Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 387 403
Rank change year-on-year -41 +16 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 215 396 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.62% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.66% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 167 270 246
10th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £56,658
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £101,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +10.34% -9.38%

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 49,330 59,759 47,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.19% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,185 33,142 37,246
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 3 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 3 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 -12 170 £81,500 +1.88% 154
UK excluding London -45 115 £80,000 - 122
London +16 74 £88,750 +18.22% 51
Work from Home +30 73 £77,500 - 100
North of England +27 36 £80,000 - 26
Midlands +31 19 £76,000 +8.57% 14
North West +37 16 £80,000 - 11
Yorkshire +13 16 £83,716 +15.47% 9
South West +8 13 £70,000 +3.70% 5
South East -15 13 £82,500 - 66
West Midlands +28 12 £80,000 +6.28% 9
Scotland +17 12 £80,000 -
Wales -7 10 £80,000 +45.45% 4
East of England +34 8 £100,000 +3.90% 9
East Midlands +10 7 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Northern Ireland -5 4 £80,000 -
North East +5 3 £88,431 +10.54% 6

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 64 (29.77%) Azure
2 51 (23.72%) Agile
3 47 (21.86%) Roadmaps
4 45 (20.93%) DevOps
5 40 (18.60%) Mentoring
6 35 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
7 34 (15.81%) AWS
7 34 (15.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 32 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
9 31 (14.42%) Architectural Patterns
9 31 (14.42%) Microsoft
10 30 (13.95%) Python
11 28 (13.02%) Microservices
12 26 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (12.09%) Node.js
12 26 (12.09%) SC Cleared
12 26 (12.09%) Security Cleared
13 25 (11.63%) CI/CD
13 25 (11.63%) Django
13 25 (11.63%) Event-Driven
13 25 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (9.77%) AI
14 21 (9.77%) Analytics
14 21 (9.77%) React
14 21 (9.77%) Technology Roadmap
14 21 (9.77%) TOGAF
14 21 (9.77%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (8.37%) Design Patterns
16 17 (7.91%) PaaS
17 16 (7.44%) .NET

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 4 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) CMS
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.93%) nginx
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.93%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 64 (29.77%) Azure
2 34 (15.81%) AWS
3 17 (7.91%) PaaS
4 14 (6.51%) SaaS
5 13 (6.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (6.05%) GCP
6 12 (5.58%) Azure AKS
7 9 (4.19%) Azure Event Grid
7 9 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.19%) Serverless
8 6 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.79%) IaaS
8 6 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.86%) Azure Stack
9 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.86%) SonarCloud
10 3 (1.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.72%) Broadband
2 3 (1.40%) DNS
2 3 (1.40%) Firewall
2 3 (1.40%) Network Security
2 3 (1.40%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (0.93%) LAN
3 2 (0.93%) WAN
4 1 (0.47%) PBX
4 1 (0.47%) Skype
4 1 (0.47%) VoIP
4 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.47%) Wireless
4 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.86%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.93%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.47%) DB2
5 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.65%) GitLab
3 8 (3.72%) Git
3 8 (3.72%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.86%) MSBuild
4 4 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.23%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (7.91%) Marketing
5 12 (5.58%) Legal
6 8 (3.72%) Games
6 8 (3.72%) Retail
7 7 (3.26%) Finance
8 6 (2.79%) Law
9 5 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Back Office
10 3 (1.40%) Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Electronics
12 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.09%) Node.js
2 25 (11.63%) Django
3 21 (9.77%) React
4 16 (7.44%) .NET
4 16 (7.44%) Middleware
5 13 (6.05%) REST
6 9 (4.19%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (4.19%) SOAP
6 9 (4.19%) Visualforce
7 8 (3.72%) gRPC
8 6 (2.79%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.79%) Web Services
9 4 (1.86%) CSS
9 4 (1.86%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.86%) HTML
9 4 (1.86%) JSON
9 4 (1.86%) Kafka
9 4 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.86%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.79%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.79%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.86%) Digital Signage
4 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.40%) Media Streaming
5 3 (1.40%) Synthetic Data
5 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.93%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.93%) IoT
6 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Blog
7 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.47%) Home Automation
7 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.47%) Social Media
7 1 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.19%) Windows
2 5 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.72%) Agile
2 47 (21.86%) Roadmaps
3 45 (20.93%) DevOps
4 40 (18.60%) Mentoring
5 35 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
6 34 (15.81%) Enterprise Architecture
7 32 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
8 31 (14.42%) Architectural Patterns
9 28 (13.02%) Microservices
10 26 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (11.63%) CI/CD
11 25 (11.63%) Event-Driven
11 25 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (9.77%) AI
12 21 (9.77%) Analytics
12 21 (9.77%) Technology Roadmap
12 21 (9.77%) TOGAF
12 21 (9.77%) Translating Business Requirements
13 18 (8.37%) Design Patterns
14 14 (6.51%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.95%) Python
2 16 (7.44%) SQL
3 12 (5.58%) C#
4 9 (4.19%) Apex Code
5 8 (3.72%) SOQL
5 8 (3.72%) SOSL
6 5 (2.33%) Java
6 5 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.93%) ABAP
8 1 (0.47%) Go
8 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (12.09%) SC Cleared
1 26 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.72%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.79%) Degree
4 6 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.40%) CCNA
5 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.93%) CCNP
6 2 (0.93%) CISSP
7 1 (0.47%) CISM
7 1 (0.47%) CWNA
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.47%) MBA
7 1 (0.47%) MCP
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.47%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.86%) GDPR
2 3 (1.40%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) NCSC
3 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) GRC
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (6.05%) Docker
2 7 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.86%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.86%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.51%) Oracle
4 9 (4.19%) Informatica
5 8 (3.72%) Splunk
6 6 (2.79%) Google
6 6 (2.79%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.86%) Extreme Networks
7 4 (1.86%) Juniper
7 4 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.86%) Workday
8 3 (1.40%) Gigya
8 3 (1.40%) PayPal
8 3 (1.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) F5
9 2 (0.93%) Foundry
9 2 (0.93%) VMware
9 2 (0.93%) YouTube
10 1 (0.47%) Pega
10 1 (0.47%) Polycom