Solutions Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Solution Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Solution Architect salary in the West Midlands is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 112 143
Rank change year-on-year -54 +31 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 30 159 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.70% 2.12% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 2.25% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 25 119 99
10th Percentile £62,001 £52,700 £61,850
25th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £93,750 £90,900
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -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 3,898 7,069 5,623
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 94.40% 90.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 5,274 3,232
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

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 21 May 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 21 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
Birmingham -21 17 £95,000 +21.60% 14
Shropshire +19 4 £70,000 - 3
Staffordshire +16 3 £82,500 - 12
Solihull -12 3 £95,000 +52.00% 1
Warwickshire -37 2 £89,750 +15.81% 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
4 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (36.67%) DevOps
6 10 (33.33%) Microservices
7 8 (26.67%) Serverless
7 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (23.33%) SaaS
9 6 (20.00%) Agile
9 6 (20.00%) SQL
9 6 (20.00%) Mobile App
9 6 (20.00%) SDLC
9 6 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (20.00%) API Management
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (16.67%) Application Security
10 5 (16.67%) React
10 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (16.67%) GCP
10 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
10 5 (16.67%) REST
10 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
10 5 (16.67%) Retail
10 5 (16.67%) CRM
10 5 (16.67%) Degree
11 4 (13.33%) PaaS
11 4 (13.33%) Google App Engine

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 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) Serverless
4 7 (23.33%) SaaS
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (16.67%) GCP
7 4 (13.33%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (13.33%) Google App Engine
7 4 (13.33%) Google Compute Engine
7 4 (13.33%) IaaS
7 4 (13.33%) PaaS
8 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
10 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
10 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) BigQuery
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Spanner
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (16.67%) Retail
3 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) React
1 5 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) Express.js
2 4 (13.33%) Node.js
2 4 (13.33%) React Native
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) ADO
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.00%) PropTech
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 10 (33.33%) Microservices
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) API Management
4 6 (20.00%) SDLC
5 5 (16.67%) Application Security
5 5 (16.67%) CRM
5 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) B2B
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NCSC
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle