Solutions Architect Jobs in the South West

Solution Architect
England > South West

The median Solution Architect salary in the South West is £68,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 136 167
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 175 130 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.89% 1.93% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 2.17% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 40 59
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,150 £51,835
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,574 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,250 £70,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -2.76% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,188 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £90,125 £88,600
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,932 6,001 7,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.09% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,537 3,764 5,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,075 £29,488
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,450 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Bristol +13 80 £70,576 -3.32% 23
Wiltshire +37 61 £65,000 -8.45%
Gloucestershire -24 17 £65,000 - 1
Dorset -24 3 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Devon -23 2 - -
Somerset -2 1 - - 4
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 11 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 South West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 91 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 79 (45.14%) Azure
3 77 (44.00%) TOGAF
4 73 (41.71%) Microsoft
5 72 (41.14%) SC Cleared
6 65 (37.14%) Agile
7 64 (36.57%) ArchiMate
8 62 (35.43%) Social Skills
9 55 (31.43%) DevOps
10 54 (30.86%) Enterprise Architecture
10 54 (30.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 50 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
12 47 (26.86%) Microservices
12 47 (26.86%) Business Strategy
13 45 (25.71%) Business Case
14 44 (25.14%) Analytics
15 42 (24.00%) Data Analytics
15 42 (24.00%) Degree
16 39 (22.29%) Sparx
16 39 (22.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
17 38 (21.71%) Full Stack Development
17 38 (21.71%) Architectural Patterns
18 37 (21.14%) .NET
19 36 (20.57%) Actionable Insight
20 35 (20.00%) ITIL
21 34 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
22 33 (18.86%) AWS
22 33 (18.86%) UML
22 33 (18.86%) Technical Leadership
23 29 (16.57%) BPSS Clearance

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (2.29%) ArcGIS
1 4 (2.29%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.71%) CMS
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 39 (22.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.14%) Azure
2 50 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (18.86%) AWS
5 16 (9.14%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.57%) PaaS
7 14 (8.00%) IaaS
8 12 (6.86%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (6.86%) SaaS
9 10 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.57%) GCP
12 6 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.86%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 3 (1.71%) WhatsApp
16 2 (1.14%) Power Automate
17 1 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.43%) DNS
1 13 (7.43%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.14%) DHCP
2 9 (5.14%) HTTP
3 6 (3.43%) Firewall
4 4 (2.29%) BGP
4 4 (2.29%) SSL
5 2 (1.14%) PBX
5 2 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.00%) Big Data
2 5 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.29%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (2.29%) GIS
3 4 (2.29%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.71%) MySQL
5 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 62 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.00%) Finance
3 22 (12.57%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (10.29%) Aerospace
4 18 (10.29%) Banking
5 17 (9.71%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (8.57%) Retail
7 12 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.14%) Marketing
9 3 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.71%) German Language
9 3 (1.71%) Military
9 3 (1.71%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.14%) Aviation
10 2 (1.14%) Digital Economy
10 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.14%) .NET
2 12 (6.86%) HTML
3 10 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.14%) OpenID
4 9 (5.14%) SAML
5 6 (3.43%) Middleware
6 5 (2.86%) Kafka
7 4 (2.29%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.71%) CSS
8 3 (1.71%) YAML
9 2 (1.14%) CSS3
9 2 (1.14%) HTML5
9 2 (1.14%) Spring
10 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.57%) React
10 1 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.14%) Cyberattack
3 9 (5.14%) Taxonomies
4 8 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.43%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.29%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.29%) Robotics
8 3 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.14%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.57%) Blog
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.29%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.00%) TOGAF
2 65 (37.14%) Agile
3 64 (36.57%) ArchiMate
4 55 (31.43%) DevOps
5 54 (30.86%) Enterprise Architecture
6 47 (26.86%) Business Strategy
6 47 (26.86%) Microservices
7 45 (25.71%) Business Case
8 44 (25.14%) Analytics
9 42 (24.00%) Data Analytics
10 38 (21.71%) Architectural Patterns
10 38 (21.71%) Full Stack Development
11 36 (20.57%) Actionable Insight
12 35 (20.00%) ITIL
13 33 (18.86%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (18.86%) UML
14 28 (16.00%) IT Strategy
15 27 (15.43%) Collaborative Working
15 27 (15.43%) Roadmaps
16 24 (13.71%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.71%) SQL
2 8 (4.57%) Python
3 7 (4.00%) Java
4 6 (3.43%) Bash
4 6 (3.43%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.43%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.43%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.29%) C#
6 3 (1.71%) Bicep
6 3 (1.71%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 72 (41.14%) SC Cleared
3 54 (30.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 42 (24.00%) Degree
5 29 (16.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (9.71%) DV Cleared
7 13 (7.43%) AWS Certification
7 13 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.14%) CCNP
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) HND
9 2 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.71%) HMG Infosec
1 3 (1.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (1.71%) JSP 440
1 3 (1.71%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (6.86%) Terraform
2 9 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.71%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.14%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (41.71%) Microsoft
2 39 (22.29%) Sparx
3 12 (6.86%) Oracle
4 8 (4.57%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.00%) Google
6 6 (3.43%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.29%) ESRI
7 4 (2.29%) VMware
8 3 (1.71%) Splunk
8 3 (1.71%) Twitter
8 3 (1.71%) Veracode
9 2 (1.14%) Avaya
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco
9 2 (1.14%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.14%) IBM
9 2 (1.14%) Juniper
9 2 (1.14%) Nokia
9 2 (1.14%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.14%) SAP
10 1 (0.57%) Adobe