Principal Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 442 497
Rank change year-on-year +65 +55 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 5 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.043% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.045% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 7
10th Percentile £628 - £538
25th Percentile £650 £625 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £659 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +9.88% -12.73%
75th Percentile £850 £763 £650
90th Percentile £895 £813 £683
UK median daily rate £675 £800 £663
% change year-on-year -15.63% +20.75% +1.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,841 22,170 29,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 94.33% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,486 20,548
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,134 1,466
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West - 3 £700 - 3
North of England - 3 £700 - 4
Midlands +25 1 £800 +23.08%
South West +17 1 £900 +20.00% 3
West Midlands +15 1 £800 +23.08%
Principal Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 UK excluding London region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware