Solutions Architect Jobs in the North of England

Solution Architect
England > North of England

The median Solution Architect salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 117 152
Rank change year-on-year -35 +35 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 234 406 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.03% 2.32% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 2.44% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 157 318 166
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,809 £61,250
25th Percentile - £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £96,539 £100,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 10,621 16,613 15,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.96% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 12,861 8,142
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,629
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England.

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
North West -35 177 £60,000 -14.29% 53
Yorkshire -39 46 £82,500 +6.45% 37
North East +26 11 £65,000 -18.75% 6
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 15 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 North of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 116 (49.57%) ERP
2 115 (49.15%) Manufacturing
3 114 (48.72%) PLM
3 114 (48.72%) CAD
4 112 (47.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 95 (40.60%) Agile
6 92 (39.32%) Enterprise Architecture
7 82 (35.04%) Roadmaps
8 66 (28.21%) Business Strategy
9 62 (26.50%) SAP
10 60 (25.64%) JIRA
10 60 (25.64%) Confluence
10 60 (25.64%) Social Skills
11 58 (24.79%) Customer Requirements
11 58 (24.79%) Strategic Roadmap
11 58 (24.79%) Siemens
12 57 (24.36%) Business Analysis
13 56 (23.93%) Demand Management
14 36 (15.38%) TOGAF
15 34 (14.53%) Finance
15 34 (14.53%) Microservices
16 32 (13.68%) Azure
17 28 (11.97%) LAN
17 28 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
18 27 (11.54%) Cisco
18 27 (11.54%) Presales
19 26 (11.11%) Firewall
19 26 (11.11%) WAN
19 26 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
19 26 (11.11%) Product Ownership

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 60 (25.64%) Confluence
2 7 (2.99%) SAS
3 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (13.68%) Azure
2 24 (10.26%) GCP
3 23 (9.83%) AWS
4 8 (3.42%) SaaS
5 5 (2.14%) OCI
5 5 (2.14%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.71%) GitHub
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.85%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.97%) LAN
2 26 (11.11%) Firewall
2 26 (11.11%) WAN
3 3 (1.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.85%) DHCP
4 2 (0.85%) FCoE
4 2 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.85%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.85%) Multicast
4 2 (0.85%) NAS
4 2 (0.85%) SAN
4 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.85%) VPN
4 2 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.97%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.98%) Data Lake
3 8 (3.42%) Big Data
3 8 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.85%) MySQL
6 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.85%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) GIS
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 60 (25.64%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (49.15%) Manufacturing
2 60 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.53%) Finance
4 26 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 24 (10.26%) Banking
6 11 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Marketing
8 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Aviation
9 1 (0.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.71%) Middleware
2 2 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.85%) LDAP
2 2 (0.85%) React
3 1 (0.43%) EDI
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.43%) REST
3 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.55%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.99%) Credit Risk
5 7 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.99%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.99%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) CCTV
9 2 (0.85%) Clustering
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Replication
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Linux
1 2 (0.85%) Solaris
1 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (49.57%) ERP
2 114 (48.72%) CAD
2 114 (48.72%) PLM
3 95 (40.60%) Agile
4 92 (39.32%) Enterprise Architecture
5 82 (35.04%) Roadmaps
6 66 (28.21%) Business Strategy
7 58 (24.79%) Customer Requirements
7 58 (24.79%) Strategic Roadmap
8 57 (24.36%) Business Analysis
9 56 (23.93%) Demand Management
10 36 (15.38%) TOGAF
11 34 (14.53%) Microservices
12 28 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
13 27 (11.54%) Presales
14 25 (10.68%) DevOps
15 24 (10.26%) Containerisation
16 21 (8.97%) Domain-Driven Design
17 18 (7.69%) Analytics
18 17 (7.26%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.12%) SQL
2 14 (5.98%) Java
3 12 (5.13%) Python
4 7 (2.99%) R
5 4 (1.71%) C#
6 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 112 (47.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 24 (10.26%) CCNA
2 24 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (10.26%) JNCIA
3 10 (4.27%) TOGAF Certification
4 8 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.56%) Degree
7 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) GDPR
2 7 (2.99%) Basel II
2 7 (2.99%) Basel III
2 7 (2.99%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (2.99%) IFRS
2 7 (2.99%) IFRS 9
2 7 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.71%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.71%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 16 (6.84%) Docker
2 4 (1.71%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.85%) KVM
4 2 (0.85%) NFS
4 2 (0.85%) SRDF
4 2 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.85%) Ansible
2 2 (0.85%) Puppet
2 2 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (26.50%) SAP
2 58 (24.79%) Siemens
3 27 (11.54%) Cisco
4 25 (10.68%) Aruba
4 25 (10.68%) Microsoft
5 24 (10.26%) Fortinet
5 24 (10.26%) Juniper
6 22 (9.40%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.27%) Oracle
8 9 (3.85%) Google
9 5 (2.14%) VMware
10 3 (1.28%) Adobe
10 3 (1.28%) Apple
11 2 (0.85%) EMC
11 2 (0.85%) F5
11 2 (0.85%) IBM
11 2 (0.85%) NetApp
12 1 (0.43%) Dell
12 1 (0.43%) HP
12 1 (0.43%) Workday