Principal Architect
UK

The median Principal Architect salary in the UK is £80,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 862 860
Rank change year-on-year +173 -2 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 222 98 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.098% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 63 73 170
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,952 £68,750
25th Percentile £74,759 £88,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +20.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £97,500 £120,000 £109,063
90th Percentile £122,500 £135,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,273 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +23.53% -

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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
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 £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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 +90 155 £78,273 -25.45% 14
England +118 134 £80,500 -23.33% 24
Scotland - 60 - -
London +109 42 £105,000 -10.64% 12
Work from Home +74 39 £78,273 -30.42% 10
South East +9 28 £75,000 -28.57% 8
North of England +49 21 £78,273 -30.42% 4
Midlands +19 19 £78,273 -
North West +6 12 £80,500 +31.77% 3
East of England +2 11 £115,000 - 1
South West -11 11 £78,273 +1.00% 1
East Midlands -2 10 £78,273 -
Yorkshire +80 7 £78,273 -33.39% 1
West Midlands - 5 £78,273 -
Wales +2 3 £78,273 -15.38%
North East - 2 £75,386 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 91 (40.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 87 (39.19%) Finance
3 72 (32.43%) Mentoring
4 71 (31.98%) Roadmaps
5 64 (28.83%) Data Architecture
6 62 (27.93%) AWS
7 60 (27.03%) Marketing
7 60 (27.03%) Cloud Native
8 59 (26.58%) Operational Stability
8 59 (26.58%) Law
9 56 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (22.97%) Architecture Governance
10 51 (22.97%) Social Skills
11 49 (22.07%) Degree
11 49 (22.07%) Agile
11 49 (22.07%) Coaching
12 45 (20.27%) Software Engineering
13 44 (19.82%) Azure
14 41 (18.47%) Python
15 36 (16.22%) Decision-Making
16 34 (15.32%) Product Ownership
17 33 (14.86%) Business Strategy
17 33 (14.86%) Analytics
18 32 (14.41%) Line Management
19 30 (13.51%) Data Analytics
19 30 (13.51%) Scrum
20 29 (13.06%) Java
21 28 (12.61%) Credit Risk
21 28 (12.61%) Strategic Roadmap
22 25 (11.26%) Architectural Design

Principal 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 62 (27.93%) AWS
2 44 (19.82%) Azure
3 14 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.15%) SaaS
5 5 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (2.25%) GCP
5 5 (2.25%) Serverless
6 4 (1.80%) OCI
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.90%) IaaS
7 2 (0.90%) PaaS
7 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) Firewall
1 3 (1.35%) TETRA
2 2 (0.90%) Network Security
3 1 (0.45%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.86%) Data Vault
1 13 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.41%) Power BI
2 12 (5.41%) Tableau
3 9 (4.05%) GIS
4 7 (3.15%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.15%) Spatial Data
5 5 (2.25%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.90%) Big Data
7 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
General
1 91 (40.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 87 (39.19%) Finance
3 60 (27.03%) Marketing
4 59 (26.58%) Law
5 51 (22.97%) Social Skills
6 16 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.50%) Billing
10 7 (3.15%) Retail
11 6 (2.70%) Banking
12 5 (2.25%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.90%) Police
15 1 (0.45%) Automotive
15 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.45%) Front Office
15 1 (0.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.86%) HTML
2 7 (3.15%) CSS
3 4 (1.80%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.80%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.35%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.35%) RESTful
5 2 (0.90%) .NET
5 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.32%) Product Ownership
3 28 (12.61%) Credit Risk
4 19 (8.56%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.70%) Cyberattack
5 6 (2.70%) PMI
6 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.80%) Verilog
6 4 (1.80%) VHDL
7 3 (1.35%) IoT
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Mali
8 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.45%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.45%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.45%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.35%) Android
1 3 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.43%) Mentoring
2 71 (31.98%) Roadmaps
3 64 (28.83%) Data Architecture
4 59 (26.58%) Operational Stability
5 56 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (22.97%) Architecture Governance
7 49 (22.07%) Agile
7 49 (22.07%) Coaching
8 45 (20.27%) Software Engineering
9 36 (16.22%) Decision-Making
10 33 (14.86%) Analytics
10 33 (14.86%) Business Strategy
11 32 (14.41%) Line Management
12 30 (13.51%) Data Analytics
12 30 (13.51%) Scrum
13 28 (12.61%) Strategic Roadmap
14 25 (11.26%) Architectural Design
15 23 (10.36%) Security Architecture
16 21 (9.46%) Prototyping
17 19 (8.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.47%) Python
2 29 (13.06%) Java
3 9 (4.05%) JavaScript
3 9 (4.05%) SQL
4 7 (3.15%) C
5 4 (1.80%) Perl
5 4 (1.80%) Ruby
6 3 (1.35%) C#
6 3 (1.35%) C++
7 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (22.07%) Degree
2 19 (8.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (5.86%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.60%) CISSP
6 6 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.35%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) CCIE
8 2 (0.90%) CCNP
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.90%) CISM
8 2 (0.90%) SANS
9 1 (0.45%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.90%) NIST
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.90%) Firmware
2 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) Ansible
1 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.90%) Terraform
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.21%) Oracle
3 11 (4.95%) MuleSoft
4 10 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.15%) Mapbox
6 5 (2.25%) SAP
7 2 (0.90%) Veeam
7 2 (0.90%) VMware
7 2 (0.90%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.45%) Databricks
8 1 (0.45%) Dell
8 1 (0.45%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic