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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 523 361
Rank change year-on-year +202 -162 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 600 156 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.32% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.35% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 421 119 473
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £51,207
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.78% -8.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -11.76%

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 95,592 44,533 83,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.08% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,383 26,478 58,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +146 420 £85,000 +3.03% 88
UK excluding London +154 371 £85,000 +3.03% 53
Work from Home +109 206 £82,391 -0.13% 36
North of England +111 172 £85,000 - 21
London +55 120 £90,000 +5.88% 46
North West +55 75 £85,000 -2.86% 9
Yorkshire +8 50 £85,000 +21.43% 3
North East -5 47 £85,000 +21.43% 10
Midlands -9 40 £85,000 +25.93% 5
Scotland +43 36 £85,000 +21.43% 4
West Midlands -4 34 £85,000 +6.25% 5
Wales -25 33 £80,000 +11.89% 3
South West -32 33 £50,000 -41.18% 8
Northern Ireland - 26 £85,000 -
East of England +5 22 £95,000 +18.75% 4
South East -39 15 £100,000 +21.21% 12
East Midlands -27 6 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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.

1 114 (19.00%) Agile
2 111 (18.50%) Azure
3 93 (15.50%) Security Cleared
4 79 (13.17%) Microsoft
5 77 (12.83%) Technical Architecture
6 76 (12.67%) AI
6 76 (12.67%) AWS
6 76 (12.67%) DevOps
7 74 (12.33%) SC Cleared
8 73 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
9 71 (11.83%) Mentoring
10 70 (11.67%) CI/CD
10 70 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 66 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 48 (8.00%) Event-Driven
13 45 (7.50%) Architectural Patterns
13 45 (7.50%) Coaching
14 42 (7.00%) Decision-Making
15 41 (6.83%) Architecture Governance
15 41 (6.83%) Design Patterns
16 38 (6.33%) Integration Patterns
17 37 (6.17%) Enterprise Architecture
17 37 (6.17%) Microservices
18 36 (6.00%) Analytics
19 35 (5.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 34 (5.67%) Technology Roadmap
21 31 (5.17%) Salesforce
21 31 (5.17%) Stakeholder Management
22 30 (5.00%) SaaS

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 5 (0.83%) Confluence
1 5 (0.83%) SAS
2 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.17%) Apache
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.67%) Revit
3 2 (0.33%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.33%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle Utilities
4 2 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.17%) Findur
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 111 (18.50%) Azure
2 76 (12.67%) AWS
3 30 (5.00%) SaaS
4 27 (4.50%) GCP
5 21 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.83%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.33%) GitHub
8 11 (1.83%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.83%) dbt
9 10 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.33%) PaaS
11 7 (1.17%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.17%) Serverless
12 6 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (1.00%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.83%) IaaS
13 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.50%) Broadband
2 14 (2.33%) CTI
2 14 (2.33%) VoIP
3 9 (1.50%) Network Security
4 8 (1.33%) LAN
4 8 (1.33%) VPN
4 8 (1.33%) WAN
5 7 (1.17%) Firewall
5 7 (1.17%) WLAN
6 6 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (1.00%) iSCSI
6 6 (1.00%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.33%) Wireless
9 1 (0.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.33%) Data Lake
2 12 (2.00%) Metadata
3 8 (1.33%) Power BI
4 6 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.83%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.33%) Redis
8 2 (0.33%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.17%) Big Data
9 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 17 (2.83%) Jenkins
1 17 (2.83%) SonarQube
2 16 (2.67%) GitLab
3 5 (0.83%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Maven
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.17%) RStudio
General
1 102 (17.00%) Public Sector
2 86 (14.33%) Social Skills
3 46 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (7.17%) Finance
5 22 (3.67%) Marketing
6 19 (3.17%) Legal
7 16 (2.67%) Law
8 15 (2.50%) Games
9 14 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.83%) Aviation
10 5 (0.83%) Local Government
10 5 (0.83%) Police
11 4 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.33%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.83%) REST
2 21 (3.50%) SOAP
3 16 (2.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 16 (2.67%) Visualforce
4 14 (2.33%) Kafka
4 14 (2.33%) Middleware
5 11 (1.83%) PySpark
6 8 (1.33%) .NET
7 6 (1.00%) Spring
8 4 (0.67%) CSS
8 4 (0.67%) HTML
8 4 (0.67%) OAuth
8 4 (0.67%) RESTful
8 4 (0.67%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.50%) OpenID
10 2 (0.33%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.33%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.33%) IVR
5 14 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.33%) CMDB
6 8 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (1.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 5 (0.83%) IoT
9 4 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.50%) Life Science
11 2 (0.33%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.33%) Blog
11 2 (0.33%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.33%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.33%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.17%) Windows
2 5 (0.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.67%) Linux
4 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (19.00%) Agile
2 77 (12.83%) Technical Architecture
3 76 (12.67%) AI
3 76 (12.67%) DevOps
4 73 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
5 71 (11.83%) Mentoring
6 70 (11.67%) CI/CD
6 70 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (11.67%) Roadmaps
7 66 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (8.00%) Event-Driven
9 45 (7.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 45 (7.50%) Coaching
10 42 (7.00%) Decision-Making
11 41 (6.83%) Architecture Governance
11 41 (6.83%) Design Patterns
12 38 (6.33%) Integration Patterns
13 37 (6.17%) Enterprise Architecture
13 37 (6.17%) Microservices
14 36 (6.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.67%) Python
2 16 (2.67%) Apex Code
2 16 (2.67%) SOQL
2 16 (2.67%) SOSL
3 15 (2.50%) C#
4 13 (2.17%) Java
5 9 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.00%) Bicep
7 5 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.67%) Go
8 4 (0.67%) SQL
9 2 (0.33%) Ruby
9 2 (0.33%) X++
10 1 (0.17%) COBOL
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.17%) RPG
Qualifications
1 93 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.00%) Degree
5 9 (1.50%) RIBA
6 6 (1.00%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.50%) CCNA
9 3 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.50%) CISSP
9 3 (0.50%) CWNA
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.00%) GDPR
3 6 (1.00%) PMO
4 3 (0.50%) IFRS
4 3 (0.50%) QA
4 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.50%) WCAG
5 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
6 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (2.83%) Docker
2 15 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.17%) vSphere
5 2 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.00%) Avamar
3 6 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.00%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.00%) VxRail
4 2 (0.33%) Argo
4 2 (0.33%) Grafana
4 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.17%) Salesforce
3 21 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.00%) Splunk
5 15 (2.50%) Cisco
5 15 (2.50%) VMware
6 14 (2.33%) Avaya
6 14 (2.33%) Genesys
7 12 (2.00%) Computacenter
7 12 (2.00%) Databricks
7 12 (2.00%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.33%) Google
8 8 (1.33%) Oracle
8 8 (1.33%) SAP
9 6 (1.00%) 3PAR
9 6 (1.00%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.00%) Dell
9 6 (1.00%) Isilon
9 6 (1.00%) NetApp
9 6 (1.00%) Veeam