Solutions Architect Jobs

Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 89 211
Rank change year-on-year -17 +122 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2,146 2,987 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 3.70% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 4.03% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 1,339 1,791
10th Percentile £56,562 £62,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,520
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.01% +3.15%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,940
% change year-on-year -6.45% +2.05% +8.49%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -15 1,894 £80,000 -5.88% 127
UK excluding London -58 1,193 £72,500 -6.45% 94
Work from Home +15 1,079 £81,223 +1.16% 135
London +19 795 £95,000 +5.56% 55
North of England -29 357 £70,000 -10.90% 26
South East +14 327 £75,000 -11.76% 22
Midlands -42 220 £77,500 +3.33% 11
North West -28 205 £70,000 -12.50% 16
South West -29 158 £72,500 - 13
Yorkshire -11 131 £70,000 -7.35% 5
West Midlands +24 130 £78,000 +4.00% 6
East Midlands -73 90 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Scotland -120 83 £71,991 +2.01% 6
Wales -33 24 £45,000 -51.35%
North East -18 21 £70,000 -12.50% 5
East of England -93 17 £100,000 +33.33% 2
Northern Ireland -25 14 £85,000 +21.43% 14
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 814 (37.93%) Agile
2 726 (33.83%) Finance
3 634 (29.54%) Social Skills
4 535 (24.93%) Roadmaps
5 532 (24.79%) TOGAF
6 530 (24.70%) Azure
7 470 (21.90%) Enterprise Architecture
8 451 (21.02%) AWS
9 404 (18.83%) Microsoft
10 401 (18.69%) SAP
11 400 (18.64%) Oracle
12 385 (17.94%) ERP
13 345 (16.08%) Data Management
14 327 (15.24%) Strategic Roadmap
15 319 (14.86%) Change Management
16 305 (14.21%) Anaplan
17 303 (14.12%) SAP ERP
18 300 (13.98%) Performance Management
19 299 (13.93%) SAS
19 299 (13.93%) Broadband
19 299 (13.93%) Hyperion
20 217 (10.11%) GCP
20 217 (10.11%) Security Cleared
21 210 (9.79%) Degree
22 205 (9.55%) Presales
23 202 (9.41%) Mentoring
24 200 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
24 200 (9.32%) Migration
25 195 (9.09%) Banking
26 189 (8.81%) Microservices

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
1 299 (13.93%) SAS
2 111 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (5.03%) Apache
4 80 (3.73%) SharePoint
5 46 (2.14%) WebLogic
6 14 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.19%) Confluence
8 4 (0.19%) IIS
9 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.14%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.093%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.047%) Drupal
11 1 (0.047%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) Simulink
5 2 (0.093%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 303 (14.12%) SAP ERP
2 82 (3.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 56 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 7 (0.33%) SAP BPC
8 6 (0.28%) Postilion
8 6 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.19%) Summit
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.14%) SAP EWM
11 3 (0.14%) SAP FI-AP
11 3 (0.14%) SAP HR
11 3 (0.14%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 530 (24.70%) Azure
2 451 (21.02%) AWS
3 217 (10.11%) GCP
4 158 (7.36%) Dynamics 365
5 132 (6.15%) SaaS
6 117 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 117 (5.45%) Snowflake
7 111 (5.17%) dbt
8 106 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
9 76 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
10 69 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (2.28%) PaaS
13 45 (2.10%) IaaS
14 41 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.68%) Serverless
16 35 (1.63%) PowerApps
17 33 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
18 28 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 299 (13.93%) Broadband
2 57 (2.66%) DNS
3 48 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 47 (2.19%) BGP
5 46 (2.14%) SSL
6 34 (1.58%) WAN
7 33 (1.54%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.98%) Firewall
9 16 (0.75%) Network Security
9 16 (0.75%) Wireless
10 6 (0.28%) ATM
11 4 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.19%) Intranet
12 3 (0.14%) DHCP
12 3 (0.14%) LAN
13 2 (0.093%) 4G
13 2 (0.093%) 5G
13 2 (0.093%) MPLS
13 2 (0.093%) Radio Access Network
13 2 (0.093%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.45%) Data Lake
2 115 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
3 109 (5.08%) Apache Arrow
3 109 (5.08%) Dremio
4 106 (4.94%) Apache Ignite
5 75 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 57 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 48 (2.24%) RDBMS
9 46 (2.14%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.35%) Power BI
10 29 (1.35%) SQL Server
11 17 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 16 (0.75%) Big Data
13 12 (0.56%) DB2
14 11 (0.51%) SAP BW
15 8 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (0.51%) Visual Studio
3 10 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.33%) JIRA
4 7 (0.33%) Maven
5 4 (0.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.19%) Git
5 4 (0.19%) Selenium
5 4 (0.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.14%) GitLab
7 2 (0.093%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.047%) Mocha
General
1 726 (33.83%) Finance
2 634 (29.54%) Social Skills
3 195 (9.09%) Banking
4 133 (6.20%) Retail
5 127 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 110 (5.13%) Front Office
7 106 (4.94%) Investment Banking
8 103 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 92 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 49 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (2.00%) Marketing
12 37 (1.72%) Law
13 34 (1.58%) Legal
