Principal Architect Jobs in the North of England

Principal Architect
England > North of England

The median Principal Architect salary in the North of England is £88,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 377 412
Rank change year-on-year +77 +35 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 8 16 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.073% 0.093% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.097% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £84,625 £69,750 -
25th Percentile £85,750 £70,000 £59,767
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,250 £78,273 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -28.84% +18.92%
75th Percentile £100,000 £81,786 £126,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £82,479 -
England median annual salary £86,500 £78,273 £105,000
% change year-on-year +10.51% -25.45% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the North of England

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in the North of England

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in the North of England

Principal Architect
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +73 4 £100,000 +27.76% 6
North West +29 4 £86,500 +10.51% 16
Principal Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
3 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 3 (37.50%) Tableau
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Alteryx
4 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Databricks
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Power BI
4 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
1 3 (37.50%) Tableau
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (25.00%) Flink
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) IVR
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MBA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Alteryx
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft