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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 196 119
Rank change year-on-year +64 -77 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,177 676 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.46% 1.74% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.94% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 781 441 1,238
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £120,000
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 75,001 34,765 79,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.30% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 49,625 21,079 60,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +50 543 £95,000 +5.56% 168
North of England -9 187 £77,500 +19.23% 53
Midlands +26 135 £75,000 - 25
South East +23 124 £85,000 +9.68% 63
North West +26 116 £75,000 +25.00% 29
South West +26 113 £75,000 +4.18% 28
West Midlands +22 91 £75,000 -14.16% 17
East of England +20 59 £90,000 +35.95% 22
East Midlands -14 44 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Yorkshire -53 44 £77,249 -7.76% 21
North East -18 27 £78,500 +20.77% 3
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 245 (20.82%) Azure
2 179 (15.21%) AWS
3 158 (13.42%) AI
4 154 (13.08%) Security Cleared
5 134 (11.38%) Agile
6 126 (10.71%) DevOps
7 125 (10.62%) Microsoft
8 124 (10.54%) Roadmaps
9 115 (9.77%) Presales
10 113 (9.60%) TOGAF
11 106 (9.01%) Enterprise Architecture
12 103 (8.75%) SC Cleared
13 95 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (7.65%) SaaS
15 84 (7.14%) Analytics
16 80 (6.80%) Microservices
17 71 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
18 70 (5.95%) Degree
19 67 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 66 (5.61%) SAP
21 61 (5.18%) Migration
22 60 (5.10%) Integration Patterns
23 58 (4.93%) Architectural Patterns
24 53 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
25 52 (4.42%) Business Strategy
25 52 (4.42%) CI/CD
25 52 (4.42%) ERP
25 52 (4.42%) Power Platform
25 52 (4.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 51 (4.33%) Software Engineering

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 (1.19%) Confluence
2 12 (1.02%) CMS
3 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.17%) JBoss
7 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.085%) Camunda
8 1 (0.085%) CICS
8 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.085%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.51%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.085%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.085%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.76%) SAP ERP
3 8 (0.68%) Shopify
4 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.42%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.34%) Endur
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.17%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.085%) Actimize
8 1 (0.085%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.085%) DELMIA
8 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.085%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.085%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.085%) SAP Travel Management
8 1 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 245 (20.82%) Azure
2 179 (15.21%) AWS
3 90 (7.65%) SaaS
4 53 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (4.42%) Power Platform
6 41 (3.48%) PaaS
7 40 (3.40%) GCP
8 33 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (2.80%) Serverless
9 28 (2.38%) IaaS
10 22 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.44%) Entra ID
12 17 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
13 12 (1.02%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.68%) Nutanix
15 7 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (0.59%) GitHub
15 7 (0.59%) Mimecast
16 6 (0.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.12%) Firewall
2 15 (1.27%) Network Security
3 13 (1.10%) Broadband
3 13 (1.10%) WAN
4 12 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 11 (0.93%) LAN
6 9 (0.76%) MPLS
7 7 (0.59%) Internet
7 7 (0.59%) VPN
8 5 (0.42%) VSAN
9 4 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.25%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.25%) RFID
10 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.17%) SAN
11 2 (0.17%) VoIP
11 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.17%) WLAN
12 1 (0.085%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.085%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.19%) Power BI
2 11 (0.93%) Data Lake
2 11 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.68%) Metadata
3 8 (0.68%) Relational Database
4 7 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.25%) DB2
6 3 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.17%) Big Data
7 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.17%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.17%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.085%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.085%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.085%) GIS
8 1 (0.085%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.19%) JIRA
