Lead Solutions Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Solution Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £94,637 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 652 717
Rank change year-on-year +152 +65 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 77 119 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.16% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 18 58 25
10th Percentile £84,560 £68,750 £74,250
25th Percentile £90,801 £72,493 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £98,474 £86,250 £97,290
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £94,637 £85,000 £92,169
% change year-on-year +11.34% -7.78% +8.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +57 65 £94,637 +14.71% 55
North West +45 58 £70,000 -10.40% 25
Scotland +120 11 £94,637 +63.17% 9
Yorkshire +37 7 £105,000 +27.27% 24
South West +102 1 £95,000 - 31
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 61 (79.22%) Enterprise Architecture
2 60 (77.92%) Agile
3 58 (75.32%) Manufacturing
3 58 (75.32%) PLM
3 58 (75.32%) Siemens
3 58 (75.32%) CAD
3 58 (75.32%) SAP
3 58 (75.32%) ERP
3 58 (75.32%) JIRA
3 58 (75.32%) Confluence
3 58 (75.32%) Business Strategy
4 56 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (20.78%) GCP
6 15 (19.48%) Analytics
6 15 (19.48%) Finance
6 15 (19.48%) Banking
7 12 (15.58%) Azure
8 11 (14.29%) OAuth
8 11 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
8 11 (14.29%) jQuery
8 11 (14.29%) Umbraco
8 11 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (14.29%) OpenID
8 11 (14.29%) Data Analytics
8 11 (14.29%) Software Deployment
8 11 (14.29%) Web Development
8 11 (14.29%) Content Management
8 11 (14.29%) Ajax
8 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 11 (14.29%) CSS

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (75.32%) Confluence
2 11 (14.29%) Umbraco
3 4 (5.19%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) GCP
2 12 (15.58%) Azure
3 3 (3.90%) SaaS
4 1 (1.30%) AWS
4 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (75.32%) JIRA
General
1 58 (75.32%) Manufacturing
2 15 (19.48%) Banking
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 7 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Ajax
1 11 (14.29%) CSS
1 11 (14.29%) jQuery
1 11 (14.29%) OAuth
1 11 (14.29%) OpenID
1 11 (14.29%) React
1 11 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (1.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Credit Risk
2 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Market Risk
2 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (79.22%) Enterprise Architecture
2 60 (77.92%) Agile
3 58 (75.32%) Business Strategy
3 58 (75.32%) CAD
3 58 (75.32%) ERP
3 58 (75.32%) PLM
4 15 (19.48%) Analytics
5 11 (14.29%) Content Management
5 11 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 11 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 11 (14.29%) MVC
5 11 (14.29%) Software Deployment
5 11 (14.29%) Web Development
6 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (6.49%) CI/CD
7 5 (6.49%) Microservices
8 4 (5.19%) Architecture Governance
8 4 (5.19%) Containerisation
8 4 (5.19%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.19%) Python
2 4 (5.19%) R
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
3 1 (1.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) GDPR
2 4 (5.19%) Basel II
2 4 (5.19%) Basel III
2 4 (5.19%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (5.19%) IFRS
2 4 (5.19%) IFRS 9
2 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (75.32%) SAP
1 58 (75.32%) Siemens
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft