Principal Architect Contracts in London

Principal Architect
England > London

The median Principal Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 465 567
Rank change year-on-year +90 +102 -89
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 24 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.068% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.071% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 23
10th Percentile £563 £637 £608
25th Percentile £569 £740 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +14.94%
75th Percentile £763 £823 £800
90th Percentile £1,200 £895 -
England median daily rate £675 £783 £675
% change year-on-year -13.74% +15.93% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,910 36,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.07% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,933 17,446 27,028
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 404
10th Percentile £15.98 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.12 £22.57 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.49 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.70 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.53 £24.00
% change year-on-year -13.54% +85.54% +14.01%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Architect in London

Principal Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 8 £575 -
Central London +35 1 £1,475 +66.20%
Principal Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Principal Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 17 (70.83%) Data Governance
2 17 (70.83%) Machine Learning
3 13 (54.17%) Scrum
3 13 (54.17%) Agile
4 12 (50.00%) Azure
5 11 (45.83%) Terraform
6 10 (41.67%) Data Lake
6 10 (41.67%) SDLC
6 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (41.67%) Ansible
6 10 (41.67%) AWS Certification
6 10 (41.67%) GCP
6 10 (41.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
6 10 (41.67%) DV Cleared
6 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
6 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
6 10 (41.67%) Big Data
6 10 (41.67%) Puppet
6 10 (41.67%) Service Management
6 10 (41.67%) ITIL
6 10 (41.67%) Linux
7 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
8 8 (33.33%) C#
8 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
8 8 (33.33%) SQL
8 8 (33.33%) .NET
8 8 (33.33%) React
8 8 (33.33%) .NET Core

Principal Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (41.67%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Big Data
1 10 (41.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
1 8 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 8 (33.33%) React
2 7 (29.17%) CSS
3 3 (12.50%) DAO
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS SAM
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Data Governance
1 17 (70.83%) Machine Learning
2 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) Scrum
3 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (41.67%) ITIL
3 10 (41.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 10 (41.67%) SDLC
3 10 (41.67%) Service Management
4 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 7 (29.17%) Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (29.17%) LLM
6 6 (25.00%) Microservices
7 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
8 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (16.67%) IT Strategy
8 4 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
9 3 (12.50%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 8 (33.33%) C#
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) T-SQL
3 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) AWS Certification
1 10 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 10 (41.67%) Ansible
2 10 (41.67%) Puppet