Solutions Architect Jobs in the Midlands

Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Solution Architect salary in the Midlands is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 119 139
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 263 258 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.26% 2.68% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 3.00% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 202 166 152
10th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £60,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £75,940
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.24% +4.74%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 10,986 8,613 10,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.50% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,233 4,790 7,091
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +27 151 £77,500 +3.33% 14
East Midlands -10 110 £60,000 -22.58% 9
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 61 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 48 (18.25%) Agile
3 45 (17.11%) Power Platform
4 43 (16.35%) Azure
5 39 (14.83%) Security Cleared
6 37 (14.07%) ERP
7 35 (13.31%) AWS
7 35 (13.31%) Actionable Insight
7 35 (13.31%) Dynamics 365
7 35 (13.31%) Social Skills
8 34 (12.93%) Roadmaps
9 33 (12.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 32 (12.17%) SC Cleared
11 28 (10.65%) Public Cloud
11 28 (10.65%) Analytics
12 27 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (9.89%) Data Analytics
13 26 (9.89%) Presales
13 26 (9.89%) TOGAF
13 26 (9.89%) Data Modelling
14 25 (9.51%) SAP
14 25 (9.51%) Finance
15 23 (8.75%) Digital Strategy
15 23 (8.75%) Power BI
15 23 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
17 21 (7.98%) Retail
17 21 (7.98%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (7.98%) Visualisation
18 20 (7.60%) Machine Learning

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.52%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.38%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Simulink
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.76%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.11%) Power Platform
2 43 (16.35%) Azure
3 35 (13.31%) AWS
3 35 (13.31%) Dynamics 365
4 19 (7.22%) Power Automate
4 19 (7.22%) PowerApps
5 17 (6.46%) SaaS
6 10 (3.80%) GCP
7 8 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.90%) GitHub
8 5 (1.90%) PaaS
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.14%) IaaS
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.76%) OCI
11 2 (0.76%) Serverless
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.70%) SD-WAN
1 15 (5.70%) WAN
2 10 (3.80%) Firewall
2 10 (3.80%) Wireless
3 4 (1.52%) BGP
3 4 (1.52%) DNS
3 4 (1.52%) SSL
3 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
5 1 (0.38%) GPON
5 1 (0.38%) LAN
5 1 (0.38%) MPLS
5 1 (0.38%) VoIP
5 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.38%) WLAN
5 1 (0.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.75%) Power BI
2 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.66%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.28%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.90%) Metadata
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.52%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.14%) DB2
7 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (4.18%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (13.31%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.51%) Finance
3 21 (7.98%) Retail
4 19 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (6.46%) Manufacturing
6 16 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.18%) Military
9 8 (3.04%) Fire and Rescue
9 8 (3.04%) Police
10 6 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.90%) Legal
12 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.38%) Back Office
14 1 (0.38%) Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Law
14 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.18%) .NET
2 5 (1.90%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.38%) EDI
5 1 (0.38%) Kafka
5 1 (0.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.65%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.04%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.28%) IoT
5 5 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.14%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.14%) FMCG
7 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.38%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.52%) Linux
1 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (18.25%) Agile
2 37 (14.07%) ERP
3 35 (13.31%) Actionable Insight
4 34 (12.93%) Roadmaps
5 33 (12.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 28 (10.65%) Analytics
7 27 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (9.89%) Data Analytics
8 26 (9.89%) Data Modelling
8 26 (9.89%) Presales
8 26 (9.89%) TOGAF
9 23 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (8.75%) Digital Strategy
10 22 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (7.98%) Performance Optimisation
11 21 (7.98%) Visualisation
12 20 (7.60%) Contract Negotiation
12 20 (7.60%) Machine Learning
13 19 (7.22%) DevOps
13 19 (7.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.32%) C#
2 11 (4.18%) JavaScript
2 11 (4.18%) MATLAB
3 8 (3.04%) SQL
4 3 (1.14%) Java
4 3 (1.14%) Python
5 2 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.60%) Degree
4 14 (5.32%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.42%) CCNP
7 9 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.04%) CCNA
9 6 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) CISM
11 1 (0.38%) CISSP
11 1 (0.38%) CWNA
11 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.56%) SLA
2 6 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.90%) CASB
1 5 (1.90%) Terraform
2 3 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 61 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.51%) SAP
3 18 (6.84%) Cisco
4 10 (3.80%) Fortinet
4 10 (3.80%) Juniper
5 9 (3.42%) Google
6 8 (3.04%) Oracle
7 7 (2.66%) Adobe
7 7 (2.66%) Apple
8 6 (2.28%) Meraki
9 5 (1.90%) Sparx
10 3 (1.14%) IBM
11 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.38%) Aruba
12 1 (0.38%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.38%) MikroTik
12 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.38%) Nokia
12 1 (0.38%) Ruckus Wireless
12 1 (0.38%) VMware