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Discover how well your profile matches a role as Solution Architect. Get insight into which skills you already have, which you can still develop and which courses or learning paths fit your next step.
Solution Architect in short
Solution Architect is a function within IT, part of the branch IT & Software. Every figure on this page comes from our own market data for this function.
- Domain
- IT
- Branch
- IT & Software
- Open job opportunities
- 0
- Measured skills
- 6 · Measured for this function
- Typical experience
- 4-8 years
- Salary source
- Measured salary bands per experience level
Salary & employment conditions
gross per month · Measured salary bands per experience level
Employment conditions
Benchmarked in the job opportunities for this function.
- Pensioenregeling
- 69% of job opportunities
- Reiskostenvergoeding
- 62% of job opportunities
- Opleidingsbudget
- 15% of job opportunities
- Thuiswerken / hybride
- 15% of job opportunities
- Vakantiedagen
- 27 days
- Laptop van de zaak
- 15% of job opportunities
Day-to-day work
Taken from the descriptions employers published on their own job opportunities.
Employers have not described the tasks for this function yet.
Skills
Benchmark score per skill for this function, on a scale of 0 to 100.
Next functions
The share of professionals that made this step, and how long it took them.
Frequently asked questions about Solution Architect
What does a Solution Architect earn?
Our market data shows € 6.017 – € 6.017 gross per month for a Solution Architect. That band moves with your years of experience, your region and the size of your employer, and specialists at the top of the range regularly negotiate above it because their knowledge is scarce.
Which skills do you need as a Solution Architect?
Employers hiring a Solution Architect ask most often for Cloudplatforms (Azure / AWS / GCP), Architectuurframeworks (TOGAF / ArchiMate / DYA), Integratie & API's. Our benchmark scores those skills highest for this role, so start there. Soft skills such as communication and collaboration decide the rest: they separate two candidates with the same technical profile.
Which education fits a Solution Architect?
Employers mention HBO/WO Informatica of Software Engineering, TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) most often in their Solution Architect job opportunities, and 85% of those openings names the first one. A diploma is rarely the only route though: demonstrable projects, a targeted certificate and experience from a neighbouring role count just as heavily.
What is the next step after Solution Architect?
Professionals in our data move on from Solution Architect to Enterprise Architect, Domein- / Domain Architect. That step usually takes 3-6 years, and the salary room above the median for this role runs to 6%, so growing inside the function itself pays off as well.
Is there much demand for a Solution Architect?
There is no open job opportunity for this role at the moment. That says little about the labour market as a whole: vacancies for this function appear irregularly and are often filled quickly. Create a profile and we notify you as soon as one is published.
Solution Architect professionals speak
Stories from the teams behind the open job opportunities for this function.
“Ik werk nu al 3 jaar bij TechStart en het blijft elke dag inspirerend.”
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