Technical Architect Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 475 420
Rank change year-on-year +119 -55 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 394 163 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.40% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.44% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 309 125 376
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,019
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -3.85%

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 73,166 36,757 84,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 89.95% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,994 23,163 63,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 April 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 April 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 +89 295 £80,000 -3.03% 107
UK excluding London +43 217 £80,000 -3.03% 89
Work from Home +87 155 £80,000 -3.03% 60
London +47 108 £85,000 -5.56% 32
North of England +11 85 £85,000 - 31
North West +3 39 £85,000 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -18 35 £80,000 +18.52% 12
Scotland +8 32 £85,000 +21.43% 5
Midlands -14 23 £80,000 +14.29% 11
South West -24 20 £67,800 +13.00% 7
East of England -10 19 £100,000 +2.56% 13
West Midlands -2 15 £80,000 +14.29% 11
Wales -20 14 £72,415 +40.61% 2
South East -69 13 £85,000 +3.03% 22
North East -19 11 £88,431 +7.19% 8
Northern Ireland - 11 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -38 8 £60,500 +12.39%

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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 88 (22.34%) Agile
2 83 (21.07%) Azure
3 71 (18.02%) DevOps
4 63 (15.99%) Roadmaps
5 61 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (12.94%) Technical Architecture
7 50 (12.69%) AWS
7 50 (12.69%) Security Cleared
8 49 (12.44%) Mentoring
9 44 (11.17%) Microsoft
9 44 (11.17%) SC Cleared
10 42 (10.66%) Event-Driven
10 42 (10.66%) TOGAF
11 41 (10.41%) Technology Roadmap
12 39 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (9.90%) Project Delivery
13 38 (9.64%) Architectural Patterns
13 38 (9.64%) CI/CD
14 37 (9.39%) Design Patterns
15 35 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
16 33 (8.38%) Analytics
17 32 (8.12%) Migration
18 31 (7.87%) Technology Strategy
19 29 (7.36%) Community of Practice
19 29 (7.36%) Technical Leadership
20 28 (7.11%) Salesforce
20 28 (7.11%) Scrum
21 27 (6.85%) Architectural Design
21 27 (6.85%) SaaS
21 27 (6.85%) Service 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 8 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.27%) Confluence
2 5 (1.27%) SAS
3 4 (1.02%) Documentum
4 2 (0.51%) Camunda
4 2 (0.51%) CMS
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.51%) Revit
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 83 (21.07%) Azure
2 50 (12.69%) AWS
3 27 (6.85%) SaaS
4 24 (6.09%) PaaS
5 22 (5.58%) GCP
6 11 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.28%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.03%) Azure AKS
9 8 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (2.03%) IaaS
9 8 (2.03%) OCI
9 8 (2.03%) Serverless
10 7 (1.78%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.02%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.33%) Broadband
2 6 (1.52%) Firewall
2 6 (1.52%) VPN
3 5 (1.27%) LAN
3 5 (1.27%) SSL
3 5 (1.27%) WAN
4 4 (1.02%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.02%) Wireless
4 4 (1.02%) WLAN
5 3 (0.76%) DNS
5 3 (0.76%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) IPsec
6 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.30%) Metadata
2 11 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.27%) Power BI
5 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.02%) Redis
6 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.25%) SAS Enterprise Miner
Development Applications
1 21 (5.33%) GitLab
1 21 (5.33%) Jenkins
1 21 (5.33%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.27%) Git
2 5 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.25%) RStudio
General
1 70 (17.77%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.74%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (8.63%) Marketing
5 28 (7.11%) Finance
6 21 (5.33%) Games
6 21 (5.33%) Law
7 17 (4.31%) Legal
8 9 (2.28%) Local Government
9 7 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.52%) Banking
11 5 (1.27%) Aviation
11 5 (1.27%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.02%) Retail
13 3 (0.76%) Police
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.58%) Node.js
1 22 (5.58%) SOAP
2 21 (5.33%) Django
2 21 (5.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (5.33%) Middleware
2 21 (5.33%) React
2 21 (5.33%) REST
2 21 (5.33%) Visualforce
3 9 (2.28%) .NET
4 7 (1.78%) Web Services
5 6 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.27%) Spring
7 4 (1.02%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.02%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.02%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (1.02%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.02%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.02%) Spring MVC
8 3 (0.76%) RESTful
9 2 (0.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.12%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.03%) IoT
4 8 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.78%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.27%) PKI
6 5 (1.27%) Synthetic Data
7 4 (1.02%) Digital Signage
7 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.51%) CMDB
9 2 (0.51%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.25%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.25%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (22.34%) Agile
2 71 (18.02%) DevOps
3 63 (15.99%) Roadmaps
4 61 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (12.94%) Technical Architecture
6 49 (12.44%) Mentoring
7 42 (10.66%) Event-Driven
7 42 (10.66%) TOGAF
8 41 (10.41%) Technology Roadmap
9 39 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (9.90%) Project Delivery
10 38 (9.64%) Architectural Patterns
10 38 (9.64%) CI/CD
11 37 (9.39%) Design Patterns
12 35 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
13 33 (8.38%) Analytics
14 32 (8.12%) Migration
15 31 (7.87%) Technology Strategy
16 29 (7.36%) Community of Practice
16 29 (7.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.60%) Python
2 21 (5.33%) Apex Code
2 21 (5.33%) SOQL
2 21 (5.33%) SOSL
3 12 (3.05%) SQL
4 11 (2.79%) C#
5 9 (2.28%) Java
6 3 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.25%) ABAP
7 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.25%) Go
7 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.25%) R
7 1 (0.25%) Ruby
7 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.54%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.28%) Degree
4 9 (2.28%) RIBA
5 7 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.02%) CCNA
8 4 (1.02%) CISSP
8 4 (1.02%) CITP
8 4 (1.02%) CWNA
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.25%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.52%) GDPR
3 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.51%) PMO
4 2 (0.51%) WCAG
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (2.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.51%) vSphere
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.52%) Terraform
3 3 (0.76%) Ansible
4 2 (0.51%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) CASB
Vendors
1 44 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.11%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.33%) Splunk
4 18 (4.57%) Oracle
5 16 (4.06%) Palantir
6 15 (3.81%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.05%) Google
8 9 (2.28%) YouTube
9 7 (1.78%) Informatica
10 6 (1.52%) OpenText
11 5 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.27%) SAP
12 4 (1.02%) Meraki
12 4 (1.02%) Pega
13 3 (0.76%) Databricks
13 3 (0.76%) VMware
14 2 (0.51%) Adobe
14 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds
15 1 (0.25%) Netskope
15 1 (0.25%) OpenLink