Solutions Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 139 182
Rank change year-on-year -13 +43 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,354 1,481 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.91% 2.46% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.76% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 778 677 651
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,800 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +5.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +49 420 £75,000 -3.23% 74
South East +14 330 £77,500 -8.82% 45
Midlands +4 271 £65,000 -13.33% 34
North West +35 211 £70,000 -6.67% 43
South West +12 185 £70,000 +1.82% 30
Yorkshire +68 182 £77,500 - 26
West Midlands +26 155 £77,500 +3.33% 20
East Midlands -21 115 £60,000 -18.64% 14
Scotland -96 96 £72,500 +3.57% 13
North East +8 27 £80,000 -5.88% 5
Northern Ireland +24 24 £90,000 - 7
East of England -88 21 £100,000 +14.29% 5
Wales -28 19 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Solutions Architect
UK

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 444 (32.79%) Agile
2 443 (32.72%) Social Skills
3 346 (25.55%) Azure
4 298 (22.01%) TOGAF
4 298 (22.01%) Roadmaps
5 282 (20.83%) Microsoft
6 281 (20.75%) Security Cleared
7 250 (18.46%) AWS
7 250 (18.46%) Finance
8 236 (17.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 227 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
10 226 (16.69%) SC Cleared
11 220 (16.25%) Actionable Insight
12 207 (15.29%) Microservices
13 200 (14.77%) Presales
14 182 (13.44%) Degree
15 171 (12.63%) ERP
16 165 (12.19%) Analytics
16 165 (12.19%) IT Strategy
16 165 (12.19%) Architectural Patterns
17 160 (11.82%) Business Case
18 156 (11.52%) Public Cloud
19 151 (11.15%) Coaching
20 150 (11.08%) Oracle
21 148 (10.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
22 144 (10.64%) Mentoring
23 139 (10.27%) DevOps
24 136 (10.04%) Data Analytics
25 127 (9.38%) ArchiMate
26 126 (9.31%) SAP

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 75 (5.54%) SAS
2 40 (2.95%) WebLogic
3 31 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.26%) CMS
5 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.74%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.37%) Drupal
9 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 2 (0.15%) Apache
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) Appian
12 1 (0.074%) Confluence
12 1 (0.074%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.44%) Simulink
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 84 (6.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 76 (5.61%) SAP ERP
3 26 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.89%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 8 (0.59%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.22%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.074%) Endur
10 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.074%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.074%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 346 (25.55%) Azure
2 250 (18.46%) AWS
3 97 (7.16%) Power Platform
4 88 (6.50%) Dynamics 365
4 88 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
5 77 (5.69%) GCP
6 76 (5.61%) SaaS
7 57 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
9 40 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (2.73%) PowerApps
11 35 (2.58%) PaaS
12 32 (2.36%) IaaS
13 31 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.70%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.62%) Serverless
17 14 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.61%) Broadband
2 53 (3.91%) DNS
3 49 (3.62%) TCP/IP
4 41 (3.03%) SSL
5 40 (2.95%) BGP
6 29 (2.14%) SD-WAN
6 29 (2.14%) WAN
7 23 (1.70%) Firewall
8 14 (1.03%) Wireless
9 13 (0.96%) Network Security
10 9 (0.66%) DHCP
10 9 (0.66%) HTTP
11 7 (0.52%) Intranet
12 4 (0.30%) VoIP
12 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.22%) 4G
13 3 (0.22%) 5G
13 3 (0.22%) PBX
14 2 (0.15%) VPN
15 1 (0.074%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.95%) Relational Database
2 53 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 42 (3.10%) RDBMS
6 41 (3.03%) Oracle Database
7 33 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.14%) Power BI
9 25 (1.85%) Big Data
10 19 (1.40%) DB2
11 15 (1.11%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.59%) SAP BW
14 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.44%) GIS
15 6 (0.44%) MySQL
16 5 (0.37%) Metadata
17 4 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.22%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.22%) Maven
3 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.074%) JIRA
General
1 443 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 250 (18.46%) Finance
3 88 (6.50%) Retail
4 77 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (5.54%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (4.36%) Legal
