Lead Solutions Architect Jobs

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect salary in the UK is £94,637 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 617 765 857
Rank change year-on-year +148 +92 +217
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 91 149 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 79 69
10th Percentile £67,000 £71,860 £73,100
25th Percentile £90,801 £72,493 £78,691
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £85,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -7.78% +8.43%
75th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,375 £130,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +14.71% -8.33% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,581 97,268 88,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.79% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,819 69,389 56,377
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK 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
UK excluding London +153 77 £94,637 +14.71% 5
England +124 77 £95,000 +11.76% 7
North of England +49 65 £94,637 +14.71% 3
North West +43 58 £70,000 -10.40% 2
Work from Home +42 19 £94,637 +21.13% 7
London +89 14 £105,000 -16.00% 3
Scotland +126 11 £94,637 +63.17%
Yorkshire +35 7 £105,000 +27.27% 1
South West +114 1 £95,000 - 1

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 67 (73.63%) Agile
2 65 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 61 (67.03%) Business Strategy
4 58 (63.74%) JIRA
4 58 (63.74%) CAD
4 58 (63.74%) Siemens
4 58 (63.74%) Manufacturing
4 58 (63.74%) PLM
4 58 (63.74%) SAP
4 58 (63.74%) ERP
4 58 (63.74%) Confluence
5 56 (61.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (21.98%) Analytics
7 18 (19.78%) Finance
8 16 (17.58%) GCP
9 15 (16.48%) Azure
9 15 (16.48%) Banking
10 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
11 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
12 11 (12.09%) Content Management
12 11 (12.09%) Web Development
12 11 (12.09%) Ajax
12 11 (12.09%) jQuery
12 11 (12.09%) Umbraco
12 11 (12.09%) OAuth
12 11 (12.09%) MVC
12 11 (12.09%) SAML
12 11 (12.09%) CSS
12 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
12 11 (12.09%) Domain-Driven Design

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 58 (63.74%) Confluence
2 11 (12.09%) Umbraco
3 4 (4.40%) SAS
4 3 (3.30%) OpenEdge
5 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) GCP
2 15 (16.48%) Azure
3 5 (5.49%) SaaS
4 4 (4.40%) AWS
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.10%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.10%) Kong
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) BigQuery
2 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (63.74%) JIRA
General
1 58 (63.74%) Manufacturing
2 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 15 (16.48%) Banking
4 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
5 10 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Law
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Local Government
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) Ajax
1 11 (12.09%) CSS
1 11 (12.09%) jQuery
1 11 (12.09%) OAuth
1 11 (12.09%) OpenID
1 11 (12.09%) React
1 11 (12.09%) SAML
2 3 (3.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) Kafka
3 1 (1.10%) RESTful
3 1 (1.10%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.40%) Credit Risk
2 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.40%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.30%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.10%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) Agile
2 65 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 61 (67.03%) Business Strategy
4 58 (63.74%) CAD
4 58 (63.74%) ERP
4 58 (63.74%) PLM
5 20 (21.98%) Analytics
6 11 (12.09%) Content Management
6 11 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (12.09%) Data Analytics
6 11 (12.09%) Domain-Driven Design
6 11 (12.09%) MVC
6 11 (12.09%) Software Deployment
6 11 (12.09%) Web Development
7 10 (10.99%) Microservices
8 9 (9.89%) TOGAF
9 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (7.69%) Coaching
10 7 (7.69%) Data Integration
10 7 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.69%) Python
3 5 (5.49%) Java
4 4 (4.40%) R
4 4 (4.40%) SQL
5 3 (3.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (61.54%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) GDPR
2 4 (4.40%) Basel II
2 4 (4.40%) Basel III
2 4 (4.40%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (4.40%) IFRS
2 4 (4.40%) IFRS 9
2 4 (4.40%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (63.74%) SAP
1 58 (63.74%) Siemens
2 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) Facebook
3 3 (3.30%) YouTube
4 1 (1.10%) Pega