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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 535 358
Rank change year-on-year +242 -177 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 705 146 568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.30% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 489 115 406
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 £93,750 £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 103,497 43,997 75,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71,228 25,950 47,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,169 £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 £76,250 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,159
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 4 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 4 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 +192 521 £85,427 +3.55% 222
UK excluding London +173 468 £85,000 +3.03% 119
North of England +119 220 £85,000 +13.33% 41
Work from Home +94 211 £85,000 +3.03% 111
London +24 121 £95,000 +5.56% 126
North West +57 87 £85,000 -2.86% 27
North East -1 67 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Yorkshire +16 66 £82,500 +17.86% 6
Midlands +2 57 £87,431 +24.90% 16
West Midlands +10 50 £87,431 +9.29% 13
South West -28 50 £75,000 -6.25% 17
Wales -35 41 £80,000 +11.89% 6
East of England +7 33 £100,000 - 5
Scotland +25 26 £85,000 +21.43% 9
South East -43 26 £82,500 - 25
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 - 3
East Midlands -32 7 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 128 (18.16%) Agile
2 125 (17.73%) Azure
3 121 (17.16%) Security Cleared
4 112 (15.89%) Technical Architecture
5 99 (14.04%) SC Cleared
6 98 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
7 95 (13.48%) AWS
8 92 (13.05%) AI
9 91 (12.91%) Microsoft
10 90 (12.77%) Mentoring
11 81 (11.49%) CI/CD
12 76 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 71 (10.07%) DevOps
14 68 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (9.50%) Coaching
15 67 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 61 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
17 51 (7.23%) Decision-Making
18 50 (7.09%) Microservices
19 49 (6.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 45 (6.38%) Integration Patterns
21 44 (6.24%) Event-Driven
21 44 (6.24%) SaaS
22 40 (5.67%) Architecture Governance
23 38 (5.39%) Design Patterns
23 38 (5.39%) Enterprise Architecture
24 37 (5.25%) GCP
25 35 (4.96%) Analytics
26 34 (4.82%) Infrastructure as Code
26 34 (4.82%) 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 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.85%) 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 (1.99%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.28%) Revit
3 2 (0.28%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 8 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.85%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.14%) Findur
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.73%) Azure
2 95 (13.48%) AWS
3 44 (6.24%) SaaS
4 37 (5.25%) GCP
5 32 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.13%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.84%) GitHub
8 13 (1.84%) IaaS
9 12 (1.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.70%) Serverless
10 11 (1.56%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.56%) dbt
10 11 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.56%) PaaS
11 10 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.42%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.42%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.99%) CTI
1 14 (1.99%) VoIP
2 12 (1.70%) LAN
2 12 (1.70%) Network Security
3 11 (1.56%) Firewall
3 11 (1.56%) VPN
3 11 (1.56%) WAN
4 8 (1.13%) Broadband
4 8 (1.13%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.99%) WLAN
6 6 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.85%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.85%) 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 (1.42%) Data Lake
2 8 (1.13%) Power BI
3 6 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.71%) Metadata
4 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.28%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.14%) Db2
7 1 (0.14%) MySQL
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.14%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.14%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.42%) Jenkins
1 10 (1.42%) SonarQube
2 9 (1.28%) GitLab
3 6 (0.85%) JIRA
4 5 (0.71%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) Maven
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 134 (19.01%) Public Sector
2 84 (11.91%) Social Skills
3 55 (7.80%) Finance
4 50 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.84%) Legal
6 18 (2.55%) Marketing
7 13 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.70%) Law
9 8 (1.13%) Games
10 7 (0.99%) Police
11 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.57%) Banking
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
12 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Aviation
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.11%) Terraform
2 25 (3.55%) Middleware
3 17 (2.41%) REST
4 15 (2.13%) Kafka
4 15 (2.13%) SOAP
5 11 (1.56%) PySpark
6 10 (1.42%) .NET
7 9 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.28%) Visualforce
8 7 (0.99%) CSS
8 7 (0.99%) HTML
8 7 (0.99%) Spring
9 5 (0.71%) OAuth
9 5 (0.71%) RESTful
9 5 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.57%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.57%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.57%) LangChain
10 4 (0.57%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.83%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.84%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (1.99%) IVR
5 13 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.13%) CMDB
8 8 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.85%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.57%) Blog
10 4 (0.57%) Life Science
11 3 (0.43%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.28%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.28%) IoT
12 2 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.42%) Linux
1 10 (1.42%) Windows
2 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (18.16%) Agile
2 112 (15.89%) Technical Architecture
3 98 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
4 92 (13.05%) AI
5 90 (12.77%) Mentoring
6 81 (11.49%) CI/CD
7 76 (10.78%) Roadmaps
8 71 (10.07%) DevOps
9 68 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (9.50%) Coaching
10 67 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
12 51 (7.23%) Decision-Making
13 50 (7.09%) Microservices
14 49 (6.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 45 (6.38%) Integration Patterns
16 44 (6.24%) Event-Driven
17 40 (5.67%) Architecture Governance
18 38 (5.39%) Design Patterns
18 38 (5.39%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.54%) Python
2 24 (3.40%) C#
3 16 (2.27%) Java
4 13 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.28%) Apex Code
5 9 (1.28%) Bicep
5 9 (1.28%) SOQL
5 9 (1.28%) SOSL
6 7 (0.99%) Go
7 5 (0.71%) SQL
7 5 (0.71%) 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
1 121 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 17 (2.41%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.13%) Degree
5 12 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.13%) RIBA
8 7 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.85%) Dell Certification
10 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.57%) CCIE
11 4 (0.57%) CCNA
11 4 (0.57%) CCNP
11 4 (0.57%) CISSP
12 3 (0.43%) CWNA
13 2 (0.28%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.84%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.85%) GDPR
2 6 (0.85%) PMO
3 4 (0.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) QA
4 3 (0.43%) GRC
4 3 (0.43%) IFRS
4 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (2.70%) Docker
3 18 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.85%) vSphere
6 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.28%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.85%) Avamar
2 6 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.85%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.85%) VxRail
3 3 (0.43%) Grafana
3 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) Argo
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.97%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.12%) VMware
5 19 (2.70%) Cisco
6 16 (2.27%) Computacenter
6 16 (2.27%) Google
7 14 (1.99%) Avaya
7 14 (1.99%) Genesys
7 14 (1.99%) Oracle
8 12 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.56%) Databricks
9 11 (1.56%) SAP
9 11 (1.56%) Splunk
10 10 (1.42%) Adobe
11 8 (1.13%) NetApp
11 8 (1.13%) Veeam
11 8 (1.13%) Workday
12 6 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.85%) Nimble Storage