SaaS
4 28 (4.79%) GCP
5 18 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.08%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.22%) GitHub
7 12 (2.05%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.88%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.88%) dbt
8 11 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.88%) PaaS
9 10 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (1.37%) Serverless
11 6 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.03%) Nutanix
12 5 (0.85%) Azure AKS
12 5 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.85%) IaaS
12 5 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.08%) Broadband
2 14 (2.39%) CTI
2 14 (2.39%) VoIP
3 10 (1.71%) VPN
4 8 (1.37%) LAN
4 8 (1.37%) WAN
5 7 (1.20%) Firewall
5 7 (1.20%) Network Security
5 7 (1.20%) WLAN
6 6 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (1.03%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.03%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.68%) SSL
8 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.34%) DNS
9 2 (0.34%) Wireless
10 1 (0.17%) Internet
10 1 (0.17%) IPsec
10 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.39%) Data Lake
1 14 (2.39%) Metadata
2 8 (1.37%) Power BI
3 6 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
4 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.34%) MySQL
6 2 (0.34%) Redis
6 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.17%) Big Data
7 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.42%) Jenkins
1 20 (3.42%) SonarQube
2 19 (3.25%) GitLab
3 8 (1.37%) JIRA
4 3 (0.51%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.17%) RStudio
General
1 103 (17.61%) Public Sector
2 94 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 46 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (6.50%) Finance
5 23 (3.93%) Marketing
6 18 (3.08%) Games
6 18 (3.08%) Law
6 18 (3.08%) Legal
7 16 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.20%) Local Government
9 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.03%) Police
10 5 (0.85%) Aviation
11 4 (0.68%) Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.44%) REST
2 24 (4.10%) SOAP
3 19 (3.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 19 (3.25%) Visualforce
4 14 (2.39%) Kafka
4 14 (2.39%) Middleware
5 11 (1.88%) PySpark
6 7 (1.20%) .NET
7 5 (0.85%) OAuth
7 5 (0.85%) RESTful
7 5 (0.85%) Spring
8 4 (0.68%) CSS
8 4 (0.68%) HTML
8 4 (0.68%) OpenID
8 4 (0.68%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.34%) Django
9 2 (0.34%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.34%) Web Services
9 2 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.39%) IVR
6 13 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.37%) CMDB
8 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.37%) IoT
9 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 5 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.68%) PKI
12 3 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.51%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.34%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.34%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.34%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.20%) Windows
2 5 (0.85%) Linux
2 5 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (21.03%) Agile
2 85 (14.53%) DevOps
3 78 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
4 77 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 77 (13.16%) Roadmaps
5 76 (12.99%) AI
6 74 (12.65%) Mentoring
7 71 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
8 70 (11.97%) CI/CD
9 67 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (9.23%) Event-Driven
11 46 (7.86%) Coaching
12 45 (7.69%) Design Patterns
13 43 (7.35%) Architectural Patterns
14 42 (7.18%) Decision-Making
14 42 (7.18%) Technology Roadmap
15 41 (7.01%) Enterprise Architecture
16 40 (6.84%) Analytics
17 38 (6.50%) Architecture Governance
18 37 (6.32%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.13%) Python
2 19 (3.25%) Apex Code
2 19 (3.25%) SOQL
2 19 (3.25%) SOSL
3 16 (2.74%) Java
4 15 (2.56%) C#
5 10 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.03%) SQL
7 5 (0.85%) Go
7 5 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.68%) Bicep
9 2 (0.34%) Ruby
9 2 (0.34%) X++
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.05%) Degree
5 9 (1.54%) RIBA
6 6 (1.03%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.68%) CISSP
9 3 (0.51%) CCNA
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.51%) CITP
9 3 (0.51%) CWNA
10 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.34%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.37%) GDPR
4 7 (1.20%) PMO
5 3 (0.51%) IFRS
5 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
6 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
7 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.74%) Docker
2 13 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.20%) vSphere
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (3.93%) Terraform
2 22 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.03%) Avamar
3 6 (1.03%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.03%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.03%) VxRail
4 5 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
5 2 (0.34%) Grafana
5 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 75 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.64%) Salesforce
3 26 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.59%) Splunk
5 15 (2.56%) Cisco
6 14 (2.39%) Avaya
6 14 (2.39%) Genesys
7 13 (2.22%) VMware
8 12 (2.05%) Databricks
8 12 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.88%) Computacenter
10 8 (1.37%) Google
10 8 (1.37%) Oracle
10 8 (1.37%) SAP
11 7 (1.20%) YouTube
12 6 (1.03%) 3PAR
12 6 (1.03%) Dell
12 6 (1.03%) Isilon
12 6 (1.03%) NetApp
12 6 (1.03%) Veeam