Solutions Architect Jobs in Scotland

Solution Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Solution Architect salary in Scotland is £71,991 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 183 69 100
Rank change year-on-year -114 +31 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 90 170 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.32% 3.91% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 4.36% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49 51 89
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,717 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,510
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.02% +6.46%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh -9 43 £71,991 +3.66% 2
Glasgow -119 43 £80,000 -3.03%
West Lothian - 3 £55,000 - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 £70,000 -
Solutions Architect
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 33 (36.67%) Agile
2 29 (32.22%) AWS
3 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
4 26 (28.89%) Azure
5 25 (27.78%) Presales
6 24 (26.67%) Security Cleared
7 23 (25.56%) Migration
8 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (23.33%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (23.33%) SC Cleared
10 19 (21.11%) TOGAF
10 19 (21.11%) Cloud Native
11 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.78%) Business Case
13 15 (16.67%) AWS Certification
13 15 (16.67%) Scrum
14 14 (15.56%) Technology Strategy
14 14 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (15.56%) IT Strategy
15 13 (14.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 13 (14.44%) Commercial Awareness
15 13 (14.44%) Contract Negotiation
15 13 (14.44%) Thought Leadership
15 13 (14.44%) Linux
15 13 (14.44%) Analytics
16 12 (13.33%) Public Cloud
16 12 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (13.33%) Banking
16 12 (13.33%) Azure Certification
16 12 (13.33%) Roadmaps

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (8.89%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.44%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.11%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) AWS
2 26 (28.89%) Azure
3 12 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.56%) GCP
5 5 (5.56%) IaaS
5 5 (5.56%) PaaS
6 4 (4.44%) SaaS
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.11%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) BGP
1 8 (8.89%) DNS
1 8 (8.89%) SSL
1 8 (8.89%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database
2 8 (8.89%) RDBMS
2 8 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.78%) Big Data
3 7 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Eclipse
1 3 (3.33%) Maven
2 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Banking
3 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Finance
4 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 3 (3.33%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.33%) Law
6 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.22%) Spring Boot
2 8 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.56%) Kafka
4 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.33%) Java EE
4 3 (3.33%) JSON
4 3 (3.33%) REST
4 3 (3.33%) Spring
4 3 (3.33%) Web Services
4 3 (3.33%) XML
5 1 (1.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.22%) Robotics
5 2 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.67%) Windows
4 4 (4.44%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) Agile
2 25 (27.78%) Presales
3 23 (25.56%) Migration
4 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (23.33%) Actionable Insight
6 19 (21.11%) TOGAF
7 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (17.78%) Business Case
9 15 (16.67%) Scrum
10 14 (15.56%) IT Strategy
10 14 (15.56%) Technology Strategy
11 13 (14.44%) Analytics
11 13 (14.44%) Commercial Awareness
11 13 (14.44%) Contract Negotiation
11 13 (14.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (14.44%) Thought Leadership
12 12 (13.33%) Roadmaps
13 11 (12.22%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (12.22%) Data Analytics
13 11 (12.22%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.78%) SQL
2 5 (5.56%) Python
3 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.33%) Java
4 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 14 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (13.33%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (3.33%) Degree
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) SEPA
3 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.67%) Ansible
3 5 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.44%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (4.44%) Puppet
5 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Sparx
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle
3 5 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (1.11%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco
4 1 (1.11%) EMC
4 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow