Principal Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Principal Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £1,250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 447 592
Rank change year-on-year +116 +145 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 6 20 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.078% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.082% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 26
10th Percentile £754 - -
25th Percentile £759 £625 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,250 £775 £615
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% +26.02% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £800 £750
90th Percentile £1,438 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £675 £800 £638
% change year-on-year -15.63% +25.49% -2.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Principal Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Architect.

Principal Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Principal Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Principal Architect contract 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 contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) DAO
3 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Situational Awareness
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) DAO
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality