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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 117 208
Rank change year-on-year +4 +91 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2,406 2,944 3,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.38% 2.99% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 3.27% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 1,540 1,580
10th Percentile £56,809 £63,750 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,250 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.48% +3.33% +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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 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 23 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 +7 2,091 £80,000 -5.88% 293
UK excluding London -22 1,312 £73,250 -5.48% 175
Work from Home +31 1,224 £80,000 -3.03% 140
London +31 872 £92,500 +2.78% 115
North of England +36 416 £75,000 -3.23% 47
South East +4 325 £77,500 -8.82% 39
Midlands -7 278 £67,500 -10.00% 35
North West +14 209 £70,000 -9.68% 25
Yorkshire +48 178 £77,500 +3.33% 18
West Midlands +26 165 £77,500 +3.33% 24
South West -2 164 £70,000 - 24
East Midlands -29 112 £59,500 -17.93% 11
Scotland -121 85 £72,500 +3.57% 11
North East +3 29 £80,000 -5.88% 4
East of England -86 23 £97,500 +14.71% 5
Northern Ireland +12 20 £90,000 +28.57% 9
Wales -34 17 £45,000 -51.35% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 854 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 841 (34.95%) Agile
3 702 (29.18%) Finance
4 640 (26.60%) Azure
5 622 (25.85%) Roadmaps
6 591 (24.56%) TOGAF
7 522 (21.70%) Enterprise Architecture
8 471 (19.58%) Microsoft
9 460 (19.12%) SAP
10 431 (17.91%) Oracle
11 429 (17.83%) AWS
12 428 (17.79%) ERP
13 365 (15.17%) Strategic Roadmap
14 353 (14.67%) Security Cleared
15 350 (14.55%) Data Management
16 336 (13.97%) Change Management
17 312 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
18 309 (12.84%) Presales
19 306 (12.72%) SAP ERP
20 301 (12.51%) Anaplan
21 300 (12.47%) Performance Management
21 300 (12.47%) Broadband
22 299 (12.43%) SAS
22 299 (12.43%) Hyperion
23 295 (12.26%) SC Cleared
24 272 (11.31%) Degree
25 246 (10.22%) Microservices
26 222 (9.23%) Mentoring
27 212 (8.81%) Analytics
28 204 (8.48%) Public Cloud

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 (12.43%) SAS
2 57 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (2.24%) Apache
3 54 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.91%) WebLogic
5 19 (0.79%) CMS
6 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.25%) Drupal
7 6 (0.25%) IIS
7 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.12%) WordPress
10 2 (0.083%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.083%) Confluence
10 2 (0.083%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.042%) Appian
11 1 (0.042%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.25%) Simulink
5 5 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 306 (12.72%) SAP ERP
2 97 (4.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 96 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.75%) SAP BPC
6 12 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 11 (0.46%) SAP CO
7 11 (0.46%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
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 HR
12 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 640 (26.60%) Azure
2 429 (17.83%) AWS
3 183 (7.61%) GCP
4 154 (6.40%) SaaS
5 149 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
5 149 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 123 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
7 90 (3.74%) PaaS
8 85 (3.53%) IaaS
9 84 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (2.41%) Snowflake
11 56 (2.33%) dbt
12 54 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
13 46 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (1.91%) PowerApps
14 40 (1.66%) Power Automate
15 38 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.29%) Serverless
18 26 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 300 (12.47%) Broadband
2 60 (2.49%) DNS
3 49 (2.04%) Firewall
4 46 (1.91%) BGP
4 46 (1.91%) SSL
4 46 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.70%) SD-WAN
5 41 (1.70%) WAN
6 26 (1.08%) Wireless
7 19 (0.79%) Network Security
8 7 (0.29%) Intranet
9 4 (0.17%) Internet
9 4 (0.17%) VoIP
9 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.12%) 4G
10 3 (0.12%) 5G
10 3 (0.12%) DHCP
10 3 (0.12%) PBX
11 2 (0.083%) VPN
12 1 (0.042%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.49%) Relational Database
2 82 (3.41%) Data Lake
2 82 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
4 56 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 55 (2.29%) Apache Arrow
5 55 (2.29%) Dremio
6 54 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 53 (2.20%) Power BI
7 53 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 52 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
9 48 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 48 (2.00%) RDBMS
10 28 (1.16%) Big Data
11 21 (0.87%) MongoDB
11 21 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (0.87%) SAP BW
12 20 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.79%) DB2
14 15 (0.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (0.62%) Jenkins
2 14 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
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%) Git
7 2 (0.083%) Subversion
8 1 (0.042%) Mocha
8 1 (0.042%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.042%) Vagrant
General
1 854 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 702 (29.18%) Finance
3 153 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (6.15%) Retail
5 146 (6.07%) Banking
6 109 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 74 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (2.87%) Legal
10 56 (2.33%) Front Office
11 52 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (2.16%) Investment Banking
12 43 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.62%) Marketing
14 31 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.12%) 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
1 120 (4.99%) .NET
2 70 (2.91%) Spring Boot
3 55 (2.29%) gRPC
3 55 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 52 (2.16%) NumPy
4 52 (2.16%) Pandas
4 52 (2.16%) SciPy
5 46 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
6 34 (1.41%) Middleware
7 28 (1.16%) Kafka
8 21 (0.87%) HTML
8 21 (0.87%) Spring
9 19 (0.79%) REST
9 19 (0.79%) Web Services
10 17 (0.71%) CSS
11 15 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.62%) SOAP
12 14 (0.58%) XML
13 13 (0.54%) JSON
13 13 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 204 (8.48%) Public Cloud
2 131 (5.44%) Cloud Native
3 84 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 55 (2.29%) Derivative
5 55 (2.29%) Equities
5 55 (2.29%) Fixed Income
5 55 (2.29%) Hedge funds
6 52 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (1.70%) IoT
8 35 (1.45%) PMI
9 33 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 26 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 23 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 23 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (0.87%) Reinsurance
13 19 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.62%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.41%) Linux
2 47 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (1.21%) Windows
4 8 (0.33%) VME
5 7 (0.29%) Android
5 7 (0.29%) Apple iOS
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%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.042%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (34.95%) Agile
2 622 (25.85%) Roadmaps
3 591 (24.56%) TOGAF
4 522 (21.70%) Enterprise Architecture
5 428 (17.79%) ERP
6 365 (15.17%) Strategic Roadmap
7 350 (14.55%) Data Management
8 336 (13.97%) Change Management
9 312 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (12.84%) Presales
11 300 (12.47%) Performance Management
12 246 (10.22%) Microservices
13 222 (9.23%) Mentoring
14 212 (8.81%) Analytics
15 200 (8.31%) DevOps
16 196 (8.15%) Migration
17 195 (8.10%) IT Strategy
18 188 (7.81%) Actionable Insight
19 176 (7.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 173 (7.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 139 (5.78%) JavaScript
2 118 (4.90%) Java
3 115 (4.78%) Python
4 99 (4.11%) SQL
5 89 (3.70%) C#
6 60 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 18 (0.75%) Bicep
7 18 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.54%) Go
9 12 (0.50%) R
10 11 (0.46%) MATLAB
11 10 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.33%) COBOL
12 8 (0.33%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 8 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.25%) Bash
13 6 (0.25%) Perl
13 6 (0.25%) PHP
14 5 (0.21%) Scala
15 4 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 353 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 295 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 272 (11.31%) Degree
4 139 (5.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 107 (4.45%) Azure Certification
6 96 (3.99%) AWS Certification
7 86 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 72 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.91%) DV Cleared
14 21 (0.87%) CCNP
15 18 (0.75%) CCNA
16 15 (0.62%) CISSP
17 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 8 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.62%) QA
2 19 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.50%) SLA
4 11 (0.46%) PMO
5 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
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
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
10 3 (0.12%) SEPA
11 2 (0.083%) GRC
11 2 (0.083%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.042%) Solvency II
System Software
1 65 (2.70%) Docker
2 24 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.37%) KVM
4 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.042%) LXC
6 1 (0.042%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 63 (2.62%) Terraform
3 22 (0.91%) Ansible
4 15 (0.62%) CASB
5 11 (0.46%) Puppet
6 10 (0.42%) 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%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.083%) WebSphere Cast Iron
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle Identity Management
12 1 (0.042%) vRealize
12 1 (0.042%) VxRail
Vendors
1 471 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 460 (19.12%) SAP
3 431 (17.91%) Oracle
4 301 (12.51%) Anaplan
5 299 (12.43%) Hyperion
6 100 (4.16%) Sparx
7 86 (3.57%) Google
8 72 (2.99%) Salesforce
9 51 (2.12%) Cisco
10 36 (1.50%) IBM
11 32 (1.33%) VMware
12 31 (1.29%) Apple
13 28 (1.16%) Databricks
13 28 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 24 (1.00%) Juniper
15 22 (0.91%) Adobe
16 21 (0.87%) Fortinet
17 20 (0.83%) MuleSoft
18 16 (0.67%) Dell
18 16 (0.67%) Meraki