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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 484 413
Rank change year-on-year +132 -71 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 430 164 549
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.39% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.44% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 332 131 392
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -6.25%

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 80,529 37,301 89,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 89.33% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 51,589 23,381 66,338
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 19 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 19 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 +92 324 £81,000 -1.82% 102
UK excluding London +55 231 £85,000 +3.03% 78
Work from Home +103 176 £81,000 -1.82% 26
London +68 114 £80,500 -10.56% 26
North of England +16 100 £87,431 -0.08% 21
Yorkshire -8 44 £86,216 +27.73% 8
North West +5 42 £87,431 -5.48% 9
Scotland -4 29 £90,000 +28.57% 2
Midlands -27 25 £80,000 +14.29% 11
East of England -15 23 £100,000 +2.56% 17
West Midlands -14 19 £80,000 +10.34% 4
South West -42 18 £62,384 +3.97% 11
North East -22 14 £91,716 +11.17% 4
Wales -23 13 £70,000 +35.92% 1
South East -84 13 £85,000 +3.03% 18
Northern Ireland - 10 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -54 6 £45,000 -21.96% 7

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 85 (19.77%) Agile
2 81 (18.84%) Azure
3 70 (16.28%) DevOps
4 59 (13.72%) Roadmaps
5 57 (13.26%) Mentoring
6 56 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (11.86%) Technical Architecture
8 46 (10.70%) AWS
8 46 (10.70%) Microsoft
9 43 (10.00%) Security Cleared
10 40 (9.30%) Event-Driven
10 40 (9.30%) Project Delivery
10 40 (9.30%) Technology Roadmap
11 39 (9.07%) TOGAF
12 38 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (8.37%) Enterprise Architecture
14 35 (8.14%) Architectural Patterns
14 35 (8.14%) CI/CD
14 35 (8.14%) Design Patterns
14 35 (8.14%) SC Cleared
15 34 (7.91%) Analytics
15 34 (7.91%) Technology Strategy
16 32 (7.44%) Migration
17 30 (6.98%) Microservices
17 30 (6.98%) Service Delivery
18 28 (6.51%) AI
18 28 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
19 27 (6.28%) Community of Practice
19 27 (6.28%) Salesforce
20 26 (6.05%) Architectural Design

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 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.40%) Confluence
3 5 (1.16%) SAS
4 4 (0.93%) Documentum
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.47%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.47%) Revit
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Findur
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (18.84%) Azure
2 46 (10.70%) AWS
3 26 (6.05%) SaaS
4 24 (5.58%) PaaS
5 23 (5.35%) GCP
6 12 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.09%) IaaS
10 8 (1.86%) OCI
11 7 (1.63%) Serverless
12 6 (1.40%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
13 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.93%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.19%) Broadband
2 8 (1.86%) Firewall
3 7 (1.63%) VPN
4 6 (1.40%) LAN
4 6 (1.40%) WAN
5 5 (1.16%) SSL
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.93%) Wireless
6 4 (0.93%) WLAN
7 3 (0.70%) DNS
7 3 (0.70%) Internet
7 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.47%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.26%) Metadata
2 7 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.93%) Power BI
5 4 (0.93%) Redis
6 1 (0.23%) Big Data
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.23%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.23%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (4.19%) GitLab
1 18 (4.19%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.19%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.40%) Git
2 6 (1.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.23%) RStudio
General
1 71 (16.51%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.35%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.67%) Finance
4 32 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.74%) Marketing
6 19 (4.42%) Law
6 19 (4.42%) Legal
7 18 (4.19%) Games
8 9 (2.09%) Local Government
9 8 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.40%) Banking
12 5 (1.16%) Aviation
12 5 (1.16%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.16%) Police
13 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.93%) Retail
14 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.47%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.35%) Middleware
2 19 (4.42%) SOAP
3 18 (4.19%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (4.19%) REST
3 18 (4.19%) Visualforce
4 15 (3.49%) Django
4 15 (3.49%) Node.js
4 15 (3.49%) React
5 7 (1.63%) .NET
6 6 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.16%) Spring
8 4 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (0.93%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.93%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.93%) Spring MVC
9 3 (0.70%) RESTful
10 2 (0.47%) OAuth
10 2 (0.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.09%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.09%) IoT
5 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.16%) PKI
7 5 (1.16%) Synthetic Data
8 4 (0.93%) CMDB
8 4 (0.93%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.47%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.47%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.23%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.70%) Linux
1 3 (0.70%) Windows
1 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.77%) Agile
2 70 (16.28%) DevOps
3 59 (13.72%) Roadmaps
4 57 (13.26%) Mentoring
5 56 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (11.86%) Technical Architecture
7 40 (9.30%) Event-Driven
7 40 (9.30%) Project Delivery
7 40 (9.30%) Technology Roadmap
8 39 (9.07%) TOGAF
9 38 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (8.37%) Enterprise Architecture
11 35 (8.14%) Architectural Patterns
11 35 (8.14%) CI/CD
11 35 (8.14%) Design Patterns
12 34 (7.91%) Analytics
12 34 (7.91%) Technology Strategy
13 32 (7.44%) Migration
14 30 (6.98%) Microservices
14 30 (6.98%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.88%) Python
2 18 (4.19%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.19%) SOQL
2 18 (4.19%) SOSL
3 11 (2.56%) SQL
4 9 (2.09%) C#
4 9 (2.09%) Java
5 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.47%) Ruby
6 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.23%) Go
6 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.23%) R
6 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.33%) Degree
3 10 (2.33%) RIBA
4 8 (1.86%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.93%) CCNA
7 4 (0.93%) CISSP
7 4 (0.93%) CITP
7 4 (0.93%) CWNA
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) CCNP
10 1 (0.23%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.09%) GDPR
2 7 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.70%) IFRS
4 3 (0.70%) PMO
4 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.47%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) vSphere
4 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.63%) Terraform
3 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.70%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Avamar
6 1 (0.23%) CASB
6 1 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.28%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.19%) Splunk
5 17 (3.95%) Oracle
6 16 (3.72%) Palantir
7 12 (2.79%) Google
8 9 (2.09%) YouTube
9 6 (1.40%) OpenText
10 5 (1.16%) Informatica
10 5 (1.16%) VMware
11 4 (0.93%) Databricks
11 4 (0.93%) Meraki
11 4 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.93%) Pega
12 3 (0.70%) Computacenter
12 3 (0.70%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.70%) SAP
13 2 (0.47%) Adobe
13 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds