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 13 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
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 826 934 1188
Rank change year-on-year +108 +254 -312
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 52 38 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.038% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Top 9 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 13 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 -8 27 £80,500 -23.33% 8
England +99 25 £80,500 -23.33% 11
Scotland - 12 - -
London +112 10 £180,000 +80.00% 3
Work from Home +88 10 £80,500 -20.30% 6
South East +12 10 - - 2
North of England +50 5 £80,500 - 4
North West +3 4 £80,500 - 3
North East - 1 £72,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 33 (63.46%) Finance
2 27 (51.92%) Mentoring
3 25 (48.08%) Roadmaps
4 23 (44.23%) AWS
5 18 (34.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (30.77%) Oracle
7 15 (28.85%) Machine Learning
7 15 (28.85%) Analytics
8 14 (26.92%) Data Analytics
8 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
8 14 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (26.92%) Agile
8 14 (26.92%) Business Strategy
9 13 (25.00%) Migration
9 13 (25.00%) Cloud Native
9 13 (25.00%) Microservices
10 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (23.08%) Operational Stability
10 12 (23.08%) Law
10 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
10 12 (23.08%) Marketing
10 12 (23.08%) Wealth Management
10 12 (23.08%) Software Architecture
10 12 (23.08%) LLM
11 11 (21.15%) Line Management
12 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (19.23%) MuleSoft
12 10 (19.23%) API Design
12 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Architecture

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 23 (44.23%) AWS
2 6 (11.54%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (9.62%) Serverless
4 4 (7.69%) OCI
5 2 (3.85%) IaaS
5 2 (3.85%) PaaS
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
General
1 33 (63.46%) Finance
2 18 (34.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
4 12 (23.08%) Law
4 12 (23.08%) Marketing
5 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (19.23%) Billing
6 5 (9.62%) Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Police
7 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.92%) Automotive
8 1 (1.92%) Front Office
8 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Cyberattack
2 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.92%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (51.92%) Mentoring
2 25 (48.08%) Roadmaps
3 15 (28.85%) Analytics
3 15 (28.85%) Machine Learning
4 14 (26.92%) Agile
4 14 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (26.92%) Business Strategy
4 14 (26.92%) Data Analytics
5 13 (25.00%) Microservices
5 13 (25.00%) Migration
6 12 (23.08%) LLM
6 12 (23.08%) Operational Stability
6 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Software Architecture
6 12 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Wealth Management
7 11 (21.15%) Line Management
8 10 (19.23%) API Design
8 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (19.23%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) CISSP
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Ansible
1 2 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Oracle
2 10 (19.23%) MuleSoft
2 10 (19.23%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.69%) SAP
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) Dell
5 2 (3.85%) Veeam
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow