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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 520 359
Rank change year-on-year +248 -161 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 771 134 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.27% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.30% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 540 98 362
10th Percentile £63,744 £59,436 £45,279
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 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

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 109,143 44,565 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.75% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,344 25,695 40,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +208 588 £87,431 +2.86% 266
UK excluding London +198 520 £85,000 +3.03% 138
North of England +125 242 £85,000 - 45
Work from Home +94 204 £80,000 -3.03% 103
London +10 126 £97,500 +8.33% 135
North West +65 95 £85,855 +1.01% 27
North East - 74 £85,000 - 11
Yorkshire +29 73 £86,643 -8.80% 7
South West -6 70 £75,000 -9.09% 15
Midlands +5 63 £88,000 +13.55% 22
West Midlands +6 56 £88,000 -9.74% 19
Wales -30 48 £80,000 - 7
East of England +3 37 £100,000 +11.11% 8
South East -36 31 £80,000 -3.03% 28
Northern Ireland - 23 £82,500 - 1
Scotland +6 15 £85,000 - 12
East Midlands -31 7 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 146 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 139 (18.03%) Agile
3 131 (16.99%) Azure
4 123 (15.95%) SC Cleared
5 117 (15.18%) Technical Architecture
6 110 (14.27%) Technical Leadership
7 109 (14.14%) AI
7 109 (14.14%) AWS
8 97 (12.58%) Mentoring
9 89 (11.54%) Microsoft
10 83 (10.77%) Roadmaps
11 78 (10.12%) CI/CD
12 74 (9.60%) Coaching
13 68 (8.82%) DevOps
14 67 (8.69%) Architectural Patterns
15 66 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 60 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (7.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 57 (7.39%) Analytics
19 56 (7.26%) Decision-Making
20 52 (6.74%) Enterprise Architecture
21 49 (6.36%) GCP
22 47 (6.10%) Architecture Governance
22 47 (6.10%) Microservices
23 46 (5.97%) Integration Patterns
24 44 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
25 41 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
25 41 (5.32%) SaaS
26 39 (5.06%) Event-Driven
26 39 (5.06%) 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 9 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.78%) Oracle Utilities
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 131 (16.99%) Azure
2 109 (14.14%) AWS
3 49 (6.36%) GCP
4 41 (5.32%) SaaS
5 37 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (2.08%) Serverless
9 15 (1.95%) PaaS
10 14 (1.82%) GitHub
11 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (1.56%) IaaS
12 11 (1.43%) Azure AKS
12 11 (1.43%) dbt
13 10 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.82%) CTI
1 14 (1.82%) VoIP
2 13 (1.69%) Network Security
3 12 (1.56%) LAN
4 11 (1.43%) Firewall
5 10 (1.30%) WAN
6 9 (1.17%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.17%) VPN
7 7 (0.91%) Wireless
7 7 (0.91%) WLAN
8 6 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.78%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.26%) Broadband
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.26%) DNS
10 2 (0.26%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.43%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.78%) Power BI
3 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.52%) Metadata
4 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
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%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Db2
7 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Claude Code
2 5 (0.65%) JIRA
3 4 (0.52%) Git
3 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.39%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 148 (19.20%) Public Sector
2 82 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 62 (8.04%) Finance
4 46 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.33%) Legal
6 14 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.43%) Law
8 10 (1.30%) Marketing
9 7 (0.91%) Police
10 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.52%) Banking
12 4 (0.52%) Local Government
12 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Retail
14 1 (0.13%) Automotive
14 1 (0.13%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.15%) Terraform
2 30 (3.89%) Middleware
3 15 (1.95%) REST
4 14 (1.82%) .NET
4 14 (1.82%) Kafka
5 10 (1.30%) PySpark
6 8 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
6 8 (1.04%) SOAP
7 7 (0.91%) CSS
7 7 (0.91%) HTML
7 7 (0.91%) Langfuse
7 7 (0.91%) OAuth
7 7 (0.91%) Spring
8 6 (0.78%) LangChain
8 6 (0.78%) LlamaIndex
8 6 (0.78%) OpenID
8 6 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.52%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.52%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.24%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.95%) IVR
5 14 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 5 (0.65%) Blog
10 5 (0.65%) CMDB
11 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.52%) Life Science
11 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.39%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.56%) Windows
2 11 (1.43%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (18.03%) Agile
2 117 (15.18%) Technical Architecture
3 110 (14.27%) Technical Leadership
4 109 (14.14%) AI
5 97 (12.58%) Mentoring
6 83 (10.77%) Roadmaps
7 78 (10.12%) CI/CD
8 74 (9.60%) Coaching
9 68 (8.82%) DevOps
10 67 (8.69%) Architectural Patterns
11 66 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 60 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (7.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 57 (7.39%) Analytics
15 56 (7.26%) Decision-Making
16 52 (6.74%) Enterprise Architecture
17 47 (6.10%) Architecture Governance
17 47 (6.10%) Microservices
18 46 (5.97%) Integration Patterns
19 44 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 30 (3.89%) Python
2 28 (3.63%) C#
3 18 (2.33%) Java
4 14 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.17%) Bicep
6 7 (0.91%) Go
7 5 (0.65%) SQL
7 5 (0.65%) 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%) Solidity
10 1 (0.13%) COBOL
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
10 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 146 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 123 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 23 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.82%) Degree
7 10 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.04%) RIBA
9 6 (0.78%) Dell Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CCIE
10 5 (0.65%) CCNA
10 5 (0.65%) CCNP
10 5 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.52%) CISSP
12 3 (0.39%) CWNA
13 2 (0.26%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (0.91%) GDPR
4 6 (0.78%) PMO
5 4 (0.52%) QA
6 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.39%) GRC
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 (2.46%) Docker
2 18 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.78%) vSphere
4 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.91%) Ansible
3 6 (0.78%) Avamar
3 6 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.78%) VxRail
4 4 (0.52%) 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 89 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.63%) ServiceNow
3 22 (2.85%) Computacenter
4 21 (2.72%) Cisco
4 21 (2.72%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.72%) VMware
5 16 (2.08%) Google
6 15 (1.95%) Genesys
7 14 (1.82%) Avaya
8 12 (1.56%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.56%) Oracle
9 11 (1.43%) Adobe
9 11 (1.43%) Databricks
10 10 (1.30%) Workday
11 9 (1.17%) NetApp
11 9 (1.17%) SAP
11 9 (1.17%) Veeam
12 6 (0.78%) 3PAR
12 6 (0.78%) Dell
12 6 (0.78%) Isilon