Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 124 205
Rank change year-on-year +12 +81 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2,409 2,898 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.43% 2.86% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.57% 3.13% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,375 1,602 1,592
10th Percentile £56,809 £63,631 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +9.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.23% +5.33% +7.14%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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 +11 2,092 £80,000 -5.88% 346
UK excluding London -17 1,314 £72,500 -8.23% 206
Work from Home +33 1,236 £80,000 -3.03% 202
London +34 872 £92,250 +2.50% 126
North of England +46 410 £75,000 -3.23% 74
South East +4 324 £77,500 -8.82% 43
Midlands +5 267 £65,000 -13.33% 35
North West +30 205 £70,000 -6.67% 43
South West +8 179 £70,000 - 29
Yorkshire +64 178 £77,500 +3.33% 25
West Midlands +21 155 £77,500 +3.33% 20
East Midlands -28 111 £60,000 -18.64% 15
Scotland -111 88 £72,500 +3.57% 10
North East +6 27 £80,000 -5.88% 6
Northern Ireland +21 21 £90,000 - 7
East of England -78 21 £100,000 +14.29% 5
Wales -36 16 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 876 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 852 (35.37%) Agile
3 704 (29.22%) Finance
4 650 (26.98%) Roadmaps
5 637 (26.44%) Azure
6 607 (25.20%) TOGAF
7 528 (21.92%) Enterprise Architecture
8 464 (19.26%) Microsoft
9 458 (19.01%) SAP
10 437 (18.14%) Oracle
11 430 (17.85%) ERP
12 427 (17.73%) AWS
13 379 (15.73%) Security Cleared
14 368 (15.28%) Strategic Roadmap
15 344 (14.28%) Data Management
16 332 (13.78%) Change Management
17 330 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
18 315 (13.08%) Presales
19 311 (12.91%) SC Cleared
20 307 (12.74%) SAP ERP
21 300 (12.45%) Performance Management
21 300 (12.45%) Broadband
21 300 (12.45%) Hyperion
21 300 (12.45%) Anaplan
22 299 (12.41%) SAS
23 279 (11.58%) Degree
24 270 (11.21%) Microservices
25 227 (9.42%) Analytics
26 224 (9.30%) Mentoring
27 217 (9.01%) Actionable Insight

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
1 299 (12.41%) SAS
2 55 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 49 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 46 (1.91%) Apache
4 46 (1.91%) WebLogic
5 18 (0.75%) CMS
5 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.25%) Drupal
6 6 (0.25%) IIS
6 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.12%) WordPress
9 2 (0.083%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.083%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.083%) Confluence
10 1 (0.042%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.042%) Appian
10 1 (0.042%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.042%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.25%) Simulink
4 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 307 (12.74%) SAP ERP
2 101 (4.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 95 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.75%) SAP BPC
6 12 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.42%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.29%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 7 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.25%) SAP EWM
11 5 (0.21%) SAP CX
11 5 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.21%) SAP FI-AP
11 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.21%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 637 (26.44%) Azure
2 427 (17.73%) AWS
3 175 (7.26%) GCP
4 158 (6.56%) SaaS
5 152 (6.31%) Power Platform
6 148 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
7 127 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (3.82%) PaaS
9 87 (3.61%) IaaS
10 85 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (2.03%) Snowflake
13 48 (1.99%) dbt
14 46 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (1.83%) PowerApps
16 42 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (1.58%) Power Automate
18 37 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
19 32 (1.33%) Serverless
20 29 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 300 (12.45%) Broadband
2 69 (2.86%) DNS
3 55 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 48 (1.99%) Firewall
5 47 (1.95%) SSL
6 46 (1.91%) BGP
7 39 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.62%) WAN
8 24 (1.00%) Wireless
9 20 (0.83%) Network Security
10 12 (0.50%) DHCP
11 9 (0.37%) HTTP
12 7 (0.29%) Intranet
13 4 (0.17%) Internet
13 4 (0.17%) VoIP
13 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.12%) 4G
14 3 (0.12%) 5G
14 3 (0.12%) PBX
15 2 (0.083%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.49%) Relational Database
2 83 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.11%) Data Lake
4 59 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 56 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 54 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 53 (2.20%) Power BI
8 49 (2.03%) Oracle Database
9 48 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
9 48 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 47 (1.95%) Apache Arrow
10 47 (1.95%) Dremio
11 44 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
12 31 (1.29%) Big Data
13 24 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (0.87%) SAP BW
15 19 (0.79%) DB2
15 19 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Maven
5 5 (0.21%) JIRA
6 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.12%) GitLab
6 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.083%) Ant
7 2 (0.083%) Subversion
8 1 (0.042%) Git
8 1 (0.042%) Mocha
8 1 (0.042%) Vagrant
General
1 876 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 704 (29.22%) Finance
3 158 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (5.98%) Banking
