Microsoft Solutions Architect Jobs

Microsoft Solution Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Solution Architect salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 876 924 1180
Rank change year-on-year +48 +256 -323
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Solutions Architect 35 75 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.072% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.079% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 32 32 25
10th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £104,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +6.67%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
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 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Solutions Architect in the UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Solutions Architect in the UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Solutions Architect in the UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +55 33 £87,500 +1.74% 9
London +110 29 £87,500 -2.78% 3
Work from Home +59 12 £95,000 +5.56% 5
South East +14 1 £80,000 -11.11% 2
UK excluding London -25 1 £80,000 -5.88% 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Microsoft 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 Microsoft Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (80.00%) Azure
3 13 (37.14%) SaaS
3 13 (37.14%) .NET
3 13 (37.14%) Dynamics 365
3 13 (37.14%) Roadmaps
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
5 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
5 9 (25.71%) ERP
6 8 (22.86%) C#
6 8 (22.86%) PaaS
6 8 (22.86%) IaaS
6 8 (22.86%) DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
7 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
9 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
9 5 (14.29%) Statistics
9 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
9 5 (14.29%) ADO
9 5 (14.29%) CRM
9 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
9 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
9 5 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (11.43%) Presales

Microsoft 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 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (37.14%) SaaS
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (22.86%) IaaS
4 8 (22.86%) PaaS
5 3 (8.57%) AWS
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Roadmaps
2 11 (31.43%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) ERP
3 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
4 8 (22.86%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) CRM
7 5 (14.29%) Statistics
7 5 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 4 (11.43%) Presales
9 3 (8.57%) Analytics
9 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (8.57%) Contract Negotiation
9 3 (8.57%) Data Transformation
9 3 (8.57%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.57%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) C#
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks