Technical Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Architect salary in the West Midlands is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 227 242
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 10 21 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.28% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.30% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 22
10th Percentile £68,192 £59,700 £56,956
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 - £80,938
90th Percentile £101,250 £79,600 £87,300
England median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,930 6,948 5,785
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.17% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,781 5,218 3,296
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Shropshire - 4 £70,000 - 1
Staffordshire - 3 £97,500 - 10
Birmingham +26 2 £80,000 +6.67% 6
Solihull - 1 £100,000 -
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) DOM
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Mocha
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 2 (20.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) webpack
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Babel
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) npm
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Babel
1 2 (20.00%) Mocha
1 2 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) DOM
1 2 (20.00%) Enzyme
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) Jest
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) JWT
1 2 (20.00%) MACH
1 2 (20.00%) Next.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) Redux
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft