Solutions Architect Jobs in Merseyside

Solution Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Solution Architect salary in Merseyside is £65,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 78 92
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 33 22 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.55% 2.06% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 2.59% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16 4 5
10th Percentile - £44,339 £60,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,598 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,841 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.66% -26.25% +27.91%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,063 £88,750
90th Percentile - £74,625 £95,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 1,223 851 1,109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 79.68% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 850 443 704
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,750 £26,075
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -0.09% +5.98%
75th Percentile £57,438 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £74,257
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Merseyside over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Liverpool +14 28 £65,500 +7.66% 1
Wirral - 5 £80,000 -
Solutions Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 Merseyside region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 23 (69.70%) Security Cleared
2 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
4 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
5 12 (36.36%) Azure
6 11 (33.33%) Business Case
6 11 (33.33%) Presales
7 9 (27.27%) Agile
8 8 (24.24%) AWS
8 8 (24.24%) IT Strategy
8 8 (24.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 8 (24.24%) Commercial Awareness
8 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (24.24%) Contract Negotiation
8 8 (24.24%) Thought Leadership
8 8 (24.24%) Technology Strategy
8 8 (24.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (21.21%) Data Analytics
9 7 (21.21%) Analytics
9 7 (21.21%) TOGAF
9 7 (21.21%) Scrum
10 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (15.15%) ArchiMate
10 5 (15.15%) Sparx
10 5 (15.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (12.12%) Bicep
11 4 (12.12%) ARM Templates
11 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.03%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) BGP
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) SSL
1 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Database
1 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
1 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) ARM Templates
1 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
2 11 (33.33%) Business Case
2 11 (33.33%) Presales
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Commercial Awareness
4 8 (24.24%) Contract Negotiation
4 8 (24.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 8 (24.24%) IT Strategy
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) Technology Strategy
4 8 (24.24%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (21.21%) Analytics
5 7 (21.21%) Data Analytics
5 7 (21.21%) Scrum
5 7 (21.21%) TOGAF
6 5 (15.15%) ArchiMate
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Open Source
7 4 (12.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Bicep
2 1 (3.03%) C#
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (69.70%) Security Cleared
2 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Sparx
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.03%) Juniper
3 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce