Principal Architect
UK

The median Principal Architect salary in the UK is £83,636 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 868 869
Rank change year-on-year +185 +1 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 213 121 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 58 80 152
10th Percentile £70,000 £69,978 £73,750
25th Percentile £74,759 £88,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,636 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +20.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £98,750 £126,250 £110,000
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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 25 April 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 25 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
UK excluding London +62 136 £78,273 -25.45% 17
England +123 125 £78,273 -25.45% 25
Scotland - 60 - -
London +142 53 £105,000 -2.78% 8
Work from Home +109 48 £78,273 -30.42% 6
South East +18 17 £75,000 -28.57% 4
Midlands +23 16 £78,273 - 3
North of England +33 15 £78,273 -20.74% 7
South West -20 14 £78,273 +1.00% 3
East of England +21 9 £115,000 +27.78%
East Midlands -8 8 £78,273 -
Yorkshire +86 7 £78,273 -33.39% 1
North West +3 6 £74,136 +21.36% 6
West Midlands - 4 £78,273 - 3
Wales +2 3 £78,273 -15.38%
North East - 2 £75,386 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 99 (46.48%) Finance
2 72 (33.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 72 (33.80%) Roadmaps
3 65 (30.52%) AWS
4 64 (30.05%) Data Architecture
4 64 (30.05%) Mentoring
5 63 (29.58%) Cloud Native
6 60 (28.17%) Marketing
7 59 (27.70%) Law
7 59 (27.70%) Operational Stability
8 51 (23.94%) Agile
9 50 (23.47%) Architecture Governance
10 46 (21.60%) Social Skills
11 45 (21.13%) Software Engineering
12 44 (20.66%) Azure
13 41 (19.25%) Degree
13 41 (19.25%) Python
14 36 (16.90%) Decision-Making
15 35 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (16.43%) Architectural Design
16 34 (15.96%) Product Ownership
17 33 (15.49%) Business Strategy
17 33 (15.49%) Analytics
18 32 (15.02%) Machine Learning
18 32 (15.02%) Artificial Intelligence
19 30 (14.08%) Scrum
19 30 (14.08%) Data Analytics
20 29 (13.62%) Java
21 28 (13.15%) Credit Risk
21 28 (13.15%) Coaching

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 (0.47%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (30.52%) AWS
2 44 (20.66%) Azure
3 14 (6.57%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.29%) SaaS
5 5 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (2.35%) GCP
5 5 (2.35%) Serverless
6 4 (1.88%) OCI
7 3 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.94%) IaaS
8 2 (0.94%) PaaS
8 2 (0.94%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.41%) DHCP
1 3 (1.41%) DNS
1 3 (1.41%) HTTP
1 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.41%) TETRA
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.10%) Data Vault
1 13 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.63%) Power BI
2 12 (5.63%) Tableau
3 9 (4.23%) GIS
4 7 (3.29%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.29%) Spatial Data
5 5 (2.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.94%) Big Data
7 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
General
1 99 (46.48%) Finance
2 72 (33.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 60 (28.17%) Marketing
4 59 (27.70%) Law
5 46 (21.60%) Social Skills
6 16 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.69%) Billing
10 6 (2.82%) Banking
10 6 (2.82%) Retail
11 5 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.94%) Police
13 1 (0.47%) Automotive
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Front Office
13 1 (0.47%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.51%) HTML
2 7 (3.29%) CSS
3 4 (1.88%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.88%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.41%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.41%) OpenID
4 3 (1.41%) RESTful
4 3 (1.41%) SAML
5 2 (0.94%) .NET
5 2 (0.94%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 63 (29.58%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.96%) Product Ownership
3 28 (13.15%) Credit Risk
4 19 (8.92%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.23%) Cyberattack
6 6 (2.82%) PMI
7 4 (1.88%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.88%) Verilog
7 4 (1.88%) VHDL
8 2 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.94%) IoT
8 2 (0.94%) Mali
8 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.47%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.41%) Android
1 3 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.80%) Roadmaps
2 64 (30.05%) Data Architecture
2 64 (30.05%) Mentoring
3 59 (27.70%) Operational Stability
4 51 (23.94%) Agile
5 50 (23.47%) Architecture Governance
6 45 (21.13%) Software Engineering
7 36 (16.90%) Decision-Making
8 35 (16.43%) Architectural Design
8 35 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (15.49%) Analytics
9 33 (15.49%) Business Strategy
10 32 (15.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 32 (15.02%) Machine Learning
11 30 (14.08%) Data Analytics
11 30 (14.08%) Scrum
12 28 (13.15%) Coaching
12 28 (13.15%) Strategic Roadmap
13 25 (11.74%) Project Management
14 23 (10.80%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.25%) Python
2 29 (13.62%) Java
3 9 (4.23%) JavaScript
3 9 (4.23%) SQL
4 7 (3.29%) C
5 4 (1.88%) Perl
5 4 (1.88%) Ruby
6 3 (1.41%) C#
6 3 (1.41%) C++
7 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (19.25%) Degree
2 19 (8.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (7.51%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.29%) CISSP
6 6 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.41%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) CCIE
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CISM
8 1 (0.47%) RIBA
8 1 (0.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.57%) QA
2 7 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.94%) Firmware
2 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.35%) Terraform
2 2 (0.94%) Ansible
2 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.51%) Oracle
3 15 (7.04%) Dell
4 11 (5.16%) MuleSoft
5 10 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.29%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.94%) Veeam
7 2 (0.94%) VMware
8 1 (0.47%) Databricks
8 1 (0.47%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.47%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.47%) Zscaler