Principal Architect Jobs in England

Principal Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Architect salary in England is £78,273 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 717 842 838
Rank change year-on-year +125 -4 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 123 111 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 54 71 134
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,253 £70,000
25th Percentile £74,759 £90,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £104,688 £126,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £80,500 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Principal Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in England.

Salary trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +146 50 £105,000 +3.96% 8
South East +28 17 £75,000 -28.57% 4
North of England +44 16 £78,273 -27.19% 6
Midlands +23 16 £78,273 - 3
South West -1 14 £78,273 +1.00% 3
East of England +6 9 £115,000 +27.78%
East Midlands -7 8 £78,273 -
Yorkshire +91 7 £78,273 -33.39%
North West +5 7 £78,273 +28.13% 6
West Midlands - 4 £78,273 - 3
North East - 2 £75,386 -
Principal Architect
UK

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Principal 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 England region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 48 (39.02%) Mentoring
2 47 (38.21%) Agile
2 47 (38.21%) AWS
3 42 (34.15%) Roadmaps
4 36 (29.27%) Azure
4 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
5 34 (27.64%) Degree
6 32 (26.02%) Architectural Design
7 28 (22.76%) Finance
8 27 (21.95%) Strategic Roadmap
8 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (21.95%) Coaching
9 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
10 22 (17.89%) Security Architecture
11 19 (15.45%) Project Management
11 19 (15.45%) Microservices
12 18 (14.63%) Public Cloud
12 18 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (14.63%) Risk Assessment
13 17 (13.82%) Machine Learning
13 17 (13.82%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
14 16 (13.01%) Analytics
15 14 (11.38%) Line Management
15 14 (11.38%) Enterprise Architecture
15 14 (11.38%) Data Architecture
15 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
16 13 (10.57%) Data Analytics
16 13 (10.57%) DV Cleared
16 13 (10.57%) Data Modelling

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.21%) AWS
2 36 (29.27%) Azure
3 9 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (4.07%) GCP
4 5 (4.07%) SaaS
4 5 (4.07%) Serverless
5 3 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.81%) Boomi
7 1 (0.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) DHCP
1 3 (2.44%) DNS
1 3 (2.44%) HTTP
1 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.50%) Data Vault
1 8 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.69%) Power BI
2 7 (5.69%) Tableau
3 6 (4.88%) GIS
4 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.25%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.25%) Spatial Data
6 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.63%) Big Data
7 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
General
1 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.76%) Finance
3 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.94%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (8.13%) Billing
7 7 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Retail
9 3 (2.44%) Marketing
10 2 (1.63%) Banking
10 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.63%) Law
10 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Automotive
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Front Office
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.57%) HTML
2 4 (3.25%) CSS
2 4 (3.25%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.25%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.44%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.44%) OpenID
3 3 (2.44%) RESTful
3 3 (2.44%) SAML
4 2 (1.63%) .NET
4 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Public Cloud
2 9 (7.32%) Cyberattack
3 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.88%) PMI
3 6 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.25%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.25%) Verilog
4 4 (3.25%) VHDL
5 2 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.63%) IoT
5 2 (1.63%) Mali
5 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.44%) Android
1 3 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (39.02%) Mentoring
2 47 (38.21%) Agile
3 42 (34.15%) Roadmaps
4 32 (26.02%) Architectural Design
5 27 (21.95%) Coaching
5 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (21.95%) Strategic Roadmap
6 22 (17.89%) Security Architecture
7 19 (15.45%) Microservices
7 19 (15.45%) Project Management
8 18 (14.63%) Risk Assessment
9 17 (13.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (13.82%) Machine Learning
10 16 (13.01%) Analytics
11 14 (11.38%) Data Architecture
11 14 (11.38%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (11.38%) Line Management
12 13 (10.57%) Data Analytics
12 13 (10.57%) Data Modelling
13 11 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.13%) Python
2 7 (5.69%) C
3 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.88%) SQL
4 4 (3.25%) Perl
4 4 (3.25%) Ruby
5 3 (2.44%) C#
5 3 (2.44%) C++
6 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.81%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (27.64%) Degree
2 18 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.57%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.69%) CISSP
6 6 (4.88%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) CCIE
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CISM
8 1 (0.81%) RIBA
8 1 (0.81%) SANS
8 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) QA
2 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (1.63%) Firmware
1 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Terraform
2 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.76%) Dell
3 11 (8.94%) MuleSoft
4 10 (8.13%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.25%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.63%) Veeam
6 2 (1.63%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) Jitterbit
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.81%) Zscaler