Senior Solutions Architect Jobs

Senior Solution Architect
UK

The median Senior Solution Architect salary in the UK is £74,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 685 969
Rank change year-on-year +86 +284 -198
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 319 293 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 221 122 108
10th Percentile £56,809 £65,000 £68,910
25th Percentile £58,750 £69,188 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +3.03% -
75th Percentile £94,500 £92,500 £92,813
90th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £110,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -23.53% +6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Top 16 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 28 April 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
England +161 297 £74,000 -12.94% 38
UK excluding London +24 201 £65,000 -23.53% 24
Work from Home +51 131 £67,500 -20.59% 18
London +161 108 £95,000 +11.76% 18
North of England +82 81 £72,000 +0.70% 9
Midlands +33 56 £62,500 -24.24% 5
Yorkshire +133 49 £76,000 - 3
West Midlands +46 36 £62,500 -23.08% 4
South East -9 29 £67,500 -22.86% 6
North West +16 26 £61,206 -14.40% 3
South West -5 25 £81,250 -9.72% 1
East Midlands +2 20 £50,000 -41.18% 1
Scotland -76 8 £120,000 +45.45% 1
North East - 8 £61,206 - 3
Northern Ireland +24 2 - - 2
Wales +11 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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.

1 115 (36.05%) Agile
2 78 (24.45%) Azure
2 78 (24.45%) AWS
2 78 (24.45%) Mentoring
3 74 (23.20%) Presales
4 65 (20.38%) Microsoft
5 62 (19.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 62 (19.44%) Design Patterns
6 56 (17.55%) Finance
7 55 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 53 (16.61%) Actionable Insight
9 50 (15.67%) TOGAF
9 50 (15.67%) Enterprise Architecture
10 47 (14.73%) Degree
10 47 (14.73%) Coaching
10 47 (14.73%) Social Skills
11 44 (13.79%) Microservices
12 43 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
13 39 (12.23%) Public Sector
14 38 (11.91%) Architectural Patterns
15 37 (11.60%) Machine Learning
16 36 (11.29%) Security Cleared
17 35 (10.97%) Public Cloud
17 35 (10.97%) CRM
17 35 (10.97%) Business Case
18 33 (10.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 33 (10.34%) Cloud Native
18 33 (10.34%) NoSQL
19 32 (10.03%) Customer Engagement

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 13 (4.08%) CMS
2 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Simulink
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.31%) SAP APO
1 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.31%) SAP PP
1 1 (0.31%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.31%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 78 (24.45%) AWS
1 78 (24.45%) Azure
2 31 (9.72%) SaaS
3 25 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
4 23 (7.21%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (5.96%) Power Automate
6 19 (5.96%) PowerApps
7 18 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (5.33%) GCP
9 15 (4.70%) IaaS
9 15 (4.70%) PaaS
10 10 (3.13%) Serverless
11 9 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.82%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.82%) CloudFront
11 9 (2.82%) Route 53
11 9 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.64%) SD-WAN
1 18 (5.64%) WAN
2 13 (4.08%) Firewall
3 3 (0.94%) DHCP
3 3 (0.94%) DNS
3 3 (0.94%) HTTP
3 3 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.94%) Wireless
4 1 (0.31%) Broadband
4 1 (0.31%) GPON
4 1 (0.31%) IPsec
4 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.31%) LAN
4 1 (0.31%) MPLS
4 1 (0.31%) SSL
4 1 (0.31%) VoIP
4 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.31%) WLAN
4 1 (0.31%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 24 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.27%) Power BI
4 9 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.94%) MySQL
5 3 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.63%) Big Data
7 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Rational DOORS
General
1 56 (17.55%) Finance
2 47 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.09%) Retail
5 19 (5.96%) Banking
5 19 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.70%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.88%) Back Office
11 6 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.88%) Military
11 6 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.94%) German Language
12 3 (0.94%) Police
13 2 (0.63%) Marketing
14 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.08%) .NET
2 5 (1.57%) .NET Framework
2 5 (1.57%) HTML
3 4 (1.25%) OpenID
3 4 (1.25%) SAML
4 3 (0.94%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.94%) YAML
5 1 (0.31%) Middleware
5 1 (0.31%) OAuth
5 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.31%) RESTful
5 1 (0.31%) Web Services
5 1 (0.31%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.97%) Public Cloud
2 33 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 27 (8.46%) Data Centre
4 26 (8.15%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.08%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.82%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.51%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.19%) NHS
8 7 (2.19%) PMI
9 5 (1.57%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.25%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.94%) PKI
11 3 (0.94%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.31%) FMCG
12 1 (0.31%) IoT
12 1 (0.31%) Smart Energy
12 1 (0.31%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.63%) VME
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
3 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (36.05%) Agile
2 78 (24.45%) Mentoring
3 74 (23.20%) Presales
4 62 (19.44%) Design Patterns
4 62 (19.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 55 (17.24%) Roadmaps
6 53 (16.61%) Actionable Insight
7 50 (15.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 50 (15.67%) TOGAF
8 47 (14.73%) Coaching
9 44 (13.79%) Microservices
10 43 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
11 39 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 38 (11.91%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (11.60%) Machine Learning
14 35 (10.97%) Business Case
14 35 (10.97%) CRM
15 33 (10.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 32 (10.03%) Customer Engagement
16 32 (10.03%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 17 (5.33%) C#
2 14 (4.39%) JavaScript
3 9 (2.82%) Java
3 9 (2.82%) Python
4 6 (1.88%) MATLAB
5 3 (0.94%) Bicep
5 3 (0.94%) PHP
5 3 (0.94%) SQL
6 2 (0.63%) COBOL
6 2 (0.63%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 47 (14.73%) Degree
2 36 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 32 (10.03%) TOGAF Certification
4 28 (8.78%) SC Cleared
5 20 (6.27%) AWS Certification
5 20 (6.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.02%) CCNP
6 16 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (4.70%) CCNA
8 10 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (2.51%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.19%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.63%) CISSP
14 1 (0.31%) CWNA
14 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.13%) QA
2 3 (0.94%) HMG Infosec
2 3 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (0.94%) JSP 440
2 3 (0.94%) PMO
2 3 (0.94%) RMADS
3 2 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (2.82%) Docker
1 9 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.51%) KVM
3 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.31%) RACF
Systems Management
1 25 (7.84%) Terraform
2 15 (4.70%) CASB
3 9 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.63%) Ansible
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.15%) Cisco
3 16 (5.02%) Meraki
4 15 (4.70%) Adobe
4 15 (4.70%) Apple
5 10 (3.13%) Dell
5 10 (3.13%) VMware
6 9 (2.82%) Google
7 8 (2.51%) Informatica
8 5 (1.57%) Oracle
8 5 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.94%) Juniper
9 3 (0.94%) SAP
9 3 (0.94%) Sparx
9 3 (0.94%) Splunk
9 3 (0.94%) Twitter
10 2 (0.63%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.63%) Workday