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 to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 136 186
Rank change year-on-year -23 +50 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,281 1,494 1,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 2.51% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 2.81% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 778 670 649
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,675 £57,408
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

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 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
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 14 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 14 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 +35 406 £75,000 -3.23% 58
South East +5 319 £77,500 -8.82% 45
Midlands +5 264 £65,000 -13.33% 36
North West +27 204 £70,000 -6.67% 32
Yorkshire +63 175 £77,500 +3.33% 22
South West -1 166 £70,000 - 33
West Midlands +22 155 £77,500 +3.33% 17
East Midlands -34 108 £60,000 -17.24% 18
Scotland -109 84 £72,500 +3.57% 8
North East +4 27 £80,000 -5.88% 4
East of England -89 21 £100,000 +14.29% 7
Northern Ireland +18 19 £90,000 +33.33% 6
Wales -30 14 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 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 14 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.

1 401 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 398 (31.07%) Agile
3 324 (25.29%) Azure
4 287 (22.40%) Roadmaps
5 278 (21.70%) Microsoft
6 272 (21.23%) TOGAF
7 247 (19.28%) Security Cleared
8 238 (18.58%) Finance
9 224 (17.49%) AWS
10 213 (16.63%) Enterprise Architecture
11 205 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 203 (15.85%) SC Cleared
13 202 (15.77%) Microservices
14 180 (14.05%) Degree
15 170 (13.27%) ERP
16 162 (12.65%) Architectural Patterns
17 160 (12.49%) Presales
18 158 (12.33%) Actionable Insight
19 156 (12.18%) Public Cloud
20 150 (11.71%) Oracle
21 148 (11.55%) Coaching
22 144 (11.24%) Analytics
23 143 (11.16%) Mentoring
24 139 (10.85%) IT Strategy
25 136 (10.62%) DevOps
26 128 (9.99%) Digital Transformation Programme
27 127 (9.91%) SAP
28 124 (9.68%) Migration
29 122 (9.52%) ArchiMate
30 119 (9.29%) Business Case

