Solutions Architect Jobs in the North West

Solution Architect
England > North West

The median Solution Architect salary in the North West is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 133 144
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 216 198 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.09% 2.61% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 2.92% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 155 64 73
10th Percentile £56,809 £60,019 £65,228
25th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,313 £100,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £114,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,803 6,784 9,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 89.46% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,500 3,992 5,390
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,450 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +29 120 £70,576 -11.78% 11
Merseyside +4 34 £67,750 +37.76% 4
Lancashire -4 24 £70,000 -17.65% 1
Cumbria -2 20 £67,500 +6.30%
Cheshire -13 16 £82,500 +23.29% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 across the North West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 60 (27.78%) Agile
1 60 (27.78%) Azure
2 46 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.91%) Public Cloud
4 37 (17.13%) AWS
5 36 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 35 (16.20%) Microservices
7 34 (15.74%) Security Cleared
8 32 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 31 (14.35%) Coaching
9 31 (14.35%) Presales
10 30 (13.89%) Migration
10 30 (13.89%) Design Patterns
11 29 (13.43%) Finance
11 29 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (12.96%) Roadmaps
13 27 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
13 27 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 27 (12.50%) SC Cleared
14 25 (11.57%) SaaS
15 24 (11.11%) TOGAF
16 23 (10.65%) Actionable Insight
17 21 (9.72%) Enterprise Architecture
17 21 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
18 20 (9.26%) Open Source
19 19 (8.80%) JavaScript
19 19 (8.80%) ERP
20 18 (8.33%) Software Engineering
20 18 (8.33%) Relational Database
20 18 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (3.70%) SharePoint
1 8 (3.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 10 (4.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (3.24%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.39%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.39%) SAP PP
4 2 (0.93%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.46%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.46%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.78%) Azure
2 37 (17.13%) AWS
3 25 (11.57%) SaaS
4 17 (7.87%) GCP
5 14 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.70%) IaaS
7 8 (3.70%) PaaS
8 7 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.78%) GitHub
10 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.70%) BGP
1 8 (3.70%) DNS
1 8 (3.70%) SSL
1 8 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.31%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.31%) WAN
3 4 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 12 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 7 (3.24%) SAP BW
5 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.78%) DB2
5 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.43%) Finance
3 21 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.63%) Legal
5 10 (4.63%) Retail
6 5 (2.31%) Banking
7 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.39%) Law
8 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (3.70%) Spring Boot
2 6 (2.78%) .NET
3 4 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.93%) EDI
4 2 (0.93%) Middleware
4 2 (0.93%) Node.js
4 2 (0.93%) SAP TM
4 2 (0.93%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (0.93%) Vue
5 1 (0.46%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.91%) Public Cloud
2 10 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.24%) IoT
3 7 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.31%) FMCG
6 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.46%) PMI
9 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.56%) Linux
2 9 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.39%) VME
4 1 (0.46%) HPUX
4 1 (0.46%) Solaris
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.78%) Agile
2 35 (16.20%) Microservices
3 32 (14.81%) Mentoring
4 31 (14.35%) Coaching
4 31 (14.35%) Presales
5 30 (13.89%) Design Patterns
5 30 (13.89%) Migration
6 29 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (12.96%) Roadmaps
8 27 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
8 27 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 24 (11.11%) TOGAF
10 23 (10.65%) Actionable Insight
11 21 (9.72%) Enterprise Architecture
12 20 (9.26%) Open Source
13 19 (8.80%) ERP
14 18 (8.33%) Business Case
14 18 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
14 18 (8.33%) Software Engineering
15 17 (7.87%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.80%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.24%) SQL
3 5 (2.31%) C#
4 4 (1.85%) Bicep
4 4 (1.85%) Java
5 3 (1.39%) COBOL
5 3 (1.39%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 2 (0.93%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.02%) Degree
4 12 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.31%) CCNA
7 5 (2.31%) CCNP
7 5 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.85%) CEH
8 4 (1.85%) CISM
8 4 (1.85%) CISSP
8 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.93%) OCP
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.85%) GDPR
1 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.85%) NIST
2 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.63%) Terraform
2 5 (2.31%) CASB
3 4 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.41%) SAP
3 15 (6.94%) Google
4 14 (6.48%) Oracle
5 10 (4.63%) Sparx
6 7 (3.24%) IBM
7 5 (2.31%) Adobe
7 5 (2.31%) Apple
7 5 (2.31%) Cisco
7 5 (2.31%) HubSpot
7 5 (2.31%) Meraki
8 3 (1.39%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.39%) Tanium
9 1 (0.46%) HP
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.46%) Sun
9 1 (0.46%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.46%) Unisys