Principal Architect Job Trends in Liverpool

Principal Architect
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Principal Architect salary in Liverpool is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.14% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £62,500 - £74,136

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 691 218 840
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.84% 86.17% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 429 155 676
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,375 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,749 £59,063
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £76,250
Merseyside median annual salary £42,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.71% -5.56%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Principal Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Liverpool.

Principal Architect job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for Principal Architect job vacancies in Liverpool.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Architect job vacancies in Liverpool

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 16 April 2026, Principal Architect 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 permanent job ads across the Liverpool region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Economics

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks