Principal Architect Jobs in the South West

Principal Architect
England > South West

The median Principal Architect salary in the South West 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 268 267 265
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 14 14 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.20% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.22% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 46
10th Percentile £72,379 £70,253 £76,875
25th Percentile £74,759 £71,127 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -11.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £81,786 £104,688 £93,750
90th Percentile - £112,500 -
England median annual salary £78,273 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -25.45% +20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,253 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.29% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,433 3,885 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,100 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the South West

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in the South West.

Salary trend for Principal Architect in the South West

Principal Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the South West 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
Gloucestershire -15 5 £74,136 -
Bristol -3 3 - - 3
Devon -7 3 £78,273 -
Dorset - 3 £78,273 -
Principal Architect
England

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 6 (42.86%) Coaching
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 5 (35.71%) Security Architecture
4 5 (35.71%) Degree
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (35.71%) Public Cloud
4 5 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
4 5 (35.71%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (35.71%) Architectural Design
4 5 (35.71%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 3 (21.43%) SAML
6 3 (21.43%) HTML
6 3 (21.43%) DHCP
6 3 (21.43%) HTTP
6 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 3 (21.43%) DNS
6 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
6 3 (21.43%) Cyberattack
6 3 (21.43%) SDLC
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.14%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) OpenID
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
1 5 (35.71%) Public Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
1 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 6 (42.86%) Coaching
3 5 (35.71%) Architectural Design
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (35.71%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (35.71%) Security Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Line Management
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Operational Stability
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) RIBA
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft