Solutions Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Solution Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 142 156
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 31 101 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.99% 1.51% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.59% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 28 38 42
10th Percentile £51,500 £66,750 £66,375
25th Percentile £69,688 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £91,375 £86,563 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -8.82% +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,560 6,341 5,495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.10% 94.68% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 4,512 3,204
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,954
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +3 15 £80,000 +3.23% 21
Buckinghamshire +27 11 £85,800 +7.25% 13
Oxfordshire +24 5 £72,500 -11.59% 5
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 5 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 Thames Valley region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Enterprise Architecture
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) Microservices
3 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
4 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
4 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
5 5 (16.13%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
5 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
5 5 (16.13%) Project Planning
5 5 (16.13%) SAP Certification
5 5 (16.13%) ERP
5 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
5 5 (16.13%) SAP
5 5 (16.13%) Finance
5 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
5 5 (16.13%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
6 4 (12.90%) SQL
6 4 (12.90%) CRM
6 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (12.90%) ArchiMate
6 4 (12.90%) Mentoring

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.45%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure AI
4 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Automotive
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Advertising
6 1 (3.23%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.45%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) IoT
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (22.58%) Microservices
3 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
3 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
4 5 (16.13%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
4 5 (16.13%) ERP
4 5 (16.13%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
4 5 (16.13%) Project Planning
4 5 (16.13%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
5 4 (12.90%) ArchiMate
5 4 (12.90%) CRM
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) C#
2 2 (6.45%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) SAP Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) MCSE
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
1 5 (16.13%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.45%) Zoho
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) Concur
4 1 (3.23%) VMware