5 135 (5.60%) Retail
6 111 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 75 (3.11%) Legal
9 72 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 57 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (1.99%) Front Office
12 44 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 44 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.33%) Marketing
14 31 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.00%) Law
17 21 (0.87%) Advertising
17 21 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (5.23%) .NET
2 76 (3.15%) Spring Boot
3 47 (1.95%) gRPC
3 47 (1.95%) Protocol Buffers
4 46 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
5 44 (1.83%) NumPy
5 44 (1.83%) Pandas
5 44 (1.83%) SciPy
6 34 (1.41%) Middleware
7 33 (1.37%) Kafka
8 30 (1.25%) HTML
9 25 (1.04%) Spring
10 21 (0.87%) Web Services
11 20 (0.83%) REST
12 17 (0.71%) CSS
13 16 (0.66%) SOAP
14 15 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.62%) XML
15 14 (0.58%) JSON
16 12 (0.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 200 (8.30%) Public Cloud
2 145 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 84 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 47 (1.95%) Derivative
5 47 (1.95%) Equities
5 47 (1.95%) Fixed Income
5 47 (1.95%) Hedge funds
6 44 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (1.66%) IoT
8 35 (1.45%) PMI
9 34 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 27 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 26 (1.08%) Product Ownership
12 25 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (0.91%) Reinsurance
14 17 (0.71%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.71%) Robotics
15 15 (0.62%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.45%) Linux
2 47 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (1.12%) Windows
4 10 (0.42%) Android
4 10 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.33%) VME
6 6 (0.25%) Mesosphere
7 2 (0.083%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.042%) HPUX
8 1 (0.042%) Solaris
8 1 (0.042%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (35.37%) Agile
2 650 (26.98%) Roadmaps
3 607 (25.20%) TOGAF
4 528 (21.92%) Enterprise Architecture
5 430 (17.85%) ERP
6 368 (15.28%) Strategic Roadmap
7 344 (14.28%) Data Management
8 332 (13.78%) Change Management
9 330 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
10 315 (13.08%) Presales
11 300 (12.45%) Performance Management
12 270 (11.21%) Microservices
13 227 (9.42%) Analytics
14 224 (9.30%) Mentoring
15 217 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
16 216 (8.97%) IT Strategy
17 205 (8.51%) DevOps
18 196 (8.14%) Migration
19 194 (8.05%) Business Case
20 189 (7.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 132 (5.48%) JavaScript
2 119 (4.94%) Java
3 108 (4.48%) Python
4 101 (4.19%) SQL
5 92 (3.82%) C#
6 52 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 18 (0.75%) Bicep
7 18 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 15 (0.62%) Go
9 12 (0.50%) R
10 11 (0.46%) MATLAB
11 9 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.33%) COBOL
12 8 (0.33%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 8 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.29%) Perl
14 6 (0.25%) Bash
14 6 (0.25%) PHP
15 4 (0.17%) Ruby
15 4 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 379 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 311 (12.91%) SC Cleared
3 279 (11.58%) Degree
4 144 (5.98%) TOGAF Certification
5 103 (4.28%) Azure Certification
6 102 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 93 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 71 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 32 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 29 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.87%) CCNP
16 18 (0.75%) CCNA
17 15 (0.62%) CISSP
18 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 8 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (2.70%) QA
2 19 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.50%) SLA
4 11 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.42%) PMO
6 8 (0.33%) GDPR
7 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.29%) NIST
8 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.17%) SEPA
10 3 (0.12%) HMG Infosec
10 3 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.12%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.12%) RMADS
11 2 (0.083%) GRC
11 2 (0.083%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.042%) COBIT
12 1 (0.042%) IFRS
System Software
1 66 (2.74%) Docker
2 23 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.37%) KVM
4 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.042%) LXC
6 1 (0.042%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.042%) RACF
6 1 (0.042%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 67 (2.78%) Terraform
3 20 (0.83%) Ansible
4 15 (0.62%) CASB
5 11 (0.46%) Puppet
6 9 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.12%) Grafana
10 3 (0.12%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Cast Iron
10 3 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.083%) Oracle Identity Management
11 2 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.042%) vRealize
12 1 (0.042%) VxRail
Vendors
1 464 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 458 (19.01%) SAP
3 437 (18.14%) Oracle
4 300 (12.45%) Anaplan
4 300 (12.45%) Hyperion
5 104 (4.32%) Sparx
6 84 (3.49%) Google
7 70 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.03%) Cisco
9 35 (1.45%) IBM
10 33 (1.37%) Databricks
11 31 (1.29%) Apple
11 31 (1.29%) VMware
12 30 (1.25%) ServiceNow
13 23 (0.95%) Adobe
14 22 (0.91%) Juniper
15 19 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.79%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.71%) Dell
17 16 (0.66%) Meraki