Solutions Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Solution Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Solution Architect salary in Birmingham is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 79 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 25 70 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.72% 2.56% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.71% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 59 67
10th Percentile £72,375 £53,700 £60,750
25th Percentile £79,063 £61,360 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £78,126 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.80% +4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £100,000 £94,250
West Midlands median annual salary £87,375 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.59% +1.67% -3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,369 2,580 1,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.33% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 790 2,106 1,411
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Birmingham

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Birmingham

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (44.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
6 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (32.00%) AWS
7 7 (28.00%) Microservices
8 6 (24.00%) Software Licensing
8 6 (24.00%) Presales
8 6 (24.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (24.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (24.00%) Time Management
8 6 (24.00%) Adobe
8 6 (24.00%) Apple
9 5 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (20.00%) REST
9 5 (20.00%) DevOps
9 5 (20.00%) SaaS
9 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
9 5 (20.00%) API Management
9 5 (20.00%) SDLC
10 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
10 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (16.00%) Serverless
10 4 (16.00%) B2B
11 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (12.00%) Analytics

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (20.00%) SaaS
5 4 (16.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
General
1 11 (44.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) PropTech
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (28.00%) Microservices
4 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (24.00%) Presales
4 6 (24.00%) Software Licensing
4 6 (24.00%) Time Management
5 5 (20.00%) API Management
5 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) SDLC
5 5 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) B2B
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
8 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
8 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Bash
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.00%) Python
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Adobe
2 6 (24.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle