Solutions Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Solution Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Solution Architect salary in the West Midlands is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 135 116
Rank change year-on-year +22 -19 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 155 134 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.10% 2.12% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 2.35% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 115 102 116
10th Percentile £52,600 £61,325 £60,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +7.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,625 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,943 5,710 6,969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 90.15% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,205 3,266 4,768
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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
Birmingham -13 73 £78,126 +4.17% 10
Warwickshire +63 29 £77,500 - 4
Solihull +19 24 £62,500 -33.16% 1
Staffordshire -17 6 - -
Coventry +8 3 £85,000 +16.44%
West Bromwich - 3 £78,500 -
Walsall - 2 £92,500 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Stourbridge - 1 £75,000 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 West Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 53 (34.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.87%) ERP
3 36 (23.23%) Power Platform
4 35 (22.58%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (19.35%) Agile
6 28 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (16.13%) Roadmaps
7 25 (16.13%) Data Modelling
8 24 (15.48%) SAP
8 24 (15.48%) Digital Strategy
8 24 (15.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 22 (14.19%) Power BI
9 22 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (14.19%) Analytics
9 22 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (13.55%) Azure
11 20 (12.90%) Visualisation
11 20 (12.90%) Data Analytics
11 20 (12.90%) Workflow
11 20 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
11 20 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (12.90%) Machine Learning
11 20 (12.90%) User Experience
11 20 (12.90%) PowerApps
11 20 (12.90%) Power Automate
11 20 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (12.26%) Finance
13 18 (11.61%) Continuous Delivery
14 16 (10.32%) Release Management
15 15 (9.68%) Social Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (9.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (7.74%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.29%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.29%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.23%) Power Platform
2 35 (22.58%) Dynamics 365
3 21 (13.55%) Azure
4 20 (12.90%) Power Automate
4 20 (12.90%) PowerApps
5 13 (8.39%) SaaS
6 10 (6.45%) AWS
7 4 (2.58%) GCP
8 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.29%) Serverless
10 1 (0.65%) IaaS
10 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.03%) SD-WAN
1 14 (9.03%) WAN
2 9 (5.81%) Firewall
2 9 (5.81%) Wireless
3 1 (0.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) GPON
3 1 (0.65%) LAN
3 1 (0.65%) MPLS
3 1 (0.65%) VoIP
3 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.65%) WLAN
3 1 (0.65%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.19%) Power BI
2 5 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.23%) Metadata
3 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.94%) DB2
4 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
2 19 (12.26%) Finance
3 15 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.10%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.52%) Retail
7 5 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.94%) Legal
9 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Law
11 1 (0.65%) Back Office
11 1 (0.65%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.65%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.39%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.94%) Educational Technology
3 3 (1.94%) FMCG
4 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.65%) IoT
4 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.29%) Linux
1 2 (1.29%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.87%) ERP
2 30 (19.35%) Agile
3 28 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (16.13%) Data Modelling
4 25 (16.13%) Roadmaps
5 24 (15.48%) Digital Strategy
5 24 (15.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 22 (14.19%) Analytics
6 22 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 22 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
7 20 (12.90%) Data Analytics
7 20 (12.90%) Machine Learning
7 20 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
7 20 (12.90%) User Experience
7 20 (12.90%) Visualisation
7 20 (12.90%) Workflow
8 18 (11.61%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (10.32%) Release Management
10 14 (9.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.87%) SQL
2 3 (1.94%) C#
3 2 (1.29%) COBOL
3 2 (1.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 2 (1.29%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (8.39%) Degree
2 9 (5.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.81%) TOGAF Certification
3 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) CCNP
4 6 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.23%) CCNA
5 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CISM
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
8 1 (0.65%) CWNA
8 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) SLA
2 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 53 (34.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.48%) SAP
3 14 (9.03%) Cisco
4 9 (5.81%) Fortinet
4 9 (5.81%) Juniper
5 7 (4.52%) Adobe
5 7 (4.52%) Apple
6 6 (3.87%) Meraki
7 4 (2.58%) Google
7 4 (2.58%) Oracle
8 3 (1.94%) IBM
9 2 (1.29%) Micro Focus
10 1 (0.65%) Aruba
10 1 (0.65%) Ekahau
10 1 (0.65%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.65%) MikroTik
10 1 (0.65%) Nokia
10 1 (0.65%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.65%) VMware