Solutions Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Solution Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 127 147
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 152 126 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.06% 2.25% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 2.52% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 48 46 81
10th Percentile £65,700 £66,875 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £74,063 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,500 £89,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £96,250 £92,500
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,986 5,002 7,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.50% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,713 3,047 4,149
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,375 £41,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,278 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +20 70 £77,500 -3.13% 12
Buckinghamshire -9 54 £80,000 -3.03% 5
Oxfordshire +5 28 £82,000 -4.65% 2
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 52 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 40 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 40 (26.32%) Degree
4 38 (25.00%) Line Management
5 31 (20.39%) Coaching
6 30 (19.74%) Azure
7 29 (19.08%) Business Development
7 29 (19.08%) Agile
8 28 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (17.76%) Presales
10 26 (17.11%) Prototyping
10 26 (17.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (16.45%) AWS
12 23 (15.13%) Security Cleared
12 23 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (13.82%) Roadmaps
14 20 (13.16%) SD-WAN
14 20 (13.16%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (13.16%) WAN
15 18 (11.84%) SC Cleared
15 18 (11.84%) Finance
16 16 (10.53%) TOGAF
17 15 (9.87%) Migration
17 15 (9.87%) Firewall
17 15 (9.87%) Power Platform
18 14 (9.21%) Commercial Awareness
18 14 (9.21%) Wireless
18 14 (9.21%) Cisco

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 10 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.29%) Drupal
4 4 (2.63%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.97%) WordPress
6 1 (0.66%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.63%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.66%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.74%) Azure
2 25 (16.45%) AWS
3 15 (9.87%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (5.92%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.95%) Serverless
8 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.29%) OCI
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.63%) GCP
10 3 (1.97%) SaaS
11 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.66%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.16%) SD-WAN
1 20 (13.16%) WAN
2 15 (9.87%) Firewall
3 14 (9.21%) Wireless
4 7 (4.61%) Intranet
5 4 (2.63%) BGP
5 4 (2.63%) DNS
5 4 (2.63%) SSL
5 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.66%) LAN
6 1 (0.66%) MPLS
6 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.95%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (11.84%) Finance
5 12 (7.89%) Retail
6 10 (6.58%) Billing
6 10 (6.58%) Marketing
7 9 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.26%) Legal
8 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.32%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.32%) Law
12 1 (0.66%) Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.97%) .NET
4 1 (0.66%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.66%) EDI
4 1 (0.66%) Kafka
4 1 (0.66%) React
4 1 (0.66%) REST
4 1 (0.66%) RESTful
4 1 (0.66%) Web Services
4 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.61%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (4.61%) Biopharmaceutical
1 7 (4.61%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.32%) PMI
6 1 (0.66%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Linux
1 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 38 (25.00%) Line Management
4 31 (20.39%) Coaching
5 29 (19.08%) Agile
5 29 (19.08%) Business Development
6 27 (17.76%) Presales
7 26 (17.11%) Prototyping
8 23 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (13.82%) Roadmaps
10 20 (13.16%) Enterprise Architecture
11 16 (10.53%) TOGAF
12 15 (9.87%) Migration
13 14 (9.21%) Commercial Awareness
13 14 (9.21%) Logistics
14 13 (8.55%) Microservices
15 11 (7.24%) Analytics
15 11 (7.24%) Project Management
15 11 (7.24%) Systems Engineering
15 11 (7.24%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.32%) C#
1 2 (1.32%) Java
1 2 (1.32%) Python
1 2 (1.32%) SQL
2 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (26.32%) Degree
2 23 (15.13%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.89%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.29%) CCNA
6 5 (3.29%) CCNP
6 5 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.66%) GDPR
1 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) CASB
2 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.21%) Cisco
3 11 (7.24%) Salesforce
4 10 (6.58%) MuleSoft
5 9 (5.92%) Fortinet
5 9 (5.92%) Juniper
5 9 (5.92%) Oracle
6 6 (3.95%) Adobe
6 6 (3.95%) Apple
7 5 (3.29%) Meraki
7 5 (3.29%) Sparx
8 1 (0.66%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks
8 1 (0.66%) SAP