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 (5.85%) SAS
2 40 (3.12%) WebLogic
3 31 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.33%) CMS
5 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.39%) Drupal
8 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Apache
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.078%) Appian
11 1 (0.078%) Confluence
11 1 (0.078%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.47%) Simulink
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 83 (6.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 76 (5.93%) SAP ERP
3 26 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.94%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 8 (0.62%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
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 2 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.078%) Endur
10 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.078%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.078%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 324 (25.29%) Azure
2 224 (17.49%) AWS
3 97 (7.57%) Power Platform
4 88 (6.87%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (5.93%) GCP
6 76 (5.93%) SaaS
7 57 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
9 40 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (2.89%) PowerApps
11 35 (2.73%) PaaS
12 32 (2.50%) IaaS
13 26 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (1.80%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.72%) Serverless
17 14 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.93%) Broadband
2 46 (3.59%) DNS
3 42 (3.28%) TCP/IP
4 41 (3.20%) SSL
5 40 (3.12%) BGP
6 29 (2.26%) SD-WAN
6 29 (2.26%) WAN
7 23 (1.80%) Firewall
8 14 (1.09%) Wireless
9 13 (1.01%) Network Security
10 7 (0.55%) Intranet
11 4 (0.31%) VoIP
11 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.23%) 4G
12 3 (0.23%) 5G
12 3 (0.23%) PBX
13 2 (0.16%) DHCP
13 2 (0.16%) HTTP
13 2 (0.16%) VPN
14 1 (0.078%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.23%) Relational Database
2 50 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.28%) RDBMS
5 41 (3.20%) Oracle Database
6 33 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 29 (2.26%) Power BI
8 24 (1.87%) Big Data
9 19 (1.48%) DB2
10 15 (1.17%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.62%) SAP BW
13 7 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.47%) GIS
14 6 (0.47%) MySQL
15 5 (0.39%) Metadata
16 4 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.23%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.23%) Maven
3 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.16%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.078%) JIRA
General
1 401 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 238 (18.58%) Finance
3 81 (6.32%) Retail
4 77 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (5.07%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.37%) Legal
7 52 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (3.75%) Banking
9 42 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.09%) Military
15 13 (1.01%) Marketing
16 10 (0.78%) Billing
16 10 (0.78%) Publishing
17 9 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.70%) Law
18 8 (0.62%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (5.93%) .NET
2 60 (4.68%) Spring Boot
3 40 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
4 23 (1.80%) Kafka
5 16 (1.25%) Spring
6 12 (0.94%) Node.js
7 10 (0.78%) Middleware
8 9 (0.70%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.55%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.39%) HTML
11 4 (0.31%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.31%) EDI
11 4 (0.31%) OpenID
11 4 (0.31%) Web Services
11 4 (0.31%) YAML
12 3 (0.23%) AWS CDK
12 3 (0.23%) Java EE
12 3 (0.23%) REST
12 3 (0.23%) SAML
12 3 (0.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 156 (12.18%) Public Cloud
2 96 (7.49%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.67%) Data Centre
4 45 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (2.50%) IoT
6 23 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 23 (1.80%) PMI
7 16 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.25%) Robotics
8 12 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.70%) Blockchain
10 9 (0.70%) Taxonomies
11 8 (0.62%) FMCG
11 8 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.55%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.55%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.15%) Linux
2 41 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (1.25%) Windows
4 8 (0.62%) VME
5 6 (0.47%) Android
5 6 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.47%) Mesosphere
6 1 (0.078%) HPUX
6 1 (0.078%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (31.07%) Agile
2 287 (22.40%) Roadmaps
3 272 (21.23%) TOGAF
4 213 (16.63%) Enterprise Architecture
5 205 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (15.77%) Microservices
7 170 (13.27%) ERP
8 162 (12.65%) Architectural Patterns
9 160 (12.49%) Presales
10 158 (12.33%) Actionable Insight
11 148 (11.55%) Coaching
12 144 (11.24%) Analytics
13 143 (11.16%) Mentoring
14 139 (10.85%) IT Strategy
15 136 (10.62%) DevOps
16 128 (9.99%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 124 (9.68%) Migration
18 122 (9.52%) ArchiMate
19 119 (9.29%) Business Case
20 115 (8.98%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 57 (4.45%) SQL
2 49 (3.83%) JavaScript
3 46 (3.59%) Java
4 41 (3.20%) C#
5 32 (2.50%) Python
6 11 (0.86%) MATLAB
7 10 (0.78%) Go
7 10 (0.78%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.62%) COBOL
8 8 (0.62%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 7 (0.55%) Bicep
10 6 (0.47%) Bash
10 6 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 4 (0.31%) R
13 2 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.078%) C++
14 1 (0.078%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 247 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 203 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 180 (14.05%) Degree
4 94 (7.34%) TOGAF Certification
5 65 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 64 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 63 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.80%) PMI Certification
12 21 (1.64%) CCNP
12 21 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.41%) CCNA
14 15 (1.17%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.47%) CISM
16 6 (0.47%) CISSP
17 5 (0.39%) CEH
18 4 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (0.94%) QA
1 12 (0.94%) SLA
2 10 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.47%) GDPR
5 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.31%) NIST
6 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.31%) SEPA
7 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.23%) PMO
7 3 (0.23%) RMADS
8 2 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.078%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (3.51%) Docker
2 12 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.078%) RACF
6 1 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.65%) Terraform
3 15 (1.17%) CASB
4 8 (0.62%) Ansible
5 7 (0.55%) Puppet
6 6 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.31%) 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 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.078%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 278 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 150 (11.71%) Oracle
3 127 (9.91%) SAP
4 83 (6.48%) Sparx
5 75 (5.85%) Anaplan
5 75 (5.85%) Hyperion
6 57 (4.45%) Google
7 31 (2.42%) Cisco
8 29 (2.26%) Apple
9 28 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.80%) IBM
11 20 (1.56%) Adobe
12 18 (1.41%) VMware
13 16 (1.25%) Meraki
14 13 (1.01%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.94%) Juniper
16 9 (0.70%) Dell
16 9 (0.70%) Fortinet
17 8 (0.62%) Databricks
17 8 (0.62%) Micro Focus