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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 473 422
Rank change year-on-year +116 -51 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 419 162 537
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.44% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 322 127 385
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.23%

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 77,009 36,647 87,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.57% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,567 23,302 65,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +91 317 £81,000 -1.82% 107
UK excluding London +24 224 £85,000 +3.03% 89
Work from Home +100 163 £80,000 -3.03% 60
London +61 116 £85,000 -5.56% 32
North of England +3 93 £85,000 - 31
North West -4 42 £85,000 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -17 39 £85,000 +25.93% 12
Scotland +12 29 £90,000 +28.57% 5
Midlands -37 24 £80,000 +14.29% 11
East of England -21 22 £100,000 +2.56% 13
South West -34 20 £67,800 +13.00% 7
West Midlands -5 18 £80,000 +14.29% 11
Wales -27 13 £70,000 +35.92% 2
South East -63 13 £85,000 +3.03% 22
North East -22 12 £91,716 +11.17% 8
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -51 6 £45,000 -16.40%

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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 84 (20.05%) Agile
2 80 (19.09%) Azure
3 72 (17.18%) DevOps
4 61 (14.56%) Roadmaps
5 55 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (13.13%) Mentoring
6 51 (12.17%) Technical Architecture
7 47 (11.22%) Microsoft
8 46 (10.98%) AWS
9 45 (10.74%) Security Cleared
10 40 (9.55%) Technology Roadmap
11 39 (9.31%) CI/CD
11 39 (9.31%) Event-Driven
11 39 (9.31%) Project Delivery
11 39 (9.31%) SC Cleared
12 38 (9.07%) Architectural Patterns
12 38 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (9.07%) TOGAF
13 36 (8.59%) Enterprise Architecture
14 34 (8.11%) Analytics
14 34 (8.11%) Design Patterns
14 34 (8.11%) Technology Strategy
15 33 (7.88%) Migration
15 33 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (6.92%) Microservices
17 28 (6.68%) Service Delivery
18 27 (6.44%) AI
18 27 (6.44%) Community of Practice
18 27 (6.44%) Salesforce
19 26 (6.21%) SaaS

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 9 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.43%) Confluence
3 5 (1.19%) SAS
4 4 (0.95%) Documentum
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.48%) Camunda
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.48%) Revit
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Findur
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 80 (19.09%) Azure
2 46 (10.98%) AWS
3 26 (6.21%) SaaS
4 24 (5.73%) PaaS
5 22 (5.25%) GCP
6 12 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.91%) IaaS
8 8 (1.91%) OCI
8 8 (1.91%) Serverless
9 7 (1.67%) Azure AKS
9 7 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.43%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.95%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.30%) Broadband
2 8 (1.91%) Firewall
3 7 (1.67%) VPN
4 6 (1.43%) LAN
4 6 (1.43%) WAN
5 5 (1.19%) SSL
6 4 (0.95%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.95%) Wireless
6 4 (0.95%) WLAN
7 3 (0.72%) DNS
7 3 (0.72%) Internet
8 2 (0.48%) Network Security
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
9 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.34%) Metadata
2 8 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.19%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.19%) Power BI
5 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.95%) Redis
6 1 (0.24%) MySQL
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Miner
Development Applications
1 18 (4.30%) GitLab
1 18 (4.30%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.30%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.43%) Git
2 6 (1.43%) JIRA
3 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.24%) RStudio
General
1 72 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.80%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.88%) Finance
4 32 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (7.40%) Marketing
6 19 (4.53%) Law
6 19 (4.53%) Legal
7 18 (4.30%) Games
8 9 (2.15%) Local Government
9 8 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.43%) Banking
11 5 (1.19%) Aviation
11 5 (1.19%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.19%) Police
12 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.95%) Retail
13 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.25%) Middleware
2 19 (4.53%) SOAP
3 18 (4.30%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.30%) REST
3 18 (4.30%) Visualforce
4 16 (3.82%) Node.js
5 15 (3.58%) Django
5 15 (3.58%) React
6 7 (1.67%) .NET
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.19%) Spring
9 4 (0.95%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.95%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.95%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.95%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.95%) Hibernate
9 4 (0.95%) Spring MVC
10 3 (0.72%) RESTful
11 2 (0.48%) Kafka
11 2 (0.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.91%) IoT
5 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.19%) PKI
7 5 (1.19%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (0.95%) CMDB
8 4 (0.95%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.48%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.24%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.24%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.24%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.48%) Windows
2 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (20.05%) Agile
2 72 (17.18%) DevOps
3 61 (14.56%) Roadmaps
4 55 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (13.13%) Mentoring
5 51 (12.17%) Technical Architecture
6 40 (9.55%) Technology Roadmap
7 39 (9.31%) CI/CD
7 39 (9.31%) Event-Driven
7 39 (9.31%) Project Delivery
8 38 (9.07%) Architectural Patterns
8 38 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (9.07%) TOGAF
9 36 (8.59%) Enterprise Architecture
10 34 (8.11%) Analytics
10 34 (8.11%) Design Patterns
10 34 (8.11%) Technology Strategy
11 33 (7.88%) Migration
11 33 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (6.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (5.01%) Python
2 18 (4.30%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.30%) SOQL
2 18 (4.30%) SOSL
3 12 (2.86%) SQL
4 10 (2.39%) Java
5 9 (2.15%) C#
6 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.48%) Ruby
8 1 (0.24%) ABAP
8 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.24%) Go
8 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) R
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.39%) RIBA
4 9 (2.15%) Degree
5 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.95%) CCNA
9 4 (0.95%) CISSP
9 4 (0.95%) CITP
9 4 (0.95%) CWNA
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.24%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) CCNP
12 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.15%) GDPR
2 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.72%) IFRS
4 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.48%) PMO
5 2 (0.48%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.39%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.43%) Terraform
3 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.24%) Argo
5 1 (0.24%) CASB
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.44%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.30%) Oracle
3 18 (4.30%) ServiceNow
3 18 (4.30%) Splunk
4 16 (3.82%) Palantir
5 12 (2.86%) Google
6 9 (2.15%) YouTube
7 6 (1.43%) Informatica
7 6 (1.43%) OpenText
8 5 (1.19%) SAP
9 4 (0.95%) Databricks
9 4 (0.95%) Meraki
9 4 (0.95%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.95%) Pega
9 4 (0.95%) VMware
10 2 (0.48%) Adobe
10 2 (0.48%) Computacenter
10 2 (0.48%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.48%) SolarWinds