Solutions Architect Jobs in the Midlands

Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Solution Architect salary in the Midlands is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 104 152
Rank change year-on-year -2 +48 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 295 281 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.26% 3.28% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 3.67% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 216 139 154
10th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% +7.64%
75th Percentile £81,563 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £88,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +8.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 12,357 7,658 10,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.51% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,004 4,510 7,073
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £67,425 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +26 173 £77,500 +3.33% 38
East Midlands -35 121 £59,500 -17.93% 10
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 84 (28.47%) Microsoft
2 63 (21.36%) Agile
3 48 (16.27%) Azure
4 44 (14.92%) Power Platform
5 41 (13.90%) Dynamics 365
6 40 (13.56%) Security Cleared
7 38 (12.88%) Retail
7 38 (12.88%) Finance
7 38 (12.88%) Social Skills
8 37 (12.54%) ERP
9 33 (11.19%) SC Cleared
10 31 (10.51%) AWS
10 31 (10.51%) Roadmaps
11 30 (10.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 30 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
12 28 (9.49%) Public Cloud
13 27 (9.15%) Analytics
13 27 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (9.15%) Degree
14 26 (8.81%) Business Development
14 26 (8.81%) Data Modelling
14 26 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
14 26 (8.81%) Presales
15 25 (8.47%) Data Analytics
16 23 (7.80%) Power BI
16 23 (7.80%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (7.80%) SAP
16 23 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence
16 23 (7.80%) Digital Strategy

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 9 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.36%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.34%) Appian
Applications
1 16 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.03%) Simulink
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.07%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.68%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.27%) Azure
2 44 (14.92%) Power Platform
3 41 (13.90%) Dynamics 365
4 31 (10.51%) AWS
5 20 (6.78%) Power Automate
5 20 (6.78%) PowerApps
6 14 (4.75%) SaaS
7 9 (3.05%) GCP
8 8 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.69%) GitHub
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.68%) IaaS
12 2 (0.68%) PaaS
12 2 (0.68%) Serverless
13 1 (0.34%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.42%) SD-WAN
1 16 (5.42%) WAN
2 11 (3.73%) Firewall
2 11 (3.73%) Wireless
3 4 (1.36%) BGP
3 4 (1.36%) DNS
3 4 (1.36%) SSL
3 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.02%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) Broadband
5 1 (0.34%) GPON
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) MPLS
5 1 (0.34%) VoIP
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.34%) WLAN
5 1 (0.34%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.80%) Power BI
2 8 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.69%) Metadata
5 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.36%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.02%) DB2
6 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.73%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (12.88%) Finance
1 38 (12.88%) Retail
1 38 (12.88%) Social Skills
2 26 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (5.42%) Manufacturing
4 16 (5.42%) Marketing
5 15 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.73%) Military
7 8 (2.71%) Fire and Rescue
7 8 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.71%) Police
8 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Law
9 4 (1.36%) Legal
9 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.39%) .NET
2 4 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.02%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.34%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.49%) Public Cloud
2 11 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.71%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.03%) IoT
5 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.02%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.02%) FMCG
7 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.34%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.68%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (21.36%) Agile
2 37 (12.54%) ERP
3 31 (10.51%) Roadmaps
4 30 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
4 30 (10.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 27 (9.15%) Analytics
5 27 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (8.81%) Business Development
6 26 (8.81%) Data Modelling
6 26 (8.81%) Presales
7 25 (8.47%) Data Analytics
8 23 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence
8 23 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (7.80%) Digital Strategy
8 23 (7.80%) Performance Optimisation
9 22 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (7.12%) Commercial Awareness
10 21 (7.12%) TOGAF
10 21 (7.12%) Visualisation
11 20 (6.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.41%) C#
2 11 (3.73%) JavaScript
2 11 (3.73%) MATLAB
3 7 (2.37%) SQL
4 2 (0.68%) COBOL
4 2 (0.68%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 2 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.15%) Degree
4 13 (4.41%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.05%) CCNP
8 9 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.71%) CCNA
10 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.34%) CWNA
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.07%) SLA
2 6 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (1.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.03%) Terraform
2 5 (1.69%) CASB
3 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (28.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.80%) SAP
3 19 (6.44%) Cisco
4 11 (3.73%) Fortinet
4 11 (3.73%) Juniper
5 9 (3.05%) Google
6 7 (2.37%) Adobe
6 7 (2.37%) Apple
6 7 (2.37%) Oracle
7 6 (2.03%) Meraki
8 5 (1.69%) Sparx
9 3 (1.02%) IBM
10 2 (0.68%) Micro Focus
11 1 (0.34%) Aruba
11 1 (0.34%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.34%) MikroTik
11 1 (0.34%) Nokia
11 1 (0.34%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.34%) VMware