Principal Architect Jobs in London

Principal Architect
England > London

The median Principal Architect salary in London is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 619 697
Rank change year-on-year +176 +78 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 53 37 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.10% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 69
10th Percentile £74,759 £88,250 £80,000
25th Percentile £87,000 £90,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £108,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £130,313 £133,125 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,000 £142,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £78,273 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -25.45% +20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,145 34,385 62,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.08% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 25,122 34,959
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South London - 5 £78,273 -
Central London +48 3 - -
North London - 2 £110,000 -
West London - 2 - -
Principal Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 22 (41.51%) Finance
1 22 (41.51%) Mentoring
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (30.19%) Architectural Design
4 15 (28.30%) Degree
5 14 (26.42%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (26.42%) Agile
6 13 (24.53%) Machine Learning
7 12 (22.64%) Customer Engagement
7 12 (22.64%) Converged Infrastructure
7 12 (22.64%) Presales
7 12 (22.64%) QA
7 12 (22.64%) Project Management
7 12 (22.64%) Service Delivery
7 12 (22.64%) Dell
7 12 (22.64%) Generative AI
8 11 (20.75%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (18.87%) Azure
9 10 (18.87%) AWS
9 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
9 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
9 10 (18.87%) Strategic Roadmap
10 9 (16.98%) Thought Leadership
10 9 (16.98%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (16.98%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (16.98%) IT Strategy
10 9 (16.98%) Microservices
10 9 (16.98%) Analytics
10 9 (16.98%) Coaching
10 9 (16.98%) DV Cleared

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) AWS
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) SaaS
3 4 (7.55%) GCP
4 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Big Data
1 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.89%) Power BI
2 1 (1.89%) Tableau
General
1 22 (41.51%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Retail
7 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.77%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Automotive
8 1 (1.89%) Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) HTML
2 3 (5.66%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.66%) RESTful
3 2 (3.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cyberattack
1 6 (11.32%) PMI
1 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) IoT
3 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Mentoring
2 16 (30.19%) Architectural Design
3 14 (26.42%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (24.53%) Machine Learning
5 12 (22.64%) Converged Infrastructure
5 12 (22.64%) Customer Engagement
5 12 (22.64%) Generative AI
5 12 (22.64%) Presales
5 12 (22.64%) Project Management
5 12 (22.64%) Service Delivery
6 11 (20.75%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
7 10 (18.87%) Strategic Roadmap
8 9 (16.98%) Analytics
8 9 (16.98%) Coaching
8 9 (16.98%) IT Strategy
8 9 (16.98%) Microservices
8 9 (16.98%) Technology Strategy
8 9 (16.98%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.66%) C#
2 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.77%) SQL
2 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Degree
2 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
3 9 (16.98%) DV Cleared
4 7 (13.21%) CISSP
5 6 (11.32%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) CCIE
7 1 (1.89%) CCNP
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CISM
7 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Dell
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Veeam
3 2 (3.77%) VMware
4 1 (1.89%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Zscaler