Principal Architect Jobs in England

Principal Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Architect salary in England is £78,273 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 717 824 832
Rank change year-on-year +107 +8 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 121 119 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53 75 125
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,253 £73,750
25th Percentile £74,759 £90,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +20.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £106,250 £126,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £83,636 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -20.35% +20.00% +2.94%

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 79,481 87,482 124,226
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.64% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 59,905 55,039 76,115
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,047 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +0.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,123 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.46% - +9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in England

Principal 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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +163 53 £105,000 -12.50% 7
South East +24 17 £75,000 -28.57% 3
Midlands +31 15 £78,273 - 3
South West -2 13 £78,273 +1.00% 5
North of England +39 12 £78,273 -13.03% 8
East of England +22 10 £115,000 +27.78% 1
East Midlands +1 7 £78,273 - 1
Yorkshire +101 6 £78,273 -33.39% 2
West Midlands +38 4 £78,273 - 2
North West +3 4 £74,136 +21.36% 6
North East - 2 £75,386 -
Principal Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 2024, Principal 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 Architect in the job title.

1 52 (42.98%) Mentoring
2 47 (38.84%) Agile
3 42 (34.71%) Roadmaps
4 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
5 40 (33.06%) AWS
6 38 (31.40%) Degree
7 35 (28.93%) Architectural Design
8 31 (25.62%) Finance
9 30 (24.79%) Azure
10 27 (22.31%) Coaching
10 27 (22.31%) Strategic Roadmap
11 23 (19.01%) Project Management
11 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
12 22 (18.18%) Machine Learning
12 22 (18.18%) Security Architecture
13 21 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (15.70%) Microservices
16 18 (14.88%) Public Cloud
16 18 (14.88%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (14.88%) Risk Assessment
17 16 (13.22%) Dell
17 16 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
18 15 (12.40%) Presales
18 15 (12.40%) Converged Infrastructure
18 15 (12.40%) Generative AI
18 15 (12.40%) QA
18 15 (12.40%) Customer Engagement
18 15 (12.40%) Service Delivery
19 14 (11.57%) Security Cleared

Principal 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.06%) AWS
2 30 (24.79%) Azure
3 5 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (4.13%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (4.13%) GCP
3 5 (4.13%) SaaS
3 5 (4.13%) Serverless
4 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.65%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.83%) Boomi
6 1 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) DHCP
1 3 (2.48%) DNS
1 3 (2.48%) HTTP
1 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.83%) Network Security
2 1 (0.83%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) GIS
2 5 (4.13%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.31%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.31%) Spatial Data
4 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.65%) Big Data
5 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
General
1 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.62%) Finance
3 16 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (8.26%) Billing
7 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Law
9 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Automotive
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.74%) HTML
2 4 (3.31%) CSS
2 4 (3.31%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.31%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.48%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.48%) OpenID
3 3 (2.48%) RESTful
3 3 (2.48%) SAML
4 2 (1.65%) .NET
4 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Public Cloud
2 9 (7.44%) Cyberattack
3 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.96%) PMI
3 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.31%) Verilog
4 4 (3.31%) VHDL
5 2 (1.65%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.65%) IoT
5 2 (1.65%) Mali
5 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.65%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.83%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Android
1 4 (3.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (42.98%) Mentoring
2 47 (38.84%) Agile
3 42 (34.71%) Roadmaps
4 35 (28.93%) Architectural Design
5 27 (22.31%) Coaching
5 27 (22.31%) Strategic Roadmap
6 23 (19.01%) Project Management
7 22 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 22 (18.18%) Security Architecture
8 21 (17.36%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (15.70%) Microservices
11 18 (14.88%) Risk Assessment
12 15 (12.40%) Converged Infrastructure
12 15 (12.40%) Customer Engagement
12 15 (12.40%) Generative AI
12 15 (12.40%) Presales
12 15 (12.40%) Service Delivery
13 14 (11.57%) Enterprise Architecture
13 14 (11.57%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.26%) Python
2 8 (6.61%) C
3 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.96%) SQL
4 4 (3.31%) C++
4 4 (3.31%) Perl
4 4 (3.31%) Ruby
5 3 (2.48%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (31.40%) Degree
2 18 (14.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (11.57%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.74%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.79%) CISSP
6 6 (4.96%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) CCIE
8 1 (0.83%) CCNP
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) RIBA
8 1 (0.83%) SANS
8 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.40%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.65%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (1.65%) Firmware
1 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Terraform
2 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.22%) Dell
3 11 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 10 (8.26%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.31%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.65%) Veeam
6 2 (1.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.83%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) Jitterbit
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.83%) Zscaler