Principal Architect Contracts in London

Principal Architect
England > London

The median Principal Architect daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 460 586
Rank change year-on-year +86 +126 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 21 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.088% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.092% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 17
10th Percentile £563 £687 £575
25th Percentile £588 £771 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +28.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile £763 £820 £800
90th Percentile £1,250 £878 £840
England median daily rate £675 £800 £620
% change year-on-year -15.63% +29.03% -4.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 3 £575 -
Central London +36 1 £1,475 +55.26%
Principal Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 London region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 16 (76.19%) Agile
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 15 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (61.90%) Azure
4 13 (61.90%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (57.14%) Big Data
5 12 (57.14%) Puppet
5 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
5 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
5 12 (57.14%) Scrum
5 12 (57.14%) Service Management
5 12 (57.14%) ITIL
5 12 (57.14%) Linux
5 12 (57.14%) Ansible
5 12 (57.14%) AWS Certification
5 12 (57.14%) GCP
5 12 (57.14%) SDLC
5 12 (57.14%) Terraform
5 12 (57.14%) Data Lake
5 12 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
7 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (19.05%) React
7 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (19.05%) Finance
8 3 (14.29%) Banking
8 3 (14.29%) DAO

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

Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
3 12 (57.14%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Big Data
1 12 (57.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) React
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 3 (14.29%) CSS
2 3 (14.29%) DAO
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 15 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 15 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 13 (61.90%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (57.14%) ITIL
4 12 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 12 (57.14%) Scrum
4 12 (57.14%) SDLC
4 12 (57.14%) Service Management
5 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 3 (14.29%) IT Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) LLM
6 3 (14.29%) Microservices
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SANS
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
1 12 (57.14%) Puppet
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform