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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 151 132
Rank change year-on-year -112 -19 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 420 1,368 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.06% 1.83% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.92% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 296 811 642
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,868 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.33% +5.33%
75th Percentile £86,563 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £96,539 £97,290
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +2.09%

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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
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% -

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 -54 227 £60,000 -20.00% 83
North West -35 177 £60,000 -14.29% 45
Midlands -96 62 £75,000 +11.11% 82
Yorkshire -54 40 £90,000 +16.13% 32
South East -142 36 £76,250 -1.61% 121
Scotland +66 32 £94,637 +30.53% 28
West Midlands -62 31 £87,375 +12.74% 46
South West -7 30 £71,991 +2.84% 69
East Midlands -37 30 £67,500 +13.45% 34
East of England +55 28 £66,200 -32.10% 45
North East +31 10 £67,500 -14.63% 6
Northern Ireland +24 4 £87,500 - 6
Wales +20 1 £60,850 +35.22% 8
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 UK excluding London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 133 (31.67%) Agile
1 133 (31.67%) Roadmaps
2 129 (30.71%) ERP
3 116 (27.62%) Manufacturing
4 115 (27.38%) PLM
5 114 (27.14%) CAD
6 113 (26.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 108 (25.71%) Enterprise Architecture
8 88 (20.95%) Azure
8 88 (20.95%) Finance
8 88 (20.95%) Social Skills
9 85 (20.24%) Business Strategy
10 72 (17.14%) Microservices
11 66 (15.71%) TOGAF
11 66 (15.71%) Microsoft
11 66 (15.71%) SAP
12 64 (15.24%) Strategic Roadmap
13 60 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
13 60 (14.29%) JIRA
13 60 (14.29%) Confluence
14 58 (13.81%) Business Analysis
14 58 (13.81%) Siemens
15 57 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
16 56 (13.33%) Demand Management
16 56 (13.33%) AWS
17 54 (12.86%) Banking
18 53 (12.62%) GCP
19 52 (12.38%) DevOps
20 46 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
21 41 (9.76%) Containerisation

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 60 (14.29%) Confluence
2 11 (2.62%) Umbraco
3 5 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.95%) SAS
5 3 (0.71%) CMS
5 3 (0.71%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Windchill
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.24%) Odoo
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (20.95%) Azure
2 56 (13.33%) AWS
3 53 (12.62%) GCP
4 38 (9.05%) SaaS
5 17 (4.05%) OCI
6 12 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.86%) Serverless
7 10 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 10 (2.38%) PaaS
8 9 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.43%) Apigee
10 6 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.43%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.95%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (0.95%) GitHub
11 4 (0.95%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (0.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.90%) Firewall
2 24 (5.71%) LAN
2 24 (5.71%) WAN
3 2 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.48%) FCoE
3 2 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (0.48%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.48%) Multicast
3 2 (0.48%) NAS
3 2 (0.48%) SAN
3 2 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.43%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 11 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.38%) Big Data
4 10 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.43%) Power BI
7 4 (0.95%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (0.71%) MySQL
8 3 (0.71%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.48%) GIS
9 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.24%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.48%) Git
3 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (27.62%) Manufacturing
2 88 (20.95%) Finance
2 88 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 54 (12.86%) Banking
4 33 (7.86%) Presentation Skills
5 22 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.57%) Retail
7 14 (3.33%) Electronics
8 12 (2.86%) Law
9 10 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.67%) Marketing
12 6 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.43%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.19%) Legal
14 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
16 1 (0.24%) Back Office
16 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.71%) React
2 12 (2.86%) CSS
2 12 (2.86%) REST
3 11 (2.62%) Ajax
3 11 (2.62%) jQuery
3 11 (2.62%) OAuth
3 11 (2.62%) OpenID
3 11 (2.62%) SAML
4 10 (2.38%) .NET
4 10 (2.38%) React Native
5 7 (1.67%) RESTful
6 6 (1.43%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.19%) Middleware
8 4 (0.95%) Express.js
8 4 (0.95%) Kafka
8 4 (0.95%) Node.js
8 4 (0.95%) SOAP
8 4 (0.95%) Spring
9 3 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.43%) DataPower
7 6 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.95%) Credit Risk
8 4 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.95%) Market Risk
8 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.71%) PropTech
10 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.43%) Android
1 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.71%) Linux
3 2 (0.48%) Solaris
3 2 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (31.67%) Agile
1 133 (31.67%) Roadmaps
2 129 (30.71%) ERP
3 115 (27.38%) PLM
4 114 (27.14%) CAD
5 108 (25.71%) Enterprise Architecture
6 85 (20.24%) Business Strategy
7 72 (17.14%) Microservices
8 66 (15.71%) TOGAF
9 64 (15.24%) Strategic Roadmap
10 60 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
11 58 (13.81%) Business Analysis
12 57 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
13 56 (13.33%) Demand Management
14 52 (12.38%) DevOps
15 46 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (9.76%) Containerisation
17 33 (7.86%) Presales
18 32 (7.62%) Risk Management
19 31 (7.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.81%) SQL
2 32 (7.62%) Java
3 25 (5.95%) JavaScript
3 25 (5.95%) Python
4 21 (5.00%) C#
5 4 (0.95%) R
6 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
6 3 (0.71%) PHP
7 2 (0.48%) ABAP
7 2 (0.48%) C
8 1 (0.24%) Bash
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 113 (26.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 33 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.48%) Degree
5 22 (5.24%) CCNA
5 22 (5.24%) JNCIA
6 21 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 17 (4.05%) Azure Certification
8 16 (3.81%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.24%) CCSP
13 1 (0.24%) CISSP
13 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.33%) GDPR
1 14 (3.33%) SLA
2 11 (2.62%) NIST
3 8 (1.90%) QA
4 7 (1.67%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.95%) Basel II
5 4 (0.95%) Basel III
5 4 (0.95%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (0.95%) IFRS
5 4 (0.95%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.95%) JSP 440
5 4 (0.95%) NIST 800
5 4 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (7.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.48%) KVM
3 2 (0.48%) NFS
3 2 (0.48%) SRDF
3 2 (0.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.43%) Terraform
4 4 (0.95%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (15.71%) Microsoft
1 66 (15.71%) SAP
2 58 (13.81%) Siemens
3 25 (5.95%) Cisco
3 25 (5.95%) Google
4 24 (5.71%) Oracle
5 23 (5.48%) Aruba
6 22 (5.24%) Fortinet
6 22 (5.24%) Juniper
7 21 (5.00%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.14%) IBM
8 9 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.43%) Apple
9 6 (1.43%) PayPal
9 6 (1.43%) Zoho
10 4 (0.95%) Databricks
11 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.71%) Sparx
11 3 (0.71%) VMware
12 2 (0.48%) PTC