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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 539 353
Rank change year-on-year +261 -186 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 777 135 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.27% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.31% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 538 100 370
10th Percentile £63,652 £59,630 £47,509
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%

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 109,655 44,258 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 89.76% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,828 25,506 41,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 30 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 30 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 +213 587 £87,431 +4.40% 254
UK excluding London +188 513 £85,000 +3.03% 143
North of England +128 242 £85,000 +6.25% 52
Work from Home +108 221 £85,000 +3.03% 109
London +12 131 £97,500 +8.33% 117
North West +57 95 £85,855 +7.32% 32
North East +5 74 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Yorkshire +26 73 £87,431 -7.97% 9
Midlands -11 64 £88,000 +30.37% 26
South West -18 63 £88,000 +6.67% 15
West Midlands -1 57 £88,000 -2.22% 23
Wales -32 46 £80,000 - 9
East of England +3 39 £100,000 - 7
South East -45 27 £80,000 -3.03% 23
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 -
Scotland +26 17 £85,000 +21.43% 12
East Midlands -37 7 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 143 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 140 (18.02%) Agile
3 131 (16.86%) Azure
4 122 (15.70%) Technical Architecture
5 120 (15.44%) SC Cleared
6 113 (14.54%) Technical Leadership
7 111 (14.29%) AI
8 109 (14.03%) AWS
9 104 (13.38%) Mentoring
10 94 (12.10%) Microsoft
11 83 (10.68%) Roadmaps
12 82 (10.55%) CI/CD
13 77 (9.91%) Coaching
14 71 (9.14%) DevOps
15 68 (8.75%) Architectural Patterns
15 68 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 65 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (7.85%) Decision-Making
18 59 (7.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 53 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
19 53 (6.82%) Microservices
20 50 (6.44%) Integration Patterns
21 48 (6.18%) Analytics
22 47 (6.05%) Architecture Governance
23 46 (5.92%) GCP
24 44 (5.66%) Translating Business Requirements
25 43 (5.53%) Event-Driven
25 43 (5.53%) SaaS
26 41 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
26 41 (5.28%) Project Delivery

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 10 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.16%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.77%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 131 (16.86%) Azure
2 109 (14.03%) AWS
3 46 (5.92%) GCP
4 43 (5.53%) SaaS
5 38 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.57%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.93%) GitHub
8 15 (1.93%) PaaS
9 14 (1.80%) Serverless
10 12 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 12 (1.54%) IaaS
10 12 (1.54%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.42%) Azure AKS
11 11 (1.42%) dbt
12 10 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.80%) CTI
1 14 (1.80%) VoIP
2 13 (1.67%) LAN
2 13 (1.67%) Network Security
3 12 (1.54%) Firewall
4 11 (1.42%) VPN
4 11 (1.42%) WAN
5 9 (1.16%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.90%) Wireless
6 7 (0.90%) WLAN
7 6 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.77%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.26%) Broadband
9 2 (0.26%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.26%) DNS
9 2 (0.26%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.42%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.77%) Power BI
3 5 (0.64%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.51%) Metadata
4 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.26%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.13%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.13%) Db2
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Claude Code
2 5 (0.64%) Git
2 5 (0.64%) JIRA
3 4 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Maven
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 152 (19.56%) Public Sector
2 87 (11.20%) Social Skills
3 65 (8.37%) Finance
4 47 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (2.57%) Legal
6 15 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.42%) Law
7 11 (1.42%) Marketing
8 9 (1.16%) Police
9 6 (0.77%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.51%) Banking
10 4 (0.51%) Local Government
10 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Retail
13 1 (0.13%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.25%) Middleware
2 31 (3.99%) Terraform
3 15 (1.93%) REST
4 14 (1.80%) Kafka
5 10 (1.29%) PySpark
6 9 (1.16%) .NET
7 8 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
7 8 (1.03%) SOAP
8 7 (0.90%) CSS
8 7 (0.90%) HTML
8 7 (0.90%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.90%) OAuth
8 7 (0.90%) Spring
9 6 (0.77%) LangChain
9 6 (0.77%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.77%) OpenID
9 6 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.51%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.51%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.47%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.57%) Data Centre
2 20 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (1.93%) IVR
5 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.03%) CMDB
8 6 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (0.64%) Blog
9 5 (0.64%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.51%) Life Science
11 3 (0.39%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.54%) Windows
2 11 (1.42%) Linux
3 7 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (18.02%) Agile
2 122 (15.70%) Technical Architecture
3 113 (14.54%) Technical Leadership
4 111 (14.29%) AI
5 104 (13.38%) Mentoring
6 83 (10.68%) Roadmaps
7 82 (10.55%) CI/CD
8 77 (9.91%) Coaching
9 71 (9.14%) DevOps
10 68 (8.75%) Architectural Patterns
10 68 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 65 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (7.85%) Decision-Making
13 59 (7.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 53 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
14 53 (6.82%) Microservices
15 50 (6.44%) Integration Patterns
16 48 (6.18%) Analytics
17 47 (6.05%) Architecture Governance
18 44 (5.66%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (3.99%) Python
2 23 (2.96%) C#
3 19 (2.45%) Java
4 14 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.16%) Bicep
6 7 (0.90%) Go
7 5 (0.64%) SQL
7 5 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.39%) ABAP
8 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.39%) SOQL
8 3 (0.39%) SOSL
8 3 (0.39%) X++
9 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
9 2 (0.26%) Solidity
10 1 (0.13%) COBOL
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 143 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 120 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 19 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (2.32%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.93%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.80%) Degree
7 10 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.03%) RIBA
9 6 (0.77%) Dell Certification
10 5 (0.64%) CCIE
10 5 (0.64%) CCNA
10 5 (0.64%) CCNP
10 5 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.51%) CISSP
12 3 (0.39%) CWNA
13 2 (0.26%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.93%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.03%) GDPR
3 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (0.77%) PMO
5 4 (0.51%) QA
6 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.39%) GRC
6 3 (0.39%) IFRS
6 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.45%) Active Directory
1 19 (2.45%) Docker
1 19 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (0.90%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.77%) vSphere
4 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.77%) Avamar
2 6 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.77%) VxRail
3 5 (0.64%) Ansible
4 4 (0.51%) Grafana
5 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 94 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.25%) ServiceNow
3 22 (2.83%) Computacenter
3 22 (2.83%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.83%) VMware
4 21 (2.70%) Cisco
5 16 (2.06%) Google
6 15 (1.93%) Genesys
7 14 (1.80%) Avaya
7 14 (1.80%) Oracle
8 12 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.42%) Databricks
10 10 (1.29%) Adobe
10 10 (1.29%) SAP
10 10 (1.29%) Workday
11 9 (1.16%) NetApp
11 9 (1.16%) Veeam
12 6 (0.77%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.77%) Dell
12 6 (0.77%) Isilon