Principal Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £78,273 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 682 693
Rank change year-on-year +89 +11 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 175 54 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.096% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43 39 84
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,253 £60,788
25th Percentile £74,759 £88,750 £61,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,125 £113,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £126,250 -
UK median annual salary £80,500 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland - 64 - -
South East +8 30 £75,000 -28.57% 5
North of England +50 29 £78,273 -31.19% 5
Midlands +7 21 £78,273 - 1
North West +10 16 £80,500 +31.77% 1
South West -25 13 £78,273 +1.00% 3
East Midlands -7 12 £78,273 -
Yorkshire +64 11 £74,136 -36.23% 4
East of England +1 9 £115,000 - 2
Wales +8 5 £78,273 -15.38%
West Midlands - 5 £78,273 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
North East - 2 £75,386 -
Principal Architect
UK

Principal Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 79 (45.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 76 (43.43%) Data Architecture
3 70 (40.00%) AWS
4 64 (36.57%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (36.57%) Finance
5 60 (34.29%) Mentoring
6 59 (33.71%) Cloud Native
6 59 (33.71%) Law
6 59 (33.71%) Operational Stability
7 58 (33.14%) Marketing
8 57 (32.57%) Roadmaps
9 49 (28.00%) Azure
10 47 (26.86%) Architecture Governance
11 43 (24.57%) Analytics
12 42 (24.00%) Data Analytics
12 42 (24.00%) Software Engineering
13 41 (23.43%) Degree
14 39 (22.29%) Coaching
15 38 (21.71%) Python
16 36 (20.57%) Data Modelling
16 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
17 34 (19.43%) User Experience
18 31 (17.71%) Kimball Methodology
18 31 (17.71%) Line Management
18 31 (17.71%) Agile
18 31 (17.71%) Data Warehouse
18 31 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
18 31 (17.71%) Data Vault
19 30 (17.14%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (17.14%) Cost Reduction

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.57%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.00%) AWS
2 49 (28.00%) Azure
3 30 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.71%) Data Vault
1 31 (17.71%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (17.14%) Power BI
2 30 (17.14%) Tableau
3 6 (3.43%) GIS
4 5 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.29%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.29%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
General
1 79 (45.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 64 (36.57%) Finance
3 59 (33.71%) Law
4 58 (33.14%) Marketing
5 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
6 30 (17.14%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.71%) Billing
8 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.29%) CSS
1 4 (2.29%) HTML
1 4 (2.29%) PyTorch
1 4 (2.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (33.71%) Cloud Native
2 28 (16.00%) Credit Risk
2 28 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 17 (9.71%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.29%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.29%) Verilog
4 4 (2.29%) VHDL
5 1 (0.57%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.57%) IoT
5 1 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Android
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (43.43%) Data Architecture
2 64 (36.57%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (34.29%) Mentoring
4 59 (33.71%) Operational Stability
5 57 (32.57%) Roadmaps
6 47 (26.86%) Architecture Governance
7 43 (24.57%) Analytics
8 42 (24.00%) Data Analytics
8 42 (24.00%) Software Engineering
9 39 (22.29%) Coaching
10 36 (20.57%) Data Modelling
11 34 (19.43%) User Experience
12 31 (17.71%) Agile
12 31 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (17.71%) Kimball Methodology
12 31 (17.71%) Line Management
13 30 (17.14%) Business Development
13 30 (17.14%) Data Analysis
13 30 (17.14%) DevOps
13 30 (17.14%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.71%) Python
2 28 (16.00%) Java
3 5 (2.86%) C
4 4 (2.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.29%) Perl
4 4 (2.29%) Ruby
4 4 (2.29%) SQL
5 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 41 (23.43%) Degree
2 17 (9.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.57%) RIBA
3 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.71%) MuleSoft
2 10 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.86%) SAP
4 4 (2.29%) Mapbox