Microsoft Solutions Architect Jobs

Microsoft Solution Architect
UK

The median Microsoft Solution Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 894 1238
Rank change year-on-year +35 +344 -343
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Solutions Architect 44 62 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.066% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.072% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 43 25 23
10th Percentile - - £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +16.36%

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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Solutions Architect in the UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Solutions Architect in the UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Solutions Architect in the UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +24 42 £85,000 -3.41% 12
London +92 33 £87,500 -2.78% 6
Work from Home +27 14 £90,000 - 7
UK excluding London -46 8 £80,000 -5.88% 4
South East +1 3 £80,000 -6.98% 2
South West - 3 £80,000 - 1
North of England +17 2 £80,000 -23.81% 1
North West -12 2 £80,000 -23.81% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 2024, Microsoft 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 Microsoft Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (84.09%) Azure
3 16 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (29.55%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (25.00%) .NET
6 9 (20.45%) ERP
6 9 (20.45%) SaaS
6 9 (20.45%) Agile
6 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
6 9 (20.45%) Roadmaps
7 7 (15.91%) Design Patterns
7 7 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
7 7 (15.91%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (15.91%) SharePoint
8 6 (13.64%) DevOps
8 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (13.64%) C#
8 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
9 5 (11.36%) ADO
9 5 (11.36%) CRM
9 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
9 5 (11.36%) Statistics
9 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
10 4 (9.09%) Presales
10 4 (9.09%) IaaS
10 4 (9.09%) PaaS
10 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
11 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills

Microsoft 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 7 (15.91%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (84.09%) Azure
2 16 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (29.55%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (20.45%) SaaS
5 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) IaaS
6 4 (9.09%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) AWS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (11.36%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.45%) Agile
1 9 (20.45%) ERP
1 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
1 9 (20.45%) Roadmaps
2 7 (15.91%) Design Patterns
3 6 (13.64%) DevOps
3 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (11.36%) CRM
4 5 (11.36%) Statistics
5 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 4 (9.09%) Presales
6 3 (6.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (6.82%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (6.82%) TOGAF
6 3 (6.82%) Waterfall
7 2 (4.55%) Business Case
7 2 (4.55%) Data Integration
7 2 (4.55%) Data Security
7 2 (4.55%) Software Architecture
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) C#
2 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Databricks