Solutions Architect Jobs in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect salary in the South East is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 132 185
Rank change year-on-year +14 +53 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 327 296 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.17% 2.55% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 2.79% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 117 119 171
10th Percentile £60,600 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Thames Valley +19 146 £75,000 -7.69% 6
Berkshire +24 79 £75,000 -14.29% 3
Middlesex 0 54 - -
Buckinghamshire +12 52 £75,250 -8.79% 3
Surrey -9 43 £77,500 +5.08% 2
Hampshire -43 38 £65,000 -23.53% 10
East Sussex +31 28 £90,000 -18.18% 3
Oxfordshire -28 15 £71,500 +10.00%
West Sussex +31 13 £67,500 -27.03%
Kent -28 3 £90,000 +24.14% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 South East region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 152 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 125 (38.23%) Roadmaps
3 118 (36.09%) Finance
4 111 (33.94%) Agile
5 94 (28.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 93 (28.44%) TOGAF
7 88 (26.91%) Data Management
8 84 (25.69%) Oracle
9 81 (24.77%) ERP
10 79 (24.16%) Change Management
11 78 (23.85%) Strategic Roadmap
12 77 (23.55%) SAP
13 75 (22.94%) SAS
13 75 (22.94%) Broadband
13 75 (22.94%) Hyperion
13 75 (22.94%) SAP ERP
13 75 (22.94%) Performance Management
13 75 (22.94%) Anaplan
14 69 (21.10%) Microsoft
15 66 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (17.43%) Azure
17 54 (16.51%) Degree
18 44 (13.46%) Mentoring
19 40 (12.23%) Line Management
20 36 (11.01%) AWS
21 34 (10.40%) Coaching
22 33 (10.09%) Prototyping
22 33 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 32 (9.79%) Microservices
24 31 (9.48%) Security Cleared

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 75 (22.94%) SAS
2 11 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.22%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (22.94%) SAP ERP
2 8 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.31%) Maximo
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (17.43%) Azure
2 36 (11.01%) AWS
3 28 (8.56%) Power Platform
4 25 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
5 21 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.67%) SaaS
7 11 (3.36%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.06%) Serverless
9 9 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.83%) GCP
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.53%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.53%) OCI
11 5 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (22.94%) Broadband
2 16 (4.89%) WAN
3 15 (4.59%) SD-WAN
4 10 (3.06%) Firewall
5 8 (2.45%) Wireless
6 5 (1.53%) BGP
6 5 (1.53%) DNS
6 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) Intranet
7 4 (1.22%) SSL
8 3 (0.92%) LAN
9 2 (0.61%) MPLS
9 2 (0.61%) Network Security
9 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.31%) 4G
10 1 (0.31%) 5G
10 1 (0.31%) HTTP
10 1 (0.31%) NFC
10 1 (0.31%) OSPF
10 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.83%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.22%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.92%) Power BI
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) GIS
8 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
General
1 152 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 118 (36.09%) Finance
3 33 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (8.56%) Retail
5 27 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.06%) Billing
6 10 (3.06%) Marketing
7 9 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.14%) Law
8 7 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.53%) Legal
10 4 (1.22%) Banking
10 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Publishing
11 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.61%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.31%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.06%) .NET
2 7 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (1.83%) Kafka
4 4 (1.22%) RESTful
4 4 (1.22%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.92%) Node.js
5 3 (0.92%) REST
5 3 (0.92%) Web Services
6 2 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.31%) EDI
7 1 (0.31%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.42%) PMI
2 20 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.53%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.22%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.61%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.31%) Chip Card
8 1 (0.31%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.31%) Contactless
8 1 (0.31%) EMV
8 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.31%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.31%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.22%) Linux
1 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (0.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (38.23%) Roadmaps
2 111 (33.94%) Agile
3 94 (28.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 93 (28.44%) TOGAF
5 88 (26.91%) Data Management
6 81 (24.77%) ERP
7 79 (24.16%) Change Management
8 78 (23.85%) Strategic Roadmap
9 75 (22.94%) Performance Management
10 66 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (13.46%) Mentoring
12 40 (12.23%) Line Management
13 34 (10.40%) Coaching
14 33 (10.09%) Prototyping
15 32 (9.79%) Microservices
16 29 (8.87%) Presales
17 23 (7.03%) Business Development
18 21 (6.42%) Architectural Patterns
19 19 (5.81%) Migration
19 19 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.98%) Java
2 9 (2.75%) C#
3 8 (2.45%) Python
4 3 (0.92%) Go
4 3 (0.92%) SQL
5 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (16.51%) Degree
2 31 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.42%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.53%) CCNA
8 5 (1.53%) CCNP
8 5 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.22%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
2 3 (0.92%) GDPR
3 2 (0.61%) PMO
3 2 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 10 (3.06%) Docker
2 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.53%) CASB
3 4 (1.22%) Terraform
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.31%) Ansible
5 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (25.69%) Oracle
2 77 (23.55%) SAP
3 75 (22.94%) Anaplan
3 75 (22.94%) Hyperion
4 69 (21.10%) Microsoft
5 16 (4.89%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.36%) Cisco
7 10 (3.06%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.45%) Apple
9 6 (1.83%) Juniper
10 5 (1.53%) Adobe
10 5 (1.53%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.53%) Meraki
10 5 (1.53%) Sparx
11 4 (1.22%) Google
12 3 (0.92%) Dell
13 2 (0.61%) VMware
14 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
14 1 (0.31%) Databricks