Solutions Architect Jobs in the North West

Solution Architect
England > North West

The median Solution Architect salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 121 115
Rank change year-on-year -15 -6 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 180 219 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.38% 1.91% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 2.01% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 101 158 81
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,809 £60,063
25th Percentile - £62,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.10% +2.75%
75th Percentile £61,250 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -10.01% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 6,910 10,896 6,487
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 95.03% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 8,121 3,975
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Cumbria -7 116 £60,000 -11.11% 3
Manchester -17 40 £72,500 -0.40% 17
Lancashire -60 16 £56,250 -19.64% 1
Cheshire -4 7 £80,000 -3.03% 7
Merseyside 0 1 £77,500 +3.33% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 2025, 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 North West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 118 (65.56%) ERP
2 112 (62.22%) CAD
2 112 (62.22%) Manufacturing
2 112 (62.22%) PLM
2 112 (62.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 78 (43.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 75 (41.67%) Roadmaps
5 74 (41.11%) Agile
6 65 (36.11%) Business Strategy
7 59 (32.78%) SAP
8 58 (32.22%) Strategic Roadmap
9 57 (31.67%) Business Analysis
10 56 (31.11%) JIRA
10 56 (31.11%) Confluence
10 56 (31.11%) Demand Management
10 56 (31.11%) Siemens
10 56 (31.11%) Customer Requirements
11 32 (17.78%) Social Skills
12 25 (13.89%) TOGAF
13 23 (12.78%) Azure
13 23 (12.78%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (12.22%) Presales
15 21 (11.67%) AWS
15 21 (11.67%) Aruba
15 21 (11.67%) Cisco
16 20 (11.11%) LAN
16 20 (11.11%) WAN
16 20 (11.11%) CCNA
16 20 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (11.11%) Juniper

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 56 (31.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.78%) Azure
2 21 (11.67%) AWS
3 14 (7.78%) GCP
4 4 (2.22%) OCI
4 4 (2.22%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.11%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.11%) GitHub
6 2 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.11%) SaaS
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Serverless
7 1 (0.56%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.11%) Firewall
1 20 (11.11%) LAN
1 20 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.11%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.11%) MySQL
3 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.11%) Power BI
4 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
4 1 (0.56%) GIS
4 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (31.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 112 (62.22%) Manufacturing
2 32 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.78%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (6.11%) Finance
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.78%) Banking
5 5 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Aviation
8 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) .NET
1 2 (1.11%) Middleware
1 2 (1.11%) React
1 2 (1.11%) REST
2 1 (0.56%) EDI
2 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.56%) Kafka
2 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.56%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (65.56%) ERP
2 112 (62.22%) CAD
2 112 (62.22%) PLM
3 78 (43.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 75 (41.67%) Roadmaps
5 74 (41.11%) Agile
6 65 (36.11%) Business Strategy
7 58 (32.22%) Strategic Roadmap
8 57 (31.67%) Business Analysis
9 56 (31.11%) Customer Requirements
9 56 (31.11%) Demand Management
10 25 (13.89%) TOGAF
11 22 (12.22%) Presales
12 14 (7.78%) Architectural Design
13 12 (6.67%) DevOps
13 12 (6.67%) Microservices
14 10 (5.56%) Containerisation
14 10 (5.56%) Data Management
15 9 (5.00%) CI/CD
15 9 (5.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.22%) SQL
2 9 (5.00%) Java
2 9 (5.00%) Python
3 8 (4.44%) C#
4 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 112 (62.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (11.11%) CCNA
2 20 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (11.11%) JNCIA
3 12 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.11%) AWS Certification
5 10 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.89%) Degree
6 7 (3.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) GDPR
1 8 (4.44%) HIPAA
1 8 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (6.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 59 (32.78%) SAP
2 56 (31.11%) Siemens
3 21 (11.67%) Aruba
3 21 (11.67%) Cisco
4 20 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 20 (11.11%) Juniper
4 20 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 14 (7.78%) Google
6 6 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) Dell
7 1 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) Sparx
7 1 (0.56%) VMware
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