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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 523 337
Rank change year-on-year +254 -186 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 793 144 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.29% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 564 106 351
10th Percentile £61,605 £59,630 £45,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £70,337 £64,375
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 £83,781 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.55% +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 109,855 44,157 67,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,567 25,766 38,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 14 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 14 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 +205 603 £85,855 +1.01% 243
UK excluding London +196 545 £83,781 +1.55% 130
North of England +125 245 £85,000 - 48
Work from Home +87 205 £80,000 -3.03% 97
London +11 124 £100,000 +11.11% 110
North West +59 99 £85,855 +1.01% 27
South West +2 74 £75,000 -6.25% 17
North East - 74 £85,000 - 12
Yorkshire +29 72 £82,927 -12.71% 9
Midlands 0 68 £87,716 +15.17% 24
West Midlands +12 58 £88,000 -9.74% 19
Wales -23 53 £80,000 +3.34% 7
East of England +7 40 £90,000 - 7
South East -23 33 £80,000 -3.03% 20
Northern Ireland -56 23 £82,500 +10.25%
Scotland +16 18 £82,500 +10.25% 7
East Midlands -35 10 £70,000 +7.69% 5

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 156 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 144 (18.16%) Azure
3 139 (17.53%) Agile
4 132 (16.65%) SC Cleared
5 120 (15.13%) Technical Leadership
6 118 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
7 111 (14.00%) AI
8 109 (13.75%) AWS
9 101 (12.74%) Microsoft
10 98 (12.36%) Mentoring
11 93 (11.73%) Roadmaps
12 80 (10.09%) CI/CD
13 78 (9.84%) Architectural Patterns
14 75 (9.46%) Coaching
15 69 (8.70%) DevOps
16 68 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 66 (8.32%) Decision-Making
18 60 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 59 (7.44%) Architecture Governance
20 57 (7.19%) Analytics
20 57 (7.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
21 52 (6.56%) C#
21 52 (6.56%) Enterprise Architecture
22 49 (6.18%) Design Patterns
22 49 (6.18%) GCP
22 49 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
23 47 (5.93%) Microservices
24 46 (5.80%) Technology Roadmap
25 45 (5.67%) Integration Patterns
25 45 (5.67%) Migration

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 (1.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.26%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.76%) Oracle Utilities
3 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 144 (18.16%) Azure
2 109 (13.75%) AWS
3 49 (6.18%) GCP
4 41 (5.17%) SaaS
5 38 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (2.14%) Serverless
8 15 (1.89%) GitHub
8 15 (1.89%) PaaS
9 12 (1.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (1.51%) IaaS
10 11 (1.39%) Azure AKS
10 11 (1.39%) dbt
11 10 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (1.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.77%) CTI
1 14 (1.77%) VoIP
2 12 (1.51%) LAN
2 12 (1.51%) Network Security
3 10 (1.26%) Firewall
3 10 (1.26%) WAN
4 9 (1.13%) Unified Communications
4 9 (1.13%) VPN
5 7 (0.88%) Wireless
5 7 (0.88%) WLAN
6 6 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (0.76%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.25%) Broadband
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) DNS
8 2 (0.25%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.39%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.76%) Power BI
3 5 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.38%) Metadata
6 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.25%) 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 (0.88%) Claude Code
2 4 (0.50%) Git
2 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.50%) JIRA
2 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 144 (18.16%) Public Sector
2 91 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 62 (7.82%) Finance
4 47 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (2.27%) Legal
6 14 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.39%) Law
8 10 (1.26%) Marketing
9 7 (0.88%) Police
10 6 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.50%) Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Local Government
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Retail
15 1 (0.13%) Automotive
15 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.79%) .NET
2 33 (4.16%) Terraform
3 31 (3.91%) Middleware
4 15 (1.89%) REST
5 14 (1.77%) Kafka
6 10 (1.26%) PySpark
7 8 (1.01%) Model Context Protocol
7 8 (1.01%) SOAP
8 7 (0.88%) CSS
8 7 (0.88%) HTML
8 7 (0.88%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.88%) OAuth
8 7 (0.88%) Spring
9 6 (0.76%) LangChain
9 6 (0.76%) LlamaIndex
9 6 (0.76%) OpenID
9 6 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.50%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.50%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.50%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.15%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 15 (1.89%) IVR
5 14 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.13%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.76%) Blog
10 6 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 4 (0.50%) CMDB
11 4 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.50%) Life Science
12 3 (0.38%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.38%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.25%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.39%) Windows
2 10 (1.26%) Linux
3 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.25%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (17.53%) Agile
2 120 (15.13%) Technical Leadership
3 118 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
4 111 (14.00%) AI
5 98 (12.36%) Mentoring
6 93 (11.73%) Roadmaps
7 80 (10.09%) CI/CD
8 78 (9.84%) Architectural Patterns
9 75 (9.46%) Coaching
10 69 (8.70%) DevOps
11 68 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 66 (8.32%) Decision-Making
13 60 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 59 (7.44%) Architecture Governance
15 57 (7.19%) Analytics
15 57 (7.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 52 (6.56%) Enterprise Architecture
17 49 (6.18%) Design Patterns
17 49 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
18 47 (5.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.56%) C#
2 30 (3.78%) Python
3 18 (2.27%) Java
4 15 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.13%) Bicep
6 7 (0.88%) Go
7 5 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.50%) SQL
9 3 (0.38%) ABAP
9 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.38%) SOQL
9 3 (0.38%) SOSL
9 3 (0.38%) X++
10 2 (0.25%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.25%) Solidity
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
11 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 156 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 132 (16.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.77%) Degree
7 12 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.01%) RIBA
9 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.76%) Dell Certification
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.63%) CCIE
11 5 (0.63%) CCNA
11 5 (0.63%) CCNP
11 5 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.50%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) CWNA
14 2 (0.25%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (0.88%) GDPR
4 6 (0.76%) PMO
5 4 (0.50%) QA
6 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.38%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (2.27%) Docker
3 17 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.76%) vSphere
5 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.01%) Ansible
3 6 (0.76%) Avamar
3 6 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (0.76%) VxRail
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 101 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.28%) ServiceNow
3 22 (2.77%) VMware
4 21 (2.65%) Cisco
4 21 (2.65%) Computacenter
5 20 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.02%) Google
7 15 (1.89%) Genesys
8 14 (1.77%) Avaya
9 13 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.51%) Oracle
11 11 (1.39%) Adobe
12 10 (1.26%) Databricks
12 10 (1.26%) Workday
13 9 (1.13%) NetApp
13 9 (1.13%) SAP
13 9 (1.13%) Veeam
14 6 (0.76%) 3PAR
14 6 (0.76%) Dell
14 6 (0.76%) Isilon