Senior Solutions Architect Jobs

Senior Solution Architect
UK

The median Senior Solution Architect salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 691 984
Rank change year-on-year +98 +293 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 335 302 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 223 122 114
10th Percentile - £65,000 £68,910
25th Percentile £56,809 £69,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +3.03% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £94,688
90th Percentile £125,000 £100,000 £114,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £82,818 £77,500
% change year-on-year -24.53% +6.86% +3.33%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +169 312 £71,495 -15.89% 37
UK excluding London +29 223 £62,500 -24.53% 28
Work from Home +43 127 £66,500 -21.76% 16
London +145 100 £95,000 +13.43% 11
North of England +98 84 £65,603 -8.25% 12
Midlands +54 60 £62,500 -24.24% 8
Yorkshire +134 49 £75,500 -11.18% 4
South East +2 41 £67,500 -22.86% 4
West Midlands +50 38 £62,500 -23.08% 5
North West +16 28 £61,206 -14.40% 5
South West -20 25 £81,250 -9.72% 1
East Midlands +2 22 £50,000 -41.18% 3
Scotland -81 8 £120,000 +45.45% 1
North East - 7 £61,206 - 3
Northern Ireland +20 2 - - 2
Wales +10 2 - -
East of England +8 1 - - 1

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

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

1 121 (36.12%) Agile
2 96 (28.66%) Mentoring
3 79 (23.58%) Azure
4 78 (23.28%) AWS
5 75 (22.39%) Coaching
6 68 (20.30%) Design Patterns
7 65 (19.40%) Presales
8 64 (19.10%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 63 (18.81%) Microsoft
10 60 (17.91%) Degree
11 59 (17.61%) Social Skills
12 58 (17.31%) Roadmaps
13 54 (16.12%) Actionable Insight
14 51 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
15 50 (14.93%) TOGAF
16 49 (14.63%) Finance
16 49 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
18 44 (13.13%) Microservices
19 43 (12.84%) Architectural Patterns
20 41 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 39 (11.64%) Public Sector
22 36 (10.75%) Security Cleared
23 35 (10.45%) CRM
23 35 (10.45%) Business Case
23 35 (10.45%) Public Cloud
23 35 (10.45%) Cloud Native
24 33 (9.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
24 33 (9.85%) NoSQL
25 32 (9.55%) Open Source

Senior 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 13 (3.88%) CMS
2 7 (2.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Simulink
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.30%) SAP APO
1 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
1 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.30%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 79 (23.58%) Azure
2 78 (23.28%) AWS
3 32 (9.55%) SaaS
4 26 (7.76%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (5.97%) Power Automate
6 20 (5.97%) PowerApps
7 18 (5.37%) GCP
8 17 (5.07%) IaaS
8 17 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (5.07%) PaaS
9 10 (2.99%) Serverless
10 9 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.69%) CloudFront
10 9 (2.69%) Route 53
10 9 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.07%) SD-WAN
1 17 (5.07%) WAN
2 12 (3.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.90%) DHCP
3 3 (0.90%) DNS
3 3 (0.90%) HTTP
3 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.60%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) Broadband
5 1 (0.30%) GPON
5 1 (0.30%) IPsec
5 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.30%) LAN
5 1 (0.30%) MPLS
5 1 (0.30%) SSL
5 1 (0.30%) VoIP
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) WLAN
5 1 (0.30%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.85%) NoSQL
2 24 (7.16%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (6.27%) Power BI
4 9 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.90%) MySQL
5 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.60%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
General
1 59 (17.61%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.63%) Finance
3 41 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.66%) Retail
6 20 (5.97%) Banking
6 20 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.48%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.09%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.79%) Back Office
11 6 (1.79%) Military
11 6 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.90%) German Language
12 3 (0.90%) Police
13 2 (0.60%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.88%) .NET
2 5 (1.49%) .NET Framework
2 5 (1.49%) HTML
3 4 (1.19%) OpenID
3 4 (1.19%) SAML
4 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.90%) YAML
5 1 (0.30%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.30%) RESTful
5 1 (0.30%) Web Services
5 1 (0.30%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.45%) Cloud Native
1 35 (10.45%) Public Cloud
2 27 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.76%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.88%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.69%) Reinsurance
5 9 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.39%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.09%) NHS
7 7 (2.09%) PMI
8 5 (1.49%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.90%) PKI
10 3 (0.90%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) IoT
11 1 (0.30%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.48%) Linux
2 7 (2.09%) VME
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.12%) Agile
2 96 (28.66%) Mentoring
3 75 (22.39%) Coaching
4 68 (20.30%) Design Patterns
5 65 (19.40%) Presales
6 64 (19.10%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 58 (17.31%) Roadmaps
8 54 (16.12%) Actionable Insight
9 51 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
10 50 (14.93%) TOGAF
11 49 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (13.13%) Microservices
14 43 (12.84%) Architectural Patterns
15 35 (10.45%) Business Case
15 35 (10.45%) CRM
16 33 (9.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 32 (9.55%) Artificial Intelligence
17 32 (9.55%) Open Source
18 31 (9.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (5.07%) C#
2 14 (4.18%) JavaScript
3 9 (2.69%) Java
3 9 (2.69%) Python
4 7 (2.09%) COBOL
4 7 (2.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 6 (1.79%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) PHP
6 3 (0.90%) SQL
7 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (17.91%) Degree
2 36 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.55%) TOGAF Certification
4 28 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.97%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (4.78%) CCNP
6 16 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (4.48%) CCNA
8 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (2.39%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.09%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.60%) CISSP
14 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.30%) CWNA
14 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.19%) PMO
2 3 (0.90%) HMG Infosec
2 3 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (0.90%) JSP 440
2 3 (0.90%) RMADS
3 2 (0.60%) GRC
3 2 (0.60%) QA
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (2.69%) Docker
1 9 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.39%) KVM
3 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) RACF
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.46%) Terraform
2 15 (4.48%) CASB
3 9 (2.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.46%) Cisco
3 16 (4.78%) Meraki
4 15 (4.48%) Adobe
4 15 (4.48%) Apple
5 10 (2.99%) VMware
6 9 (2.69%) Google
7 8 (2.39%) Informatica
8 7 (2.09%) Micro Focus
9 5 (1.49%) Oracle
10 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.90%) SAP
11 3 (0.90%) Sparx
11 3 (0.90%) Splunk
11 3 (0.90%) Twitter
12 2 (0.60%) Dell
12 2 (0.60%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.60%) Juniper
12 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.60%) Workday