The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Principal Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Architect
Rank 592 614 580
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 15 24 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.034% 0.045% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.047% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 33
Average salary £85,000 £82,500 £86,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% -4.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £71,000 £75,100
10% offered a salary of more than £94,150 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London average salary £95,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
+46.15% -13.33%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41069 50577 53212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.89% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 34568 43927 44773
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Principal Architect
England

Principal Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Principal Architect across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Principal Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Principal Architect across the London region.

London Principal Architect Salary Trend

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Principal Architect across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Principal Architect Salary Histogram

Principal Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bromley - 2 £86,500 -
City of London +5 1 £77,500 +40.90%
Croydon - 1 - -
Principal Architect
England

Principal Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Principal Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Principal Architect in their job title.

1 10 (29.41%) Java
2 9 (26.47%) C#
2 9 (26.47%) .NET
2 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (23.53%) TOGAF
4 7 (20.59%) Retail
4 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Migration
4 7 (20.59%) HTTP
5 6 (17.65%) REST
5 6 (17.65%) Banking
5 6 (17.65%) JSON
5 6 (17.65%) Silverlight
5 6 (17.65%) Information Architecture
5 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 6 (17.65%) XML
5 6 (17.65%) PRINCE2
5 6 (17.65%) VB
6 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
7 4 (11.76%) ERP
7 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.824%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (8.824%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (8.824%) Data Architecture
8 3 (8.824%) Cyber Security
8 3 (8.824%) Advertising
8 3 (8.824%) PLM
8 3 (8.824%) RFID
8 3 (8.824%) Microsoft

Principal Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Principal Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Principal Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (26.47%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) REST
2 6 (17.65%) JSON
2 6 (17.65%) Silverlight
2 6 (17.65%) XML
3 2 (5.882%) J2EE
3 2 (5.882%) Java EE
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.941%) Middleware
4 1 (2.941%) CGI
4 1 (2.941%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.941%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.941%) Apache
2 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (8.824%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) HTTP
2 3 (8.824%) RFID
3 2 (5.882%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.882%) DNS
3 2 (5.882%) DHCP
3 2 (5.882%) Firewall
3 2 (5.882%) SAN
3 2 (5.882%) NAS
4 1 (2.941%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) JUnit
1 2 (5.882%) Maven
1 2 (5.882%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.882%) FindBugs
1 2 (5.882%) Cucumber
1 2 (5.882%) TestNG
1 2 (5.882%) EasyMock
1 2 (5.882%) WebDriver
1 2 (5.882%) DbUnit
1 2 (5.882%) Checkstyle
1 2 (5.882%) Selenium
2 1 (2.941%) Subversion
General
1 7 (20.59%) Retail
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (8.824%) Advertising
4 2 (5.882%) Marketing
5 1 (2.941%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Open Source
2 1 (2.941%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.824%) Linux
2 2 (5.882%) Windows
3 1 (2.941%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.941%) Solaris
3 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (23.53%) TOGAF
3 7 (20.59%) Migration
4 6 (17.65%) Information Architecture
4 6 (17.65%) PRINCE2
5 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
6 4 (11.76%) ERP
6 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.824%) Data Architecture
7 3 (8.824%) Cyber Security
7 3 (8.824%) PLM
7 3 (8.824%) CRM
8 2 (5.882%) SOA
8 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (5.882%) TDD
8 2 (5.882%) Pair Programming
8 2 (5.882%) Scrum
8 2 (5.882%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Java
2 9 (26.47%) C#
3 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) VB
4 2 (5.882%) PHP
5 1 (2.941%) Perl
5 1 (2.941%) COBOL
5 1 (2.941%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.882%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.882%) Oracle
2 2 (5.882%) Cognizant
2 2 (5.882%) VMware
3 1 (2.941%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.941%) Twitter
3 1 (2.941%) Sun
3 1 (2.941%) Sybase
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