Principal Architect Job Trends in Merseyside

Principal Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Principal Architect salary in Merseyside 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 65 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.11% - 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £70,476
25th Percentile £53,750 - £71,190
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £74,136
75th Percentile £71,250 - £78,840
90th Percentile - - £80,608
North West median annual salary £100,000 £86,500 £74,136
% change year-on-year +15.61% +16.68% +21.36%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 841 274 1,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 68.67% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 530 186 843
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,250 £25,100
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £75,000
North West median annual salary £52,000 £53,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.12% +6.25% -9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Principal Architect job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Principal Architect job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Architect job vacancies in Merseyside

Principal Architect
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Liverpool - 1 £62,500 - 1
Principal Architect
North West

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

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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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