Principal Architect Jobs

Principal Architect
UK

The median Principal Architect salary in the UK is £82,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 683 854
Rank change year-on-year +11 +171 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 49 242 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.22% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 38 64 76
10th Percentile £67,468 £70,000 £73,750
25th Percentile £72,918 £74,759 £89,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,801 £80,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -23.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,764 £78,273 £105,000
% change year-on-year +4.46% -25.45% +23.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 50,705 102,755 84,914
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.75% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,686 72,539 55,149
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,524 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 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
England +67 44 £84,000 +7.32% 92
Work from Home +108 27 £81,764 +4.46% 45
UK excluding London +49 26 £81,764 +4.46% 66
London +106 16 £115,000 +12.20% 31
North of England +41 9 £86,500 +10.51% 11
South West +104 7 £68,525 -12.45% 17
Midlands +64 7 £77,310 -1.23% 11
Yorkshire +55 4 £100,000 +34.89% 5
East Midlands +43 4 £77,310 -1.23% 6
North West -3 4 £83,401 +3.60% 6
West Midlands +65 3 £73,901 -5.59% 5
Scotland +51 1 £81,764 - 4
North East +49 1 £81,764 +8.46%
Northern Ireland +42 1 £82,801 -
Wales +34 1 £81,764 +4.46% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 20 (40.82%) AWS
3 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
3 18 (36.73%) TOGAF
4 16 (32.65%) Finance
5 14 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 13 (26.53%) Legal
6 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
7 12 (24.49%) Security Architecture
7 12 (24.49%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (22.45%) Agile
8 11 (22.45%) Python
8 11 (22.45%) Machine Learning
8 11 (22.45%) Data Architecture
9 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
10 9 (18.37%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (18.37%) Microservices
10 9 (18.37%) Information Security
10 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
10 9 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (18.37%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (18.37%) NCSC
10 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
10 9 (18.37%) Decision-Making
10 9 (18.37%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (16.33%) Data Strategy
11 8 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (16.33%) NIST
11 8 (16.33%) QA
11 8 (16.33%) Risk Analysis

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.08%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 20 (40.82%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) GCP
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.16%) SaaS
5 4 (8.16%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) Network Security
2 2 (4.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Metadata
2 4 (8.16%) KDB
2 4 (8.16%) Kdb+
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.08%) Flink
4 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) ERwin
1 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Legal
3 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 9 (18.37%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (14.29%) Retail
7 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.08%) Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) RESTful
2 2 (4.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) HTML
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Taxonomies
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) IVR
3 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.73%) TOGAF
2 14 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 12 (24.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (24.49%) Security Architecture
4 11 (22.45%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) Data Architecture
4 11 (22.45%) Machine Learning
5 9 (18.37%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
5 9 (18.37%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (18.37%) Decision-Making
5 9 (18.37%) Information Security
5 9 (18.37%) Microservices
5 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
6 8 (16.33%) Analytics
6 8 (16.33%) Data Strategy
6 8 (16.33%) Risk Analysis
6 8 (16.33%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (16.33%) SABSA
6 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) SQL
3 2 (4.08%) Bash
3 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) R
3 2 (4.08%) Scala
3 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.04%) Bicep
4 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.12%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (18.37%) NCSC
2 8 (16.33%) NIST
2 8 (16.33%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.04%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Databricks
2 2 (4.08%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.04%) Graphcore
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow