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 to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 123 204
Rank change year-on-year +14 +81 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2,423 2,899 3,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 2.85% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 3.12% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,598 1,605
10th Percentile £56,809 £63,631 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.23% +5.33% +7.14%

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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 18 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 7 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
England +14 2,095 £80,000 -5.88% 376
UK excluding London -15 1,327 £72,500 -8.23% 235
Work from Home +34 1,258 £80,000 -3.03% 202
London +36 872 £92,500 +2.78% 134
North of England +48 408 £75,000 -3.23% 80
South East +16 328 £77,500 -8.82% 52
Midlands +1 267 £65,000 -13.33% 41
North West +36 205 £70,000 -6.67% 45
South West +7 180 £70,000 +1.82% 32
Yorkshire +61 177 £77,500 - 28
West Midlands +29 152 £76,250 +1.67% 25
East Midlands -23 114 £60,000 -18.64% 16
Scotland -102 94 £72,500 +3.57% 13
North East +6 26 £80,000 -5.88% 7
Northern Ireland +26 23 £90,000 - 9
East of England -84 21 £100,000 +14.29% 5
Wales -26 18 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 899 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 864 (35.66%) Agile
3 701 (28.93%) Finance
4 648 (26.74%) Roadmaps
5 629 (25.96%) Azure
6 607 (25.05%) TOGAF
7 526 (21.71%) Enterprise Architecture
8 457 (18.86%) Microsoft
9 454 (18.74%) SAP
10 438 (18.08%) Oracle
11 430 (17.75%) ERP
12 422 (17.42%) AWS
13 395 (16.30%) Security Cleared
14 368 (15.19%) Strategic Roadmap
15 344 (14.20%) Data Management
16 340 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
17 332 (13.70%) Change Management
18 328 (13.54%) Presales
19 324 (13.37%) SC Cleared
20 307 (12.67%) SAP ERP
21 300 (12.38%) Performance Management
21 300 (12.38%) Broadband
21 300 (12.38%) Hyperion
21 300 (12.38%) Anaplan
22 299 (12.34%) SAS
23 278 (11.47%) Degree
24 268 (11.06%) Microservices
25 265 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
26 238 (9.82%) Analytics
27 232 (9.57%) IT Strategy

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 (12.34%) SAS
2 55 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 49 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 46 (1.90%) Apache
4 46 (1.90%) WebLogic
5 18 (0.74%) CMS
5 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.25%) Drupal
7 6 (0.25%) IIS
7 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.12%) WordPress
10 2 (0.083%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.083%) Confluence
11 1 (0.041%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.041%) Appian
11 1 (0.041%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.041%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.25%) Simulink
4 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 307 (12.67%) SAP ERP
2 100 (4.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 95 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.74%) SAP BPC
6 12 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.41%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.33%) Elite 3E
9 8 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 5 (0.21%) SAP CX
12 5 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.21%) SAP FI-AP
12 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
12 5 (0.21%) SAP WM
13 4 (0.17%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 629 (25.96%) Azure
2 422 (17.42%) AWS
3 172 (7.10%) GCP
4 159 (6.56%) SaaS
5 151 (6.23%) Power Platform
6 141 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
7 126 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (3.80%) PaaS
9 87 (3.59%) IaaS
10 84 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (2.02%) Snowflake
13 48 (1.98%) dbt
14 46 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (1.82%) PowerApps
16 42 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (1.57%) Power Automate
18 37 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
19 33 (1.36%) Serverless
20 29 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 300 (12.38%) Broadband
2 69 (2.85%) DNS
3 55 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 48 (1.98%) Firewall
5 47 (1.94%) SSL
6 46 (1.90%) BGP
7 39 (1.61%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.61%) WAN
8 24 (0.99%) Wireless
9 20 (0.83%) Network Security
10 12 (0.50%) DHCP
11 9 (0.37%) HTTP
12 7 (0.29%) Intranet
13 4 (0.17%) Internet
13 4 (0.17%) VoIP
13 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.12%) 4G
14 3 (0.12%) 5G
14 3 (0.12%) PBX
15 2 (0.083%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (3.51%) Relational Database
2 83 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.10%) Data Lake
4 60 (2.48%) SQL Server
5 56 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
6 54 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 53 (2.19%) Power BI
8 49 (2.02%) Oracle Database
9 48 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
9 48 (1.98%) RDBMS
10 47 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
10 47 (1.94%) Dremio
11 44 (1.82%) Apache Ignite
12 31 (1.28%) Big Data
13 24 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 24 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (0.87%) SAP BW
15 20 (0.83%) MySQL
16 19 (0.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Maven
5 5 (0.21%) JIRA
6 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.12%) GitLab
6 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.083%) Ant
7 2 (0.083%) Subversion
8 1 (0.041%) Git
8 1 (0.041%) Mocha
8 1 (0.041%) Vagrant
General
1 899 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 701 (28.93%) Finance
