Principal Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Principal Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 547 633
Rank change year-on-year +155 +86 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 21 42 38
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.12% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 23
10th Percentile £68,525 - £85,500
25th Percentile £72,918 £74,759 £92,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,273 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -30.42% +28.57%
75th Percentile £85,250 £97,813 £126,875
90th Percentile £123,500 £135,000 £134,000
UK median annual salary £86,500 £80,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +7.45% -23.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Principal Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Principal Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Principal Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Principal Architect.

Principal Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Principal Architect salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 11 (52.38%) TOGAF
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) Azure
4 7 (33.33%) Microservices
4 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) RESTful
4 7 (33.33%) Retail
5 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) SDLC
5 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
6 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
7 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 3 (14.29%) Data Privacy
8 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
8 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
8 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 3 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
8 3 (14.29%) Finance
8 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ERwin
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 7 (33.33%) Retail
2 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) TOGAF
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (33.33%) Microservices
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 6 (28.57%) SDLC
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
7 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (14.29%) Kanban
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) R
2 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Hitachi
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow