Principal Architect Contracts

Principal Architect
UK

The median Principal Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 655 793
Rank change year-on-year +93 +138 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 28 31 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.056% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.059% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 41
10th Percentile £563 £625 £563
25th Percentile £578 £634 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £783 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +11.79% +7.28%
75th Percentile £763 £814 £775
90th Percentile £1,125 £895 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £659 £600
% change year-on-year +6.18% +9.88% -22.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,530 52,517 83,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,076 36,648 58,643
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,932 1,488 1,934
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Principal Architect in the UK

Principal Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +98 27 £675 -13.74% 22
London +93 23 £675 -15.63% 10
Work from Home +104 6 £1,250 +67.79% 8
UK excluding London +32 4 £700 +6.18% 11
North of England - 3 £700 - 6
North West - 3 £700 - 3
West Midlands +11 1 £800 +23.08%
Midlands +11 1 £800 +23.08%

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Principal Architect in the job title.

1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Data Governance
2 17 (60.71%) Machine Learning
3 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (50.00%) Scrum
4 13 (46.43%) Agile
5 12 (42.86%) Terraform
6 11 (39.29%) GCP
6 11 (39.29%) Big Data
6 11 (39.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (35.71%) Data Lake
7 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
7 10 (35.71%) DV Cleared
7 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
7 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
7 10 (35.71%) Service Management
7 10 (35.71%) ITIL
7 10 (35.71%) Linux
7 10 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (35.71%) Ansible
7 10 (35.71%) Puppet
7 10 (35.71%) SDLC
7 10 (35.71%) AWS Certification
8 9 (32.14%) SQL
9 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 8 (28.57%) Analytics
10 7 (25.00%) React
10 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
10 7 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (25.00%) C#

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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Big Data
2 10 (35.71%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
1 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 7 (25.00%) React
2 6 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) DAO
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) AWS SAM
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Data Governance
1 17 (60.71%) Machine Learning
2 14 (50.00%) Scrum
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 11 (39.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 10 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (35.71%) ITIL
5 10 (35.71%) SDLC
5 10 (35.71%) Service Management
6 8 (28.57%) Analytics
6 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 7 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (21.43%) LLM
8 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 5 (17.86%) IT Strategy
9 5 (17.86%) Microservices
9 5 (17.86%) Technology Strategy
10 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
10 4 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
10 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) Python
6 2 (7.14%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 10 (35.71%) DV Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 10 (35.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) Guidewire
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft