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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 511 415
Rank change year-on-year +153 -96 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 417 143 572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.33% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.37% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 316 116 412
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,105 £57,541
25th Percentile £65,596 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
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% -6.25%

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 83,957 38,400 90,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 89.39% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,111 23,425 66,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,425 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,375 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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% -5.66%

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 May 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 May 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 +116 309 £84,957 +2.98% 92
UK excluding London +55 213 £85,000 +3.03% 75
Work from Home +105 176 £85,000 +3.03% 57
London +82 115 £83,000 -7.78% 35
North of England +15 88 £87,431 +2.86% 15
Yorkshire -19 40 £86,216 +27.73% 3
North West 0 35 £87,431 -2.85% 11
Scotland +3 29 £90,000 +28.57% 2
East of England +5 25 £100,000 +17.65% 9
Midlands -26 23 £80,000 +14.29% 9
South West -38 17 £50,000 -13.04% 8
West Midlands -6 16 £80,000 +10.34% 2
North East -26 13 £88,431 +26.33% 1
Wales -28 11 £70,000 +10.45% 10
South East -66 11 £80,000 -3.03% 19
Northern Ireland - 9 £95,000 - 3
East Midlands -42 7 £45,000 -21.96% 7

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 83 (19.90%) Agile
2 81 (19.42%) Azure
3 66 (15.83%) DevOps
4 55 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (13.19%) Roadmaps
5 49 (11.75%) AWS
5 49 (11.75%) Technical Architecture
6 48 (11.51%) Mentoring
7 46 (11.03%) Security Cleared
8 44 (10.55%) Microsoft
9 41 (9.83%) Event-Driven
10 39 (9.35%) Project Delivery
11 38 (9.11%) Design Patterns
11 38 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (9.11%) SC Cleared
11 38 (9.11%) Technology Roadmap
12 37 (8.87%) TOGAF
13 36 (8.63%) CI/CD
14 34 (8.15%) Enterprise Architecture
14 34 (8.15%) Migration
15 33 (7.91%) Architectural Patterns
16 31 (7.43%) Analytics
17 30 (7.19%) AI
17 30 (7.19%) Service Delivery
17 30 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (7.19%) Technology Strategy
18 29 (6.95%) Salesforce
19 28 (6.71%) Microservices
19 28 (6.71%) SaaS
20 25 (6.00%) Architectural Design

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 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.44%) Confluence
3 5 (1.20%) SAS
4 4 (0.96%) Documentum
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.48%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.48%) Revit
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.24%) Findur
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 81 (19.42%) Azure
2 49 (11.75%) AWS
3 28 (6.71%) SaaS
4 24 (5.76%) GCP
4 24 (5.76%) PaaS
5 12 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.88%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.16%) IaaS
7 8 (1.92%) OCI
7 8 (1.92%) Serverless
8 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (0.96%) Azure AKS
10 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.96%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.32%) Broadband
2 8 (1.92%) Firewall
3 7 (1.68%) VPN
4 6 (1.44%) LAN
4 6 (1.44%) WAN
5 5 (1.20%) SSL
6 4 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.96%) Wireless
6 4 (0.96%) WLAN
7 3 (0.72%) DNS
7 3 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.72%) Internet
7 3 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.48%) Network Security
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
9 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.36%) Metadata
2 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.20%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.96%) Power BI
4 4 (0.96%) Redis
5 2 (0.48%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.24%) Big Data
6 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.24%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.24%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.24%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (4.32%) GitLab
1 18 (4.32%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.32%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.44%) JIRA
3 5 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.24%) RStudio
General
1 72 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.31%) Public Sector
3 36 (8.63%) Finance
4 30 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.95%) Marketing
6 19 (4.56%) Law
7 18 (4.32%) Games
8 13 (3.12%) Legal
9 9 (2.16%) Local Government
10 7 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.44%) Banking
11 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.44%) Police
12 5 (1.20%) Aviation
12 5 (1.20%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.96%) Retail
14 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.48%) Back Office
15 2 (0.48%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.28%) Middleware
2 19 (4.56%) SOAP
3 18 (4.32%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.32%) REST
3 18 (4.32%) Visualforce
4 11 (2.64%) Django
4 11 (2.64%) Node.js
4 11 (2.64%) React
5 6 (1.44%) .NET
5 6 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.96%) Spring
7 3 (0.72%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.72%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.72%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.72%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.72%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.72%) Kafka
7 3 (0.72%) OAuth
7 3 (0.72%) RESTful
7 3 (0.72%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.71%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.16%) IoT
6 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.20%) PKI
8 5 (1.20%) Synthetic Data
9 4 (0.96%) CMDB
9 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
9 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 2 (0.48%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Windows
1 3 (0.72%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.90%) Agile
2 66 (15.83%) DevOps
3 55 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (13.19%) Roadmaps
4 49 (11.75%) Technical Architecture
5 48 (11.51%) Mentoring
6 41 (9.83%) Event-Driven
7 39 (9.35%) Project Delivery
8 38 (9.11%) Design Patterns
8 38 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (9.11%) Technology Roadmap
9 37 (8.87%) TOGAF
10 36 (8.63%) CI/CD
11 34 (8.15%) Enterprise Architecture
11 34 (8.15%) Migration
12 33 (7.91%) Architectural Patterns
13 31 (7.43%) Analytics
14 30 (7.19%) AI
14 30 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (7.19%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.80%) Python
2 18 (4.32%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.32%) SOQL
2 18 (4.32%) SOSL
3 10 (2.40%) C#
3 10 (2.40%) Java
4 9 (2.16%) SQL
5 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.48%) Ruby
6 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.24%) Go
7 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.40%) Degree
3 10 (2.40%) RIBA
4 8 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.96%) CCNA
7 4 (0.96%) CISSP
7 4 (0.96%) CITP
7 4 (0.96%) CWNA
8 3 (0.72%) Dell Certification
8 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.24%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) CCNP
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.16%) GDPR
2 8 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.20%) PMO
4 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.72%) IFRS
4 3 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.48%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.20%) vSphere
4 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.72%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.68%) Terraform
3 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 3 (0.72%) Avamar
4 3 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (0.72%) VxRail
5 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.24%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) CASB
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.95%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.32%) Splunk
5 16 (3.84%) Palantir
6 14 (3.36%) Oracle
7 11 (2.64%) Google
7 11 (2.64%) YouTube
8 7 (1.68%) VMware
9 6 (1.44%) OpenText
10 5 (1.20%) Databricks
10 5 (1.20%) SAP
11 4 (0.96%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.96%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.96%) Meraki
11 4 (0.96%) Pega
12 3 (0.72%) 3PAR
12 3 (0.72%) Isilon
12 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.72%) Nimble Storage