Principal Architect Jobs in England

Principal Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Architect salary in England is £78,273 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 830 825
Rank change year-on-year +126 -5 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 144 84 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.100% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59 68 162
10th Percentile £70,000 £80,925 £61,625
25th Percentile £74,759 £90,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +20.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £97,500 £126,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £80,500 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in England

Principal Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +114 41 £102,500 -10.87% 9
South East +3 30 £75,000 -28.57% 5
North of England +50 29 £78,273 -31.19% 5
Midlands +9 21 £78,273 - 1
North West +2 16 £80,500 +31.77% 1
South West -27 13 £78,273 +1.00% 3
East Midlands -4 12 £78,273 -
Yorkshire +62 11 £74,136 -36.23% 4
East of England -3 9 £115,000 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £78,273 - 1
North East - 2 £75,386 -
Principal Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 62 (43.06%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (40.97%) Mentoring
3 56 (38.89%) AWS
4 48 (33.33%) Coaching
5 47 (32.64%) Azure
6 45 (31.25%) Degree
7 43 (29.86%) Agile
7 43 (29.86%) Social Skills
8 38 (26.39%) Roadmaps
9 32 (22.22%) Line Management
10 30 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (20.83%) Analytics
11 28 (19.44%) Data Architecture
12 27 (18.75%) Data Analytics
12 27 (18.75%) Data Modelling
13 26 (18.06%) Strategic Roadmap
14 25 (17.36%) User Experience
14 25 (17.36%) DevOps
15 24 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (16.67%) Architectural Design
16 23 (15.97%) Power Platform
16 23 (15.97%) TOGAF
17 22 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
17 22 (15.28%) Kimball Methodology
17 22 (15.28%) Security Architecture
17 22 (15.28%) Data Analysis
17 22 (15.28%) Data Science
17 22 (15.28%) Cost Reduction
17 22 (15.28%) Data Vault
18 21 (14.58%) Presentation Skills

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.89%) AWS
2 47 (32.64%) Azure
3 23 (15.97%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (3.47%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (3.47%) SaaS
4 5 (3.47%) Serverless
5 3 (2.08%) GCP
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.39%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.69%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) NGFW
2 1 (0.69%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.28%) Data Vault
1 22 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (14.58%) Power BI
2 21 (14.58%) Tableau
3 6 (4.17%) GIS
4 5 (3.47%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.78%) Spatial Data
6 3 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
General
1 43 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (14.58%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (11.81%) Finance
5 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.94%) Billing
7 9 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Retail
9 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.39%) Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Front Office
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.94%) HTML
2 4 (2.78%) CSS
2 4 (2.78%) PyTorch
2 4 (2.78%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.08%) RESTful
4 2 (1.39%) .NET
4 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.17%) Cyberattack
2 6 (4.17%) PMI
2 6 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.78%) Verilog
3 4 (2.78%) VHDL
4 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.08%) IoT
5 2 (1.39%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.69%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Android
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.06%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (40.97%) Mentoring
3 48 (33.33%) Coaching
4 43 (29.86%) Agile
5 38 (26.39%) Roadmaps
6 32 (22.22%) Line Management
7 30 (20.83%) Analytics
8 28 (19.44%) Data Architecture
9 27 (18.75%) Data Analytics
9 27 (18.75%) Data Modelling
10 26 (18.06%) Strategic Roadmap
11 25 (17.36%) DevOps
11 25 (17.36%) User Experience
12 24 (16.67%) Architectural Design
12 24 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (15.97%) TOGAF
14 22 (15.28%) Cost Reduction
14 22 (15.28%) Data Analysis
14 22 (15.28%) Kimball Methodology
14 22 (15.28%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.94%) Python
2 6 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.17%) SQL
3 5 (3.47%) C
4 4 (2.78%) Perl
4 4 (2.78%) Ruby
5 3 (2.08%) C#
6 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.69%) C++
7 1 (0.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 45 (31.25%) Degree
2 18 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (7.64%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.56%) CISSP
6 6 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.39%) CCIE
7 2 (1.39%) CCNP
7 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.39%) CISM
7 2 (1.39%) SANS
8 1 (0.69%) RIBA
8 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.39%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.94%) MuleSoft
2 10 (6.94%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.47%) SAP
4 4 (2.78%) Mapbox
5 2 (1.39%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle
6 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow