Solutions Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 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 143 85 193
Rank change year-on-year -58 +108 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,193 1,806 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.83% 3.75% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 4.18% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 734 570 717
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,993
25th Percentile £60,000 £68,367 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,940
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +2.05% +8.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,520
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.01% +3.15%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -29 357 £70,000 -10.90% 26
South East +14 327 £75,000 -11.76% 22
Midlands -42 220 £77,500 +3.33% 11
North West -28 205 £70,000 -12.50% 16
South West -29 158 £72,500 - 13
Yorkshire -11 131 £70,000 -7.35% 5
West Midlands +24 130 £78,000 +4.00% 6
East Midlands -73 90 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Scotland -120 83 £71,991 +2.01% 6
Wales -33 24 £45,000 -51.35%
North East -18 21 £70,000 -12.50% 5
East of England -93 17 £100,000 +33.33% 2
Northern Ireland -25 14 £85,000 +21.43% 14
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Solutions Architect
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 353 (29.59%) Agile
2 298 (24.98%) Azure
3 272 (22.80%) Microsoft
4 266 (22.30%) Social Skills
5 239 (20.03%) TOGAF
6 237 (19.87%) Finance
7 229 (19.20%) Roadmaps
8 208 (17.44%) AWS
9 194 (16.26%) Enterprise Architecture
10 143 (11.99%) Public Cloud
10 143 (11.99%) Oracle
11 142 (11.90%) Security Cleared
12 141 (11.82%) Mentoring
13 136 (11.40%) Microservices
13 136 (11.40%) ERP
14 133 (11.15%) Degree
15 132 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
16 131 (10.98%) Architectural Patterns
16 131 (10.98%) Coaching
17 116 (9.72%) Presales
18 115 (9.64%) Migration
19 113 (9.47%) SC Cleared
20 109 (9.14%) Data Management
20 109 (9.14%) SAP
21 96 (8.05%) DevOps
21 96 (8.05%) Dynamics 365
22 92 (7.71%) Design Patterns
23 87 (7.29%) Strategic Roadmap
23 87 (7.29%) Change Management
24 85 (7.12%) Retail

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 75 (6.29%) SAS
2 48 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.35%) WebLogic
4 9 (0.75%) CMS
5 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.17%) Apache
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.084%) Appian
8 1 (0.084%) Drupal
8 1 (0.084%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.50%) Simulink
5 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 76 (6.37%) SAP ERP
2 69 (5.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.25%) Maximo
7 3 (0.25%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.25%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.25%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.084%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.084%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.084%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 298 (24.98%) Azure
2 208 (17.44%) AWS
3 96 (8.05%) Dynamics 365
4 74 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (6.20%) Power Platform
5 70 (5.87%) SaaS
6 55 (4.61%) GCP
7 50 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
8 46 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (2.10%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.76%) Serverless
12 19 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.17%) PaaS
14 13 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.09%) GitHub
15 12 (1.01%) IaaS
15 12 (1.01%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 75 (6.29%) Broadband
2 43 (3.60%) DNS
3 41 (3.44%) BGP
3 41 (3.44%) TCP/IP
4 40 (3.35%) SSL
5 26 (2.18%) WAN
6 25 (2.10%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.84%) Firewall
8 9 (0.75%) Network Security
9 8 (0.67%) Wireless
10 4 (0.34%) Intranet
11 3 (0.25%) LAN
12 2 (0.17%) MPLS
12 2 (0.17%) VPN
12 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.084%) 4G
13 1 (0.084%) HTTP
13 1 (0.084%) IPv6
13 1 (0.084%) NFC
13 1 (0.084%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.95%) Relational Database
2 47 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (3.52%) RDBMS
4 41 (3.44%) Oracle Database
5 37 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.17%) Power BI
9 12 (1.01%) DB2
10 8 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.42%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.34%) SAP BW
14 3 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.25%) Big Data
14 3 (0.25%) MySQL
15 2 (0.17%) Looker
15 2 (0.17%) Metadata
15 2 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.25%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.25%) Maven
6 1 (0.084%) Git
6 1 (0.084%) JIRA
General
1 266 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 237 (19.87%) Finance
3 85 (7.12%) Retail
4 83 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 49 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (2.93%) Marketing
8 32 (2.68%) Banking
9 30 (2.51%) Legal
10 26 (2.18%) Law
11 23 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.26%) Military
14 14 (1.17%) General Ledger
14 14 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.84%) Billing
16 7 (0.59%) Aviation
16 7 (0.59%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.53%) .NET
2 44 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
3 43 (3.60%) Spring Boot
4 10 (0.84%) Kafka
5 9 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 9 (0.75%) REST
5 9 (0.75%) Web Services
6 7 (0.59%) EDI
6 7 (0.59%) RESTful
7 5 (0.42%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.42%) Node.js
8 4 (0.34%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.34%) CSS
8 4 (0.34%) HTML
8 4 (0.34%) JSON
8 4 (0.34%) Middleware
8 4 (0.34%) Spring
8 4 (0.34%) XML
8 4 (0.34%) YAML
9 3 (0.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 143 (11.99%) Public Cloud
2 72 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 43 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.01%) PMI
6 22 (1.84%) Operational Technology
7 16 (1.34%) IoT
8 12 (1.01%) Mobile App
9 9 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (0.67%) FMCG
10 8 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.59%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.50%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.34%) Biopharmaceutical
14 4 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.34%) Robotics
14 4 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.44%) Linux
2 41 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (0.67%) VME
3 8 (0.67%) Windows
4 2 (0.17%) Mesosphere
4 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.084%) Android
5 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.084%) HPUX
5 1 (0.084%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (29.59%) Agile
2 239 (20.03%) TOGAF
3 229 (19.20%) Roadmaps
4 194 (16.26%) Enterprise Architecture
5 141 (11.82%) Mentoring
6 136 (11.40%) ERP
6 136 (11.40%) Microservices
7 132 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (10.98%) Architectural Patterns
8 131 (10.98%) Coaching
9 116 (9.72%) Presales
10 115 (9.64%) Migration
11 109 (9.14%) Data Management
12 96 (8.05%) DevOps
13 92 (7.71%) Design Patterns
14 87 (7.29%) Change Management
14 87 (7.29%) Strategic Roadmap
15 85 (7.12%) ArchiMate
16 84 (7.04%) Scrum
17 75 (6.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (3.52%) JavaScript
2 39 (3.27%) C#
3 29 (2.43%) SQL
4 22 (1.84%) Java
5 19 (1.59%) Python
6 11 (0.92%) MATLAB
7 8 (0.67%) COBOL
7 8 (0.67%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 7 (0.59%) Bicep
9 6 (0.50%) PHP
10 5 (0.42%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.25%) Go
12 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.084%) ABAP
13 1 (0.084%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.084%) C
13 1 (0.084%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.084%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 133 (11.15%) Degree
3 113 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 68 (5.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 57 (4.78%) Azure Certification
6 55 (4.61%) AWS Certification
7 54 (4.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.01%) PMI Certification
10 19 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (1.34%) CCNA
12 16 (1.34%) CCNP
12 16 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.34%) CEH
14 4 (0.34%) CISM
14 4 (0.34%) CISSP
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (0.92%) GDPR
2 10 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.59%) SLA
6 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.42%) QA
7 4 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.34%) NIST
8 3 (0.25%) GRC
8 3 (0.25%) HMG Infosec
8 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.25%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.25%) PMO
8 3 (0.25%) RMADS
9 1 (0.084%) COBIT
9 1 (0.084%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (1.76%) Docker
2 11 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (2.35%) Terraform
2 23 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.26%) CASB
4 7 (0.59%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.42%) Puppet
6 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.25%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.17%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.084%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.084%) SCCM
Vendors
1 272 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 143 (11.99%) Oracle
3 109 (9.14%) SAP
4 75 (6.29%) Anaplan
4 75 (6.29%) Hyperion
5 69 (5.78%) Sparx
6 43 (3.60%) Google
7 34 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.93%) Cisco
9 19 (1.59%) Apple
10 17 (1.42%) IBM
11 16 (1.34%) Adobe
12 15 (1.26%) Meraki
13 14 (1.17%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.84%) Dell
15 8 (0.67%) Micro Focus
15 8 (0.67%) VMware
16 6 (0.50%) Juniper
16 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
17 5 (0.42%) Fortinet