Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 173 120
Rank change year-on-year +26 -53 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,096 717 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.39% 1.91% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 2.14% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 727 483 1,239
10th Percentile £63,250 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,768 £65,000 £66,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £115,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 72,973 33,444 78,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 88.88% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,795 21,436 59,944
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in England

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in England

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
London +38 487 £95,000 +5.56% 103
North of England -21 172 £78,500 +20.77% 43
Midlands +7 138 £75,000 - 34
South East +13 126 £85,000 +9.68% 49
North West -5 105 £75,000 +25.00% 27
South West +8 104 £75,000 +4.18% 25
West Midlands +17 93 £75,000 -14.16% 23
East of England -3 57 £90,000 +35.95% 11
East Midlands -42 45 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Yorkshire -70 37 £82,500 - 13
North East -28 30 £78,000 +20.00% 3
Solutions Architect
UK

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, Solutions Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 238 (21.72%) Azure
2 158 (14.42%) AWS
3 144 (13.14%) AI
4 133 (12.14%) Security Cleared
5 131 (11.95%) Roadmaps
6 128 (11.68%) Microsoft
7 127 (11.59%) DevOps
8 123 (11.22%) Agile
9 116 (10.58%) TOGAF
10 115 (10.49%) Presales
11 112 (10.22%) Enterprise Architecture
12 97 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (8.39%) SaaS
14 89 (8.12%) SC Cleared
15 83 (7.57%) Microservices
16 76 (6.93%) Degree
16 76 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (6.84%) Analytics
18 69 (6.30%) SAP
19 65 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
20 61 (5.57%) Architectural Patterns
21 58 (5.29%) Integration Patterns
22 57 (5.20%) Continuous Improvement
22 57 (5.20%) Decision-Making
22 57 (5.20%) Migration
23 56 (5.11%) Architectural Design
23 56 (5.11%) ERP
24 55 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
24 55 (5.02%) Power Platform
25 53 (4.84%) Business Strategy

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (1.28%) Confluence
2 11 (1.00%) CMS
2 11 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.18%) JBoss
5 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.091%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.091%) Camunda
6 1 (0.091%) CICS
6 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.091%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.55%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.091%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.73%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.55%) Shopify
5 5 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.36%) Endur
7 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.091%) Actimize
9 1 (0.091%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.091%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (21.72%) Azure
2 158 (14.42%) AWS
3 92 (8.39%) SaaS
4 55 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 38 (3.47%) PaaS
6 36 (3.28%) GCP
7 30 (2.74%) Serverless
8 29 (2.65%) IaaS
9 28 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 17 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (1.19%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.73%) GitHub
14 8 (0.73%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (0.55%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.01%) Firewall
2 15 (1.37%) Network Security
3 13 (1.19%) Broadband
4 11 (1.00%) WAN
5 10 (0.91%) LAN
5 10 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.73%) MPLS
7 7 (0.64%) Internet
8 6 (0.55%) VPN
9 4 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.36%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.27%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) VoIP
10 3 (0.27%) VSAN
11 2 (0.18%) RFID
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
11 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.091%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.091%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.37%) Power BI
2 11 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 8 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.73%) Metadata
4 8 (0.73%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.36%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.27%) DB2
6 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.18%) Big Data
7 2 (0.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.18%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.18%) Looker
7 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.091%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.091%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.091%) GIS
8 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.37%) JIRA
2 5 (0.46%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.36%) GitLab
3 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.091%) Git
6 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 194 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 175 (15.97%) Finance
3 75 (6.84%) Public Sector
4 53 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.92%) Banking
5 43 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (3.10%) Retail
8 30 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.55%) Law
9 28 (2.55%) Marketing
10 23 (2.10%) Back Office
10 23 (2.10%) Legal
11 13 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.73%) Aviation
14 8 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.55%) Military
16 5 (0.46%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.38%) Middleware
2 33 (3.01%) .NET
3 13 (1.19%) Kafka
4 12 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (1.09%) React
4 12 (1.09%) RESTful
5 8 (0.73%) Node.js
5 8 (0.73%) REST
6 7 (0.64%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (0.64%) OAuth
6 7 (0.64%) OpenID
6 7 (0.64%) XML
7 6 (0.55%) OpenAPI
7 6 (0.55%) Swagger
7 6 (0.55%) YAML
8 5 (0.46%) JSON
8 5 (0.46%) XBRL
9 4 (0.36%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 30 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (2.37%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.92%) Cyberattack
6 21 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.00%) IoT
10 11 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.00%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
12 8 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.73%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.64%) Driving Licence
14 6 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.73%) Windows
2 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.27%) Linux
4 1 (0.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (13.14%) AI
2 131 (11.95%) Roadmaps
3 127 (11.59%) DevOps
4 123 (11.22%) Agile
5 116 (10.58%) TOGAF
6 115 (10.49%) Presales
7 112 (10.22%) Enterprise Architecture
8 97 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (7.57%) Microservices
10 76 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 75 (6.84%) Analytics
12 65 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
13 61 (5.57%) Architectural Patterns
14 58 (5.29%) Integration Patterns
15 57 (5.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (5.20%) Decision-Making
15 57 (5.20%) Migration
16 56 (5.11%) Architectural Design
16 56 (5.11%) ERP
17 53 (4.84%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.28%) Python
2 25 (2.28%) C#
2 25 (2.28%) SQL
3 17 (1.55%) Java
4 12 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.73%) Bicep
5 8 (0.73%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.18%) Bash
7 2 (0.18%) PHP
7 2 (0.18%) Scala
8 1 (0.091%) COBOL
8 1 (0.091%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.091%) JCL
8 1 (0.091%) R
8 1 (0.091%) SOQL
8 1 (0.091%) SOSL
8 1 (0.091%) X++
Qualifications
1 133 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 89 (8.12%) SC Cleared
3 76 (6.93%) Degree
4 31 (2.83%) Master's Degree
5 23 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
7 19 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.55%) CCNP
13 6 (0.55%) CISSP
13 6 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.27%) MBA
15 3 (0.27%) VCAP
15 3 (0.27%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.37%) NIST
2 9 (0.82%) Data Quality
2 9 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (0.82%) QA
3 7 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.64%) GDPR
4 6 (0.55%) NCSC
5 5 (0.46%) PMO
6 4 (0.36%) GRC
7 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.27%) WCAG
8 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.091%) Basel III
9 1 (0.091%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.091%) MiFID
9 1 (0.091%) PERC
9 1 (0.091%) SEPA
9 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.00%) Docker
4 8 (0.73%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.27%) vCloud
5 3 (0.27%) vSphere
6 1 (0.091%) Firmware
6 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (2.10%) Terraform
2 19 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.91%) Ansible
4 9 (0.82%) Netcool
5 5 (0.46%) vRealize
6 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.091%) MOM
8 1 (0.091%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.091%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 128 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.30%) SAP
3 28 (2.55%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.19%) Dell
5 23 (2.10%) VMware
6 21 (1.92%) Oracle
7 16 (1.46%) Cisco
8 12 (1.09%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.00%) Siemens
10 10 (0.91%) Ariba
10 10 (0.91%) Databricks
11 8 (0.73%) Google
12 7 (0.64%) Barracuda Networks
12 7 (0.64%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.64%) N-able
12 7 (0.64%) Software AG
12 7 (0.64%) Sophos
13 6 (0.55%) Adobe
13 6 (0.55%) Meraki
13 6 (0.55%) Workday