Principal Enterprise Architect Jobs

Principal Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Principal Enterprise Architect salary in the UK is £137,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 892 942
Rank change year-on-year +184 +50 +274
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Enterprise Architect 4 9 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.009% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.010% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 17
10th Percentile £128,250 - -
25th Percentile £129,375 £160,000 £59,767
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £180,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +80.00% +29.87%
75th Percentile £144,375 £200,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £144,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £110,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.64%

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 50,162 93,945 92,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,234 67,289 58,554
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Principal Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Enterprise Architect in the UK

Principal Enterprise Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Enterprise Architect in the UK

Principal Enterprise Architect
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Enterprise Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Work from Home +115 3 £135,000 -25.00% 9
England +145 2 £137,500 -23.61%
London +93 2 £137,500 -23.61%

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Principal Enterprise 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 Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Hitachi
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2

Principal Enterprise 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Hitachi