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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 533 372
Rank change year-on-year +208 -161 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 626 149 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.30% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 436 117 431
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
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 £92,500 £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 98,814 44,648 79,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,613 26,525 53,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -6.54%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +155 447 £85,000 +3.03% 152
UK excluding London +157 386 £85,000 +3.03% 94
Work from Home +114 202 £85,000 +3.03% 67
North of England +99 180 £85,000 +3.03% 31
London +48 124 £95,000 +10.14% 77
North West +52 75 £85,000 -2.86% 16
North East -1 55 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Yorkshire +18 50 £87,431 +24.90% 7
Midlands -10 43 £87,431 +29.53% 10
West Midlands -8 37 £87,431 +9.29% 8
South West -31 36 £50,000 -41.18% 10
Scotland +42 32 £85,000 +21.43% 8
Wales -32 31 £80,000 +11.89% 8
East of England -3 26 £95,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 25 £85,000 - 3
South East -35 20 £100,000 +21.21% 22
East Midlands -27 6 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 121 (19.33%) Agile
2 114 (18.21%) Azure
3 101 (16.13%) Security Cleared
4 83 (13.26%) Technical Architecture
5 80 (12.78%) AWS
5 80 (12.78%) Mentoring
5 80 (12.78%) Microsoft
5 80 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
6 79 (12.62%) SC Cleared
7 78 (12.46%) AI
8 77 (12.30%) DevOps
9 74 (11.82%) CI/CD
10 72 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 71 (11.34%) Roadmaps
12 67 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 54 (8.63%) Architectural Patterns
14 53 (8.47%) Coaching
15 49 (7.83%) Decision-Making
16 46 (7.35%) Event-Driven
17 44 (7.03%) Design Patterns
17 44 (7.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 42 (6.71%) Architecture Governance
19 41 (6.55%) Integration Patterns
20 39 (6.23%) Microservices
21 38 (6.07%) Enterprise Architecture
21 38 (6.07%) SaaS
22 35 (5.59%) Analytics
23 33 (5.27%) Technology Roadmap
24 31 (4.95%) Infrastructure as Code
24 31 (4.95%) Stakeholder Management

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 (0.80%) Confluence
1 5 (0.80%) SAS
2 4 (0.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.32%) Camunda
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.24%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.44%) Revit
3 2 (0.32%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.16%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.16%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.80%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.16%) Findur
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.21%) Azure
2 80 (12.78%) AWS
3 38 (6.07%) SaaS
4 29 (4.63%) GCP
5 23 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.72%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.40%) GitHub
8 11 (1.76%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.76%) dbt
9 10 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.44%) PaaS
11 8 (1.28%) Azure AKS
11 8 (1.28%) Serverless
12 7 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.96%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.80%) IaaS
14 5 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.24%) Broadband
1 14 (2.24%) CTI
1 14 (2.24%) VoIP
2 10 (1.60%) Network Security
3 9 (1.44%) VPN
4 8 (1.28%) LAN
4 8 (1.28%) WAN
5 7 (1.12%) Firewall
5 7 (1.12%) WLAN
6 6 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.96%) iSCSI
6 6 (0.96%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.32%) Wireless
9 1 (0.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.24%) Data Lake
2 12 (1.92%) Metadata
3 8 (1.28%) Power BI
4 6 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.80%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.32%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.16%) Db2
8 1 (0.16%) MySQL
8 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.16%) SAS Enterprise Miner
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 16 (2.56%) SonarQube
2 15 (2.40%) GitLab
3 5 (0.80%) Git
3 5 (0.80%) JIRA
4 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.16%) Maven
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 115 (18.37%) Public Sector
2 83 (13.26%) Social Skills
3 55 (8.79%) Finance
4 49 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (3.67%) Marketing
6 21 (3.35%) Legal
7 15 (2.40%) Law
8 14 (2.24%) Games
8 14 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.96%) Police
10 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.80%) Aviation
11 4 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.64%) Local Government
12 3 (0.48%) Banking
12 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.67%) REST
2 21 (3.35%) SOAP
3 17 (2.72%) Middleware
4 15 (2.40%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (2.40%) Visualforce
5 14 (2.24%) Kafka
6 11 (1.76%) PySpark
7 9 (1.44%) .NET
8 7 (1.12%) Spring
9 6 (0.96%) CSS
9 6 (0.96%) HTML
10 5 (0.80%) OAuth
10 5 (0.80%) RESTful
11 4 (0.64%) OpenID
11 4 (0.64%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
12 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET
12 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (0.48%) Hibernate
12 3 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.99%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.35%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.24%) IVR
5 13 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.28%) CMDB
8 7 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.96%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (0.64%) Blog
10 4 (0.64%) IoT
10 4 (0.64%) Life Science
11 2 (0.32%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.32%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.32%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.32%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.12%) Windows
2 5 (0.80%) Linux
2 5 (0.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.33%) Agile
2 83 (13.26%) Technical Architecture
3 80 (12.78%) Mentoring
3 80 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
4 78 (12.46%) AI
5 77 (12.30%) DevOps
6 74 (11.82%) CI/CD
7 72 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (11.34%) Roadmaps
9 67 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (8.63%) Architectural Patterns
11 53 (8.47%) Coaching
12 49 (7.83%) Decision-Making
13 46 (7.35%) Event-Driven
14 44 (7.03%) Design Patterns
14 44 (7.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 42 (6.71%) Architecture Governance
16 41 (6.55%) Integration Patterns
17 39 (6.23%) Microservices
18 38 (6.07%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (4.79%) Python
2 19 (3.04%) C#
3 15 (2.40%) Apex Code
3 15 (2.40%) Java
3 15 (2.40%) SOQL
3 15 (2.40%) SOSL
4 11 (1.76%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.12%) Bicep
6 6 (0.96%) Go
7 5 (0.80%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.64%) SQL
9 2 (0.32%) Ruby
9 2 (0.32%) X++
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) COBOL
10 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.16%) R
10 1 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 101 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 17 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 14 (2.24%) Degree
5 8 (1.28%) RIBA
6 6 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.96%) Dell Certification
7 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.48%) CCNA
9 3 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.48%) CISSP
9 3 (0.48%) CWNA
10 2 (0.32%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.12%) GDPR
4 6 (0.96%) PMO
5 4 (0.64%) QA
6 3 (0.48%) IFRS
6 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.48%) WCAG
7 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.16%) PSD2
8 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (2.88%) Docker
2 16 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.12%) vSphere
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.15%) Terraform
3 6 (0.96%) Avamar
3 6 (0.96%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.96%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.96%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.96%) VxRail
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Argo
4 2 (0.32%) Grafana
4 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.79%) Salesforce
3 20 (3.19%) ServiceNow
4 17 (2.72%) Splunk
5 16 (2.56%) VMware
6 15 (2.40%) Cisco
7 14 (2.24%) Avaya
7 14 (2.24%) Genesys
8 13 (2.08%) Computacenter
9 12 (1.92%) Databricks
9 12 (1.92%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.60%) Oracle
11 9 (1.44%) Google
11 9 (1.44%) SAP
12 6 (0.96%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.96%) Isilon
12 6 (0.96%) NetApp
12 6 (0.96%) Nimble Storage
12 6 (0.96%) Veeam