Lead Solutions Architect Jobs

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 865 1065
Rank change year-on-year +135 +200 -248
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 148 107 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 78 76 105
10th Percentile £71,544 £72,125 £65,134
25th Percentile £72,493 £78,691 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £91,085 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% +7.16% -
75th Percentile £104,375 £105,313 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,250 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £82,375
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.26% +2.97%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +133 128 £85,000 -5.56% 12
UK excluding London +65 116 £82,500 -8.33% 8
Work from Home +128 95 £78,126 -13.19% 9
North of England +93 58 £78,126 -13.19% 6
Yorkshire +107 30 £82,500 +4.43% 3
London +79 27 £130,000 +42.72% 4
South East +21 21 £100,000 +11.11% 1
North West +17 21 £78,126 -25.59% 2
Midlands +8 13 £81,563 +1.95% 1
Scotland -48 9 £58,000 -37.07%
West Midlands +22 7 £81,563 +16.52% 1
North East +2 7 £78,126 -2.34% 1
East Midlands -2 6 - -
South West -16 4 - -
Wales - 4 - -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +16 3 £100,000 +5.26%

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 77 (52.03%) Azure
2 74 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 67 (45.27%) AWS
4 66 (44.59%) Oracle
4 66 (44.59%) Public Cloud
5 65 (43.92%) Relational Database
6 54 (36.49%) Agile
6 54 (36.49%) Mentoring
7 53 (35.81%) TOGAF
8 50 (33.78%) Security Cleared
9 48 (32.43%) SC Cleared
9 48 (32.43%) Project Management
9 48 (32.43%) Systems Engineering
9 48 (32.43%) Azure Certification
10 47 (31.76%) SDLC
10 47 (31.76%) Spring Boot
10 47 (31.76%) Scrum
11 46 (31.08%) Migration
11 46 (31.08%) WebLogic
11 46 (31.08%) Linux
11 46 (31.08%) TCP/IP
11 46 (31.08%) DNS
11 46 (31.08%) RDBMS
11 46 (31.08%) SSL
11 46 (31.08%) BGP
11 46 (31.08%) Kanban
11 46 (31.08%) Data Migration
11 46 (31.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 46 (31.08%) Open Source
11 46 (31.08%) Load Balancing

Lead 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 46 (31.08%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.68%) Appian
2 1 (0.68%) Drupal
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 46 (31.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (52.03%) Azure
2 67 (45.27%) AWS
3 46 (31.08%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (31.08%) Amazon SQS
4 20 (13.51%) GCP
5 3 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.35%) IaaS
6 2 (1.35%) PaaS
6 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.35%) SaaS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (31.08%) BGP
1 46 (31.08%) DNS
1 46 (31.08%) SSL
1 46 (31.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (43.92%) Relational Database
2 46 (31.08%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (31.08%) Oracle Database
2 46 (31.08%) RDBMS
3 21 (14.19%) SQL Server
4 19 (12.84%) DB2
5 3 (2.03%) QualityStage
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 74 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (13.51%) Legal
4 7 (4.73%) Finance
5 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.68%) French Language
6 1 (0.68%) German Language
6 1 (0.68%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.68%) Marketing
6 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.68%) Retail
6 1 (0.68%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (31.76%) Spring Boot
2 46 (31.08%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (4.05%) .NET
4 2 (1.35%) HTML
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.68%) FIXML
5 1 (0.68%) Kafka
5 1 (0.68%) Spring
5 1 (0.68%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (44.59%) Public Cloud
2 46 (31.08%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.05%) IoT
3 6 (4.05%) Robotics
4 2 (1.35%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (31.08%) Linux
1 46 (31.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.49%) Agile
1 54 (36.49%) Mentoring
2 53 (35.81%) TOGAF
3 48 (32.43%) Project Management
3 48 (32.43%) Systems Engineering
4 47 (31.76%) Scrum
4 47 (31.76%) SDLC
5 46 (31.08%) Actionable Insight
5 46 (31.08%) ArchiMate
5 46 (31.08%) Cloud Operations
5 46 (31.08%) Collaborative Working
5 46 (31.08%) Data Migration
5 46 (31.08%) Kanban
5 46 (31.08%) Load Balancing
5 46 (31.08%) Migration
5 46 (31.08%) Open Source
5 46 (31.08%) Re-Platforming
6 45 (30.41%) Coaching
7 44 (29.73%) Roadmaps
8 24 (16.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.51%) SQL
2 2 (1.35%) C#
3 1 (0.68%) Java
3 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 48 (32.43%) Azure Certification
2 48 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 46 (31.08%) AWS Certification
3 46 (31.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 31 (20.95%) Degree
5 2 (1.35%) CISSP
5 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) MCSA
6 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
1 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (44.59%) Oracle
2 46 (31.08%) Sparx
3 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
4 20 (13.51%) Google
5 19 (12.84%) IBM
6 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.68%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) Reuters