Solutions Architect Jobs in Manchester

Solution Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Solution Architect salary in Manchester is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 140 147
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 114 109 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.23% 2.19% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 2.39% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 87 52 43
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,750 £66,140
25th Percentile £62,500 £68,938 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -5.88% +20.79%
75th Percentile £88,125 £100,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £97,889 £108,125 £120,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,849 4,561 5,495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.66% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,758 2,666 3,708
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,425
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Manchester

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Manchester

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in Manchester

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cheadle - 1 £67,500 -
Solutions Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Manchester region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 44 (38.60%) Agile
1 44 (38.60%) Azure
2 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 30 (26.32%) Public Cloud
4 28 (24.56%) Microservices
5 25 (21.93%) Software Engineering
5 25 (21.93%) Migration
5 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
6 24 (21.05%) Presales
7 22 (19.30%) AWS
8 21 (18.42%) Design Patterns
9 19 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.79%) Roadmaps
11 17 (14.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 17 (14.91%) GCP
11 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
11 17 (14.91%) Technical Architecture
11 17 (14.91%) Finance
12 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
12 16 (14.04%) IT Strategy
12 16 (14.04%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (12.28%) Enterprise Architecture
13 14 (12.28%) TOGAF
13 14 (12.28%) Thought Leadership
13 14 (12.28%) Security Architecture
13 14 (12.28%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (12.28%) Business Case
14 13 (11.40%) DevOps
15 12 (10.53%) SaaS

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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.51%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.60%) Azure
2 22 (19.30%) AWS
3 17 (14.91%) GCP
4 12 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.53%) SaaS
5 11 (9.65%) IaaS
5 11 (9.65%) PaaS
6 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.39%) GitHub
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.75%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) SD-WAN
1 5 (4.39%) SSL
1 5 (4.39%) WAN
2 4 (3.51%) BGP
2 4 (3.51%) DNS
2 4 (3.51%) Network Security
2 4 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) IPsec
3 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
1 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.63%) DB2
4 3 (2.63%) MySQL
4 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.89%) Banking
4 9 (7.89%) Legal
5 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Law
7 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) .NET
2 4 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.51%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.75%) Middleware
3 2 (1.75%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.88%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.88%) JDBC
4 1 (0.88%) MACH
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.88%) OpenID
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) Spring
4 1 (0.88%) Struts
4 1 (0.88%) Web Services
4 1 (0.88%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.32%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.26%) IoT
3 6 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.63%) FMCG
5 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.75%) Robotics
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Linux
1 5 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.88%) HPUX
2 1 (0.88%) Solaris
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.60%) Agile
2 28 (24.56%) Microservices
3 25 (21.93%) Migration
3 25 (21.93%) Software Engineering
4 24 (21.05%) Presales
5 21 (18.42%) Design Patterns
6 19 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 17 (14.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 17 (14.91%) Technical Architecture
9 16 (14.04%) Architectural Patterns
9 16 (14.04%) IT Strategy
10 14 (12.28%) Business Case
10 14 (12.28%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (12.28%) Enterprise Architecture
10 14 (12.28%) Security Architecture
10 14 (12.28%) Thought Leadership
10 14 (12.28%) TOGAF
11 13 (11.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.02%) Java
1 8 (7.02%) SQL
2 6 (5.26%) C#
3 2 (1.75%) Python
4 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.53%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) OCP
4 6 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.39%) CCNA
5 5 (4.39%) CCNP
5 5 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.51%) CEH
6 4 (3.51%) CISM
6 4 (3.51%) CISSP
6 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) GDPR
1 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.51%) NIST
2 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) RACF
1 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.39%) CASB
1 5 (4.39%) Terraform
2 4 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.63%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) Oracle
3 8 (7.02%) Google
4 5 (4.39%) Adobe
4 5 (4.39%) Apple
4 5 (4.39%) Cisco
4 5 (4.39%) Meraki
4 5 (4.39%) Sparx
5 4 (3.51%) IBM
6 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) Tanium
7 2 (1.75%) Databricks
7 2 (1.75%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) Ariba
8 1 (0.88%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) Informatica
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) Sun
8 1 (0.88%) Unisys