Principal Architect Contracts in England

Principal Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 623 746
Rank change year-on-year +110 +123 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 23 37 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.073% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.077% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 31
10th Percentile - £625 -
25th Percentile £588 £634 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +28.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £773 £814 £794
90th Percentile £1,225 £867 £900
UK median daily rate £675 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% -2.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +99 18 £675 -15.63% 9
North West - 3 £700 - 6
North of England - 3 £700 - 7
South West +18 1 £900 +20.00% 4
Principal Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Principal Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) Scrum
2 14 (60.87%) AWS
3 13 (56.52%) Azure
4 12 (52.17%) Data Governance
4 12 (52.17%) Machine Learning
4 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (52.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 12 (52.17%) Linux
4 12 (52.17%) ITIL
4 12 (52.17%) DV Cleared
5 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
5 11 (47.83%) Service Management
5 11 (47.83%) Terraform
5 11 (47.83%) SDLC
5 11 (47.83%) Data Lake
5 11 (47.83%) Big Data
5 11 (47.83%) Ansible
5 11 (47.83%) AWS Certification
5 11 (47.83%) GCP
5 11 (47.83%) Puppet
6 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
7 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (17.39%) Finance
9 3 (13.04%) Banking
9 3 (13.04%) DAO
9 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (13.04%) Wholesale Banking

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 11 (47.83%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Big Data
1 11 (47.83%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) DAO
1 3 (13.04%) React
2 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) Scrum
3 12 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (52.17%) Data Governance
3 12 (52.17%) ITIL
3 12 (52.17%) Machine Learning
3 12 (52.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 11 (47.83%) SDLC
4 11 (47.83%) Service Management
5 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (13.04%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) Front End Development
6 3 (13.04%) IT Strategy
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (52.17%) DV Cleared
3 11 (47.83%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Ansible
1 11 (47.83%) Puppet
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.35%) VMware