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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 534 364
Rank change year-on-year +249 -170 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 742 146 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.30% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.33% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 514 115 379
10th Percentile £61,565 £61,576 £49,558
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -6.06%
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 £75,400
% change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -8.61%

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 106,506 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,200 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +201 556 £85,855 +4.07% 343
UK excluding London +184 495 £85,000 +3.03% 178
North of England +112 230 £85,000 +6.25% 66
Work from Home +120 228 £85,000 +3.03% 151
London +20 125 £95,000 +5.56% 172
North West +63 90 £85,000 -11.46% 41
Yorkshire +27 70 £85,855 +4.07% 13
North East +1 70 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Midlands +14 63 £88,000 +25.71% 31
South West -17 58 £75,000 -9.09% 17
West Midlands +3 56 £88,000 +10.00% 28
Wales -37 44 £80,000 +11.89% 4
East of England +4 38 £100,000 - 8
South East -51 26 £82,500 - 42
Northern Ireland - 24 £82,500 - 1
Scotland +21 21 £85,000 +21.43% 11
East Midlands -29 7 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 136 (18.33%) Agile
2 131 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 124 (16.71%) Azure
4 117 (15.77%) Technical Architecture
5 106 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 104 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
7 102 (13.75%) AI
8 101 (13.61%) Mentoring
9 97 (13.07%) AWS
9 97 (13.07%) Microsoft
10 78 (10.51%) Roadmaps
11 77 (10.38%) CI/CD
12 74 (9.97%) Coaching
13 69 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (9.30%) DevOps
14 67 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 61 (8.22%) Architectural Patterns
16 58 (7.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 53 (7.14%) Decision-Making
18 52 (7.01%) Microservices
19 49 (6.60%) Integration Patterns
20 45 (6.06%) Architecture Governance
21 43 (5.80%) Enterprise Architecture
21 43 (5.80%) SaaS
21 43 (5.80%) Translating Business Requirements
22 42 (5.66%) Event-Driven
22 42 (5.66%) Project Delivery
23 39 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
24 38 (5.12%) Design Patterns
24 38 (5.12%) GCP

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 11 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.89%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.21%) Revit
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle Utilities
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.13%) Findur
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 124 (16.71%) Azure
2 97 (13.07%) AWS
3 43 (5.80%) SaaS
4 39 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (5.12%) GCP
6 17 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
7 16 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 14 (1.89%) Power Platform
9 13 (1.75%) GitHub
9 13 (1.75%) IaaS
10 12 (1.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (1.48%) Azure AKS
11 11 (1.48%) dbt
11 11 (1.48%) PaaS
11 11 (1.48%) Serverless
12 10 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.35%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.89%) CTI
1 14 (1.89%) VoIP
2 13 (1.75%) LAN
2 13 (1.75%) Network Security
3 12 (1.62%) Firewall
4 11 (1.48%) VPN
4 11 (1.48%) WAN
5 9 (1.21%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.94%) Wireless
6 7 (0.94%) WLAN
7 6 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (0.81%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.54%) Broadband
9 3 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (0.27%) DNS
10 2 (0.27%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.35%) Data Lake
2 7 (0.94%) Power BI
3 6 (0.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.54%) Metadata
4 4 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.27%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.13%) MySQL
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.13%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Claude Code
2 6 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.81%) JIRA
2 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
3 5 (0.67%) Git
3 5 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) Maven
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 144 (19.41%) Public Sector
2 87 (11.73%) Social Skills
3 61 (8.22%) Finance
4 46 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (2.56%) Legal
6 14 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (1.89%) Marketing
7 12 (1.62%) Law
8 7 (0.94%) Police
9 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.54%) Banking
10 4 (0.54%) Games
10 4 (0.54%) Local Government
10 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.40%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Aviation
12 2 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.31%) Middleware
2 28 (3.77%) Terraform
3 15 (2.02%) Kafka
4 14 (1.89%) REST
5 11 (1.48%) PySpark
5 11 (1.48%) SOAP
6 9 (1.21%) .NET
7 8 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (0.94%) CSS
8 7 (0.94%) HTML
8 7 (0.94%) Langfuse
8 7 (0.94%) Spring
9 6 (0.81%) OAuth
9 6 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (0.67%) OpenID
10 5 (0.67%) RESTful
10 5 (0.67%) Visualforce
11 4 (0.54%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.54%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.77%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.83%) Data Centre
3 18 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (1.89%) IVR
5 10 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.08%) AI Agents
6 8 (1.08%) CMDB
6 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (0.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 4 (0.54%) Blog
9 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.54%) Life Science
10 3 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.27%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.27%) IoT
11 2 (0.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.62%) Windows
2 11 (1.48%) Linux
3 7 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (18.33%) Agile
2 117 (15.77%) Technical Architecture
3 104 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
4 102 (13.75%) AI
5 101 (13.61%) Mentoring
6 78 (10.51%) Roadmaps
7 77 (10.38%) CI/CD
8 74 (9.97%) Coaching
9 69 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (9.30%) DevOps
10 67 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (8.22%) Architectural Patterns
12 58 (7.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 53 (7.14%) Decision-Making
14 52 (7.01%) Microservices
15 49 (6.60%) Integration Patterns
16 45 (6.06%) Architecture Governance
17 43 (5.80%) Enterprise Architecture
17 43 (5.80%) Translating Business Requirements
18 42 (5.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.31%) Python
2 23 (3.10%) C#
3 17 (2.29%) Java
4 13 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.21%) Bicep
6 7 (0.94%) Go
7 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.67%) SOQL
7 5 (0.67%) SOSL
7 5 (0.67%) SQL
7 5 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.40%) ABAP
8 3 (0.40%) X++
9 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.13%) R
10 1 (0.13%) RPG
10 1 (0.13%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 131 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 106 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.02%) Degree
6 10 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (1.08%) RIBA
8 6 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.81%) Dell Certification
8 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.67%) CCIE
9 5 (0.67%) CCNA
9 5 (0.67%) CCNP
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.54%) CISSP
11 3 (0.40%) CWNA
12 2 (0.27%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.81%) PMO
3 5 (0.67%) GDPR
4 4 (0.54%) QA
5 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.40%) GRC
5 3 (0.40%) IFRS
5 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.13%) NCSC
7 1 (0.13%) PSD2
7 1 (0.13%) SEPA
7 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.56%) Docker
3 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.81%) vSphere
5 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.81%) Avamar
2 6 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (0.81%) VxRail
3 3 (0.40%) Grafana
3 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 97 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.31%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.10%) VMware
4 22 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.70%) Cisco
5 20 (2.70%) Computacenter
6 16 (2.16%) Google
7 14 (1.89%) Avaya
7 14 (1.89%) Genesys
8 13 (1.75%) Oracle
9 12 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.48%) Databricks
11 10 (1.35%) Adobe
11 10 (1.35%) SAP
11 10 (1.35%) Workday
12 9 (1.21%) NetApp
12 9 (1.21%) Veeam
13 7 (0.94%) Splunk
14 6 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.81%) Nimble Storage