Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK is £75,400 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 358 598
Rank change year-on-year -52 +240 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 610 918 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.93% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.01% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 416 377 469
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £53,418
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,400 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,400 £102,500 £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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -6 503 £82,500 -2.94% 93
UK excluding London -74 351 £75,000 -6.25% 61
London +15 193 £85,000 - 43
Work from Home -68 187 £70,000 -12.50% 64
North of England -2 82 £70,000 -15.15% 7
South West -23 68 £80,000 +4.92% 14
South East 0 58 £90,000 +2.86% 15
East of England +11 56 £85,000 - 7
Yorkshire +60 41 £70,000 -17.65%
Midlands -28 39 £65,050 -13.27% 9
North West -37 37 £76,450 +22.32% 7
Wales +15 28 £60,000 +29.84% 9
West Midlands +7 22 £75,000 - 5
East Midlands -24 17 £60,000 -31.43% 4
Scotland -89 16 £75,400 -16.22% 2
Northern Ireland +6 4 £75,400 -
North East -7 4 £68,950 -27.42%

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 184 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 180 (29.51%) Azure
3 162 (26.56%) Agile
4 147 (24.10%) Microsoft
5 144 (23.61%) Security Cleared
6 140 (22.95%) Roadmaps
7 119 (19.51%) AWS
8 114 (18.69%) DevOps
9 105 (17.21%) SC Cleared
10 104 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
10 104 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (16.39%) Degree
12 89 (14.59%) Mentoring
12 89 (14.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 84 (13.77%) Technical Architecture
14 83 (13.61%) Finance
14 83 (13.61%) Microservices
15 73 (11.97%) C#
15 73 (11.97%) .NET
15 73 (11.97%) Linux
16 70 (11.48%) Java
17 67 (10.98%) Cloud Native
18 63 (10.33%) Power Platform
19 61 (10.00%) Kubernetes
20 59 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
20 59 (9.67%) Management Information System
20 59 (9.67%) Public Sector
21 58 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
22 57 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
23 51 (8.36%) Coaching

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 20 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.66%) Drupal
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.33%) CMS
3 2 (0.33%) Confluence
3 2 (0.33%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.98%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 180 (29.51%) Azure
2 119 (19.51%) AWS
3 63 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 44 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
5 36 (5.90%) SaaS
6 35 (5.74%) PowerApps
7 33 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.43%) GCP
9 25 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (3.44%) Power Automate
11 20 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (2.62%) PaaS
13 12 (1.97%) Azure AKS
13 12 (1.97%) Azure App Service
14 11 (1.80%) dbt
15 10 (1.64%) IaaS
16 7 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (0.98%) Azure API Management
17 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
18 5 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.11%) Firewall
2 15 (2.46%) LAN
3 10 (1.64%) DNS
4 9 (1.48%) WAN
4 9 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.31%) Wireless
6 6 (0.98%) Broadband
7 4 (0.66%) Intranet
7 4 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.49%) CTI
8 3 (0.49%) Internet
8 3 (0.49%) VPN
9 2 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.33%) Extranet
9 2 (0.33%) PBX
9 2 (0.33%) RTP
9 2 (0.33%) SAN
9 2 (0.33%) SSL
9 2 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.23%) Power BI
2 35 (5.74%) Relational Database
3 24 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.46%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.48%) CockroachDB
7 6 (0.98%) MySQL
7 6 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.98%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.66%) Big Data
10 3 (0.49%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.49%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.49%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (7.21%) Git
2 29 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.64%) GitLab
4 9 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.31%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.49%) JIRA
6 3 (0.49%) JUnit
6 3 (0.49%) Maven
6 3 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.33%) MLflow
7 2 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
General
1 184 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 83 (13.61%) Finance
4 59 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (5.90%) Banking
6 36 (5.90%) Retail
7 34 (5.57%) Aerospace
8 32 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (3.93%) Marketing
10 20 (3.28%) Legal
11 17 (2.79%) Law
12 13 (2.13%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.80%) Retail Banking
14 10 (1.64%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.31%) Police
16 7 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.97%) .NET
2 30 (4.92%) React
3 23 (3.77%) REST
4 22 (3.61%) .NET Core
5 21 (3.44%) Entity Framework
5 21 (3.44%) HTML
6 18 (2.95%) ASP.NET
6 18 (2.95%) Web Services
7 17 (2.79%) Kafka
7 17 (2.79%) XML
8 16 (2.62%) Node.js
9 15 (2.46%) JSON
9 15 (2.46%) Middleware
9 15 (2.46%) OAuth
9 15 (2.46%) RESTful
10 14 (2.30%) .NET Framework
10 14 (2.30%) Spring
11 13 (2.13%) Hibernate
12 12 (1.97%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (1.97%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.67%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.10%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (3.93%) PKI
5 22 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.62%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (2.46%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.13%) Cyberattack
9 13 (2.13%) NHS
10 12 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.80%) iPhone
12 10 (1.64%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) PropTech
14 6 (0.98%) Robotics
14 6 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (11.97%) Linux
2 21 (3.44%) Android
2 21 (3.44%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.49%) CentOS
4 3 (0.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (26.56%) Agile
2 140 (22.95%) Roadmaps
3 114 (18.69%) DevOps
4 104 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
5 89 (14.59%) Mentoring
6 84 (13.77%) Technical Architecture
7 83 (13.61%) Microservices
8 59 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 58 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
10 57 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
11 51 (8.36%) Coaching
11 51 (8.36%) Project Management
12 50 (8.20%) Architectural Design
13 47 (7.70%) Migration
14 46 (7.54%) Architectural Patterns
14 46 (7.54%) Open Source
15 42 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence
15 42 (6.89%) Computer Science
16 38 (6.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.97%) C#
2 70 (11.48%) Java
3 43 (7.05%) JavaScript
4 40 (6.56%) Python
5 26 (4.26%) C
6 25 (4.10%) SQL
7 8 (1.31%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.98%) Bash
8 6 (0.98%) Perl
8 6 (0.98%) PHP
8 6 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.82%) ABAP
9 5 (0.82%) C++
10 3 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) Swift
12 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.16%) SOQL
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 144 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 105 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 100 (16.39%) Degree
4 37 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.46%) CISSP
9 13 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.97%) CISM
11 11 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.80%) OSCP
12 8 (1.31%) PhD
12 8 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.82%) CCIE
15 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.48%) QA
2 8 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.98%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.98%) GDPR
4 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.33%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (6.07%) Docker
2 18 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.66%) KVM
6 3 (0.49%) Xen
7 2 (0.33%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.79%) Ansible
3 8 (1.31%) Kiali
4 7 (1.15%) Puppet
5 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.66%) Terraform
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.16%) Grafana
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) logstash
8 1 (0.16%) Nagios
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 147 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.59%) Salesforce
3 26 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 21 (3.44%) Google
5 18 (2.95%) SAP
6 16 (2.62%) Oracle
7 11 (1.80%) Cisco
8 10 (1.64%) VMware
9 8 (1.31%) ANSYS
9 8 (1.31%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.31%) BMC
9 8 (1.31%) Splunk
10 7 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.98%) Databricks
11 6 (0.98%) HP
11 6 (0.98%) Meraki
11 6 (0.98%) Remedy
12 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.82%) mParticle
13 4 (0.66%) Solace