Senior Solutions Architect Jobs

Senior Solution Architect
UK

The median Senior Solution Architect salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 519 721
Rank change year-on-year -121 +202 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 100 316 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.43% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 173 174
10th Percentile £59,168 £56,809 £65,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,675 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -20.59% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 56,869 72,954 104,338
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 95.06% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,612 55,098 66,320
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,500 £32,655
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,425 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 11 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 11 February 2025. 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 -97 91 £71,000 -9.55% 23
Work from Home +14 60 £78,750 +8.62% 16
UK excluding London -47 52 £65,675 -2.70% 14
London -27 44 £90,000 -5.26% 15
North of England -19 27 £62,779 -16.85% 4
North West -13 13 £62,779 +2.57% 4
West Midlands -16 11 £100,000 +60.00% 2
Midlands -17 11 £100,000 +60.00% 2
Yorkshire +11 9 £77,000 +1.32%
South West +48 7 £60,000 -17.24% 2
North East +22 5 £60,000 -1.97%
Wales +22 3 £67,122 -21.03% 1
Scotland +26 2 £88,519 +60.94% 4
South East +13 2 £100,000 +48.15% 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 2025, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 47 (47.00%) Azure
2 42 (42.00%) Roadmaps
3 35 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 30 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (30.00%) AWS
5 29 (29.00%) Analytics
6 27 (27.00%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 24 (24.00%) Coaching
8 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
8 24 (24.00%) GCP
9 21 (21.00%) Presales
10 20 (20.00%) TOGAF
11 19 (19.00%) Agile
11 19 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (18.00%) Finance
12 18 (18.00%) Architectural Design
13 16 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
13 16 (16.00%) Adobe
13 16 (16.00%) Apple
13 16 (16.00%) Software Licensing
13 16 (16.00%) Google
13 16 (16.00%) Time Management
14 15 (15.00%) Migration
14 15 (15.00%) Target Operating Model
15 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
15 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven
15 14 (14.00%) Domain-Driven Design
15 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 13 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior 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 4 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (47.00%) Azure
2 30 (30.00%) AWS
3 24 (24.00%) GCP
4 12 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (7.00%) SaaS
6 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.00%) OCI
7 3 (3.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.00%) Boomi
8 2 (2.00%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.00%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 35 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (18.00%) Finance
4 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.00%) Banking
6 7 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.00%) Marketing
6 7 (7.00%) Retail Banking
7 6 (6.00%) Games
8 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.00%) Law
10 1 (1.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) Kafka
1 6 (6.00%) OpenAPI
1 6 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (2.00%) REST
3 2 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.00%) Spring
4 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 8 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.00%) Mobile Games
4 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.00%) FMCG
4 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.00%) Equities
5 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Windows
1 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.00%) Roadmaps
2 29 (29.00%) Analytics
3 27 (27.00%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 24 (24.00%) Coaching
6 21 (21.00%) Presales
7 20 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 19 (19.00%) Agile
8 19 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (18.00%) Architectural Design
10 16 (16.00%) Software Licensing
10 16 (16.00%) Time Management
11 15 (15.00%) Migration
11 15 (15.00%) Target Operating Model
12 14 (14.00%) Domain-Driven Design
12 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven
12 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (13.00%) UML
14 12 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) SQL
2 2 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (1.00%) ABAP
3 1 (1.00%) C#
3 1 (1.00%) C++
3 1 (1.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.00%) Degree
3 7 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.00%) MCSA
5 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (2.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) Adobe
2 16 (16.00%) Apple
2 16 (16.00%) Google
3 8 (8.00%) Oracle
4 5 (5.00%) IBM
4 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.00%) SAP
5 2 (2.00%) Ariba
5 2 (2.00%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.00%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.00%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.00%) Workday