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 £74,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 134 183
Rank change year-on-year -18 +49 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,328 1,562 1,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 2.67% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 3.00% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 799 655 651
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +4.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £96,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +6.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 69,645 52,139 69,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 49,228 29,915 42,540
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 May 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 May 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 +32 423 £75,000 -3.23% 43
South East +5 328 £77,500 -8.82% 110
Midlands -7 278 £67,500 -10.00% 38
North West +32 214 £70,000 -9.68% 23
Yorkshire +46 180 £77,500 +3.33% 17
South West -6 167 £70,000 -3.42% 25
West Midlands +30 164 £77,500 +3.33% 23
East Midlands -41 113 £59,500 -17.93% 13
Scotland -120 86 £72,500 +3.57% 12
North East +7 29 £80,000 -5.88% 3
East of England -77 23 £97,500 +14.71% 8
Northern Ireland +8 21 £90,000 +28.57% 9
Wales -30 18 £45,000 -51.35% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -
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 May 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.

1 400 (30.12%) Agile
1 400 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 340 (25.60%) Azure
3 291 (21.91%) Microsoft
4 276 (20.78%) TOGAF
5 275 (20.71%) Roadmaps
6 245 (18.45%) Finance
6 245 (18.45%) Security Cleared
7 237 (17.85%) AWS
8 214 (16.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 213 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
10 204 (15.36%) SC Cleared
11 187 (14.08%) Microservices
12 178 (13.40%) Degree
13 174 (13.10%) Presales
14 170 (12.80%) ERP
15 158 (11.90%) Public Cloud
16 156 (11.75%) Actionable Insight
17 151 (11.37%) Architectural Patterns
18 148 (11.14%) Oracle
19 145 (10.92%) Coaching
20 140 (10.54%) Analytics
21 139 (10.47%) Mentoring
22 136 (10.24%) IT Strategy
23 132 (9.94%) DevOps
24 128 (9.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
25 127 (9.56%) SAP
26 124 (9.34%) Migration
27 120 (9.04%) Business Case
28 117 (8.81%) ArchiMate

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 (5.65%) SAS
2 40 (3.01%) WebLogic
3 29 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.36%) CMS
5 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.38%) Drupal
8 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.075%) Appian
11 1 (0.075%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.45%) Simulink
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 81 (6.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 76 (5.72%) SAP ERP
3 26 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 8 (0.60%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.23%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.23%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.23%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.075%) Endur
9 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.075%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.075%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.075%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 340 (25.60%) Azure
2 237 (17.85%) AWS
3 96 (7.23%) Power Platform
4 91 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
5 88 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (5.57%) GCP
7 72 (5.42%) SaaS
8 55 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (2.79%) PowerApps
12 33 (2.48%) PaaS
13 30 (2.26%) IaaS
14 26 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (1.73%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.66%) Serverless
17 14 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.72%) Broadband
2 44 (3.31%) DNS
3 40 (3.01%) BGP
3 40 (3.01%) SSL
3 40 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 32 (2.41%) SD-WAN
4 32 (2.41%) WAN
5 25 (1.88%) Firewall
6 16 (1.20%) Wireless
7 12 (0.90%) Network Security
8 7 (0.53%) Intranet
9 5 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.30%) VoIP
11 3 (0.23%) 4G
11 3 (0.23%) 5G
11 3 (0.23%) PBX
12 2 (0.15%) LAN
12 2 (0.15%) MPLS
12 2 (0.15%) VPN
13 1 (0.075%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.97%) Relational Database
2 50 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
3 44 (3.31%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (3.16%) RDBMS
5 41 (3.09%) Oracle Database
6 31 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.18%) Power BI
8 20 (1.51%) Big Data
9 19 (1.43%) DB2
10 15 (1.13%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.05%) Data Lake
12 12 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.60%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.45%) GIS
15 5 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.38%) Metadata
