Senior Solutions Architect Jobs

Senior Solution Architect
UK

The median Senior Solution Architect salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 593 690
Rank change year-on-year +37 +97 +265
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 136 320 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 53 225 122
10th Percentile £59,168 - £65,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,809 £69,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -12.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £106,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -26.47% +6.25%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +16 126 £77,500 +6.90% 74
London +80 74 £122,500 +28.95% 25
UK excluding London +65 61 £70,000 +12.00% 55
Work from Home +119 56 £100,000 +50.38% 41
North of England +28 28 £62,779 -10.32% 18
Midlands +43 18 £88,750 +42.00% 3
West Midlands +31 18 £88,750 +42.00% 3
North West +21 17 £62,779 +2.57% 8
North East +48 6 £66,389 +8.47% 2
Scotland +129 5 £109,539 -8.72% 3
South West +87 5 £65,000 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire +30 5 £62,779 -17.40% 8
Wales +47 3 £67,122 -
South East +81 1 - - 22
Northern Ireland +34 1 £75,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 65 (47.79%) Azure
2 64 (47.06%) Roadmaps
3 42 (30.88%) AWS
4 38 (27.94%) GCP
5 36 (26.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (26.47%) Agile
6 34 (25.00%) TOGAF
7 30 (22.06%) Finance
7 30 (22.06%) Microsoft
7 30 (22.06%) Degree
7 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
8 29 (21.32%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (19.85%) Service Delivery
10 26 (19.12%) Product Roadmap
10 26 (19.12%) Coaching
10 26 (19.12%) User Experience
11 25 (18.38%) Microservices
11 25 (18.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (18.38%) Computer Science
12 24 (17.65%) Analytics
13 23 (16.91%) Artificial Intelligence
14 22 (16.18%) Presales
15 21 (15.44%) Target Operating Model
15 21 (15.44%) Architectural Design
15 21 (15.44%) Thought Leadership
15 21 (15.44%) Law
15 21 (15.44%) Google
15 21 (15.44%) SaaS

Senior 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 3 (2.21%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.74%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 65 (47.79%) Azure
2 42 (30.88%) AWS
3 38 (27.94%) GCP
4 21 (15.44%) SaaS
5 17 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.15%) IaaS
6 7 (5.15%) PaaS
7 6 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.94%) Serverless
8 4 (2.94%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.21%) OCI
10 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.21%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.47%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.74%) Big Data
5 1 (0.74%) DB2
5 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (26.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (22.06%) Finance
2 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.44%) Law
4 20 (14.71%) Banking
5 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Games
8 5 (3.68%) Marketing
9 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Billing
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.15%) .NET
2 6 (4.41%) Kafka
2 6 (4.41%) OpenAPI
2 6 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.68%) REST
4 3 (2.21%) Spring
4 3 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.47%) Middleware
5 2 (1.47%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.41%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.41%) Mobile Games
5 5 (3.68%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Equities
7 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.47%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (47.06%) Roadmaps
2 36 (26.47%) Agile
3 34 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 29 (21.32%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (19.85%) Service Delivery
6 26 (19.12%) Coaching
6 26 (19.12%) Product Roadmap
6 26 (19.12%) User Experience
7 25 (18.38%) Computer Science
7 25 (18.38%) Microservices
7 25 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (17.65%) Analytics
9 23 (16.91%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (16.18%) Presales
11 21 (15.44%) Architectural Design
11 21 (15.44%) Target Operating Model
11 21 (15.44%) Thought Leadership
12 20 (14.71%) Business Strategy
12 20 (14.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.82%) C#
1 12 (8.82%) SQL
2 11 (8.09%) Java
3 9 (6.62%) Python
4 3 (2.21%) ABAP
5 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.74%) Bash
6 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (22.06%) Degree
2 25 (18.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.09%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.21%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) NIST
2 6 (4.41%) GDPR
2 6 (4.41%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NCSC
3 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 16 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (6.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Ansible
2 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.44%) Google
3 19 (13.97%) ServiceNow
4 16 (11.76%) Adobe
4 16 (11.76%) Apple
5 9 (6.62%) Oracle
5 9 (6.62%) SAP
6 6 (4.41%) IBM
6 6 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.21%) Ariba
8 2 (1.47%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.74%) Databricks
9 1 (0.74%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.74%) Workday