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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 201 119
Rank change year-on-year +67 -82 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,194 667 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 1.71% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.91% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 803 435 1,249
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,500 £65,000 £65,000
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 £112,000 £118,750
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 75,019 34,985 79,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 89.49% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50,497 21,159 60,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%

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 12 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 12 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 +50 552 £95,000 +5.56% 157
North of England +14 187 £77,500 +19.23% 43
Midlands +27 134 £75,000 - 12
South East +52 125 £85,000 +9.68% 47
North West +39 117 £77,500 +29.17% 26
South West +32 117 £75,000 +4.18% 27
West Midlands +25 91 £75,000 -14.16% 7
East of England +17 60 £90,000 +35.95% 20
Yorkshire -55 45 £76,997 -6.67% 13
East Midlands -17 43 £65,000 -3.70% 5
North East -22 25 £78,500 +20.77% 4
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 257 (21.52%) Azure
2 185 (15.49%) AWS
3 159 (13.32%) Security Cleared
4 157 (13.15%) AI
5 139 (11.64%) Agile
6 132 (11.06%) Microsoft
7 130 (10.89%) DevOps
8 125 (10.47%) Roadmaps
9 118 (9.88%) Presales
10 114 (9.55%) TOGAF
11 107 (8.96%) SC Cleared
12 104 (8.71%) Enterprise Architecture
13 92 (7.71%) SaaS
14 89 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
15 84 (7.04%) Microservices
16 78 (6.53%) Analytics
17 73 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
18 69 (5.78%) Degree
19 67 (5.61%) Migration
20 66 (5.53%) Stakeholder Management
21 63 (5.28%) Integration Patterns
21 63 (5.28%) SAP
22 58 (4.86%) Architectural Patterns
23 55 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
24 54 (4.52%) CI/CD
24 54 (4.52%) Power Platform
25 53 (4.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
25 53 (4.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 52 (4.36%) ERP
27 51 (4.27%) 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 13 (1.09%) Confluence
2 12 (1.01%) CMS
2 12 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.17%) JBoss
6 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.084%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.084%) Camunda
7 1 (0.084%) CICS
7 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.084%) IIS
7 1 (0.084%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.50%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.17%) Windchill
4 1 (0.084%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.084%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.084%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 8 (0.67%) Shopify
4 7 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Endur
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.084%) Actimize
9 1 (0.084%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.084%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.084%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.084%) SAP Travel Management
9 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 257 (21.52%) Azure
2 185 (15.49%) AWS
3 92 (7.71%) SaaS
4 55 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (4.52%) Power Platform
6 45 (3.77%) PaaS
7 42 (3.52%) GCP
8 35 (2.93%) Serverless
9 34 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.43%) IaaS
11 22 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.51%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.09%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.67%) Nutanix
17 7 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (0.59%) GitHub
17 7 (0.59%) Mimecast
17 7 (0.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.18%) Firewall
2 14 (1.17%) Network Security
2 14 (1.17%) WAN
3 13 (1.09%) Broadband
3 13 (1.09%) SD-WAN
4 11 (0.92%) LAN
5 9 (0.75%) MPLS
6 8 (0.67%) 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
11 2 (0.17%) SAN
11 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.17%) WLAN
12 1 (0.084%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.084%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.084%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.09%) Power BI
2 11 (0.92%) Data Lake
2 11 (0.92%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.67%) Metadata
3 8 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 7 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.34%) DB2
6 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.17%) Big Data
8 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.17%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.17%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.084%) DTS
9 1 (0.084%) GIS
9 1 (0.084%) Looker
9 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (1.01%) 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%) Snyk
4 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.084%) Git
5 1 (0.084%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.084%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio
General
1 180 (15.08%) Finance
2 170 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 71 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 53 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (3.35%) Banking
7 35 (2.93%) Law
8 34 (2.85%) Retail
9 28 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.26%) Marketing
11 23 (1.93%) Back Office
11 23 (1.93%) Legal
11 23 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.84%) Aviation
14 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.59%) Military
17 5 (0.42%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.18%) .NET
1 38 (3.18%) Middleware
2 13 (1.09%) React
3 12 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
3 12 (1.01%) RESTful
4 11 (0.92%) Kafka
4 11 (0.92%) Node.js
5 7 (0.59%) Model Context Protocol
5 7 (0.59%) REST
5 7 (0.59%) XML
6 6 (0.50%) OAuth
6 6 (0.50%) OpenAPI
6 6 (0.50%) OpenID
6 6 (0.50%) Swagger
6 6 (0.50%) YAML
7 5 (0.42%) XBRL
8 4 (0.34%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.34%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.34%) JSON
8 4 (0.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 35 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (2.43%) Data Centre
4 23 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (1.93%) Product Ownership
5 21 (1.76%) Cyberattack
6 17 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.92%) Operational Technology
10 10 (0.84%) IoT
11 9 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
12 8 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.59%) Driving Licence
13 7 (0.59%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.68%) Windows
2 6 (0.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.34%) Linux
4 1 (0.084%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (13.15%) AI
2 139 (11.64%) Agile
3 130 (10.89%) DevOps
4 125 (10.47%) Roadmaps
5 118 (9.88%) Presales
6 114 (9.55%) TOGAF
7 104 (8.71%) Enterprise Architecture
8 89 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (7.04%) Microservices
10 78 (6.53%) Analytics
11 73 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
12 67 (5.61%) Migration
13 66 (5.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (5.28%) Integration Patterns
15 58 (4.86%) Architectural Patterns
16 54 (4.52%) CI/CD
17 53 (4.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 53 (4.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 52 (4.36%) ERP
19 51 (4.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (3.27%) Python
2 32 (2.68%) C#
3 28 (2.35%) SQL
4 17 (1.42%) Java
5 16 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.67%) 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 (0.084%) COBOL
10 1 (0.084%) JCL
10 1 (0.084%) PHP
10 1 (0.084%) R
10 1 (0.084%) RPG
10 1 (0.084%) SOQL
10 1 (0.084%) SOSL
10 1 (0.084%) X++
Qualifications
1 159 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 107 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 69 (5.78%) Degree
4 29 (2.43%) Master's Degree
5 28 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 17 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.67%) CCNP
12 8 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.50%) CISSP
14 5 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.42%) ICAEW
14 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.42%) VCAP
14 5 (0.42%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.26%) NIST
2 16 (1.34%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (0.84%) QA
4 8 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.67%) GRC
5 7 (0.59%) GDPR
6 6 (0.50%) NCSC
7 5 (0.42%) PMO
8 4 (0.34%) WCAG
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.084%) Basel III
10 1 (0.084%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.084%) MiFID
10 1 (0.084%) PERC
10 1 (0.084%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.92%) Docker
4 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.42%) vCloud
5 5 (0.42%) vSphere
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (1.84%) Terraform
2 20 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.01%) Ansible
4 9 (0.75%) Netcool
5 5 (0.42%) vRealize
6 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.084%) MOM
8 1 (0.084%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.084%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 132 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.28%) SAP
3 26 (2.18%) Dell
4 24 (2.01%) Salesforce
5 23 (1.93%) VMware
6 21 (1.76%) Oracle
7 19 (1.59%) Cisco
8 13 (1.09%) Fortinet
9 11 (0.92%) Ariba
9 11 (0.92%) Databricks
10 9 (0.75%) Siemens
11 8 (0.67%) Google
11 8 (0.67%) Juniper
11 8 (0.67%) NetApp
11 8 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.59%) Barracuda Networks
12 7 (0.59%) N-able
12 7 (0.59%) Sophos
13 6 (0.50%) Broadcom
13 6 (0.50%) Software AG