Principal Solutions Architect Jobs in England

Principal Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Solution Architect salary in England is £77,310 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 805 900
Rank change year-on-year +147 +95 +179
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 13 26 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.030% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.032% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 22
10th Percentile £68,525 £70,850 £90,000
25th Percentile £69,623 £74,000 £90,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,310 £80,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -23.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £84,363 £113,938 £110,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £165,575 -
UK median annual salary £77,310 £80,500 £101,000
% change year-on-year -3.96% -20.30% +1.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Solutions Architect in England

Principal Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect in England.

Salary trend for Principal Solutions Architect in England

Principal Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Principal Solutions Architect in England

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +116 4 £68,525 - 2
East Midlands - 4 £77,310 -
Midlands - 4 £77,310 -
London +105 3 £83,500 -53.61% 14
South East +85 1 £83,500 - 1
Principal Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Principal Solutions Architect 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Principal Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) TOGAF
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Retail
2 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
6 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
6 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (23.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 3 (23.08%) Kanban
6 3 (23.08%) Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft

Principal Solutions 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Retail
2 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) TOGAF
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 7 (53.85%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Kanban
4 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) R
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks