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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 488 403
Rank change year-on-year +107 -85 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 332 214 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.48% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 267 139 336
10th Percentile £62,883 £57,378 £58,143
25th Percentile £71,801 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,400
% change year-on-year -3.03% +9.42% -5.75%

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 62,327 44,730 70,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 91.49% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 39,291 23,468 55,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,235 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,230
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +66 253 £80,000 -3.03% 102
UK excluding London +57 188 £80,000 -3.03% 76
Work from Home +85 128 £80,000 -3.03% 35
London +61 89 £90,000 +12.50% 50
North of England +32 76 £80,000 -3.03% 18
North West +24 38 £80,000 -15.79% 6
Yorkshire -4 30 £80,000 - 10
Scotland +10 23 £90,000 - 8
Midlands -7 21 £80,000 +8.47% 4
East of England +24 17 £100,000 +2.56%
Wales +3 16 £77,415 +50.32% 2
South West +1 16 £70,000 - 6
West Midlands +13 13 £80,000 - 3
South East -45 11 £80,000 -3.03% 35
North East -3 8 £84,216 -11.35% 2
Northern Ireland -17 8 £87,500 +9.38% 3
East Midlands -24 8 £60,500 +4.93% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 February 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 78 (23.49%) Agile
2 71 (21.39%) Azure
3 59 (17.77%) DevOps
3 59 (17.77%) Roadmaps
4 52 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (14.46%) AWS
6 46 (13.86%) Mentoring
7 42 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
7 42 (12.65%) Security Cleared
8 40 (12.05%) SC Cleared
9 39 (11.75%) Architectural Patterns
10 38 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (11.45%) Technical Architecture
11 35 (10.54%) Event-Driven
11 35 (10.54%) Technology Roadmap
12 34 (10.24%) Analytics
13 33 (9.94%) Microsoft
13 33 (9.94%) Project Delivery
14 32 (9.64%) TOGAF
15 29 (8.73%) CI/CD
15 29 (8.73%) Design Patterns
16 28 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (8.13%) Technology Strategy
18 26 (7.83%) Microservices
19 25 (7.53%) Migration
19 25 (7.53%) PaaS
19 25 (7.53%) Python
20 24 (7.23%) Service Delivery
21 23 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
21 23 (6.93%) Strategic Thinking

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 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.20%) Confluence
2 4 (1.20%) Documentum
2 4 (1.20%) SAS
3 2 (0.60%) CMS
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.60%) Revit
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (21.39%) Azure
2 48 (14.46%) AWS
3 25 (7.53%) PaaS
4 21 (6.33%) SaaS
5 19 (5.72%) GCP
6 10 (3.01%) Azure AKS
6 10 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.01%) Serverless
7 9 (2.71%) Azure Event Grid
7 9 (2.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.11%) IaaS
8 7 (2.11%) OCI
9 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.20%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.20%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.22%) Broadband
2 7 (2.11%) Firewall
3 5 (1.51%) LAN
3 5 (1.51%) SSL
3 5 (1.51%) VPN
3 5 (1.51%) WAN
4 4 (1.20%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.20%) Wireless
4 4 (1.20%) WLAN
5 3 (0.90%) DNS
5 3 (0.90%) Internet
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) IPsec
7 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.61%) Metadata
1 12 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (1.51%) Data Lake
2 5 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.20%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.20%) Redis
4 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.60%) Power BI
5 1 (0.30%) DB2
5 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.30%) MySQL
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.22%) GitLab
1 14 (4.22%) Jenkins
1 14 (4.22%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.51%) Git
3 4 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 64 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 29 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.83%) Marketing
5 20 (6.02%) Finance
6 19 (5.72%) Law
7 15 (4.52%) Legal
8 14 (4.22%) Games
9 9 (2.71%) Local Government
10 8 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.11%) Banking
11 7 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.51%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.20%) Retail
14 3 (0.90%) Police
15 2 (0.60%) Back Office
15 2 (0.60%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.63%) Node.js
2 21 (6.33%) Django
2 21 (6.33%) React
3 19 (5.72%) Middleware
4 14 (4.22%) Lightning Web Components
4 14 (4.22%) REST
4 14 (4.22%) SOAP
4 14 (4.22%) Visualforce
5 8 (2.41%) .NET
6 7 (2.11%) Web Services
7 5 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.51%) Spring
8 4 (1.20%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.20%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (1.20%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.20%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.20%) Spring MVC
9 2 (0.60%) OAuth
9 2 (0.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.93%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.41%) IoT
3 8 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.51%) PKI
4 5 (1.51%) Synthetic Data
5 4 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.20%) Digital Signage
5 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.60%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.30%) Blog
8 1 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.30%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.30%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.90%) Windows
1 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (23.49%) Agile
2 59 (17.77%) DevOps
2 59 (17.77%) Roadmaps
3 52 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (13.86%) Mentoring
5 42 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 39 (11.75%) Architectural Patterns
7 38 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (11.45%) Technical Architecture
8 35 (10.54%) Event-Driven
8 35 (10.54%) Technology Roadmap
9 34 (10.24%) Analytics
10 33 (9.94%) Project Delivery
11 32 (9.64%) TOGAF
12 29 (8.73%) CI/CD
12 29 (8.73%) Design Patterns
13 28 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (8.13%) Technology Strategy
15 26 (7.83%) Microservices
16 25 (7.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.53%) Python
2 14 (4.22%) Apex Code
2 14 (4.22%) SOQL
2 14 (4.22%) SOSL
3 12 (3.61%) SQL
4 9 (2.71%) C#
4 9 (2.71%) Java
5 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.30%) ABAP
6 1 (0.30%) Go
6 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.30%) Ruby
6 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 40 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.61%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.71%) RIBA
5 7 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.11%) Degree
6 5 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.20%) CCNA
7 4 (1.20%) CISSP
7 4 (1.20%) CITP
7 4 (1.20%) CWNA
8 1 (0.30%) CCNP
8 1 (0.30%) CISM
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.20%) GDPR
3 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.60%) NCSC
3 2 (0.60%) NIST
3 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.60%) PMO
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 10 (3.01%) Docker
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.20%) Terraform
4 3 (0.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.60%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.30%) CASB
Vendors
1 33 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.33%) Salesforce
3 18 (5.42%) Oracle
4 16 (4.82%) Palantir
5 14 (4.22%) Splunk
6 12 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.01%) Google
8 9 (2.71%) Informatica
9 8 (2.41%) YouTube
10 5 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.20%) Meraki
11 4 (1.20%) OpenText
11 4 (1.20%) Pega
11 4 (1.20%) Workday
12 3 (0.90%) Databricks
13 2 (0.60%) Adobe
13 2 (0.60%) SAP
13 2 (0.60%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.60%) VMware
14 1 (0.30%) Netskope