Solutions Architect Jobs in the North West

Solution Architect
England > North West

The median Solution Architect salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 112 152
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 183 201 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.42% 2.07% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 2.18% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 111 144 69
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,809 £57,244
25th Percentile £59,168 £62,000 £66,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £81,000 £91,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Cumbria -23 118 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Manchester 0 39 £65,000 -7.90% 26
Lancashire -45 19 £55,000 -10.14% 12
Cheshire +31 6 £80,000 -3.03% 5
Merseyside +8 1 £77,500 +18.32% 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 117 (63.93%) ERP
2 116 (63.39%) Manufacturing
3 114 (62.30%) PLM
3 114 (62.30%) CAD
4 112 (61.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 81 (44.26%) Roadmaps
6 71 (38.80%) Enterprise Architecture
7 65 (35.52%) Agile
8 64 (34.97%) Business Strategy
9 60 (32.79%) SAP
10 58 (31.69%) Siemens
10 58 (31.69%) JIRA
10 58 (31.69%) Confluence
10 58 (31.69%) Strategic Roadmap
11 57 (31.15%) Customer Requirements
11 57 (31.15%) Business Analysis
12 56 (30.60%) Demand Management
13 33 (18.03%) Social Skills
14 32 (17.49%) Presales
15 26 (14.21%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (13.66%) Aruba
16 25 (13.66%) LAN
16 25 (13.66%) Cisco
17 24 (13.11%) WAN
17 24 (13.11%) CCNA
17 24 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (13.11%) Juniper
17 24 (13.11%) Firewall
17 24 (13.11%) Azure
17 24 (13.11%) JNCIA

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 58 (31.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.11%) Azure
2 14 (7.65%) AWS
3 6 (3.28%) GCP
4 5 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (2.73%) SaaS
5 4 (2.19%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.09%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.09%) GitHub
7 2 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.09%) IaaS
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.66%) LAN
2 24 (13.11%) Firewall
2 24 (13.11%) WAN
3 3 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (2.73%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.09%) MySQL
3 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.09%) Power BI
3 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.55%) GIS
Development Applications
1 58 (31.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 116 (63.39%) Manufacturing
2 33 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.21%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.64%) Finance
5 3 (1.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.09%) Retail
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Aviation
7 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing
7 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.64%) .NET
2 2 (1.09%) Middleware
2 2 (1.09%) React
3 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.55%) EDI
3 1 (0.55%) jQuery
3 1 (0.55%) REST
3 1 (0.55%) SOAP
3 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
2 5 (2.73%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.19%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.55%) CCTV
6 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (63.93%) ERP
2 114 (62.30%) CAD
2 114 (62.30%) PLM
3 81 (44.26%) Roadmaps
4 71 (38.80%) Enterprise Architecture
5 65 (35.52%) Agile
6 64 (34.97%) Business Strategy
7 58 (31.69%) Strategic Roadmap
8 57 (31.15%) Business Analysis
8 57 (31.15%) Customer Requirements
9 56 (30.60%) Demand Management
10 32 (17.49%) Presales
11 17 (9.29%) TOGAF
12 10 (5.46%) Time Management
13 9 (4.92%) Analytics
13 9 (4.92%) Architectural Design
13 9 (4.92%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (4.37%) DevOps
14 8 (4.37%) Software Licensing
15 7 (3.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.46%) SQL
2 4 (2.19%) Python
3 3 (1.64%) C#
3 3 (1.64%) Java
4 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 112 (61.20%) BPSS Clearance
2 24 (13.11%) CCNA
2 24 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (13.11%) JNCIA
3 7 (3.83%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.28%) Degree
5 4 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.64%) GDPR
1 3 (1.64%) HIPAA
1 3 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (0.55%) GRC
2 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.37%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (3.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (32.79%) SAP
2 58 (31.69%) Siemens
3 25 (13.66%) Aruba
3 25 (13.66%) Cisco
4 24 (13.11%) Fortinet
4 24 (13.11%) Juniper
5 22 (12.02%) Palo Alto
6 16 (8.74%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.37%) Adobe
7 8 (4.37%) Apple
8 5 (2.73%) Google
9 2 (1.09%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) VMware
10 1 (0.55%) Dell
10 1 (0.55%) HP
10 1 (0.55%) IBM
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle
10 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.55%) Sparx