Solutions Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Solution Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £80,000 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 124 139 145
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 139 122 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.98% 2.08% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 2.32% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 40 46 81
10th Percentile £67,250 £66,875 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,563 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £91,750
South East median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,641 5,259 6,924
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.79% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,545 3,096 4,106
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £29,906
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +26 60 £77,500 -3.13% 9
Buckinghamshire -8 53 £80,000 -3.03% 5
Oxfordshire +16 26 £82,000 -13.68% 4
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 65 (46.76%) Social Skills
2 52 (37.41%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (28.78%) Mentoring
3 40 (28.78%) Degree
4 39 (28.06%) Microsoft
5 38 (27.34%) Line Management
6 31 (22.30%) Coaching
7 29 (20.86%) Business Development
8 28 (20.14%) Agile
8 28 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (19.42%) Presales
9 27 (19.42%) Azure
10 26 (18.71%) Prototyping
10 26 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
12 23 (16.55%) AWS
13 22 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (15.11%) WAN
14 21 (15.11%) SD-WAN
15 20 (14.39%) Enterprise Architecture
15 20 (14.39%) SC Cleared
16 18 (12.95%) Roadmaps
17 16 (11.51%) Firewall
17 16 (11.51%) Finance
18 15 (10.79%) Commercial Awareness
18 15 (10.79%) Wireless
18 15 (10.79%) Cisco
18 15 (10.79%) TOGAF
19 14 (10.07%) Logistics
20 13 (9.35%) Analytics

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.60%) Drupal
4 4 (2.88%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.88%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.72%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.42%) Azure
2 23 (16.55%) AWS
3 13 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.47%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (5.04%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.04%) Serverless
7 6 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.60%) OCI
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.88%) GCP
10 2 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.44%) SaaS
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.11%) SD-WAN
1 21 (15.11%) WAN
2 16 (11.51%) Firewall
3 15 (10.79%) Wireless
4 7 (5.04%) Intranet
5 4 (2.88%) BGP
5 4 (2.88%) DNS
5 4 (2.88%) SSL
5 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.72%) LAN
6 1 (0.72%) MPLS
6 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.32%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.88%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.44%) Power BI
5 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
General
1 65 (46.76%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.51%) Finance
5 12 (8.63%) Retail
6 10 (7.19%) Billing
6 10 (7.19%) Marketing
7 9 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.76%) Legal
8 8 (5.76%) Manufacturing
9 7 (5.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.44%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.44%) Law
12 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.16%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.72%) EDI
3 1 (0.72%) React
3 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.76%) Public Cloud
2 7 (5.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.04%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.72%) PMI
6 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.88%) Linux
1 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.41%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (28.78%) Mentoring
3 38 (27.34%) Line Management
4 31 (22.30%) Coaching
5 29 (20.86%) Business Development
6 28 (20.14%) Agile
7 27 (19.42%) Presales
8 26 (18.71%) Prototyping
9 22 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (14.39%) Enterprise Architecture
11 18 (12.95%) Roadmaps
12 15 (10.79%) Commercial Awareness
12 15 (10.79%) TOGAF
13 14 (10.07%) Logistics
14 13 (9.35%) Analytics
14 13 (9.35%) Migration
15 12 (8.63%) Microservices
16 11 (7.91%) Actionable Insight
16 11 (7.91%) IT Strategy
16 11 (7.91%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.16%) SQL
2 2 (1.44%) R
3 1 (0.72%) C#
3 1 (0.72%) Java
3 1 (0.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (28.78%) Degree
2 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
3 20 (14.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.35%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.60%) CCNA
6 5 (3.60%) CCNP
6 5 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.72%) PMO
Systems Management
1 5 (3.60%) CASB
2 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.79%) Cisco
3 11 (7.91%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.19%) Fortinet
4 10 (7.19%) Juniper
4 10 (7.19%) MuleSoft
5 9 (6.47%) Oracle
6 7 (5.04%) Adobe
6 7 (5.04%) Apple
7 5 (3.60%) Meraki
7 5 (3.60%) Sparx
8 1 (0.72%) Databricks
8 1 (0.72%) SAP