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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 532 361
Rank change year-on-year +233 -171 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 692 147 585
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.29% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 480 116 420
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -8.61%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -8.91%

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 103,099 44,902 77,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.81% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,693 49,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +180 510 £85,000 +3.03% 212
UK excluding London +176 456 £85,000 +3.03% 122
North of England +122 217 £85,000 +13.33% 42
Work from Home +113 205 £85,000 +3.03% 104
London +26 121 £95,000 +7.04% 113
North West +56 87 £85,000 -2.86% 25
Yorkshire +17 65 £80,000 +14.29% 7
North East +1 65 £85,000 +21.43% 10
Midlands -9 52 £87,716 +25.31% 17
South West -31 48 £75,000 -6.25% 15
West Midlands +10 46 £87,716 +9.64% 14
Wales -31 40 £80,000 +11.89% 6
East of England +11 33 £100,000 - 4
Scotland +16 26 £85,000 +21.43% 11
South East -42 25 £85,000 +3.03% 27
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 - 1
East Midlands -19 6 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 124 (17.92%) Agile
2 122 (17.63%) Azure
3 117 (16.91%) Security Cleared
4 105 (15.17%) Technical Architecture
5 96 (13.87%) SC Cleared
5 96 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
6 93 (13.44%) AWS
7 90 (13.01%) AI
7 90 (13.01%) Microsoft
8 87 (12.57%) Mentoring
9 78 (11.27%) CI/CD
10 70 (10.12%) Roadmaps
11 69 (9.97%) DevOps
12 67 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 65 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 64 (9.25%) Coaching
15 58 (8.38%) Architectural Patterns
16 49 (7.08%) Decision-Making
16 49 (7.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 47 (6.79%) Microservices
18 44 (6.36%) Integration Patterns
18 44 (6.36%) SaaS
19 42 (6.07%) Event-Driven
20 40 (5.78%) Architecture Governance
21 38 (5.49%) Design Patterns
22 36 (5.20%) Enterprise Architecture
22 36 (5.20%) GCP
23 35 (5.06%) Analytics
24 33 (4.77%) Infrastructure as Code
24 33 (4.77%) Stakeholder Management

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 11 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.14%) Apache
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.14%) Camunda
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.02%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.29%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.87%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.14%) Findur
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 122 (17.63%) Azure
2 93 (13.44%) AWS
3 44 (6.36%) SaaS
4 36 (5.20%) GCP
5 32 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.31%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.88%) GitHub
8 13 (1.88%) IaaS
9 12 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.73%) Serverless
10 11 (1.59%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.59%) dbt
10 11 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.59%) PaaS
11 10 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.45%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.02%) CTI
1 14 (2.02%) VoIP
2 12 (1.73%) LAN
2 12 (1.73%) Network Security
3 11 (1.59%) Firewall
3 11 (1.59%) VPN
3 11 (1.59%) WAN
4 8 (1.16%) Broadband
5 7 (1.01%) WLAN
6 6 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.87%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.87%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.87%) Wireless
7 3 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.14%) DNS
8 1 (0.14%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.45%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.16%) Power BI
3 6 (0.87%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.72%) Metadata
4 5 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.29%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.14%) Big Data
7 1 (0.14%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.14%) MySQL
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.14%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 10 (1.45%) SonarQube
2 9 (1.30%) GitLab
3 6 (0.87%) JIRA
4 5 (0.72%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) Maven
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 127 (18.35%) Public Sector
2 81 (11.71%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.80%) Finance
4 47 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.89%) Legal
6 18 (2.60%) Marketing
7 13 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.73%) Law
9 8 (1.16%) Games
10 7 (1.01%) Police
11 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.58%) Local Government
12 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Aviation
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.29%) Banking
14 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.19%) Terraform
2 25 (3.61%) Middleware
3 17 (2.46%) REST
4 15 (2.17%) Kafka
4 15 (2.17%) SOAP
5 11 (1.59%) PySpark
6 10 (1.45%) .NET
7 9 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.30%) Visualforce
8 7 (1.01%) CSS
8 7 (1.01%) HTML
8 7 (1.01%) Spring
9 5 (0.72%) OAuth
9 5 (0.72%) RESTful
9 5 (0.72%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.58%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.58%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.58%) OpenID
10 4 (0.58%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.90%) Cloud Native
2 18 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (2.02%) IVR
4 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.16%) CMDB
7 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.87%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.58%) Blog
10 4 (0.58%) Life Science
11 3 (0.43%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.29%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.29%) IoT
12 2 (0.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.16%) Linux
1 8 (1.16%) Windows
2 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (17.92%) Agile
2 105 (15.17%) Technical Architecture
3 96 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
4 90 (13.01%) AI
5 87 (12.57%) Mentoring
6 78 (11.27%) CI/CD
7 70 (10.12%) Roadmaps
8 69 (9.97%) DevOps
9 67 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 65 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (9.25%) Coaching
12 58 (8.38%) Architectural Patterns
13 49 (7.08%) Decision-Making
13 49 (7.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 47 (6.79%) Microservices
15 44 (6.36%) Integration Patterns
16 42 (6.07%) Event-Driven
17 40 (5.78%) Architecture Governance
18 38 (5.49%) Design Patterns
19 36 (5.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.62%) Python
2 24 (3.47%) C#
3 16 (2.31%) Java
4 13 (1.88%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.30%) Apex Code
5 9 (1.30%) Bicep
5 9 (1.30%) SOQL
5 9 (1.30%) SOSL
6 7 (1.01%) Go
7 5 (0.72%) SQL
7 5 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.43%) ABAP
8 3 (0.43%) X++
9 1 (0.14%) COBOL
9 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.14%) R
9 1 (0.14%) RPG
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 117 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (2.46%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.17%) Degree
5 11 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.16%) RIBA
7 7 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.87%) Dell Certification
9 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.58%) CCIE
10 4 (0.58%) CCNA
10 4 (0.58%) CCNP
10 4 (0.58%) CISSP
11 3 (0.43%) CWNA
12 2 (0.29%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.88%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.87%) GDPR
2 6 (0.87%) PMO
3 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.58%) QA
4 3 (0.43%) GRC
4 3 (0.43%) IFRS
4 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (2.75%) Docker
3 18 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.87%) vSphere
6 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.87%) Avamar
2 6 (0.87%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.87%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.87%) VxRail
3 3 (0.43%) Grafana
3 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) Argo
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.90%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.47%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.89%) VMware
5 19 (2.75%) Cisco
6 16 (2.31%) Computacenter
7 15 (2.17%) Google
8 14 (2.02%) Avaya
8 14 (2.02%) Genesys
8 14 (2.02%) Oracle
9 12 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.59%) Databricks
10 11 (1.59%) SAP
10 11 (1.59%) Splunk
11 10 (1.45%) Adobe
12 8 (1.16%) Workday
13 6 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.87%) Dell
13 6 (0.87%) NetApp
13 6 (0.87%) Nimble Storage