14 30 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.35%) Retail Banking
16 18 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.79%) General Ledger
18 15 (0.70%) Military
18 15 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (5.08%) gRPC
1 109 (5.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 106 (4.94%) NumPy
2 106 (4.94%) Pandas
2 106 (4.94%) SciPy
3 75 (3.49%) .NET
4 55 (2.56%) Spring Boot
5 52 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
6 32 (1.49%) PySpark
7 27 (1.26%) HTML
8 21 (0.98%) CSS
9 19 (0.89%) Middleware
9 19 (0.89%) REST
10 18 (0.84%) RESTful
11 17 (0.79%) Kafka
12 16 (0.75%) HTML5
13 14 (0.65%) Spring
13 14 (0.65%) Web Services
14 13 (0.61%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.51%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 175 (8.15%) Public Cloud
2 109 (5.08%) Derivative
2 109 (5.08%) Equities
2 109 (5.08%) Fixed Income
2 109 (5.08%) Hedge funds
3 106 (4.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 97 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 64 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (1.86%) Data Centre
7 26 (1.21%) Operational Technology
8 24 (1.12%) PMI
9 22 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 21 (0.98%) IoT
11 20 (0.93%) Product Ownership
12 18 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (0.70%) Mobile App
14 13 (0.61%) Reinsurance
15 12 (0.56%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.56%) FMCG
16 11 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.03%) Linux
2 48 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (0.75%) Windows
4 8 (0.37%) VME
5 6 (0.28%) zOS
6 3 (0.14%) Android
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.093%) Mesosphere
7 2 (0.093%) VMS
7 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.093%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.047%) HPUX
8 1 (0.047%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (37.93%) Agile
2 535 (24.93%) Roadmaps
3 532 (24.79%) TOGAF
4 470 (21.90%) Enterprise Architecture
5 385 (17.94%) ERP
6 345 (16.08%) Data Management
7 327 (15.24%) Strategic Roadmap
8 319 (14.86%) Change Management
9 300 (13.98%) Performance Management
10 205 (9.55%) Presales
11 202 (9.41%) Mentoring
12 200 (9.32%) Migration
12 200 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
13 189 (8.81%) Microservices
14 163 (7.60%) Line Management
15 161 (7.50%) Coaching
15 161 (7.50%) DevOps
16 159 (7.41%) Software Engineering
17 147 (6.85%) Architectural Patterns
18 132 (6.15%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (8.06%) JavaScript
2 153 (7.13%) Java
3 152 (7.08%) Python
4 115 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 88 (4.10%) SQL
6 65 (3.03%) C#
7 11 (0.51%) MATLAB
8 10 (0.47%) Bicep
8 10 (0.47%) Scala
9 8 (0.37%) COBOL
9 8 (0.37%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 8 (0.37%) Ruby
10 7 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.28%) PHP
12 4 (0.19%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.19%) C++
12 4 (0.19%) Go
13 3 (0.14%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.093%) R
14 2 (0.093%) Swift
Qualifications
1 217 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 210 (9.79%) Degree
3 169 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 98 (4.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 84 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 79 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 69 (3.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 56 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 48 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.21%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.93%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.75%) CCNA
14 16 (0.75%) CCNP
14 16 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.47%) CISSP
16 4 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.19%) CEH
16 4 (0.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (1.35%) QA
2 17 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.70%) PMO
4 13 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.56%) GDPR
6 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.33%) SLA
8 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.23%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.23%) GRC
8 5 (0.23%) NIST
9 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.14%) HMG Infosec
10 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.14%) RMADS
11 1 (0.047%) GAAP
11 1 (0.047%) IFRS
11 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 34 (1.58%) Docker
2 20 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.047%) KVM
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.047%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (1.91%) Terraform
2 40 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.75%) Ansible
4 15 (0.70%) CASB
5 13 (0.61%) Puppet
6 12 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.093%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.093%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.093%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.047%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.047%) Nagios
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.047%) SCCM
10 1 (0.047%) vRealize
10 1 (0.047%) VxRail
Vendors
1 404 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 401 (18.69%) SAP
3 400 (18.64%) Oracle
4 305 (14.21%) Anaplan
5 299 (13.93%) Hyperion
6 84 (3.91%) Sparx
7 64 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 55 (2.56%) Google
9 32 (1.49%) Cisco
10 31 (1.44%) Bloomberg
10 31 (1.44%) Reuters
11 28 (1.30%) IBM
12 19 (0.89%) Apple
13 17 (0.79%) Adobe
13 17 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.70%) Dell
14 15 (0.70%) Juniper
14 15 (0.70%) Meraki
15 14 (0.65%) VMware
16 13 (0.61%) Fortinet