Technical Architect Jobs

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 382 337
Rank change year-on-year -179 -45 +276
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 154 740 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.67% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.71% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 116 518 346
10th Percentile £62,500 £51,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,150 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -10.27% +4.69%
75th Percentile £96,563 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,125 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,366 104,718 83,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.79% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26,574 73,870 54,667
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,603 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.47%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect.

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Top 16 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 15 June 2025. 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 -152 128 £82,500 +3.13% 164
UK excluding London -85 88 £82,500 +10.00% 109
Work from Home -10 67 £82,500 +17.86% 108
London -34 49 £92,500 +8.82% 76
South East +69 38 £82,500 -8.33% 36
North of England -4 17 £85,000 +17.24% 24
Midlands +34 15 £77,500 +10.71% 11
West Midlands +52 12 £90,000 +20.00% 5
North West -11 11 £90,000 +16.13% 8
Scotland +103 8 £70,000 -7.16% 1
South West +29 4 £72,500 -9.38% 23
Yorkshire +24 4 £86,250 +27.78% 13
East of England -16 4 £85,000 - 5
East Midlands +33 3 £72,500 +3.57% 5
Wales -5 3 £71,500 +30.00% 6
North East +45 2 £70,000 -9.91% 3

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 June 2025, Technical Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 74 (48.05%) Azure
2 62 (40.26%) Technical Leadership
3 50 (32.47%) DevOps
4 43 (27.92%) GDPR
4 43 (27.92%) Design Patterns
5 42 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (27.27%) .NET
6 40 (25.97%) Microservices
7 37 (24.03%) Roadmaps
8 36 (23.38%) JavaScript
8 36 (23.38%) AWS
9 35 (22.73%) REST
9 35 (22.73%) HTML
9 35 (22.73%) CSS
9 35 (22.73%) Social Skills
10 34 (22.08%) Docker
10 34 (22.08%) Performance Optimisation
11 33 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 33 (21.43%) Event-Driven
11 33 (21.43%) C#
11 33 (21.43%) JSON
12 32 (20.78%) SQL
12 32 (20.78%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (20.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 31 (20.13%) XML
13 31 (20.13%) MVC
13 31 (20.13%) Git
14 29 (18.83%) ASP.NET
14 29 (18.83%) Code Quality
15 28 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.55%) nginx
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.30%) Confluence
3 2 (1.30%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.30%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.65%) Mendix
Applications
1 6 (3.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.30%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.30%) Revit
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) Azure
2 36 (23.38%) AWS
3 32 (20.78%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (20.13%) Azure Service Bus
5 28 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 28 (18.18%) SonarCloud
6 25 (16.23%) GCP
7 10 (6.49%) SaaS
8 8 (5.19%) OCI
8 8 (5.19%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.19%) Serverless
9 6 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.25%) GitHub
10 5 (3.25%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.95%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) DNS
2 9 (5.84%) Network Security
3 6 (3.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (3.25%) Firewall
5 3 (1.95%) LAN
5 3 (1.95%) WAN
6 2 (1.30%) PBX
6 2 (1.30%) SAN
6 2 (1.30%) Skype
6 2 (1.30%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.30%) VoIP
6 2 (1.30%) VPN
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) Internet
7 1 (0.65%) NAS
7 1 (0.65%) Value-Added Service
7 1 (0.65%) VLAN
7 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.95%) Power BI
4 3 (1.95%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.30%) Big Data
5 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.30%) MySQL
5 2 (1.30%) OLTP
5 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Git
2 28 (18.18%) MSBuild
2 28 (18.18%) Octopus Deploy
2 28 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
2 28 (18.18%) Visual Studio
3 8 (5.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 35 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.18%) Retail
3 15 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.49%) Finance
4 10 (6.49%) Law
5 8 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Marketing
8 4 (2.60%) Publishing
9 3 (1.95%) Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Games
10 2 (1.30%) iGaming
10 2 (1.30%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) French Language
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Online Betting
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.27%) .NET
2 35 (22.73%) CSS
2 35 (22.73%) HTML
2 35 (22.73%) REST
3 33 (21.43%) JSON
4 31 (20.13%) XML
5 29 (18.83%) ASP.NET
6 28 (18.18%) Bootstrap
6 28 (18.18%) gRPC
7 8 (5.19%) Kafka
8 5 (3.25%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.60%) Spring
10 3 (1.95%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (1.95%) React
10 3 (1.95%) WCF
11 2 (1.30%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.30%) Node.js
11 2 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (1.30%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.84%) Private Cloud
4 8 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.90%) Smartphone
7 5 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.30%) Blog
10 2 (1.30%) Digital Signage
10 2 (1.30%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.30%) IoT
10 2 (1.30%) Media Streaming
10 2 (1.30%) Mobile Games
10 2 (1.30%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.19%) Windows
2 5 (3.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Android
4 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.26%) Technical Leadership
2 50 (32.47%) DevOps
3 43 (27.92%) Design Patterns
4 42 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (25.97%) Microservices
6 37 (24.03%) Roadmaps
7 34 (22.08%) Performance Optimisation
8 33 (21.43%) Event-Driven
8 33 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 31 (20.13%) MVC
10 29 (18.83%) Code Quality
11 28 (18.18%) API Integration
11 28 (18.18%) Data Encryption
11 28 (18.18%) Performance Testing
12 27 (17.53%) Mentoring
13 20 (12.99%) CI/CD
14 19 (12.34%) Architectural Patterns
15 18 (11.69%) Migration
15 18 (11.69%) Technical Architecture
15 18 (11.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.38%) JavaScript
2 33 (21.43%) C#
3 32 (20.78%) SQL
4 12 (7.79%) Java
5 5 (3.25%) Python
6 4 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.30%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.65%) ABAP
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) PHP
8 1 (0.65%) VB
8 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.34%) Degree
3 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.19%) CCNA
6 7 (4.55%) CCNP
7 6 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.95%) MCP
10 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.65%) CCIE
12 1 (0.65%) MCSA
12 1 (0.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (27.92%) GDPR
2 16 (10.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.79%) HIPAA
3 12 (7.79%) SOC 2
4 11 (7.14%) QA
5 3 (1.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (22.08%) Docker
2 4 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.79%) Terraform
3 4 (2.60%) Grafana
3 4 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.95%) Ansible
5 2 (1.30%) Istio
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.65%) Argo
6 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.65%) Marathon
6 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.44%) Oracle
3 7 (4.55%) Databricks
3 7 (4.55%) F5
3 7 (4.55%) Google
3 7 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.25%) SAP
5 4 (2.60%) Cisco
5 4 (2.60%) Dell
6 3 (1.95%) Intel
6 3 (1.95%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.95%) VMware
7 2 (1.30%) Facebook
7 2 (1.30%) Gigya
7 2 (1.30%) Panasonic
7 2 (1.30%) PayPal
7 2 (1.30%) Polycom
7 2 (1.30%) Ribbon
7 2 (1.30%) Samsung