3 155 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (5.90%) Banking
4 143 (5.90%) Retail
5 111 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 110 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 78 (3.22%) Legal
8 73 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (1.98%) Front Office
11 44 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 44 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.32%) Marketing
13 31 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (0.95%) Law
16 22 (0.91%) Advertising
17 21 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.16%) .NET
2 76 (3.14%) Spring Boot
3 47 (1.94%) gRPC
3 47 (1.94%) Protocol Buffers
4 46 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
5 44 (1.82%) NumPy
5 44 (1.82%) Pandas
5 44 (1.82%) SciPy
6 34 (1.40%) Middleware
7 33 (1.36%) Kafka
8 31 (1.28%) HTML
9 25 (1.03%) Spring
10 22 (0.91%) Web Services
11 21 (0.87%) REST
12 17 (0.70%) CSS
12 17 (0.70%) SOAP
13 16 (0.66%) XML
14 15 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.62%) JSON
15 12 (0.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 197 (8.13%) Public Cloud
2 144 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 84 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 47 (1.94%) Derivative
5 47 (1.94%) Equities
5 47 (1.94%) Fixed Income
5 47 (1.94%) Hedge funds
6 44 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (1.65%) IoT
8 35 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.44%) PMI
9 29 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.11%) Product Ownership
11 26 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (0.91%) Reinsurance
14 17 (0.70%) Robotics
15 15 (0.62%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.43%) Linux
2 47 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (1.11%) Windows
4 10 (0.41%) Android
4 10 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.29%) VME
6 6 (0.25%) Mesosphere
7 2 (0.083%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.041%) HPUX
8 1 (0.041%) Solaris
8 1 (0.041%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (35.66%) Agile
2 648 (26.74%) Roadmaps
3 607 (25.05%) TOGAF
4 526 (21.71%) Enterprise Architecture
5 430 (17.75%) ERP
6 368 (15.19%) Strategic Roadmap
7 344 (14.20%) Data Management
8 340 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
9 332 (13.70%) Change Management
10 328 (13.54%) Presales
11 300 (12.38%) Performance Management
12 268 (11.06%) Microservices
13 265 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
14 238 (9.82%) Analytics
15 232 (9.57%) IT Strategy
16 221 (9.12%) Mentoring
17 217 (8.96%) Business Case
18 205 (8.46%) DevOps
19 202 (8.34%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 197 (8.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 133 (5.49%) JavaScript
2 120 (4.95%) Java
3 110 (4.54%) Python
4 101 (4.17%) SQL
5 92 (3.80%) C#
6 52 (2.15%) TypeScript
7 19 (0.78%) Bicep
8 18 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.62%) Go
10 12 (0.50%) R
11 11 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 9 (0.37%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.33%) Perl
13 8 (0.33%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.29%) COBOL
14 7 (0.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 6 (0.25%) Bash
15 6 (0.25%) PHP
16 4 (0.17%) Ruby
16 4 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 395 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 324 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 278 (11.47%) Degree
4 144 (5.94%) TOGAF Certification
5 103 (4.25%) Azure Certification
6 102 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 93 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 71 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.53%) PMI Certification
11 34 (1.40%) DV Cleared
12 28 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.87%) CCNP
16 18 (0.74%) CCNA
17 15 (0.62%) CISSP
18 11 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 8 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (2.68%) QA
2 19 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.50%) SLA
4 11 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.33%) GDPR
6 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.29%) NIST
6 7 (0.29%) PMO
7 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.17%) SEPA
9 3 (0.12%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.12%) RMADS
10 2 (0.083%) GRC
10 2 (0.083%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.041%) COBIT
11 1 (0.041%) IFRS
System Software
1 67 (2.77%) Docker
2 23 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.37%) KVM
4 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.041%) LXC
6 1 (0.041%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.041%) RACF
6 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 67 (2.77%) Terraform
3 20 (0.83%) Ansible
4 15 (0.62%) CASB
5 11 (0.45%) Puppet
6 9 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.12%) Grafana
10 3 (0.12%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Cast Iron
10 3 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.083%) Oracle Identity Management
11 2 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.041%) vRealize
12 1 (0.041%) VxRail
Vendors
1 457 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 454 (18.74%) SAP
3 438 (18.08%) Oracle
4 300 (12.38%) Anaplan
4 300 (12.38%) Hyperion
5 103 (4.25%) Sparx
6 82 (3.38%) Google
6 82 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 49 (2.02%) Cisco
8 35 (1.44%) IBM
9 33 (1.36%) Databricks
10 31 (1.28%) Apple
10 31 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 31 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.28%) VMware
11 23 (0.95%) Adobe
12 22 (0.91%) Juniper
13 19 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 17 (0.70%) Dell
15 16 (0.66%) Meraki