Principal Architect Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Principal Architect
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The median Principal Architect daily rate in Richmond upon Thames is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 3.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 - -
West London median daily rate £640 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Richmond upon Thames

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Richmond upon Thames. 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 Richmond upon Thames with a recognized job title 30 9 38
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 100.00% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 36
10th Percentile £204 £178 £244
25th Percentile £591 £181 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £339 £569
Median % change year-on-year +77.86% -40.44% +13.75%
75th Percentile £625 £439 £608
90th Percentile £638 £573 £713
West London median daily rate £585 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +46.13% -15.79% -5.00%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Principal Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames.

Principal Architect job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Principal Architect job vacancies in Richmond upon Thames.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Principal Architect job vacancies in Richmond upon Thames

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames

For the 6 months to 15 March 2026, Principal Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Richmond upon Thames region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Mixpanel
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Mixpanel
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks