Solutions Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Solution Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Solution Architect salary in the West Midlands is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 139 106
Rank change year-on-year +25 -33 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 151 145 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.09% 2.16% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 2.39% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 113 115 117
10th Percentile £52,550 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +7.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,250 £88,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,797 6,058 6,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 90.07% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 3,388 4,754
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham -9 70 £77,500 +3.33% 10
Warwickshire +72 27 £77,500 - 2
Solihull +20 23 £62,500 -33.16% 1
Staffordshire -10 6 - -
Coventry +10 3 £85,000 +16.44%
West Bromwich - 3 £78,500 -
Wolverhampton +13 2 £86,000 +13.91% 1
Walsall - 2 £92,500 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Stourbridge - 1 £75,000 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 West Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 49 (32.45%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.84%) Power Platform
3 35 (23.18%) ERP
4 31 (20.53%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (19.21%) Agile
6 27 (17.88%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (17.22%) Roadmaps
8 25 (16.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 25 (16.56%) Data Modelling
8 25 (16.56%) SAP
9 23 (15.23%) Azure
9 23 (15.23%) Digital Strategy
10 22 (14.57%) Power BI
10 22 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (13.91%) Analytics
11 21 (13.91%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (13.25%) Machine Learning
12 20 (13.25%) Visualisation
13 19 (12.58%) Data Analytics
13 19 (12.58%) Workflow
13 19 (12.58%) Finance
13 19 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (12.58%) User Experience
13 19 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (12.58%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (12.58%) PowerApps
13 19 (12.58%) Power Automate
14 18 (11.92%) Continuous Delivery
15 16 (10.60%) Release Management
16 15 (9.93%) SaaS

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.66%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (9.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (7.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.32%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.32%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.84%) Power Platform
2 31 (20.53%) Dynamics 365
3 23 (15.23%) Azure
4 19 (12.58%) Power Automate
4 19 (12.58%) PowerApps
5 15 (9.93%) SaaS
6 13 (8.61%) AWS
7 5 (3.31%) GCP
8 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.99%) PaaS
9 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.32%) Serverless
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.93%) SD-WAN
1 15 (9.93%) WAN
2 10 (6.62%) Firewall
2 10 (6.62%) Wireless
3 1 (0.66%) Broadband
3 1 (0.66%) GPON
3 1 (0.66%) LAN
3 1 (0.66%) MPLS
3 1 (0.66%) VoIP
3 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.66%) WLAN
3 1 (0.66%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) Power BI
2 6 (3.97%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.31%) Metadata
4 3 (1.99%) DB2
4 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.99%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (1.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (12.58%) Finance
1 19 (12.58%) Organisational Skills
2 13 (8.61%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.28%) Manufacturing
4 10 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.64%) Retail
6 5 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Legal
8 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Back Office
10 1 (0.66%) Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) .NET
1 2 (1.32%) RESTful
2 1 (0.66%) EDI
2 1 (0.66%) Kafka
2 1 (0.66%) Spring
2 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.65%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.99%) Educational Technology
4 3 (1.99%) FMCG
5 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.66%) IoT
5 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.18%) ERP
2 29 (19.21%) Agile
3 27 (17.88%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (17.22%) Roadmaps
5 25 (16.56%) Data Modelling
5 25 (16.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 23 (15.23%) Digital Strategy
7 22 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (13.91%) Analytics
8 21 (13.91%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (13.25%) Machine Learning
9 20 (13.25%) Visualisation
10 19 (12.58%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (12.58%) Data Analytics
10 19 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
10 19 (12.58%) User Experience
10 19 (12.58%) Workflow
11 18 (11.92%) Continuous Delivery
12 16 (10.60%) Release Management
13 13 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.30%) SQL
2 5 (3.31%) C#
3 3 (1.99%) Java
3 3 (1.99%) Python
4 2 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (6.62%) Degree
1 10 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.96%) SC Cleared
2 9 (5.96%) TOGAF Certification
3 6 (3.97%) CCNP
3 6 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.31%) CCNA
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CISM
6 1 (0.66%) CISSP
6 1 (0.66%) CWNA
6 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.95%) SLA
2 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.66%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.66%) Docker
1 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.31%) CASB
2 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (32.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.56%) SAP
3 15 (9.93%) Cisco
4 10 (6.62%) Fortinet
4 10 (6.62%) Juniper
5 7 (4.64%) Adobe
5 7 (4.64%) Apple
6 6 (3.97%) Meraki
7 4 (2.65%) Google
7 4 (2.65%) Oracle
8 3 (1.99%) IBM
9 1 (0.66%) Aruba
9 1 (0.66%) Ekahau
9 1 (0.66%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.66%) MikroTik
9 1 (0.66%) Nokia
9 1 (0.66%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.66%) VMware