Solutions Architect Jobs

Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 111 215
Rank change year-on-year -1 +104 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2,478 2,910 3,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 3.07% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 3.36% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 1,512 1,618
10th Percentile £56,809 £63,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,688 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,510
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.02% +6.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.33% +5.33% +7.14%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +11 2,159 £80,000 -5.88% 312
UK excluding London -21 1,394 £74,000 -6.33% 159
Work from Home +22 1,223 £80,000 -3.03% 147
London +25 882 £92,500 +2.78% 133
North of England +35 433 £75,000 -3.23% 32
South East +4 343 £77,500 -8.82% 38
Midlands +4 296 £67,500 -10.00% 47
North West +4 221 £70,000 -12.10% 18
Yorkshire +51 182 £77,500 +3.33% 12
South West -12 174 £70,000 -3.45% 27
West Midlands +29 173 £77,500 +3.33% 37
East Midlands -37 122 £59,500 -17.93% 10
Scotland -118 92 £71,991 -4.01% 5
North East -1 30 £79,063 -6.98% 2
Wales -34 25 £45,000 -51.35% 2
Northern Ireland +4 23 £87,500 +25.00% 3
East of England -95 23 £97,500 +14.71% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 851 (34.34%) Agile
2 848 (34.22%) Social Skills
3 736 (29.70%) Finance
4 636 (25.67%) Azure
5 612 (24.70%) Roadmaps
6 586 (23.65%) TOGAF
7 521 (21.03%) Enterprise Architecture
8 505 (20.38%) Microsoft
9 437 (17.64%) SAP
10 433 (17.47%) AWS
11 424 (17.11%) Oracle
12 422 (17.03%) ERP
13 364 (14.69%) Data Management
14 362 (14.61%) Strategic Roadmap
15 348 (14.04%) Security Cleared
16 339 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
17 335 (13.52%) Change Management
18 323 (13.03%) Presales
19 304 (12.27%) SAP ERP
20 302 (12.19%) Anaplan
21 300 (12.11%) Performance Management
21 300 (12.11%) Broadband
22 299 (12.07%) SAS
22 299 (12.07%) Hyperion
23 292 (11.78%) SC Cleared
24 272 (10.98%) Degree
25 242 (9.77%) Microservices
26 221 (8.92%) Mentoring
27 210 (8.47%) Analytics
28 202 (8.15%) Public Cloud

Solutions 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:

Application Platforms
1 299 (12.07%) SAS
2 63 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 61 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 58 (2.34%) Apache
5 46 (1.86%) WebLogic
6 20 (0.81%) CMS
7 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.24%) Drupal
8 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.12%) WordPress
11 2 (0.081%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.040%) Appian
12 1 (0.040%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.040%) nginx
Applications
1 32 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.24%) Simulink
5 5 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 304 (12.27%) SAP ERP
2 96 (3.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 79 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 17 (0.69%) SAP BPC
6 12 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 11 (0.44%) SAP MM
8 8 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.20%) Elite 3E
11 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.20%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
12 4 (0.16%) SAP FI-AP
12 4 (0.16%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.16%) SAP Retail
12 4 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 636 (25.67%) Azure
2 433 (17.47%) AWS
3 186 (7.51%) GCP
4 156 (6.30%) Dynamics 365
5 149 (6.01%) SaaS
6 143 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 121 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 85 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (3.43%) PaaS
9 79 (3.19%) IaaS
10 64 (2.58%) Snowflake
11 60 (2.42%) dbt
12 55 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
13 47 (1.90%) PowerApps
14 46 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (1.53%) Power Automate
17 36 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
18 35 (1.41%) Serverless
19 24 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 300 (12.11%) Broadband
2 59 (2.38%) DNS
3 50 (2.02%) Firewall
4 46 (1.86%) BGP
4 46 (1.86%) SSL
4 46 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 42 (1.69%) SD-WAN
5 42 (1.69%) WAN
6 26 (1.05%) Wireless
7 20 (0.81%) Network Security
8 7 (0.28%) Intranet
9 5 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.16%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) VoIP
11 3 (0.12%) 4G
11 3 (0.12%) 5G
11 3 (0.12%) DHCP
11 3 (0.12%) PBX
12 2 (0.081%) MPLS
12 2 (0.081%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (3.43%) Data Lake
2 82 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (3.31%) Relational Database
3 63 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
4 59 (2.38%) Apache Arrow
4 59 (2.38%) Dremio
5 57 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 56 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
7 51 (2.06%) Power BI
8 50 (2.02%) NoSQL
9 48 (1.94%) Oracle Database
9 48 (1.94%) RDBMS
10 47 (1.90%) SQL Server
11 25 (1.01%) Big Data
12 21 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 20 (0.81%) SAP BW
14 19 (0.77%) DB2
15 17 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (0.61%) Jenkins
2 14 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (0.36%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.32%) Maven
5 4 (0.16%) JIRA
6 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.12%) Git
6 3 (0.12%) GitLab
6 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.081%) Ant
7 2 (0.081%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.081%) Subversion
8 1 (0.040%) Mocha
8 1 (0.040%) Vagrant
General
1 848 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 736 (29.70%) Finance
3 168 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (6.70%) Retail
5 148 (5.97%) Banking
6 109 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (4.16%) Public Sector
8 73 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (2.66%) Legal
10 60 (2.42%) Front Office
11 56 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 53 (2.14%) Marketing
13 49 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.78%) Manufacturing
15 32 (1.29%) Law
16 31 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (0.89%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.85%) Advertising
19 21 (0.85%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (4.60%) .NET
2 66 (2.66%) Spring Boot
3 59 (2.38%) gRPC
3 59 (2.38%) Protocol Buffers
4 56 (2.26%) NumPy
4 56 (2.26%) Pandas
4 56 (2.26%) SciPy
5 46 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
6 33 (1.33%) Middleware
7 27 (1.09%) Kafka
8 20 (0.81%) HTML
9 19 (0.77%) REST
10 18 (0.73%) Web Services
11 17 (0.69%) CSS
11 17 (0.69%) Spring
12 15 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 15 (0.61%) SOAP
13 13 (0.52%) JSON
13 13 (0.52%) React
13 13 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 202 (8.15%) Public Cloud
2 121 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 83 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (2.38%) Derivative
4 59 (2.38%) Equities
4 59 (2.38%) Fixed Income
4 59 (2.38%) Hedge funds
5 58 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 56 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (1.65%) IoT
8 36 (1.45%) PMI
9 33 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.01%) Operational Technology
11 24 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 23 (0.93%) Product Ownership
13 21 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (0.81%) Reinsurance
15 17 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
16 14 (0.56%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.48%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.31%) Linux
2 47 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (1.09%) Windows
4 8 (0.32%) VME
5 6 (0.24%) Android
5 6 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.24%) Mesosphere
6 2 (0.081%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.040%) HPUX
7 1 (0.040%) Solaris
7 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.040%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (34.34%) Agile
2 612 (24.70%) Roadmaps
3 586 (23.65%) TOGAF
4 521 (21.03%) Enterprise Architecture
5 422 (17.03%) ERP
6 364 (14.69%) Data Management
7 362 (14.61%) Strategic Roadmap
8 339 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
9 335 (13.52%) Change Management
10 323 (13.03%) Presales
11 300 (12.11%) Performance Management
12 242 (9.77%) Microservices
13 221 (8.92%) Mentoring
14 210 (8.47%) Analytics
15 197 (7.95%) DevOps
16 193 (7.79%) IT Strategy
16 193 (7.79%) Migration
17 185 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
18 176 (7.10%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 175 (7.06%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 138 (5.57%) JavaScript
2 117 (4.72%) Java
3 116 (4.68%) Python
4 91 (3.67%) SQL
5 84 (3.39%) C#
6 64 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 19 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 18 (0.73%) Bicep
9 13 (0.52%) Go
10 12 (0.48%) R
11 11 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 10 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.32%) COBOL
13 8 (0.32%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 8 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.24%) Bash
14 6 (0.24%) PHP
14 6 (0.24%) Scala
15 5 (0.20%) Perl
16 4 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 348 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 292 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 272 (10.98%) Degree
4 138 (5.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 106 (4.28%) Azure Certification
6 97 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 87 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 69 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.53%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.85%) CCNP
14 20 (0.81%) DV Cleared
14 20 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.73%) CCNA
16 12 (0.48%) CISSP
17 11 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 5 (0.20%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (1.90%) QA
2 19 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (0.52%) PMO
4 12 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.48%) SLA
5 8 (0.32%) GDPR
6 7 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.28%) NIST
7 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.12%) RMADS
10 2 (0.081%) GRC
10 2 (0.081%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.081%) SEPA
11 1 (0.040%) IFRS
11 1 (0.040%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (2.54%) Docker
2 24 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.36%) KVM
5 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.040%) LXC
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.040%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 65 (2.62%) Terraform
3 25 (1.01%) Ansible
4 15 (0.61%) CASB
5 13 (0.52%) Puppet
6 12 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.12%) Grafana
9 3 (0.12%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.12%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.081%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.081%) WebSphere Cast Iron
11 1 (0.040%) Nagios
11 1 (0.040%) Oracle Identity Management
11 1 (0.040%) vRealize
Vendors
1 505 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 437 (17.64%) SAP
3 424 (17.11%) Oracle
4 302 (12.19%) Anaplan
5 299 (12.07%) Hyperion
6 99 (4.00%) Sparx
7 91 (3.67%) Google
8 72 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 51 (2.06%) Cisco
10 36 (1.45%) IBM
11 31 (1.25%) Apple
12 29 (1.17%) VMware
13 27 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.05%) Databricks
15 24 (0.97%) Juniper
16 22 (0.89%) Adobe
17 21 (0.85%) Fortinet
18 20 (0.81%) MuleSoft
19 16 (0.65%) Dell
19 16 (0.65%) Meraki