Solutions Architect Jobs in Kent

Solution Architect
South East > Kent

The median Solution Architect salary in Kent is £88,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 90 98
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 8 16 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.54% 1.40% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.63% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile £82,650 £57,500 £69,875
25th Percentile £82,875 £65,938 £77,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £75,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -15.49% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £94,063
90th Percentile £98,500 £104,125 £94,625
South East median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 1,385 982 1,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 85.69% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 548 733
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,925 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,825 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Kent

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Kent

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Kent over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in Kent

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Westerham - 4 - -
Chatham +8 2 £85,500 -38.93% 3
Tunbridge Wells -2 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1
Dartford -10 1 £100,000 +66.67%
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 across the Kent region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Docker
5 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (37.50%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) Grafana
5 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) OOD
6 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) OO

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) OOD
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Numerical Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) VMware