16 4 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.23%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.23%) Maven
3 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 400 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 245 (18.45%) Finance
3 91 (6.85%) Retail
4 83 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.84%) Legal
7 50 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (3.09%) Banking
9 39 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.51%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.51%) Marketing
13 14 (1.05%) Military
14 12 (0.90%) Law
15 10 (0.75%) Billing
15 10 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.75%) Publishing
16 8 (0.60%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.50%) .NET
2 56 (4.22%) Spring Boot
3 40 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
4 19 (1.43%) Kafka
5 13 (0.98%) Spring
6 12 (0.90%) Node.js
7 10 (0.75%) Middleware
8 9 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.53%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.30%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.30%) EDI
10 4 (0.30%) YAML
11 3 (0.23%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.23%) AWS CDK
11 3 (0.23%) CSS
11 3 (0.23%) HTML
11 3 (0.23%) REST
11 3 (0.23%) Vue
11 3 (0.23%) Web Services
11 3 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 102 (7.68%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 45 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (2.48%) IoT
6 23 (1.73%) Mobile App
6 23 (1.73%) PMI
7 13 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 12 (0.90%) Robotics
9 11 (0.83%) Operational Technology
10 9 (0.68%) Taxonomies
11 8 (0.60%) FMCG
11 8 (0.60%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.53%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.53%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.97%) Linux
2 41 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (1.36%) Windows
4 8 (0.60%) VME
5 6 (0.45%) Mesosphere
6 5 (0.38%) Android
6 5 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.075%) HPUX
7 1 (0.075%) Solaris
7 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (30.12%) Agile
2 276 (20.78%) TOGAF
3 275 (20.71%) Roadmaps
4 214 (16.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 213 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (14.08%) Microservices
7 174 (13.10%) Presales
8 170 (12.80%) ERP
9 156 (11.75%) Actionable Insight
10 151 (11.37%) Architectural Patterns
11 145 (10.92%) Coaching
12 140 (10.54%) Analytics
13 139 (10.47%) Mentoring
14 136 (10.24%) IT Strategy
15 132 (9.94%) DevOps
16 128 (9.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 124 (9.34%) Migration
18 120 (9.04%) Business Case
19 117 (8.81%) ArchiMate
20 113 (8.51%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (4.14%) SQL
2 49 (3.69%) JavaScript
3 39 (2.94%) Java
4 38 (2.86%) C#
5 32 (2.41%) Python
6 11 (0.83%) MATLAB
7 10 (0.75%) Go
7 10 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.60%) COBOL
8 8 (0.60%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 7 (0.53%) Bicep
10 6 (0.45%) Bash
10 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.38%) PHP
12 4 (0.30%) R
13 2 (0.15%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.075%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 204 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 178 (13.40%) Degree
4 101 (7.61%) TOGAF Certification
5 67 (5.05%) Azure Certification
6 64 (4.82%) AWS Certification
7 63 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.73%) PMI Certification
12 21 (1.58%) CCNP
12 21 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.36%) CCNA
14 13 (0.98%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.45%) CISM
16 6 (0.45%) CISSP
17 5 (0.38%) CEH
18 4 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (0.90%) SLA
2 11 (0.83%) QA
3 10 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.45%) GDPR
6 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.30%) NIST
7 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
8 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.23%) PMO
8 3 (0.23%) RMADS
9 2 (0.15%) GRC
9 2 (0.15%) SEPA
10 1 (0.075%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (3.24%) Docker
2 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.56%) Terraform
3 15 (1.13%) CASB
4 9 (0.68%) Ansible
5 7 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.53%) Puppet
6 6 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.23%) Grafana
8 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.23%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.075%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 291 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 148 (11.14%) Oracle
3 127 (9.56%) SAP
4 81 (6.10%) Sparx
5 75 (5.65%) Anaplan
5 75 (5.65%) Hyperion
6 57 (4.29%) Google
7 33 (2.48%) Cisco
8 29 (2.18%) Apple
9 26 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.81%) IBM
11 19 (1.43%) Adobe
11 19 (1.43%) VMware
12 16 (1.20%) Meraki
13 14 (1.05%) Juniper
14 13 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.83%) Fortinet
16 10 (0.75%) Dell
17 8 (0.60%) Micro Focus
18 6 (0.45%) PagerDuty