2 5 (0.42%) Balsamiq
2 5 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.34%) GitLab
4 2 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.085%) Git
5 1 (0.085%) Snyk
5 1 (0.085%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.085%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.085%) Visual Studio
General
1 181 (15.38%) Finance
2 175 (14.87%) Social Skills
3 78 (6.63%) Public Sector
4 57 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (3.40%) Banking
7 34 (2.89%) Retail
8 32 (2.72%) Law
9 30 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.29%) Marketing
12 23 (1.95%) Back Office
12 23 (1.95%) Legal
13 12 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.85%) Aviation
16 9 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.59%) Military
19 5 (0.42%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.14%) .NET
2 36 (3.06%) Middleware
3 13 (1.10%) React
4 12 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (1.02%) RESTful
5 10 (0.85%) Kafka
5 10 (0.85%) Node.js
6 7 (0.59%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (0.59%) REST
6 7 (0.59%) XML
7 6 (0.51%) OAuth
7 6 (0.51%) OpenAPI
7 6 (0.51%) OpenID
7 6 (0.51%) Swagger
7 6 (0.51%) YAML
8 5 (0.42%) XBRL
9 4 (0.34%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.34%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.34%) JSON
9 4 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 34 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 23 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 23 (1.95%) Virtual Team
5 21 (1.78%) Cyberattack
5 21 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.93%) Operational Technology
10 10 (0.85%) IoT
11 9 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
12 8 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.59%) Driving Licence
13 7 (0.59%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.51%) NHS
14 6 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.61%) Windows
2 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.34%) Linux
4 1 (0.085%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (13.42%) AI
2 134 (11.38%) Agile
3 126 (10.71%) DevOps
4 124 (10.54%) Roadmaps
5 115 (9.77%) Presales
6 113 (9.60%) TOGAF
7 106 (9.01%) Enterprise Architecture
8 95 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (7.14%) Analytics
10 80 (6.80%) Microservices
11 71 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
12 67 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (5.18%) Migration
14 60 (5.10%) Integration Patterns
15 58 (4.93%) Architectural Patterns
16 52 (4.42%) Business Strategy
16 52 (4.42%) CI/CD
16 52 (4.42%) ERP
16 52 (4.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (4.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (3.14%) Python
2 29 (2.46%) C#
3 26 (2.21%) SQL
4 15 (1.27%) Java
5 13 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.68%) Bicep
7 7 (0.59%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.17%) Bash
9 2 (0.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.085%) COBOL
10 1 (0.085%) JCL
10 1 (0.085%) PHP
10 1 (0.085%) R
10 1 (0.085%) SOQL
10 1 (0.085%) SOSL
10 1 (0.085%) X++
Qualifications
1 154 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 103 (8.75%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.95%) Degree
4 29 (2.46%) Master's Degree
5 28 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.59%) CCNP
14 6 (0.51%) CISSP
15 5 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.42%) VCAP
15 5 (0.42%) VCDX
16 3 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.21%) NIST
2 13 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (0.76%) QA
4 8 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.51%) GDPR
5 6 (0.51%) GRC
5 6 (0.51%) NCSC
6 5 (0.42%) PMO
7 4 (0.34%) WCAG
8 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.085%) Basel III
9 1 (0.085%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.085%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.085%) MiFID
9 1 (0.085%) PERC
9 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (1.19%) Active Directory
1 14 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (0.93%) Docker
3 10 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.42%) vCloud
4 5 (0.42%) vSphere
5 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (1.87%) Terraform
2 20 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.02%) Ansible
4 9 (0.76%) Netcool
5 5 (0.42%) vRealize
6 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.085%) MOM
8 1 (0.085%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.085%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 125 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.61%) SAP
3 26 (2.21%) Dell
3 26 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.04%) VMware
5 21 (1.78%) Oracle
6 18 (1.53%) Cisco
7 13 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 11 (0.93%) Ariba
8 11 (0.93%) Databricks
8 11 (0.93%) Siemens
9 8 (0.68%) Google
9 8 (0.68%) NetApp
10 7 (0.59%) Barracuda Networks
10 7 (0.59%) Juniper
10 7 (0.59%) N-able
10 7 (0.59%) Sophos
11 6 (0.51%) Broadcom
11 6 (0.51%) Meraki
11 6 (0.51%) Palo Alto