Solutions Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 137 186
Rank change year-on-year -22 +49 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,300 1,481 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 2.50% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 2.81% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 786 656 645
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +4.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £96,770 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +44 415 £75,000 -3.23% 60
South East +11 321 £77,500 -8.82% 61
Midlands +1 270 £66,250 -11.67% 49
North West +26 209 £70,000 -8.20% 32
Yorkshire +56 178 £77,500 +3.33% 23
South West +8 166 £70,000 - 27
West Midlands +28 159 £77,500 +3.33% 34
East Midlands -28 110 £60,000 -17.24% 15
Scotland -125 85 £72,500 +3.57% 12
North East +9 28 £79,063 -6.98% 5
East of England -88 21 £100,000 +14.29% 7
Northern Ireland +11 20 £90,000 +28.57% 9
Wales -37 16 £45,000 -51.35% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Solutions Architect
UK

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 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 UK excluding London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 400 (30.77%) Agile
1 400 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 337 (25.92%) Azure
3 282 (21.69%) Microsoft
3 282 (21.69%) Roadmaps
4 281 (21.62%) TOGAF
5 245 (18.85%) Security Cleared
6 233 (17.92%) AWS
6 233 (17.92%) Finance
7 221 (17.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 204 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 203 (15.62%) SC Cleared
10 196 (15.08%) Microservices
11 178 (13.69%) Degree
12 172 (13.23%) Presales
13 170 (13.08%) ERP
14 158 (12.15%) Architectural Patterns
14 158 (12.15%) Actionable Insight
15 157 (12.08%) Public Cloud
16 150 (11.54%) Oracle
17 147 (11.31%) Coaching
18 143 (11.00%) Analytics
19 141 (10.85%) Mentoring
20 137 (10.54%) IT Strategy
21 135 (10.38%) DevOps
22 128 (9.85%) SAP
22 128 (9.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
23 124 (9.54%) Migration
24 121 (9.31%) ArchiMate
25 118 (9.08%) Business Case

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 75 (5.77%) SAS
2 40 (3.08%) WebLogic
3 31 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.38%) CMS
5 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.38%) Drupal
8 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.077%) Appian
11 1 (0.077%) Confluence
11 1 (0.077%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.46%) Simulink
4 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 82 (6.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 76 (5.85%) SAP ERP
3 26 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 8 (0.62%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.23%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.23%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.23%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.077%) Endur
10 1 (0.077%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.077%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.077%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.077%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 337 (25.92%) Azure
2 233 (17.92%) AWS
3 98 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 89 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (5.77%) SaaS
7 74 (5.69%) GCP
8 56 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (2.85%) PowerApps
12 34 (2.62%) PaaS
13 31 (2.38%) IaaS
14 26 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (1.77%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.69%) Serverless
17 14 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.85%) Broadband
2 44 (3.38%) DNS
3 41 (3.15%) SSL
4 40 (3.08%) BGP
4 40 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.31%) SD-WAN
5 30 (2.31%) WAN
6 24 (1.85%) Firewall
7 15 (1.15%) Wireless
8 13 (1.00%) Network Security
9 7 (0.54%) Intranet
10 4 (0.31%) VoIP
10 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.23%) 4G
11 3 (0.23%) 5G
11 3 (0.23%) PBX
12 2 (0.15%) VPN
13 1 (0.077%) Kerberos
13 1 (0.077%) LAN
13 1 (0.077%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.15%) Relational Database
2 50 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (3.46%) NoSQL
4 43 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (3.23%) RDBMS
6 41 (3.15%) Oracle Database
7 33 (2.54%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.23%) Power BI
9 22 (1.69%) Big Data
10 19 (1.46%) DB2
11 15 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.62%) SAP BW
14 7 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.46%) GIS
15 6 (0.46%) MySQL
16 5 (0.38%) Metadata
17 4 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.23%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.23%) Maven
3 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.077%) JIRA
General
1 400 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 233 (17.92%) Finance
3 81 (6.23%) Retail
