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 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 144 128
Rank change year-on-year -41 -16 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 698 1,017 1,101
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 1.99% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 2.13% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 416 638 788
10th Percentile £60,979 £55,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £108,750 £111,625 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,760 47,653 41,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.43% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 29,322 25,743 32,277
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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
London -34 261 £93,750 +4.17% 127
North of England -6 119 £75,000 +7.14% 84
South East -9 117 £82,500 +10.00% 90
Midlands +2 102 £75,000 - 56
North West +27 80 £77,500 +10.71% 51
West Midlands +27 74 £75,000 -3.23% 32
South West -4 54 £80,000 +14.29% 38
East Midlands -23 28 £76,750 +9.64% 22
East of England +25 21 £90,000 +20.00% 39
North East +17 20 £62,500 +0.82% 3
Yorkshire -58 19 £82,500 +7.84% 31
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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.

1 199 (28.51%) Azure
2 170 (24.36%) Agile
3 139 (19.91%) Roadmaps
4 126 (18.05%) DevOps
5 124 (17.77%) AWS
6 123 (17.62%) TOGAF
7 117 (16.76%) Enterprise Architecture
8 115 (16.48%) Microservices
9 101 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (13.61%) Presales
11 89 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
12 88 (12.61%) AI
12 88 (12.61%) Microsoft
13 87 (12.46%) Security Cleared
14 85 (12.18%) SAP
14 85 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 80 (11.46%) SaaS
16 79 (11.32%) Business Strategy
17 69 (9.89%) Project Management
18 68 (9.74%) Degree
19 61 (8.74%) Analytics
20 60 (8.60%) GCP
21 59 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
21 59 (8.45%) Project Delivery
22 57 (8.17%) Architectural Design
23 54 (7.74%) Decision-Making
23 54 (7.74%) SAP S/4HANA
24 51 (7.31%) CRM
25 49 (7.02%) SC Cleared
26 47 (6.73%) Risk Management

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 10 (1.43%) CMS
1 10 (1.43%) Confluence
2 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Luigi
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.14%) Abaqus
2 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (7.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 37 (5.30%) SAP MDG
3 21 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.29%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 199 (28.51%) Azure
2 124 (17.77%) AWS
3 80 (11.46%) SaaS
4 60 (8.60%) GCP
5 37 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 33 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (4.15%) PaaS
8 28 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (3.72%) Serverless
10 23 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.15%) IaaS
12 17 (2.44%) GitHub
13 13 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.72%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.58%) OCI
16 10 (1.43%) Snowflake
17 9 (1.29%) Amazon Bedrock
17 9 (1.29%) Azure AKS
18 6 (0.86%) Azure AI
18 6 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.29%) Firewall
2 5 (0.72%) VPN
2 5 (0.72%) WAN
3 4 (0.57%) MPLS
3 4 (0.57%) SAN
3 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.43%) Network Security
4 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.29%) BGP
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) OSPF
5 2 (0.29%) VLAN
5 2 (0.29%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) Broadband
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) NGN
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.15%) NoSQL
2 12 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (1.72%) Power BI
3 10 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.86%) Big Data
7 4 (0.57%) DataStage
7 4 (0.57%) Metadata
7 4 (0.57%) QlikView
7 4 (0.57%) Tableau
8 3 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.29%) GIS
9 2 (0.29%) Looker
9 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.44%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.57%) ERwin
2 4 (0.57%) GitLab
2 4 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.14%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 244 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 163 (23.35%) Finance
3 116 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.74%) Banking
6 42 (6.02%) Retail
7 37 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (3.15%) Law
9 22 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.87%) Marketing
11 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.72%) Legal
14 9 (1.29%) Back Office
15 7 (1.00%) Billing
16 5 (0.72%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.57%) Aviation
17 4 (0.57%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.01%) Middleware
2 34 (4.87%) React
3 26 (3.72%) Node.js
4 25 (3.58%) REST
5 22 (3.15%) React Native
6 12 (1.72%) .NET
7 11 (1.58%) Kafka
8 10 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.29%) RESTful
10 8 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.00%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.00%) Vue
12 5 (0.72%) SOAP
12 5 (0.72%) Web Services
13 3 (0.43%) Apollo GraphQL
13 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
14 2 (0.29%) Apache Beam
14 2 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
14 2 (0.29%) OpenAPI
14 2 (0.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.44%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.44%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.01%) Virtual Team
6 18 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.86%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.72%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.43%) IoT
11 9 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.72%) iSeries
14 5 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.86%) Windows
2 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (24.36%) Agile
2 139 (19.91%) Roadmaps
3 126 (18.05%) DevOps
4 123 (17.62%) TOGAF
5 117 (16.76%) Enterprise Architecture
6 115 (16.48%) Microservices
7 101 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (13.61%) Presales
9 89 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
10 88 (12.61%) AI
11 85 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 79 (11.32%) Business Strategy
13 69 (9.89%) Project Management
14 61 (8.74%) Analytics
15 59 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (8.45%) Project Delivery
16 57 (8.17%) Architectural Design
17 54 (7.74%) Decision-Making
18 51 (7.31%) CRM
19 47 (6.73%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (4.87%) Python
1 34 (4.87%) SQL
2 29 (4.15%) C#
3 24 (3.44%) Java
4 11 (1.58%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.00%) Bicep
5 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.57%) PHP
7 3 (0.43%) Go
7 3 (0.43%) X++
8 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.14%) Bash
8 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 87 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 68 (9.74%) Degree
3 49 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.01%) TOGAF Certification
5 27 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (3.30%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.57%) MCP
12 4 (0.57%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.43%) CCNA
14 2 (0.29%) CISSP
14 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.01%) GDPR
1 14 (2.01%) QA
2 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.00%) NIST
2 7 (1.00%) SLA
3 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.43%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.43%) NCSC
5 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.14%) Basel III
6 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.14%) GRC
6 1 (0.14%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (2.72%) Docker
2 6 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.30%) Terraform
3 6 (0.86%) Netcool
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) vRealize
6 1 (0.14%) Autotask
6 1 (0.14%) MOM
6 1 (0.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 88 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 85 (12.18%) SAP
3 37 (5.30%) OpenText
4 25 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.44%) Oracle
6 14 (2.01%) Databricks
6 14 (2.01%) Google
6 14 (2.01%) Workday
7 10 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
7 10 (1.43%) IBM
7 10 (1.43%) Software AG
7 10 (1.43%) VMware
8 9 (1.29%) Informatica
9 8 (1.15%) Ariba
9 8 (1.15%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.15%) Siemens
10 7 (1.00%) Cisco
10 7 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.57%) Cognizant
11 4 (0.57%) Fortinet