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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 121 210
Rank change year-on-year +10 +89 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2,398 2,909 3,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 2.92% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 3.20% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 1,570 1,597
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 £116,250 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £78,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.64% +4.67% +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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 +15 2,084 £80,000 -5.88% 377
UK excluding London -21 1,300 £72,500 -7.64% 226
Work from Home +32 1,226 £80,000 -3.03% 159
London +28 876 £92,500 +2.78% 158
North of England +40 414 £75,000 -3.23% 61
South East +19 321 £77,500 -8.82% 62
Midlands -3 270 £66,250 -11.67% 50
North West +20 207 £70,000 -8.20% 33
Yorkshire +58 178 £77,500 +3.33% 23
South West -5 166 £70,000 - 24
West Midlands +30 159 £77,500 +3.33% 34
East Midlands -31 110 £60,000 -17.24% 16
Scotland -116 85 £72,500 +3.57% 10
North East +11 29 £80,000 -5.88% 5
East of England -87 22 £95,000 +8.57% 8
Northern Ireland +15 20 £90,000 +28.57% 9
Wales -34 16 £45,000 -51.35% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 839 (34.99%) Agile
3 700 (29.19%) Finance
4 636 (26.52%) Azure
5 627 (26.15%) Roadmaps
6 596 (24.85%) TOGAF
7 525 (21.89%) Enterprise Architecture
8 462 (19.27%) SAP
8 462 (19.27%) Microsoft
9 431 (17.97%) Oracle
10 428 (17.85%) ERP
11 427 (17.81%) AWS
12 365 (15.22%) Strategic Roadmap
13 356 (14.85%) Security Cleared
14 343 (14.30%) Data Management
15 336 (14.01%) Change Management
16 316 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
17 309 (12.89%) Presales
18 306 (12.76%) SAP ERP
19 300 (12.51%) Performance Management
19 300 (12.51%) Broadband
19 300 (12.51%) Anaplan
20 299 (12.47%) SAS
20 299 (12.47%) Hyperion
21 298 (12.43%) SC Cleared
22 272 (11.34%) Degree
23 256 (10.68%) Microservices
24 224 (9.34%) Mentoring
25 213 (8.88%) Analytics
26 202 (8.42%) 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 (12.47%) SAS
2 57 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (2.25%) Apache
4 53 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.92%) WebLogic
6 19 (0.79%) CMS
7 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.25%) Drupal
8 6 (0.25%) IIS
8 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.083%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.083%) Confluence
12 1 (0.042%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.042%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.042%) nginx
12 1 (0.042%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.25%) Simulink
4 5 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 306 (12.76%) SAP ERP
2 98 (4.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 97 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 36 (1.50%) 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 (0.38%) 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
10 6 (0.25%) 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
1 636 (26.52%) Azure
2 427 (17.81%) AWS
3 182 (7.59%) GCP
4 156 (6.51%) SaaS
5 150 (6.26%) Power Platform
6 146 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
7 121 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
8 91 (3.79%) PaaS
9 86 (3.59%) IaaS
10 84 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (2.42%) Snowflake
12 56 (2.34%) dbt
13 54 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
14 46 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (1.88%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.63%) Power Automate
17 38 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
18 35 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
19 30 (1.25%) Serverless
20 27 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 300 (12.51%) Broadband
2 60 (2.50%) DNS
3 49 (2.04%) Firewall
4 47 (1.96%) SSL
5 46 (1.92%) BGP
5 46 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 40 (1.67%) SD-WAN
6 40 (1.67%) WAN
7 25 (1.04%) Wireless
8 20 (0.83%) Network Security
9 7 (0.29%) Intranet
10 4 (0.17%) Internet
10 4 (0.17%) VoIP
10 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.13%) 4G
11 3 (0.13%) 5G
11 3 (0.13%) DHCP
11 3 (0.13%) PBX
12 2 (0.083%) VPN
13 1 (0.042%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.50%) Relational Database
2 82 (3.42%) Data Lake
2 82 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 56 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
5 55 (2.29%) Apache Arrow
5 55 (2.29%) Dremio
5 55 (2.29%) NoSQL
6 54 (2.25%) Power BI
7 53 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 52 (2.17%) Apache Ignite
9 48 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 48 (2.00%) RDBMS
10 29 (1.21%) Big Data
11 22 (0.92%) MongoDB
12 21 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (0.88%) SAP BW
13 20 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.79%) DB2
15 15 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 14 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (0.38%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Maven
5 5 (0.21%) JIRA
6 3 (0.13%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.13%) GitLab
