Technical Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 385 328
Rank change year-on-year -110 -57 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 88 450 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.56% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.59% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 76 326 107
10th Percentile £60,480 £50,125 £52,891
25th Percentile £70,563 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £105,875 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,150 £82,500
% change year-on-year +9.78% -8.91% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 35,868 76,471 48,136
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.19% 94.94% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 18,618 53,456 28,941
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +68 39 £82,500 -8.33% 36
North of England -28 17 £85,000 +17.24% 41
Midlands +35 15 £76,250 +12.92% 26
West Midlands +53 12 £90,000 +38.36% 12
North West -22 11 £90,000 +16.13% 19
Scotland +90 8 £70,000 -7.16% 3
South West +32 4 £72,500 -9.38% 24
Yorkshire +13 4 £86,250 +27.78% 18
East Midlands +28 3 £65,000 -7.14% 12
Wales -6 3 £71,500 +30.00% 8
East of England -15 3 £85,000 +9.68% 22
North East +43 2 £70,000 -9.91% 4
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 51 (57.95%) Azure
2 38 (43.18%) DevOps
2 38 (43.18%) Microservices
3 35 (39.77%) GDPR
3 35 (39.77%) .NET
4 34 (38.64%) Technical Leadership
5 33 (37.50%) SQL
6 32 (36.36%) C#
6 32 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (36.36%) Docker
6 32 (36.36%) REST
6 32 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 32 (36.36%) Event-Driven
7 31 (35.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 31 (35.23%) Design Patterns
7 31 (35.23%) JavaScript
7 31 (35.23%) JSON
8 30 (34.09%) CSS
8 30 (34.09%) HTML
8 30 (34.09%) Git
8 30 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (34.09%) Code Quality
9 29 (32.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 29 (32.95%) Data Encryption
9 29 (32.95%) SonarCloud
9 29 (32.95%) gRPC
9 29 (32.95%) API Integration
9 29 (32.95%) Performance Optimisation
9 29 (32.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 29 (32.95%) Bootstrap

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.41%) nginx
1 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Mendix
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (57.95%) Azure
2 32 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (35.23%) Azure Service Bus
4 29 (32.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 29 (32.95%) SonarCloud
5 13 (14.77%) AWS
6 10 (11.36%) GCP
7 6 (6.82%) OCI
8 5 (5.68%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.55%) SaaS
10 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.27%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.27%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 2 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.27%) Serverless
11 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.14%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
1 4 (4.55%) Network Security
2 3 (3.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (1.14%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) LAN
4 1 (1.14%) NAS
4 1 (1.14%) SAN
4 1 (1.14%) VLAN
4 1 (1.14%) WAN
4 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.95%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.14%) Big Data
3 1 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.14%) OLTP
3 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (34.09%) Git
2 29 (32.95%) MSBuild
2 29 (32.95%) Octopus Deploy
2 29 (32.95%) Team Foundation Server
2 29 (32.95%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.41%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (30.68%) Retail
2 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.95%) Law
4 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Publishing
6 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.14%) Automotive
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Electronics
6 1 (1.14%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Games
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Online Betting
6 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (39.77%) .NET
2 32 (36.36%) REST
3 31 (35.23%) JSON
4 30 (34.09%) CSS
4 30 (34.09%) HTML
5 29 (32.95%) ASP.NET
5 29 (32.95%) Bootstrap
5 29 (32.95%) gRPC
5 29 (32.95%) XML
6 5 (5.68%) Kafka
7 2 (2.27%) MACH
7 2 (2.27%) React
7 2 (2.27%) Spring
8 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.14%) HTML5
8 1 (1.14%) Middleware
8 1 (1.14%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) SAP Basis
8 1 (1.14%) SAP XI
8 1 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (6.82%) Smartphone
2 5 (5.68%) Private Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) FMCG
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.14%) Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.14%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) DevOps
1 38 (43.18%) Microservices
2 34 (38.64%) Technical Leadership
3 32 (36.36%) Event-Driven
3 32 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 31 (35.23%) Design Patterns
5 30 (34.09%) Code Quality
5 30 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (32.95%) API Integration
6 29 (32.95%) Data Encryption
6 29 (32.95%) MVC
6 29 (32.95%) Performance Optimisation
6 29 (32.95%) Performance Testing
7 19 (21.59%) Roadmaps
8 12 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
9 10 (11.36%) Analytics
9 10 (11.36%) Computer Science
9 10 (11.36%) IT Strategy
9 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.50%) SQL
2 32 (36.36%) C#
3 31 (35.23%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.82%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) Python
6 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.14%) VB
6 1 (1.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.55%) CCNA
4 4 (4.55%) CCNP
4 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CCIE
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.14%) MCP
7 1 (1.14%) MCSA
7 1 (1.14%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (39.77%) GDPR
2 6 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.55%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Marathon
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle
3 3 (3.41%) Databricks
3 3 (3.41%) F5
3 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.27%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) SAP
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.14%) Juniper
5 1 (1.14%) McAfee
5 1 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.14%) Symantec
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