The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Architect role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Principal Architect
Rank 831 828 802
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 29 59 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.027% 0.049% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.051% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 21 47 57
Average salary £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £95,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
+46.15% -13.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Principal Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Principal Architect Salary Trend

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Principal Architect Salary Histogram

Principal Architect
Top 18 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 UK 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
England -20 29 £95,000 +26.66%
London +22 15 £85,000 +3.03%
South East -11 7 £95,000 +46.15%
Berkshire +7 5 £95,000 +46.15%
Hampshire -1 5 £95,000 +58.33%
Reading -1 5 £95,000 +46.15%
Southampton - 5 £95,000 -
Portsmouth - 5 £95,000 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 - -
Tyne and Wear - 3 - -
North East - 3 - -
Cambridgeshire +7 2 £62,500 +8.69%
Cambridge 0 2 £62,500 +8.69%
East of England -5 2 £62,500 -
Bromley - 2 £86,500 -
Surrey - 2 £43,000 -
City of London +5 1 £77,500 +40.90%
Croydon - 1 - -

Principal Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 12 (23.08%) Java
2 11 (21.15%) Enterprise Architecture
3 10 (19.23%) TOGAF
4 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 9 (17.31%) Migration
4 9 (17.31%) Technical Architecture
4 9 (17.31%) C#
4 9 (17.31%) .NET
5 7 (13.46%) SAP
5 7 (13.46%) XML
5 7 (13.46%) HTTP
5 7 (13.46%) Retail
6 6 (11.54%) REST
6 6 (11.54%) Information Architecture
6 6 (11.54%) Banking
6 6 (11.54%) JSON
6 6 (11.54%) Silverlight
6 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 6 (11.54%) PRINCE2
6 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
6 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.54%) VB
7 5 (9.615%) Oracle
7 5 (9.615%) E-Commerce
7 5 (9.615%) NetWeaver
7 5 (9.615%) Project Management
7 5 (9.615%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (9.615%) VMware
7 5 (9.615%) SAP Basis
7 5 (9.615%) SAP HANA

Principal Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 (17.31%) .NET
2 7 (13.46%) XML
3 6 (11.54%) REST
3 6 (11.54%) JSON
3 6 (11.54%) Silverlight
4 5 (9.615%) SAP Basis
5 3 (5.769%) J2EE
5 3 (5.769%) CGI
5 3 (5.769%) Java EE
6 2 (3.846%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.846%) Middleware
7 1 (1.923%) SOAP
7 1 (1.923%) Web Services
7 1 (1.923%) J2SE
7 1 (1.923%) XSD
7 1 (1.923%) XSLT
7 1 (1.923%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.615%) NetWeaver
2 3 (5.769%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.846%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (3.846%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.846%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.923%) Apache
4 1 (1.923%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (5.769%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) HTTP
2 3 (5.769%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.769%) DHCP
2 3 (5.769%) DNS
2 3 (5.769%) SAN
2 3 (5.769%) RFID
2 3 (5.769%) Firewall
2 3 (5.769%) NAS
3 2 (3.846%) WiMAX
3 2 (3.846%) LTE
3 2 (3.846%) OFDM
3 2 (3.846%) MIMO
3 2 (3.846%) Wireless
3 2 (3.846%) 3GPP
3 2 (3.846%) WCDMA
3 2 (3.846%) 3G
4 1 (1.923%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.615%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.923%) MySQL
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.923%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (3.846%) Cucumber
1 2 (3.846%) DbUnit
1 2 (3.846%) FindBugs
1 2 (3.846%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.846%) Checkstyle
1 2 (3.846%) Maven
1 2 (3.846%) WebDriver
1 2 (3.846%) TestNG
1 2 (3.846%) EasyMock
1 2 (3.846%) Selenium
1 2 (3.846%) JUnit
2 1 (1.923%) Subversion
General
1 9 (17.31%) Finance
2 7 (13.46%) Retail
3 6 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (5.769%) Advertising
4 3 (5.769%) Marketing
5 2 (3.846%) Military
5 2 (3.846%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.923%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.846%) SystemC
1 2 (3.846%) VHDL
1 2 (3.846%) Verilog
1 2 (3.846%) Open Source
1 2 (3.846%) Mathematics
1 2 (3.846%) ASIC
2 1 (1.923%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.692%) Linux
2 3 (5.769%) Windows
3 1 (1.923%) UNIX
3 1 (1.923%) Solaris
3 1 (1.923%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 10 (19.23%) TOGAF
3 9 (17.31%) Migration
3 9 (17.31%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (11.54%) Information Architecture
4 6 (11.54%) PRINCE2
5 5 (9.615%) E-Commerce
5 5 (9.615%) Project Management
5 5 (9.615%) Cyber Security
6 4 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (7.692%) ERP
7 3 (5.769%) CRM
7 3 (5.769%) SOA
7 3 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (5.769%) Business Development
7 3 (5.769%) Data Architecture
7 3 (5.769%) PLM
8 2 (3.846%) BDD
8 2 (3.846%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) Java
2 9 (17.31%) C#
3 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.54%) VB
4 2 (3.846%) MATLAB
4 2 (3.846%) C
4 2 (3.846%) PHP
4 2 (3.846%) C++
5 1 (1.923%) COBOL
5 1 (1.923%) Perl
5 1 (1.923%) SQL
5 1 (1.923%) XQuery
5 1 (1.923%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (7.692%) Degree
2 2 (3.846%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.846%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.846%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.923%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.615%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.769%) vSphere
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) SAP
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.615%) Oracle
3 5 (9.615%) VMware
4 2 (3.846%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.923%) Sybase
5 1 (1.923%) Sun
5 1 (1.923%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.923%) Twitter
London
This multi $billion consulting giant employs over 80,000 people globally are regarded as true experts in providing strategic Technology Consulting and Outsourcing services they are expanding their...
Selecture Limited
Salary: £65000 - £95000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus + Car Allowance
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Location: CambridgeSalary: competitive, and excellent benefitsSkills: Graphics, electronics, degree, microprocessorOur client, a world-renowned electronics company, is seeking an exceptional Principal Graphics Hardware Architect to join their Media...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
UK
Excellent opportunity for an Agile Java, PHP and Mobile Web developer to join our Technology Practice... Candidates should be able to work in small focussed Agile project teams...
Cognizant
Posted: 9 May 2013