Hybrid/Remote Principal Architect Contract Job Trends

Principal Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Architect daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £670, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 311 401
Rank change year-on-year +7 +90 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 11 9 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.075% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.080% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile £484 £613 £674
25th Percentile £534 £700 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £725 £743
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -2.42% +4.28%
75th Percentile £918 £769 £775
90th Percentile £1,192 £788 £895
UK median daily rate £700 £719 £681
% change year-on-year -2.61% +5.50% -3.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,418 11,212 17,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.22% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,164 7,053 12,304
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 193 382
10th Percentile £14.84 £19.36 £17.01
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.50 £25.24
Median hourly rate £41.50 £41.57 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -16.87% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.28 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% -17.16% +57.89%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Principal Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Principal Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Principal Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Principal Architect job vacancies

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Principal Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Docker
3 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
5 2 (18.18%) Ansible
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
5 2 (18.18%) BT
5 2 (18.18%) Celery
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Celery
1 2 (18.18%) Flask
1 2 (18.18%) Jinja
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CSSLP
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) GIAC
4 1 (9.09%) GPEN
4 1 (9.09%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) BT
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce