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 £83,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 569 690
Rank change year-on-year +220 +121 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Architect 299 66 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 44 34 24
10th Percentile - £69,125 £59,767
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £78,273 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.68% -23.64% +20.59%
75th Percentile £98,125 £81,786 £108,125
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,800 £112,500
UK median annual salary £83,500 £87,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -4.57% -12.50% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 42,153 44,705 57,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 95.46% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 18,043 32,766 33,092
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,400 £38,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,219 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £60,047
% change year-on-year +6.36% -8.41% +0.08%

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 29 January 2025.

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 29 January 2025. 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 - 231 £83,500 -
East Midlands +23 20 £70,000 -10.57% 1
Midlands +12 20 £70,000 -10.57% 2
North of England +9 19 £86,500 +10.51% 1
North West -2 14 £86,500 +23.57%
Wales +37 13 - - 3
South East +22 7 £90,000 - 2
South West +21 7 £90,000 +14.98% 2
North East +12 3 - -
Yorkshire +27 2 £50,000 -36.12% 1
East of England -24 2 £105,000 -8.70% 1
Principal Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 253 (84.62%) TOGAF
2 252 (84.28%) Agile
3 251 (83.95%) Roadmaps
4 248 (82.94%) Social Skills
5 246 (82.27%) Enterprise Architecture
6 245 (81.94%) Technology Roadmap
7 244 (81.61%) Technology Strategy
7 244 (81.61%) IT Strategy
8 243 (81.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 241 (80.60%) Architecture Governance
9 241 (80.60%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 241 (80.60%) Release Train
9 241 (80.60%) Line Management
9 241 (80.60%) Games
9 241 (80.60%) Telecoms
9 241 (80.60%) Broadband
10 10 (3.34%) Retail
11 8 (2.68%) Security Cleared
11 8 (2.68%) Finance
11 8 (2.68%) Configuration Management
11 8 (2.68%) SDLC
12 6 (2.01%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (2.01%) AWS
12 6 (2.01%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.67%) Migration
13 5 (1.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (1.67%) ITIL
13 5 (1.67%) Security Architecture

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (2.01%) AWS
2 4 (1.34%) Azure
3 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.33%) GCP
5 1 (0.33%) Serverless
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 241 (80.60%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.00%) Power BI
1 3 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.33%) GitLab
1 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 248 (82.94%) Social Skills
2 243 (81.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 241 (80.60%) Games
3 241 (80.60%) Telecoms
4 10 (3.34%) Retail
5 8 (2.68%) Finance
6 6 (2.01%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.34%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.00%) Banking
8 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.34%) RESTful
2 3 (1.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.00%) CSS
2 3 (1.00%) JDBC
2 3 (1.00%) LDAP
2 3 (1.00%) Web Services
3 2 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (0.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.00%) CMDB
1 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (0.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (84.62%) TOGAF
2 252 (84.28%) Agile
3 251 (83.95%) Roadmaps
4 246 (82.27%) Enterprise Architecture
5 245 (81.94%) Technology Roadmap
6 244 (81.61%) IT Strategy
6 244 (81.61%) Technology Strategy
7 241 (80.60%) Architecture Governance
7 241 (80.60%) Line Management
7 241 (80.60%) Release Train
7 241 (80.60%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (2.68%) Configuration Management
8 8 (2.68%) SDLC
9 6 (2.01%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (1.67%) ITIL
10 5 (1.67%) Migration
10 5 (1.67%) Project Delivery
10 5 (1.67%) Security Architecture
10 5 (1.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (1.34%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.00%) Java
1 3 (1.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (0.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 8 (2.68%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
2 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.67%) CISM
3 2 (0.67%) CISSP
4 1 (0.33%) CCSP
4 1 (0.33%) ISSAP
4 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.67%) GDPR
1 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (0.67%) NIST
1 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (1.00%) Alteryx
1 3 (1.00%) Databricks
1 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.33%) Brio
3 1 (0.33%) F5