Senior Solutions Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Solution Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 578 579
Rank change year-on-year +30 +1 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 32 201 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.29% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 22 160 55
10th Percentile - £54,625 £64,800
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,809 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -24.53% +6.86%
75th Percentile £105,000 £76,938 £88,750
90th Percentile - £94,222 £94,500
UK median annual salary £94,637 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +35.20% -17.65% -

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 35,218 70,245 51,745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.92% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,732 49,603 29,711
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% -

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 -22 14 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands +26 9 £100,000 +60.00%
Midlands +9 9 £100,000 +61.67% 2
North West -10 9 £67,000 +9.47% 2
Scotland +126 5 £89,769 -25.19% 3
South West +101 3 £82,319 +1.32% 3
North East +42 3 £70,000 +14.37%
Yorkshire +13 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -
Senior Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (40.63%) Microservices
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 10 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
4 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
5 8 (25.00%) Java
5 8 (25.00%) AWS
6 7 (21.88%) Python
6 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (21.88%) Agile
6 7 (21.88%) NIST
6 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (21.88%) Azure Certification
6 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.88%) AWS Certification
6 7 (21.88%) DevOps
6 7 (21.88%) Docker
6 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
6 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
7 6 (18.75%) GDPR
7 6 (18.75%) Data Privacy
7 6 (18.75%) GCP
7 6 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
7 6 (18.75%) Architectural Design
7 6 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
7 6 (18.75%) Google

Senior 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 2 (6.25%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.13%) DB2
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Microservices
2 12 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 10 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.88%) Agile
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
5 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (18.75%) Architectural Design
6 6 (18.75%) Data Management
6 6 (18.75%) Data Privacy
6 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (15.63%) API Management
7 5 (15.63%) SDLC
8 4 (12.50%) Business Transformation
8 4 (12.50%) IT Strategy
9 3 (9.38%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) C#
3 6 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) ABAP
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) AWS Certification
1 7 (21.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 7 (21.88%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) NIST
2 6 (18.75%) GDPR
2 6 (18.75%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) NCSC
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Google
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Hyperion
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce