Principal Solutions Architect Jobs

Principal Solution Architect
UK

The median Principal Solution Architect salary in the UK is £80,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 942 1152
Rank change year-on-year +98 +210 -273
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 54 38 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.038% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.041% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 29
10th Percentile £72,250 £88,750 £84,250
25th Percentile £75,750 £90,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £101,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.30% +1.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,563 £110,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £147,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,500 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -23.33% +35.48% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
UK excluding London -6 29 £80,500 -23.33% 7
England +94 27 £80,500 -23.33% 10
Scotland - 12 - -
London +114 10 £180,000 +80.00% 3
Work from Home +69 10 £80,500 -20.30% 5
South East +9 10 - - 2
North of England +48 5 £80,500 - 3
North West +2 4 £80,500 - 3
South West -22 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £72,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Principal Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 35 (64.81%) Finance
2 27 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 27 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 25 (46.30%) AWS
4 20 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
5 16 (29.63%) Agile
5 16 (29.63%) Oracle
6 15 (27.78%) Machine Learning
6 15 (27.78%) Analytics
6 15 (27.78%) Cloud Native
7 14 (25.93%) Data Analytics
7 14 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (25.93%) Business Strategy
8 13 (24.07%) Migration
8 13 (24.07%) Line Management
8 13 (24.07%) Microservices
9 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (22.22%) Operational Stability
9 12 (22.22%) Law
9 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 12 (22.22%) Wealth Management
9 12 (22.22%) Marketing
9 12 (22.22%) Software Architecture
9 12 (22.22%) LLM
10 10 (18.52%) Design Patterns
10 10 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (18.52%) Billing
10 10 (18.52%) Salesforce

Principal Solutions 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 25 (46.30%) AWS
2 6 (11.11%) Azure
3 5 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (9.26%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (9.26%) Serverless
4 4 (7.41%) OCI
5 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.70%) IaaS
5 2 (3.70%) PaaS
5 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) DHCP
1 2 (3.70%) DNS
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
1 2 (3.70%) HTTP
1 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
General
1 35 (64.81%) Finance
2 20 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 12 (22.22%) Law
4 12 (22.22%) Marketing
5 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (18.52%) Billing
6 5 (9.26%) Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Police
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Automotive
8 1 (1.85%) Front Office
8 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) HTML
2 2 (3.70%) OpenID
2 2 (3.70%) SAML
3 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Cyberattack
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 27 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 16 (29.63%) Agile
3 15 (27.78%) Analytics
3 15 (27.78%) Machine Learning
4 14 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (25.93%) Business Strategy
4 14 (25.93%) Data Analytics
5 13 (24.07%) Line Management
5 13 (24.07%) Microservices
5 13 (24.07%) Migration
6 12 (22.22%) LLM
6 12 (22.22%) Operational Stability
6 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.22%) Software Architecture
6 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 12 (22.22%) Wealth Management
7 10 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
7 10 (18.52%) Design Patterns
7 10 (18.52%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.70%) CISSP
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Oracle
2 10 (18.52%) MuleSoft
2 10 (18.52%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.41%) SAP
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.70%) Dell
5 2 (3.70%) Veeam
5 2 (3.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow