Principal Solutions Architect Jobs in England

Principal Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Solution Architect salary in England is £80,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 800 911 1095
Rank change year-on-year +111 +184 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 33 33 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.039% 0.036% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.039% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 28
10th Percentile £70,150 £90,000 £83,875
25th Percentile £72,250 £90,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £142,625 £110,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £177,050 - -
UK median annual salary £87,750 £101,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -13.12% +1.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +131 15 £180,000 +80.00%
South East +12 14 - - 2
North of England +25 2 £76,500 - 4
South West -16 2 - - 2
North West 0 1 £80,500 - 4
North East - 1 £72,500 -
Principal Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 22 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 16 (48.48%) Agile
4 15 (45.45%) Finance
5 14 (42.42%) Roadmaps
6 13 (39.39%) Line Management
6 13 (39.39%) Microservices
6 13 (39.39%) AWS
7 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (30.30%) Architectural Design
8 10 (30.30%) Design Patterns
8 10 (30.30%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (30.30%) MuleSoft
8 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (30.30%) API Design
8 10 (30.30%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (30.30%) Machine Learning
8 10 (30.30%) Billing
8 10 (30.30%) Salesforce
9 9 (27.27%) Project Management
9 9 (27.27%) Dell
9 9 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (27.27%) Service Delivery
9 9 (27.27%) Degree
9 9 (27.27%) QA
9 9 (27.27%) Customer Engagement
9 9 (27.27%) Presales
9 9 (27.27%) Converged Infrastructure
9 9 (27.27%) Generative AI

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 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (15.15%) Serverless
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DHCP
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
1 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
General
1 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (45.45%) Finance
3 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (30.30%) Billing
4 6 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Automotive
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Front Office
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) HTML
2 2 (6.06%) OpenID
2 2 (6.06%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cyberattack
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 16 (48.48%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) Roadmaps
4 13 (39.39%) Line Management
4 13 (39.39%) Microservices
5 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (30.30%) API Design
6 10 (30.30%) Architectural Design
6 10 (30.30%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (30.30%) Design Patterns
6 10 (30.30%) Enterprise Architecture
6 10 (30.30%) Machine Learning
7 9 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (27.27%) Converged Infrastructure
7 9 (27.27%) Customer Engagement
7 9 (27.27%) Generative AI
7 9 (27.27%) Presales
7 9 (27.27%) Project Management
7 9 (27.27%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.06%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) MuleSoft
1 10 (30.30%) Salesforce
2 9 (27.27%) Dell
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Veeam
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow