Solutions Architect Jobs in the North West

Solution Architect
England > North West

The median Solution Architect salary in the North West is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 157 142
Rank change year-on-year +44 -15 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 200 161 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.06% 2.01% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 2.25% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 143 71 68
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,219 £66,140
25th Percentile £62,250 £65,625 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £112,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,193 7,147 9,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.24% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,071 4,129 5,469
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,996
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Manchester +37 114 £70,576 -11.78% 28
Merseyside +17 33 £65,500 +7.66% 1
Cumbria +2 19 £67,500 +6.30%
Lancashire +4 16 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Cheshire -9 16 £82,500 +23.29% 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 North West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 68 (34.00%) Agile
2 62 (31.00%) Azure
3 57 (28.50%) Social Skills
4 43 (21.50%) Public Cloud
5 40 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 38 (19.00%) Microservices
7 35 (17.50%) Presales
7 35 (17.50%) AWS
8 34 (17.00%) Actionable Insight
8 34 (17.00%) Design Patterns
9 33 (16.50%) SC Cleared
10 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
11 31 (15.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 30 (15.00%) Roadmaps
12 30 (15.00%) Migration
13 29 (14.50%) SaaS
14 27 (13.50%) Coaching
14 27 (13.50%) Finance
14 27 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (13.00%) Business Case
15 26 (13.00%) Architectural Patterns
15 26 (13.00%) Software Engineering
15 26 (13.00%) Mentoring
16 25 (12.50%) TOGAF
17 24 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (12.00%) IT Strategy
18 22 (11.00%) Commercial Awareness
18 22 (11.00%) Thought Leadership
19 21 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
20 20 (10.00%) GCP

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.00%) Anypoint
Applications
1 10 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (4.00%) SAP BPC
4 4 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.50%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.50%) SAP PP
6 2 (1.00%) SAP ERP
6 2 (1.00%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.50%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.00%) Azure
2 35 (17.50%) AWS
3 29 (14.50%) SaaS
4 20 (10.00%) GCP
5 13 (6.50%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (6.00%) IaaS
6 12 (6.00%) PaaS
6 12 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.50%) GitHub
9 3 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.00%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.50%) SSL
2 8 (4.00%) BGP
2 8 (4.00%) DNS
2 8 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.00%) SD-WAN
3 6 (3.00%) WAN
4 4 (2.00%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) IPsec
5 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.00%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.00%) SAP BW
5 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.00%) DB2
6 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.50%) MySQL
6 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.50%) Finance
3 21 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.00%) Legal
6 11 (5.50%) Retail
7 9 (4.50%) Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Law
8 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (3.50%) .NET
3 4 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.00%) EDI
4 2 (1.00%) Middleware
4 2 (1.00%) Node.js
4 2 (1.00%) SAP TM
4 2 (1.00%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (1.00%) Vue
5 1 (0.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.50%) JDBC
5 1 (0.50%) OAuth
5 1 (0.50%) OpenID
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.50%) REST
5 1 (0.50%) SAML
5 1 (0.50%) Spring
5 1 (0.50%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.50%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.50%) IoT
5 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.50%) FMCG
7 4 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.50%) Robotics
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.00%) Linux
2 9 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) HPUX
3 1 (0.50%) Solaris
3 1 (0.50%) VME
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.00%) Agile
2 38 (19.00%) Microservices
3 35 (17.50%) Presales
4 34 (17.00%) Actionable Insight
4 34 (17.00%) Design Patterns
5 31 (15.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 30 (15.00%) Migration
6 30 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 27 (13.50%) Coaching
7 27 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 26 (13.00%) Business Case
8 26 (13.00%) Mentoring
8 26 (13.00%) Software Engineering
9 25 (12.50%) TOGAF
10 24 (12.00%) IT Strategy
10 24 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (11.00%) Commercial Awareness
11 22 (11.00%) Thought Leadership
12 20 (10.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (6.00%) SQL
3 8 (4.00%) Java
4 7 (3.50%) C#
5 4 (2.00%) Bicep
6 2 (1.00%) Python
7 1 (0.50%) COBOL
7 1 (0.50%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.00%) Degree
4 8 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (3.00%) OCP
5 6 (3.00%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (2.50%) CCNA
6 5 (2.50%) CCNP
6 5 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.00%) CEH
7 4 (2.00%) CISM
7 4 (2.00%) CISSP
7 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.00%) GDPR
1 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.00%) NIST
2 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) RACF
1 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.50%) Terraform
2 5 (2.50%) CASB
3 4 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.50%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) Oracle
3 14 (7.00%) SAP
4 11 (5.50%) Google
5 10 (5.00%) Sparx
6 7 (3.50%) IBM
7 6 (3.00%) Cisco
8 5 (2.50%) Adobe
8 5 (2.50%) Apple
8 5 (2.50%) Meraki
9 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.50%) Tanium
10 2 (1.00%) Databricks
10 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.50%) HP
11 1 (0.50%) Micro Focus
11 1 (0.50%) Sun
11 1 (0.50%) Unisys
11 1 (0.50%) VMware