Senior Solutions Architect Jobs in Manchester

Senior Solution Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Solution Architect salary in Manchester is £64,889 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 197 218
Rank change year-on-year +55 +21 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 14 15 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.64% 0.29% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.31% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile - - £68,550
25th Percentile £59,168 £56,809 £69,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,889 £61,206 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -14.40% +58.89%
75th Percentile £67,000 £65,603 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £62,779 £61,206 £71,500
% change year-on-year +2.57% -14.40% +58.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,989 4,862 4,552
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.50% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 3,754 2,673
10th Percentile £32,475 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,143 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,325 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in Manchester

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Solutions Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 across the Manchester region featuring Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 10 (71.43%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (42.86%) Time Management
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) Adobe
3 6 (42.86%) Apple
3 6 (42.86%) Software Licensing
3 6 (42.86%) Presales
3 6 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (42.86%) Architectural Design
3 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 4 (28.57%) GDPR
4 4 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) NIST
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (28.57%) Python
4 4 (28.57%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) Java
4 4 (28.57%) SQL

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

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 6 (42.86%) Architectural Design
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (42.86%) Presales
2 6 (42.86%) Software Licensing
2 6 (42.86%) Time Management
2 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Data Management
3 4 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 2 (14.29%) Feasibility Study
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
1 4 (28.57%) Java
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) HIPAA
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Adobe
1 6 (42.86%) Apple
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Google