7 50 (3.69%) Banking
8 45 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.03%) Military
14 13 (0.96%) Marketing
15 11 (0.81%) Law
16 10 (0.74%) Billing
16 10 (0.74%) Publishing
17 9 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.59%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.69%) .NET
2 61 (4.51%) Spring Boot
3 40 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
4 24 (1.77%) Kafka
5 16 (1.18%) Spring
6 12 (0.89%) HTML
6 12 (0.89%) Node.js
7 11 (0.81%) OpenID
8 10 (0.74%) Middleware
8 10 (0.74%) SAML
9 9 (0.66%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.52%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.30%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.30%) EDI
11 4 (0.30%) Web Services
11 4 (0.30%) YAML
12 3 (0.22%) AWS CDK
12 3 (0.22%) CSS
12 3 (0.22%) REST
12 3 (0.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 156 (11.52%) Public Cloud
2 125 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.47%) Data Centre
4 45 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (2.36%) IoT
6 23 (1.70%) Mobile App
6 23 (1.70%) PMI
7 20 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.26%) Robotics
9 12 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 12 (0.89%) Product Ownership
10 10 (0.74%) Blockchain
11 9 (0.66%) Cyberattack
11 9 (0.66%) Taxonomies
12 8 (0.59%) FMCG
12 8 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.87%) Linux
2 41 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (1.18%) Windows
4 8 (0.59%) VME
5 7 (0.52%) Android
5 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.44%) Mesosphere
7 1 (0.074%) HPUX
7 1 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (32.79%) Agile
2 298 (22.01%) Roadmaps
2 298 (22.01%) TOGAF
3 236 (17.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 227 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (16.25%) Actionable Insight
6 207 (15.29%) Microservices
7 200 (14.77%) Presales
8 171 (12.63%) ERP
9 165 (12.19%) Analytics
9 165 (12.19%) Architectural Patterns
9 165 (12.19%) IT Strategy
10 160 (11.82%) Business Case
11 151 (11.15%) Coaching
12 148 (10.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 144 (10.64%) Mentoring
14 139 (10.27%) DevOps
15 136 (10.04%) Data Analytics
16 127 (9.38%) ArchiMate
17 124 (9.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (4.21%) SQL
2 49 (3.62%) JavaScript
3 47 (3.47%) Java
4 41 (3.03%) C#
5 32 (2.36%) Python
6 11 (0.81%) MATLAB
7 10 (0.74%) Go
7 10 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.59%) COBOL
8 8 (0.59%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 7 (0.52%) Bicep
10 6 (0.44%) Bash
10 6 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.37%) PHP
12 4 (0.30%) R
13 2 (0.15%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.074%) C++
14 1 (0.074%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 281 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 226 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 182 (13.44%) Degree
4 117 (8.64%) TOGAF Certification
5 71 (5.24%) AWS Certification
6 70 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 65 (4.80%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.85%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.70%) PMI Certification
13 21 (1.55%) CCNP
13 21 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.33%) CCNA
15 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.44%) CISM
16 6 (0.44%) CISSP
17 5 (0.37%) CEH
18 4 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (0.89%) QA
1 12 (0.89%) SLA
2 10 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.44%) GDPR
5 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.30%) NIST
6 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.30%) SEPA
7 3 (0.22%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.22%) PMO
7 3 (0.22%) RMADS
8 2 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (3.40%) Docker
2 12 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.074%) RACF
6 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.95%) Terraform
3 15 (1.11%) CASB
4 8 (0.59%) Ansible
5 7 (0.52%) Puppet
6 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.22%) Grafana
8 3 (0.22%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.22%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 282 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 150 (11.08%) Oracle
3 126 (9.31%) SAP
4 84 (6.20%) Sparx
5 75 (5.54%) Anaplan
5 75 (5.54%) Hyperion
6 57 (4.21%) Google
7 39 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.29%) Cisco
9 29 (2.14%) Apple
10 23 (1.70%) IBM
10 23 (1.70%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.48%) Adobe
12 18 (1.33%) VMware
13 16 (1.18%) Meraki
14 12 (0.89%) Juniper
15 9 (0.66%) Dell
15 9 (0.66%) Fortinet
16 8 (0.59%) Databricks
16 8 (0.59%) Micro Focus