Solutions Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Solution Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Solution Architect salary in the West Midlands is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 111 134
Rank change year-on-year -40 +23 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 45 161 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.08% 2.00% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.12% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 36 118 71
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,809 £62,000
25th Percentile £65,938 £58,750 £69,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -1.24%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £74,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,752 7,587 4,824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.21% 90.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,036 5,309 3,243
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Birmingham -16 20 £95,000 +18.75% 16
Staffordshire +30 10 £75,000 - 14
Solihull -3 4 £95,000 +52.00% 1
Warwickshire -27 3 £71,193 -8.14% 5
Shropshire - 3 £70,000 - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £65,000 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (37.78%) AWS
4 12 (26.67%) DevOps
4 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 10 (22.22%) SaaS
6 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (20.00%) GCP
6 9 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 8 (17.78%) Serverless
7 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
8 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (15.56%) Microservices
8 7 (15.56%) Degree
9 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 6 (13.33%) E-Commerce
9 6 (13.33%) Mobile App
9 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (13.33%) SDLC
9 6 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (11.11%) Application Security
10 5 (11.11%) API Management
10 5 (11.11%) REST
10 5 (11.11%) SQL

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.44%) Shopify
3 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 17 (37.78%) AWS
3 10 (22.22%) SaaS
4 9 (20.00%) GCP
5 8 (17.78%) Serverless
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (8.89%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (8.89%) Google App Engine
7 4 (8.89%) Google Compute Engine
7 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.67%) IaaS
8 3 (6.67%) OCI
8 3 (6.67%) PaaS
9 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) BigQuery
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Spanner
1 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.22%) DB2
4 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.89%) Law
4 4 (8.89%) Retail
5 3 (6.67%) Finance
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) REST
2 4 (8.89%) Express.js
2 4 (8.89%) Node.js
2 4 (8.89%) React
2 4 (8.89%) React Native
3 2 (4.44%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.67%) PropTech
3 2 (4.44%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) DevOps
2 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 8 (17.78%) Agile
3 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (15.56%) Microservices
5 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (13.33%) SDLC
6 5 (11.11%) API Management
6 5 (11.11%) Application Security
7 4 (8.89%) B2B
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineering
8 3 (6.67%) CRM
8 3 (6.67%) ERP
8 3 (6.67%) ITIL
8 3 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) Java
2 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.44%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
4 1 (2.22%) C
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) NCSC
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Workday
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) IBM