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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 534 364
Rank change year-on-year +253 -170 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 745 146 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.30% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.33% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 515 115 379
10th Percentile £61,565 £61,576 £49,558
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%
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 £75,400
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -8.61%

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 107,222 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,597 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,400 £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 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 17 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 17 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 +199 559 £85,855 +4.07% 329
UK excluding London +176 496 £85,000 +3.03% 178
North of England +120 230 £85,000 +6.25% 64
Work from Home +117 229 £85,000 +3.03% 135
London +20 126 £95,000 +5.56% 156
North West +56 90 £85,000 -11.46% 41
Yorkshire +19 70 £85,855 +4.07% 11
North East +2 70 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Midlands +2 63 £88,000 +25.71% 36
South West -19 59 £75,000 -9.09% 15
West Midlands +7 56 £88,000 +10.00% 32
Wales -34 44 £80,000 +11.89% 4
East of England +5 38 £100,000 - 7
South East -49 26 £82,500 - 40
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 - 1
Scotland +16 21 £85,000 +21.43% 13
East Midlands -39 7 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 137 (18.39%) Agile
2 132 (17.72%) Security Cleared
3 125 (16.78%) Azure
4 118 (15.84%) Technical Architecture
5 107 (14.36%) SC Cleared
6 105 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
7 103 (13.83%) AI
8 101 (13.56%) Mentoring
9 99 (13.29%) AWS
10 97 (13.02%) Microsoft
11 79 (10.60%) Roadmaps
12 77 (10.34%) CI/CD
13 74 (9.93%) Coaching
14 70 (9.40%) DevOps
15 69 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
17 58 (7.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 55 (7.38%) Decision-Making
19 52 (6.98%) Microservices
20 49 (6.58%) Integration Patterns
21 45 (6.04%) Architecture Governance
22 44 (5.91%) Enterprise Architecture
23 43 (5.77%) SaaS
23 43 (5.77%) Translating Business Requirements
24 42 (5.64%) Event-Driven
24 42 (5.64%) Project Delivery
25 39 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
26 38 (5.10%) Design Patterns
26 38 (5.10%) GCP

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 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.81%) Confluence
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.88%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.21%) Revit
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Findur
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 125 (16.78%) Azure
2 99 (13.29%) AWS
3 43 (5.77%) SaaS
4 39 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (5.10%) GCP
6 18 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (1.88%) Power Platform
9 13 (1.74%) GitHub
9 13 (1.74%) IaaS
10 12 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (1.48%) Azure AKS
11 11 (1.48%) dbt
11 11 (1.48%) PaaS
11 11 (1.48%) Serverless
12 10 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.34%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.88%) CTI
1 14 (1.88%) VoIP
2 13 (1.74%) LAN
2 13 (1.74%) Network Security
3 12 (1.61%) Firewall
4 11 (1.48%) VPN
4 11 (1.48%) WAN
5 9 (1.21%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.94%) Wireless
6 7 (0.94%) WLAN
7 6 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.81%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.54%) Broadband
9 3 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.27%) DNS
10 2 (0.27%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
2 7 (0.94%) Power BI
3 6 (0.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.54%) Metadata
4 4 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.27%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.13%) MySQL
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.13%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Claude Code
2 6 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.81%) JIRA
2 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
3 5 (0.67%) Git
3 5 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 146 (19.60%) Public Sector
2 87 (11.68%) Social Skills
3 61 (8.19%) Finance
4 46 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (2.55%) Legal
6 14 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (1.88%) Marketing
7 12 (1.61%) Law
8 7 (0.94%) Police
9 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.54%) Banking
10 4 (0.54%) Games
10 4 (0.54%) Local Government
10 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.40%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Aviation
12 2 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.30%) Middleware
2 28 (3.76%) Terraform
3 15 (2.01%) Kafka
4 14 (1.88%) REST
5 11 (1.48%) PySpark
5 11 (1.48%) SOAP
6 9 (1.21%) .NET
7 8 (1.07%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (0.94%) CSS
8 7 (0.94%) HTML
8 7 (0.94%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.94%) OAuth
8 7 (0.94%) Spring
9 6 (0.81%) OpenID
9 6 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.67%) RESTful
10 5 (0.67%) Visualforce
11 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.54%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.76%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 18 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (1.88%) IVR
5 10 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
6 8 (1.07%) CMDB
6 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.07%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 4 (0.54%) Blog
9 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.54%) Life Science
10 3 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.27%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.27%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.61%) Windows
2 11 (1.48%) Linux
3 7 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (18.39%) Agile
2 118 (15.84%) Technical Architecture
3 105 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
4 103 (13.83%) AI
5 101 (13.56%) Mentoring
6 79 (10.60%) Roadmaps
7 77 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 74 (9.93%) Coaching
9 70 (9.40%) DevOps
10 69 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 62 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
12 58 (7.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 55 (7.38%) Decision-Making
14 52 (6.98%) Microservices
15 49 (6.58%) Integration Patterns
16 45 (6.04%) Architecture Governance
17 44 (5.91%) Enterprise Architecture
18 43 (5.77%) Translating Business Requirements
19 42 (5.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.30%) Python
2 23 (3.09%) C#
3 17 (2.28%) Java
4 13 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.21%) Bicep
6 7 (0.94%) Go
7 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.67%) SOQL
7 5 (0.67%) SOSL
7 5 (0.67%) SQL
7 5 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.40%) ABAP
8 3 (0.40%) X++
9 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.13%) R
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
10 1 (0.13%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 132 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 19 (2.55%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.01%) Degree
6 10 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (1.07%) RIBA
8 6 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.81%) Dell Certification
8 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.67%) CCIE
9 5 (0.67%) CCNA
9 5 (0.67%) CCNP
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.54%) CISSP
11 3 (0.40%) CWNA
12 2 (0.27%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.81%) PMO
3 5 (0.67%) GDPR
4 4 (0.54%) QA
5 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.40%) GRC
5 3 (0.40%) IFRS
5 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.13%) NCSC
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) SEPA
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.55%) Docker
3 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.81%) vSphere
5 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.81%) Avamar
2 6 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.81%) VxRail
3 3 (0.40%) Grafana
3 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 97 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.30%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.09%) VMware
4 22 (2.95%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.68%) Cisco
5 20 (2.68%) Computacenter
6 16 (2.15%) Google
7 14 (1.88%) Avaya
7 14 (1.88%) Genesys
8 13 (1.74%) Oracle
9 12 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.48%) Databricks
11 10 (1.34%) Adobe
11 10 (1.34%) SAP
11 10 (1.34%) Workday
12 9 (1.21%) NetApp
12 9 (1.21%) Veeam
13 7 (0.94%) Splunk
14 6 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.81%) Nimble Storage