4 76 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 55 (4.23%) Legal
7 50 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.38%) Banking
9 42 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.08%) Military
15 13 (1.00%) Marketing
16 10 (0.77%) Billing
16 10 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.77%) Publishing
17 9 (0.69%) Law
18 8 (0.62%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (5.85%) .NET
2 58 (4.46%) Spring Boot
3 40 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
4 21 (1.62%) Kafka
5 15 (1.15%) Spring
6 12 (0.92%) Node.js
7 10 (0.77%) Middleware
8 9 (0.69%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.54%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.31%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.31%) EDI
10 4 (0.31%) Web Services
10 4 (0.31%) YAML
11 3 (0.23%) AWS CDK
11 3 (0.23%) CSS
11 3 (0.23%) HTML
11 3 (0.23%) Java EE
11 3 (0.23%) REST
11 3 (0.23%) Vue
11 3 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (12.08%) Public Cloud
2 104 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.62%) Data Centre
4 45 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (2.46%) IoT
6 23 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 23 (1.77%) PMI
7 16 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.08%) Robotics
9 12 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 9 (0.69%) Product Ownership
10 9 (0.69%) Taxonomies
11 8 (0.62%) FMCG
11 8 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.54%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (0.54%) Blockchain
12 7 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.54%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.08%) Linux
2 41 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (1.31%) Windows
4 8 (0.62%) VME
5 6 (0.46%) Android
5 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Mesosphere
6 1 (0.077%) HPUX
6 1 (0.077%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (30.77%) Agile
2 282 (21.69%) Roadmaps
3 281 (21.62%) TOGAF
4 221 (17.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 204 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (15.08%) Microservices
7 172 (13.23%) Presales
8 170 (13.08%) ERP
9 158 (12.15%) Actionable Insight
9 158 (12.15%) Architectural Patterns
10 147 (11.31%) Coaching
11 143 (11.00%) Analytics
12 141 (10.85%) Mentoring
13 137 (10.54%) IT Strategy
14 135 (10.38%) DevOps
15 128 (9.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 124 (9.54%) Migration
17 121 (9.31%) ArchiMate
18 118 (9.08%) Business Case
19 114 (8.77%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.46%) SQL
2 49 (3.77%) JavaScript
3 42 (3.23%) Java
4 40 (3.08%) C#
5 31 (2.38%) Python
6 11 (0.85%) MATLAB
7 10 (0.77%) Go
7 10 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.62%) COBOL
8 8 (0.62%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 7 (0.54%) Bicep
10 6 (0.46%) Bash
10 6 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.38%) PHP
12 4 (0.31%) R
13 2 (0.15%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.077%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 203 (15.62%) SC Cleared
3 178 (13.69%) Degree
4 103 (7.92%) TOGAF Certification
5 66 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 62 (4.77%) AWS Certification
7 61 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.77%) PMI Certification
12 21 (1.62%) CCNP
12 21 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.38%) CCNA
14 13 (1.00%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.46%) CISM
16 6 (0.46%) CISSP
17 5 (0.38%) CEH
18 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (0.92%) SLA
2 11 (0.85%) QA
3 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.46%) GDPR
6 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.31%) NIST
7 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.31%) SEPA
8 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
8 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.23%) PMO
8 3 (0.23%) RMADS
9 2 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (3.38%) Docker
2 12 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.077%) RACF
6 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.62%) Terraform
3 15 (1.15%) CASB
4 9 (0.69%) Ansible
5 7 (0.54%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.54%) Puppet
6 6 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.23%) Grafana
8 3 (0.23%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.23%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 282 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 150 (11.54%) Oracle
3 128 (9.85%) SAP
4 82 (6.31%) Sparx
5 75 (5.77%) Anaplan
5 75 (5.77%) Hyperion
6 57 (4.38%) Google
7 32 (2.46%) Cisco
8 29 (2.23%) Apple
9 28 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.77%) IBM
11 20 (1.54%) Adobe
12 18 (1.38%) VMware
13 16 (1.23%) Meraki
14 13 (1.00%) Juniper
14 13 (1.00%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.77%) Fortinet
16 9 (0.69%) Dell
17 8 (0.62%) Databricks
17 8 (0.62%) Micro Focus