Solutions Architect Jobs in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect salary in the South East is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 158 168
Rank change year-on-year +19 +10 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 334 314 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.99% 2.11% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 2.33% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 104 167 191
10th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £91,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,759 13,491 19,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 90.50% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,363 8,459 12,571
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
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 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 6 May 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 6 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
Thames Valley +34 127 £80,000 -3.03% 16
Berkshire +29 57 £77,500 -3.13% 9
Middlesex -3 55 - -
Surrey -9 54 £77,500 -13.89% 13
Buckinghamshire -4 50 £80,000 -3.03% 6
East Sussex +50 45 £90,000 -18.18% 3
Hampshire -70 22 £65,000 -23.53% 13
Oxfordshire +13 20 £82,000 -13.68% 1
West Sussex +46 14 £67,500 -20.59% 1
Kent -11 8 £88,000 +17.33% 4
Sussex - 6 £75,000 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

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

1 169 (50.60%) Social Skills
2 144 (43.11%) Roadmaps
3 135 (40.42%) Agile
4 124 (37.13%) Finance
5 100 (29.94%) TOGAF
6 98 (29.34%) Enterprise Architecture
7 92 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (25.15%) Strategic Roadmap
9 83 (24.85%) Oracle
10 82 (24.55%) Change Management
11 81 (24.25%) ERP
12 80 (23.95%) Data Management
13 76 (22.75%) SAP
14 75 (22.46%) SAS
14 75 (22.46%) Broadband
14 75 (22.46%) Hyperion
14 75 (22.46%) SAP ERP
14 75 (22.46%) Performance Management
14 75 (22.46%) Anaplan
15 70 (20.96%) Degree
16 67 (20.06%) Microsoft
17 64 (19.16%) Azure
18 56 (16.77%) Microservices
19 46 (13.77%) Mentoring
19 46 (13.77%) Security Cleared
20 45 (13.47%) Cloud Native
21 43 (12.87%) AWS
22 42 (12.57%) Line Management
23 39 (11.68%) DevOps
24 37 (11.08%) Architectural Patterns

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 (22.46%) SAS
2 11 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.50%) Drupal
5 4 (1.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.90%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (22.46%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (19.16%) Azure
2 43 (12.87%) AWS
3 17 (5.09%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.79%) Serverless
5 15 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.29%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.69%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.69%) CloudFront
11 9 (2.69%) GCP
11 9 (2.69%) Route 53
12 8 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 75 (22.46%) Broadband
2 18 (5.39%) SD-WAN
2 18 (5.39%) WAN
3 13 (3.89%) Firewall
3 13 (3.89%) Wireless
4 7 (2.10%) Intranet
5 4 (1.20%) BGP
5 4 (1.20%) DNS
5 4 (1.20%) SSL
5 4 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.80%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.50%) Power BI
8 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 169 (50.60%) Social Skills
2 124 (37.13%) Finance
3 34 (10.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.78%) Retail
5 22 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.99%) Legal
7 18 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Billing
8 10 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Publishing
9 8 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.20%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.60%) French Language
13 2 (0.60%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.60%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.99%) .NET
1 10 (2.99%) Kafka
1 10 (2.99%) Node.js
2 4 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.20%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.90%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.60%) RESTful
5 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.30%) EDI
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.30%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.30%) OpenID
5 1 (0.30%) React
5 1 (0.30%) Swagger
5 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.59%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.59%) PMI
3 8 (2.40%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.10%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.30%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.30%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.30%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.69%) Android
1 9 (2.69%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.80%) Linux
3 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (43.11%) Roadmaps
2 135 (40.42%) Agile
3 100 (29.94%) TOGAF
4 98 (29.34%) Enterprise Architecture
5 92 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (25.15%) Strategic Roadmap
7 82 (24.55%) Change Management
8 81 (24.25%) ERP
9 80 (23.95%) Data Management
10 75 (22.46%) Performance Management
11 56 (16.77%) Microservices
12 46 (13.77%) Mentoring
13 42 (12.57%) Line Management
14 39 (11.68%) DevOps
15 37 (11.08%) Architectural Patterns
16 35 (10.48%) Coaching
17 34 (10.18%) Presales
18 30 (8.98%) Prototyping
19 27 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
20 25 (7.49%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.69%) Java
2 12 (3.59%) Python
3 10 (2.99%) Go
4 6 (1.80%) C#
5 5 (1.50%) SQL
6 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.60%) R
7 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 70 (20.96%) Degree
2 46 (13.77%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.59%) PMI Certification
5 20 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.09%) AWS Certification
6 17 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.19%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.50%) CCNA
11 5 (1.50%) CCNP
11 5 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.90%) QA
3 2 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (6.59%) Docker
2 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.59%) Terraform
3 5 (1.50%) CASB
4 3 (0.90%) Grafana
4 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 83 (24.85%) Oracle
2 76 (22.75%) SAP
3 75 (22.46%) Anaplan
3 75 (22.46%) Hyperion
4 67 (20.06%) Microsoft
5 17 (5.09%) Apple
6 16 (4.79%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.89%) Cisco
8 11 (3.29%) Google
8 11 (3.29%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.40%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.40%) Juniper
10 7 (2.10%) Adobe
10 7 (2.10%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.50%) Meraki
11 5 (1.50%) Sparx
12 4 (1.20%) Dell
13 3 (0.90%) Databricks
14 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.30%) VMware