Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 383 594
Rank change year-on-year -44 +211 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 573 903 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.86% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.94% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 397 409 469
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £53,418
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,530 £105,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 -4 471 £82,500 -2.94% 108
UK excluding London -68 312 £75,000 -6.25% 71
London +15 193 £85,000 - 45
Work from Home -57 184 £70,000 -10.26% 77
North of England 0 71 £70,000 -17.65% 12
South West -34 64 £80,000 +6.67% 7
South East +24 57 £90,000 +2.86% 19
East of England +10 45 £85,000 - 9
North West -13 35 £76,450 +15.40% 4
Midlands -13 34 £65,050 -13.27% 13
Yorkshire +78 33 £67,500 -20.59% 6
Wales +4 23 £64,412 -12.81% 4
West Midlands +9 21 £75,000 - 7
Scotland -83 16 £72,500 -9.38% 10
East Midlands -26 13 £62,500 -28.57% 6
North East -7 3 £75,400 -8.61% 2
Northern Ireland +9 2 £75,400 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 186 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 181 (31.59%) Azure
3 149 (26.00%) Security Cleared
4 148 (25.83%) Microsoft
5 147 (25.65%) Agile
6 138 (24.08%) Roadmaps
7 125 (21.82%) AWS
8 117 (20.42%) DevOps
9 113 (19.72%) Technical Leadership
10 109 (19.02%) SC Cleared
11 100 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (15.01%) Microservices
13 85 (14.83%) Mentoring
13 85 (14.83%) Degree
14 80 (13.96%) Technical Architecture
15 77 (13.44%) Finance
15 77 (13.44%) .NET
16 76 (13.26%) C#
16 76 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 73 (12.74%) Java
18 71 (12.39%) Kubernetes
19 63 (10.99%) Public Sector
20 61 (10.65%) Linux
20 61 (10.65%) Management Information System
21 59 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
21 59 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
22 57 (9.95%) Cloud Native
23 55 (9.60%) Power Platform
24 53 (9.25%) Business Intelligence
25 52 (9.08%) Architectural Patterns

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 18 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.70%) CMS
2 4 (0.70%) Drupal
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.35%) Confluence
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.35%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.57%) Elite 3E
2 9 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 181 (31.59%) Azure
2 125 (21.82%) AWS
3 55 (9.60%) Power Platform
4 40 (6.98%) SaaS
5 38 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (5.58%) PowerApps
7 29 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.71%) GCP
9 24 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (3.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (3.66%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.97%) PaaS
13 12 (2.09%) Azure AKS
13 12 (2.09%) Azure App Service
14 11 (1.92%) dbt
14 11 (1.92%) IaaS
15 9 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.40%) Azure API Management
17 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
18 5 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.97%) Firewall
1 17 (2.97%) LAN
2 10 (1.75%) DNS
3 8 (1.40%) WAN
3 8 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.40%) Wireless
4 6 (1.05%) Broadband
5 4 (0.70%) Intranet
5 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.52%) CTI
6 3 (0.52%) Internet
7 2 (0.35%) Extranet
7 2 (0.35%) SAN
7 2 (0.35%) SSL
7 2 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.17%) AMQP
8 1 (0.17%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.11%) Relational Database
2 34 (5.93%) Power BI
3 31 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.57%) CockroachDB
4 9 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.57%) MySQL
5 7 (1.22%) Big Data
6 6 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.70%) Redis
9 3 (0.52%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.52%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 45 (7.85%) Git
2 31 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.09%) GitLab
4 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.40%) Jaeger
6 4 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.70%) JUnit
6 4 (0.70%) Maven
7 3 (0.52%) JIRA
7 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.17%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.17%) jMock
9 1 (0.17%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 186 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 77 (13.44%) Finance
3 76 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.06%) Banking
6 29 (5.06%) Retail
7 28 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (4.36%) Legal
9 23 (4.01%) Marketing
10 16 (2.79%) Law
11 13 (2.27%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.09%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.75%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.22%) Police
16 7 (1.22%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.44%) .NET
2 33 (5.76%) React
3 30 (5.24%) REST
4 24 (4.19%) HTML
5 22 (3.84%) .NET Core
5 22 (3.84%) Web Services
6 21 (3.66%) Entity Framework
7 20 (3.49%) Kafka
7 20 (3.49%) XML
8 19 (3.32%) Node.js
9 18 (3.14%) ASP.NET
9 18 (3.14%) JSON
9 18 (3.14%) RESTful
9 18 (3.14%) Spring
10 16 (2.79%) .NET Framework
11 15 (2.62%) Middleware
11 15 (2.62%) OAuth
11 15 (2.62%) Spring Boot
12 14 (2.44%) SOAP
13 13 (2.27%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.65%) Management Information System
2 57 (9.95%) Cloud Native
3 29 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (4.71%) PKI
5 25 (4.36%) Data Centre
6 24 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (3.66%) Public Cloud
9 18 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.62%) Cyberattack
11 14 (2.44%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.27%) iPhone
12 13 (2.27%) NHS
13 12 (2.09%) Private Cloud
14 10 (1.75%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.57%) Robotics
15 9 (1.57%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.40%) PropTech
17 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.65%) Linux
2 18 (3.14%) Android
2 18 (3.14%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.09%) Windows
4 2 (0.35%) CentOS
4 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (25.65%) Agile
2 138 (24.08%) Roadmaps
3 117 (20.42%) DevOps
4 113 (19.72%) Technical Leadership
5 100 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (15.01%) Microservices
7 85 (14.83%) Mentoring
8 80 (13.96%) Technical Architecture
9 59 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
9 59 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (9.25%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (9.08%) Architectural Patterns
12 50 (8.73%) Architectural Design
12 50 (8.73%) Migration
12 50 (8.73%) Open Source
13 46 (8.03%) Coaching
14 43 (7.50%) Computer Science
15 42 (7.33%) Project Management
16 41 (7.16%) Actionable Insight
16 41 (7.16%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 76 (13.26%) C#
2 73 (12.74%) Java
3 48 (8.38%) Python
4 47 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.36%) C
5 25 (4.36%) SQL
6 9 (1.57%) Perl
7 8 (1.40%) Bash
7 8 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.40%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.05%) ABAP
8 6 (1.05%) PHP
9 5 (0.87%) C++
10 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.35%) Swift
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) SOQL
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 149 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 109 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 85 (14.83%) Degree
4 38 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (3.84%) Azure Certification
7 19 (3.32%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.97%) CISSP
8 17 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.44%) CISM
11 13 (2.27%) OSCP
12 11 (1.92%) DV Cleared
13 10 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.87%) CCIE
16 4 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 3 (0.52%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (1.57%) QA
2 5 (0.87%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.70%) ISO 9000
3 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.17%) NCSC
5 1 (0.17%) NIST
5 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (7.50%) Docker
2 20 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.49%) Ansible
3 9 (1.57%) Puppet
4 8 (1.40%) Kiali
5 5 (0.87%) Terraform
6 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Consul
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) vRealize
7 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 148 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.06%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.36%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.66%) Google
5 18 (3.14%) Oracle
6 17 (2.97%) SAP
7 13 (2.27%) Cisco
8 11 (1.92%) BMC
9 10 (1.75%) VMware
10 9 (1.57%) HP
10 9 (1.57%) Remedy
11 8 (1.40%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.40%) Splunk
12 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.05%) Databricks
14 5 (0.87%) Meraki
15 4 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.70%) Solace
15 4 (0.70%) Sparx
16 3 (0.52%) BiZZdesign