Principal Architect
UK

The median Principal Architect salary in the UK is £80,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 878 873
Rank change year-on-year +203 -5 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 225 103 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 62 76 165
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,253 £69,250
25th Percentile £74,759 £88,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £121,563 £106,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +23.53% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
UK excluding London +93 157 £78,273 -25.45% 10
England +122 137 £80,500 -23.33% 20
Scotland - 60 - -
London +137 43 £105,000 -10.64% 7
Work from Home +89 39 £78,273 -31.94% 12
South East +20 28 £75,000 -28.57% 3
North of England +40 20 £78,273 -28.84% 4
Midlands +12 19 £78,273 -
South West -29 14 £78,273 +1.00% 3
East of England +19 11 £115,000 +27.78%
North West +6 11 £80,500 +31.77% 3
East Midlands -8 10 £78,273 -
Yorkshire +80 7 £78,273 -33.39%
West Midlands - 5 £78,273 -
Wales +4 3 £78,273 -15.38%
North East - 2 £75,386 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 93 (41.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 91 (40.44%) Finance
3 73 (32.44%) Mentoring
3 73 (32.44%) Roadmaps
4 65 (28.89%) AWS
5 64 (28.44%) Data Architecture
6 63 (28.00%) Cloud Native
7 60 (26.67%) Marketing
8 59 (26.22%) Law
8 59 (26.22%) Operational Stability
9 56 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (24.44%) Social Skills
11 51 (22.67%) Agile
12 50 (22.22%) Degree
12 50 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
13 49 (21.78%) Coaching
14 45 (20.00%) Software Engineering
15 43 (19.11%) Azure
16 41 (18.22%) Python
17 36 (16.00%) Decision-Making
18 35 (15.56%) Line Management
19 34 (15.11%) Product Ownership
20 33 (14.67%) Business Strategy
20 33 (14.67%) Analytics
21 30 (13.33%) Data Analytics
21 30 (13.33%) Scrum
22 29 (12.89%) Java
23 28 (12.44%) Credit Risk
23 28 (12.44%) Strategic Roadmap
24 26 (11.56%) Architectural Design

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.44%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.89%) AWS
2 43 (19.11%) Azure
3 14 (6.22%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.11%) SaaS
5 5 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (2.22%) GCP
5 5 (2.22%) Serverless
6 4 (1.78%) OCI
7 3 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.89%) IaaS
8 2 (0.89%) PaaS
8 2 (0.89%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) DHCP
1 3 (1.33%) DNS
1 3 (1.33%) HTTP
1 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.33%) TETRA
2 2 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.78%) Data Vault
1 13 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.33%) Power BI
2 12 (5.33%) Tableau
3 9 (4.00%) GIS
4 7 (3.11%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.11%) Spatial Data
5 5 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Big Data
7 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
General
1 93 (41.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 91 (40.44%) Finance
3 60 (26.67%) Marketing
4 59 (26.22%) Law
5 55 (24.44%) Social Skills
6 16 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.44%) Billing
10 7 (3.11%) Retail
11 6 (2.67%) Banking
12 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.89%) Police
14 1 (0.44%) Automotive
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Front Office
14 1 (0.44%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.11%) HTML
2 7 (3.11%) CSS
3 4 (1.78%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.78%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.33%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.33%) OpenID
4 3 (1.33%) RESTful
4 3 (1.33%) SAML
5 2 (0.89%) .NET
5 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 63 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.11%) Product Ownership
3 28 (12.44%) Credit Risk
4 19 (8.44%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.00%) Cyberattack
6 6 (2.67%) PMI
7 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.78%) Verilog
7 4 (1.78%) VHDL
8 2 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.89%) IoT
8 2 (0.89%) Mali
8 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.44%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Android
1 3 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.44%) Mentoring
1 73 (32.44%) Roadmaps
2 64 (28.44%) Data Architecture
3 59 (26.22%) Operational Stability
4 56 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (22.67%) Agile
6 50 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
7 49 (21.78%) Coaching
8 45 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 36 (16.00%) Decision-Making
10 35 (15.56%) Line Management
11 33 (14.67%) Analytics
11 33 (14.67%) Business Strategy
12 30 (13.33%) Data Analytics
12 30 (13.33%) Scrum
13 28 (12.44%) Strategic Roadmap
14 26 (11.56%) Architectural Design
15 23 (10.22%) Security Architecture
16 21 (9.33%) Prototyping
17 20 (8.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.22%) Python
2 29 (12.89%) Java
3 9 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (4.00%) SQL
4 7 (3.11%) C
5 4 (1.78%) Perl
5 4 (1.78%) Ruby
6 3 (1.33%) C#
6 3 (1.33%) C++
7 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (22.22%) Degree
2 19 (8.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (7.11%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.11%) CISSP
6 6 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.33%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) CCIE
8 1 (0.44%) CCNP
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.44%) CISM
8 1 (0.44%) RIBA
8 1 (0.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.89%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.89%) Firmware
2 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) Terraform
2 2 (0.89%) Ansible
2 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.11%) Oracle
3 11 (4.89%) MuleSoft
4 10 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.11%) Mapbox
6 4 (1.78%) SAP
7 3 (1.33%) Dell
8 2 (0.89%) Veeam
8 2 (0.89%) VMware
9 1 (0.44%) Databricks
9 1 (0.44%) Jitterbit
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.44%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.44%) Zscaler