Lead Solutions Architect Jobs

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 753 864 1056
Rank change year-on-year +111 +192 -242
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 149 108 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 78 77 107
10th Percentile £71,544 £72,450 £66,634
25th Percentile £72,493 £78,691 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £104,375 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,250 £115,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +127 129 £85,000 -5.56% 11
UK excluding London +78 117 £82,500 -8.33% 8
Work from Home +116 95 £78,126 -13.19% 9
North of England +98 58 £78,126 -8.89% 6
Yorkshire +114 30 £82,500 +4.43% 3
London +71 27 £130,000 +42.72% 3
North West +28 21 £78,126 -25.59% 2
South East +8 21 £100,000 +19.40%
Midlands -2 13 £81,563 +1.95% 2
Scotland -59 9 £58,000 -37.07%
West Midlands +17 7 £81,563 +16.52% 2
North East +2 7 £78,126 -2.34% 1
East Midlands -13 6 - -
South West -19 5 - -
Wales - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +19 3 £100,000 +5.26%

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 77 (51.68%) Azure
2 75 (50.34%) Social Skills
3 68 (45.64%) AWS
4 66 (44.30%) Oracle
4 66 (44.30%) Public Cloud
5 65 (43.62%) Relational Database
6 55 (36.91%) Agile
7 54 (36.24%) Mentoring
8 53 (35.57%) TOGAF
9 51 (34.23%) Security Cleared
10 48 (32.21%) SC Cleared
10 48 (32.21%) Project Management
10 48 (32.21%) SDLC
10 48 (32.21%) Systems Engineering
10 48 (32.21%) Azure Certification
11 47 (31.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 47 (31.54%) Spring Boot
11 47 (31.54%) AWS Certification
11 47 (31.54%) Scrum
11 47 (31.54%) TCP/IP
11 47 (31.54%) DNS
12 46 (30.87%) RDBMS
12 46 (30.87%) SSL
12 46 (30.87%) BGP
12 46 (30.87%) WebLogic
12 46 (30.87%) Linux
12 46 (30.87%) Migration
12 46 (30.87%) Load Balancing
12 46 (30.87%) Kanban
12 46 (30.87%) Data Migration

Lead 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 46 (30.87%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.67%) Appian
2 1 (0.67%) Drupal
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 46 (30.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) Azure
2 68 (45.64%) AWS
3 46 (30.87%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (30.87%) Amazon SQS
4 20 (13.42%) GCP
5 3 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.34%) IaaS
6 2 (1.34%) PaaS
6 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.34%) SaaS
7 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (31.54%) DNS
1 47 (31.54%) TCP/IP
2 46 (30.87%) BGP
2 46 (30.87%) SSL
3 1 (0.67%) DHCP
3 1 (0.67%) HTTP
3 1 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (43.62%) Relational Database
2 46 (30.87%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (30.87%) Oracle Database
2 46 (30.87%) RDBMS
3 21 (14.09%) SQL Server
4 19 (12.75%) DB2
5 3 (2.01%) QualityStage
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.67%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.67%) Maven
General
1 75 (50.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (13.42%) Legal
4 8 (5.37%) Finance
5 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.67%) French Language
6 1 (0.67%) German Language
6 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.67%) Marketing
6 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.67%) Retail
6 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (31.54%) Spring Boot
2 46 (30.87%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (4.03%) .NET
4 3 (2.01%) HTML
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.67%) FIXML
5 1 (0.67%) Kafka
5 1 (0.67%) OpenID
5 1 (0.67%) SAML
5 1 (0.67%) Spring
5 1 (0.67%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (44.30%) Public Cloud
2 46 (30.87%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.03%) IoT
3 6 (4.03%) Robotics
4 3 (2.01%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (30.87%) Linux
1 46 (30.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.91%) Agile
2 54 (36.24%) Mentoring
3 53 (35.57%) TOGAF
4 48 (32.21%) Project Management
4 48 (32.21%) SDLC
4 48 (32.21%) Systems Engineering
5 47 (31.54%) Scrum
6 46 (30.87%) Actionable Insight
6 46 (30.87%) ArchiMate
6 46 (30.87%) Cloud Operations
6 46 (30.87%) Collaborative Working
6 46 (30.87%) Data Migration
6 46 (30.87%) Kanban
6 46 (30.87%) Load Balancing
6 46 (30.87%) Migration
6 46 (30.87%) Open Source
6 46 (30.87%) Re-Platforming
7 45 (30.20%) Coaching
7 45 (30.20%) Roadmaps
8 24 (16.11%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.42%) SQL
2 2 (1.34%) C#
3 1 (0.67%) Java
3 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 51 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 48 (32.21%) Azure Certification
2 48 (32.21%) SC Cleared
3 47 (31.54%) AWS Certification
3 47 (31.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 31 (20.81%) Degree
5 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.34%) CISSP
6 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) MCSA
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
1 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (44.30%) Oracle
2 46 (30.87%) Sparx
3 24 (16.11%) Microsoft
4 20 (13.42%) Google
5 19 (12.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.34%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.67%) Reuters