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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 518 407
Rank change year-on-year +157 -111 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 449 131 607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.31% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.35% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 333 103 440
10th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £65,105 £76,875 £64,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +9.42% -11.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £88,431 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.19% +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 86,844 37,958 93,943
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 89.30% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,790 21,252 68,852
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +125 328 £85,000 +3.03% 129
UK excluding London +89 236 £88,431 +7.19% 107
Work from Home +140 191 £85,000 +3.03% 71
London +53 109 £80,000 -14.67% 52
North of England +61 103 £85,000 - 42
North West +26 47 £88,716 -1.43% 20
Yorkshire -3 40 £85,000 +21.43% 12
Scotland +21 29 £90,000 +28.57% 4
East of England -5 25 £100,000 +17.65%
Midlands -22 21 £80,000 +3.23% 9
South West -43 19 £50,000 -31.03% 10
North East -24 16 £85,000 +21.43% 11
South East -36 16 £100,000 +21.21% 20
Wales -27 14 £69,973 -2.14% 19
West Midlands -34 11 £87,431 -2.85% 7
East Midlands -27 10 £45,000 -37.93% 2
Northern Ireland - 9 £95,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 97 (21.60%) Azure
2 90 (20.04%) Agile
3 71 (15.81%) DevOps
4 70 (15.59%) AWS
5 69 (15.37%) Security Cleared
6 58 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (12.69%) Roadmaps
8 55 (12.25%) Microsoft
9 54 (12.03%) Mentoring
9 54 (12.03%) SC Cleared
10 51 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 51 (11.36%) Event-Driven
10 51 (11.36%) Technical Architecture
11 43 (9.58%) Design Patterns
12 40 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (8.69%) Technology Roadmap
14 38 (8.46%) Project Delivery
15 37 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
15 37 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 35 (7.80%) Microservices
16 35 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (7.80%) TOGAF
17 34 (7.57%) Migration
18 31 (6.90%) AI
18 31 (6.90%) Analytics
18 31 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
19 30 (6.68%) Data Modelling
19 30 (6.68%) Decision-Making
20 29 (6.46%) Enterprise Architecture
20 29 (6.46%) 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 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.34%) Confluence
3 5 (1.11%) SAS
4 4 (0.89%) Documentum
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Revit
2 2 (0.45%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.45%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.22%) Findur
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (21.60%) Azure
2 70 (15.59%) AWS
3 29 (6.46%) GCP
4 27 (6.01%) SaaS
5 24 (5.35%) PaaS
6 15 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.12%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.45%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.45%) GitHub
8 11 (2.45%) IaaS
9 10 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (2.00%) Serverless
11 7 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.56%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.34%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.11%) OCI
14 4 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.01%) Broadband
2 9 (2.00%) LAN
2 9 (2.00%) WAN
3 8 (1.78%) Firewall
4 7 (1.56%) VPN
4 7 (1.56%) WLAN
5 6 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.34%) iSCSI
5 6 (1.34%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.11%) SSL
7 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) DNS
8 3 (0.67%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) IPsec
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.12%) Data Lake
1 14 (3.12%) Metadata
2 6 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.34%) Power BI
3 5 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.89%) Redis
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (0.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 18 (4.01%) GitLab
1 18 (4.01%) Jenkins
1 18 (4.01%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.34%) JIRA
3 4 (0.89%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.22%) RStudio
General
1 86 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 80 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.46%) Finance
4 33 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.01%) Marketing
6 18 (4.01%) Games
6 18 (4.01%) Law
7 15 (3.34%) Legal
8 9 (2.00%) Local Government
9 6 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.34%) Police
10 5 (1.11%) Aviation
10 5 (1.11%) Banking
11 4 (0.89%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Retail
14 1 (0.22%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.12%) SOAP
2 22 (4.90%) REST
3 21 (4.68%) Middleware
4 18 (4.01%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (4.01%) Visualforce
5 12 (2.67%) Kafka
6 11 (2.45%) PySpark
7 5 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.89%) .NET
8 4 (0.89%) RESTful
9 3 (0.67%) OAuth
9 3 (0.67%) Spring
10 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.45%) Django
10 2 (0.45%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.45%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.45%) OpenID
10 2 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.79%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.00%) IoT
6 8 (1.78%) CMDB
7 7 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.34%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (1.11%) PKI
10 4 (0.89%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.67%) Synthetic Data
12 2 (0.45%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.45%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.45%) Digital Signage
12 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.34%) Windows
2 4 (0.89%) Linux
2 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (20.04%) Agile
2 71 (15.81%) DevOps
3 58 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (12.69%) Roadmaps
5 54 (12.03%) Mentoring
6 51 (11.36%) CI/CD
6 51 (11.36%) Event-Driven
6 51 (11.36%) Technical Architecture
7 43 (9.58%) Design Patterns
8 40 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
9 39 (8.69%) Technology Roadmap
10 38 (8.46%) Project Delivery
11 37 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
11 37 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (7.80%) Microservices
12 35 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (7.80%) TOGAF
13 34 (7.57%) Migration
14 31 (6.90%) AI
14 31 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.35%) Python
2 18 (4.01%) Apex Code
2 18 (4.01%) SOQL
2 18 (4.01%) SOSL
3 12 (2.67%) Java
4 11 (2.45%) C#
5 7 (1.56%) SQL
6 6 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.45%) Ruby
9 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.22%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.45%) RIBA
4 10 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.00%) Degree
6 6 (1.34%) Dell Certification
7 5 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.89%) CCNA
8 4 (0.89%) CISSP
8 4 (0.89%) CITP
8 4 (0.89%) CWNA
9 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.23%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.00%) GDPR
3 8 (1.78%) PMO
4 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.67%) IFRS
5 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.67%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 11 (2.45%) Docker
2 10 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.78%) vSphere
4 7 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.34%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.01%) Terraform
2 14 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.34%) Avamar
3 6 (1.34%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.34%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.34%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.34%) VxRail
4 3 (0.67%) Ansible
5 2 (0.45%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) CASB
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.01%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.45%) Splunk
5 16 (3.56%) Palantir
6 14 (3.12%) Databricks
7 10 (2.23%) VMware
8 9 (2.00%) Google
8 9 (2.00%) Oracle
8 9 (2.00%) YouTube
9 6 (1.34%) 3PAR
9 6 (1.34%) Computacenter
9 6 (1.34%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.34%) Dell
9 6 (1.34%) Isilon
9 6 (1.34%) NetApp
9 6 (1.34%) Nimble Storage
9 6 (1.34%) OpenText
9 6 (1.34%) SAP
9 6 (1.34%) Veeam