6 3 (0.13%) 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 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 700 (29.19%) Finance
3 149 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (6.17%) Banking
5 139 (5.80%) Retail
6 108 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 100 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 73 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (2.96%) Legal
10 56 (2.34%) Front Office
11 53 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (2.17%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.88%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.33%) Marketing
15 31 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (0.92%) Law
18 21 (0.88%) Advertising
18 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.00%) .NET
2 72 (3.00%) Spring Boot
3 55 (2.29%) gRPC
3 55 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 52 (2.17%) NumPy
4 52 (2.17%) Pandas
4 52 (2.17%) SciPy
5 46 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
6 34 (1.42%) Middleware
7 30 (1.25%) Kafka
8 23 (0.96%) Spring
9 21 (0.88%) HTML
10 20 (0.83%) Web Services
11 19 (0.79%) REST
12 18 (0.75%) CSS
13 16 (0.67%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.63%) SOAP
15 14 (0.58%) XML
16 13 (0.54%) JSON
16 13 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 202 (8.42%) Public Cloud
2 133 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 84 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (2.38%) 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 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (1.67%) IoT
8 35 (1.46%) PMI
9 33 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.00%) Product Ownership
11 24 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (0.92%) Reinsurance
13 20 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.42%) Linux
2 47 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (1.17%) Windows
4 9 (0.38%) Android
4 9 (0.38%) 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
1 839 (34.99%) Agile
2 627 (26.15%) Roadmaps
3 596 (24.85%) TOGAF
4 525 (21.89%) Enterprise Architecture
5 428 (17.85%) ERP
6 365 (15.22%) Strategic Roadmap
7 343 (14.30%) Data Management
8 336 (14.01%) Change Management
9 316 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
10 309 (12.89%) Presales
11 300 (12.51%) Performance Management
12 256 (10.68%) Microservices
13 224 (9.34%) Mentoring
14 213 (8.88%) Analytics
15 201 (8.38%) DevOps
16 196 (8.17%) IT Strategy
16 196 (8.17%) Migration
17 190 (7.92%) Actionable Insight
18 177 (7.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 176 (7.34%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 140 (5.84%) JavaScript
2 121 (5.05%) Java
3 114 (4.75%) Python
4 100 (4.17%) SQL
5 88 (3.67%) C#
6 60 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 18 (0.75%) Bicep
7 18 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.58%) 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
1 356 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 298 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 272 (11.34%) Degree
4 140 (5.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 106 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 94 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 84 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 71 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 27 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (0.92%) DV Cleared
12 22 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.88%) CCNP
14 18 (0.75%) CCNA
15 15 (0.63%) CISSP
16 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 8 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (2.59%) QA
2 19 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.50%) SLA
4 11 (0.46%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.46%) PMO
5 8 (0.33%) GDPR
6 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.29%) NIST
7 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.17%) SEPA
9 3 (0.13%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.13%) RMADS
10 2 (0.083%) GRC
10 2 (0.083%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.042%) Solvency II
System Software
1 65 (2.71%) Docker
2 23 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.38%) 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%) RACF
6 1 (0.042%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 63 (2.63%) Terraform
3 22 (0.92%) Ansible
4 15 (0.63%) 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 (0.13%) Grafana
10 3 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.13%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.13%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.083%) WebSphere Cast Iron
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.042%) Nagios
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle Identity Management
12 1 (0.042%) vRealize
Vendors
1 462 (19.27%) Microsoft
1 462 (19.27%) SAP
2 431 (17.97%) Oracle
3 300 (12.51%) Anaplan
4 299 (12.47%) Hyperion
5 101 (4.21%) Sparx
6 87 (3.63%) Google
7 75 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 50 (2.09%) Cisco
9 35 (1.46%) IBM
10 31 (1.29%) Apple
10 31 (1.29%) VMware
11 29 (1.21%) Databricks
11 29 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 23 (0.96%) Adobe
12 23 (0.96%) Juniper
13 20 (0.83%) Fortinet
13 20 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 16 (0.67%) Meraki
15 15 (0.63%) Dell