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 £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 154 157
Rank change year-on-year +49 +3 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 420 397 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.40% 2.30% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 2.58% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 314 171 182
10th Percentile £56,809 £60,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £107,875
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,599 15,406 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.33% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,835 8,145 11,008
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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
North West +35 211 £70,000 -6.67% 43
Yorkshire +68 182 £77,500 - 26
North East +8 27 £80,000 -5.88% 5
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 North of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 121 (28.81%) Agile
2 115 (27.38%) Azure
3 97 (23.10%) Social Skills
4 83 (19.76%) AWS
4 83 (19.76%) Microservices
5 82 (19.52%) Roadmaps
6 81 (19.29%) Public Cloud
7 75 (17.86%) Design Patterns
8 74 (17.62%) Coaching
9 71 (16.90%) Architectural Patterns
10 70 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 66 (15.71%) Microsoft
12 64 (15.24%) Finance
13 60 (14.29%) Security Cleared
14 59 (14.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 56 (13.33%) Presales
16 55 (13.10%) IT Strategy
16 55 (13.10%) TOGAF
17 52 (12.38%) SC Cleared
18 50 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
19 47 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
20 44 (10.48%) Open Source
20 44 (10.48%) ERP
21 43 (10.24%) Migration
21 43 (10.24%) Enterprise Architecture
22 41 (9.76%) Degree
22 41 (9.76%) Public Sector
23 40 (9.52%) GCP
24 38 (9.05%) SaaS
25 37 (8.81%) Analytics

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 14 (3.33%) CMS
2 12 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.86%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.71%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.90%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.71%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.71%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.48%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.24%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.24%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 115 (27.38%) Azure
2 83 (19.76%) AWS
3 40 (9.52%) GCP
4 38 (9.05%) SaaS
5 20 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (3.10%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (2.62%) IaaS
9 11 (2.62%) PaaS
10 9 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.19%) GitHub
12 3 (0.71%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.71%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.10%) SD-WAN
1 13 (3.10%) SSL
1 13 (3.10%) WAN
2 12 (2.86%) BGP
2 12 (2.86%) DNS
2 12 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.38%) Firewall
4 8 (1.90%) Wireless
5 6 (1.43%) Network Security
6 3 (0.71%) 4G
6 3 (0.71%) 5G
6 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.48%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) IPsec
8 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.62%) NoSQL
1 32 (7.62%) Relational Database
2 19 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.81%) DB2
4 14 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 12 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 8 (1.90%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.95%) Big Data
8 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.71%) MySQL
8 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.71%) QualityStage
9 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.48%) GIS
9 2 (0.48%) Looker
9 2 (0.48%) Redis
10 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 97 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 64 (15.24%) Finance
3 41 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.38%) Legal
6 21 (5.00%) Retail
7 12 (2.86%) Banking
8 5 (1.19%) Games
8 5 (1.19%) Law
9 4 (0.95%) Aviation
9 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.48%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Back Office
12 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.52%) Spring Boot
2 18 (4.29%) .NET
3 12 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.67%) Spring
5 6 (1.43%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.95%) Middleware
7 2 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.48%) EDI
7 2 (0.48%) Node.js
7 2 (0.48%) SAP TM
7 2 (0.48%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.48%) Vue
8 1 (0.24%) Blazor
8 1 (0.24%) OAuth
8 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.24%) OpenID
8 1 (0.24%) SAML
8 1 (0.24%) Web Services
8 1 (0.24%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (19.29%) Public Cloud
2 25 (5.95%) IoT
3 21 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.57%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.67%) Robotics
8 6 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.19%) FMCG
10 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.71%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.24%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.52%) Linux
2 13 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.43%) VME
4 1 (0.24%) HPUX
4 1 (0.24%) Solaris
4 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (28.81%) Agile
2 83 (19.76%) Microservices
3 82 (19.52%) Roadmaps
4 75 (17.86%) Design Patterns
5 74 (17.62%) Coaching
6 71 (16.90%) Architectural Patterns
7 70 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 59 (14.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 56 (13.33%) Presales
10 55 (13.10%) IT Strategy
10 55 (13.10%) TOGAF
11 50 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
12 47 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (10.48%) ERP
13 44 (10.48%) Open Source
14 43 (10.24%) Enterprise Architecture
14 43 (10.24%) Migration
15 37 (8.81%) Analytics
15 37 (8.81%) Business Case
15 37 (8.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.43%) SQL
2 23 (5.48%) JavaScript
3 14 (3.33%) Java
4 10 (2.38%) C#
5 8 (1.90%) Python
6 6 (1.43%) COBOL
6 6 (1.43%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 4 (0.95%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 60 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 52 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.76%) Degree
4 21 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 17 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.19%) CCNA
8 5 (1.19%) CCNP
8 5 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.19%) CISM
8 5 (1.19%) CISSP
9 4 (0.95%) CEH
10 3 (0.71%) OCP
10 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.19%) GDPR
3 4 (0.95%) NIST
4 3 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.71%) QA
5 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) RACF
2 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.62%) Terraform
2 6 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.19%) CASB
4 4 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.71%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.62%) Oracle
3 26 (6.19%) Google
4 25 (5.95%) SAP
5 17 (4.05%) IBM
6 15 (3.57%) Sparx
7 13 (3.10%) Cisco
8 8 (1.90%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.90%) Juniper
9 7 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.43%) Micro Focus
10 6 (1.43%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.19%) Adobe
11 5 (1.19%) Apple
11 5 (1.19%) Dell
11 5 (1.19%) Meraki
11 5 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.71%) Databricks
12 3 (0.71%) Tanium
13 2 (0.48%) HubSpot