Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 173 136
Rank change year-on-year +6 -37 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 912 685 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.30% 1.87% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 2.08% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 593 476 1,209
10th Percentile £62,750 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,500
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 64,550 32,940 73,733
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 89.96% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 42,395 21,184 57,558
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,787 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +22 386 £95,000 +5.56% 128
North of England -42 154 £75,000 +14.07% 42
Midlands +3 114 £75,000 - 27
South East +9 113 £85,000 +9.68% 44
North West +2 96 £72,750 +18.78% 29
South West -2 77 £75,000 +4.18% 35
West Midlands +16 75 £75,000 -18.81% 19
East of England +3 53 £90,000 +35.95% 15
East Midlands -36 39 £65,000 -3.70% 8
North East +1 33 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Yorkshire -67 25 £82,500 - 12
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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.

1 226 (24.78%) Azure
2 145 (15.90%) Roadmaps
3 135 (14.80%) AI
3 135 (14.80%) AWS
4 131 (14.36%) DevOps
5 127 (13.93%) Agile
6 115 (12.61%) Microsoft
7 114 (12.50%) Presales
8 113 (12.39%) Security Cleared
9 110 (12.06%) TOGAF
10 109 (11.95%) Enterprise Architecture
11 104 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
12 103 (11.29%) SaaS
13 89 (9.76%) Microservices
14 87 (9.54%) Degree
15 80 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 74 (8.11%) Analytics
16 74 (8.11%) SAP
16 74 (8.11%) SC Cleared
17 72 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
18 64 (7.02%) Decision-Making
19 61 (6.69%) Architectural Design
19 61 (6.69%) Power Platform
20 59 (6.47%) ERP
20 59 (6.47%) Project Delivery
21 56 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
21 56 (6.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 55 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
23 54 (5.92%) Architectural Patterns
24 51 (5.59%) 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 17 (1.86%) Confluence
2 10 (1.10%) CMS
2 10 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.22%) JBoss
5 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Camunda
6 1 (0.11%) CICS
6 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.11%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.11%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.22%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 226 (24.78%) Azure
2 135 (14.80%) AWS
3 103 (11.29%) SaaS
4 61 (6.69%) Power Platform
5 55 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (5.04%) GCP
7 35 (3.84%) PaaS
8 31 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (2.96%) IaaS
10 24 (2.63%) Serverless
11 23 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.64%) GitHub
15 14 (1.54%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.43%) PowerApps
17 7 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (0.77%) Mimecast
17 7 (0.77%) Snowflake
18 6 (0.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.54%) Firewall
2 10 (1.10%) Broadband
2 10 (1.10%) Network Security
3 9 (0.99%) SD-WAN
3 9 (0.99%) WAN
4 7 (0.77%) LAN
4 7 (0.77%) MPLS
5 5 (0.55%) Internet
5 5 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (0.55%) SAN
6 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.44%) VPN
7 3 (0.33%) 3GPP
7 3 (0.33%) VoIP
8 2 (0.22%) NGN
8 2 (0.22%) VLAN
8 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.11%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.11%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.19%) Power BI
2 14 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.10%) SQL Server
5 9 (0.99%) Metadata
6 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.55%) Tableau
9 4 (0.44%) Big Data
9 4 (0.44%) DataStage
9 4 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.44%) QlikView
9 4 (0.44%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.33%) DB2
10 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.22%) GIS
11 2 (0.22%) Looker
11 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (1.97%) JIRA
2 5 (0.55%) Balsamiq
2 5 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (0.44%) ER Studio
3 4 (0.44%) ERwin
3 4 (0.44%) GitLab
3 4 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.11%) Git
5 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 167 (18.31%) Finance
3 66 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 59 (6.47%) Banking
5 58 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (4.17%) Retail
8 29 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (3.18%) Law
8 29 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 28 (3.07%) Marketing
10 26 (2.85%) Back Office
11 22 (2.41%) Legal
12 16 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.77%) Aviation
16 7 (0.77%) Military
17 4 (0.44%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.50%) Middleware
2 24 (2.63%) .NET
3 13 (1.43%) RESTful
4 11 (1.21%) Kafka
5 10 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
5 10 (1.10%) React
6 9 (0.99%) REST
7 7 (0.77%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (0.77%) OAuth
7 7 (0.77%) OpenAPI
7 7 (0.77%) OpenID
7 7 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.77%) Swagger
8 5 (0.55%) Node.js
9 4 (0.44%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.44%) SOAP
9 4 (0.44%) XML
9 4 (0.44%) YAML
10 3 (0.33%) EDI
10 3 (0.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.21%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.99%) IoT
13 8 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
14 7 (0.77%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.77%) Cyberattack
15 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.55%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.97%) Windows
2 4 (0.44%) Linux
2 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (15.90%) Roadmaps
2 135 (14.80%) AI
3 131 (14.36%) DevOps
4 127 (13.93%) Agile
5 114 (12.50%) Presales
6 110 (12.06%) TOGAF
7 109 (11.95%) Enterprise Architecture
8 104 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (9.76%) Microservices
10 80 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 74 (8.11%) Analytics
12 72 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
13 64 (7.02%) Decision-Making
14 61 (6.69%) Architectural Design
15 59 (6.47%) ERP
15 59 (6.47%) Project Delivery
16 56 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (6.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 54 (5.92%) Architectural Patterns
18 51 (5.59%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.73%) Python
2 24 (2.63%) SQL
3 20 (2.19%) C#
3 20 (2.19%) Java
4 12 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 9 (0.99%) Bicep
7 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.22%) Bash
8 2 (0.22%) PHP
8 2 (0.22%) Scala
8 2 (0.22%) X++
9 1 (0.11%) COBOL
9 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.11%) JCL
9 1 (0.11%) R
9 1 (0.11%) SOQL
9 1 (0.11%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 113 (12.39%) Security Cleared
2 87 (9.54%) Degree
3 74 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.39%) Master's Degree
5 28 (3.07%) TOGAF Certification
6 25 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.66%) CCNP
12 6 (0.66%) CISSP
13 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.21%) NIST
1 11 (1.21%) QA
2 10 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.55%) GDPR
4 5 (0.55%) NCSC
4 5 (0.55%) PMO
5 4 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.44%) GRC
6 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.11%) Basel III
8 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
8 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.21%) Docker
3 8 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) vCloud
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (2.63%) Terraform
2 19 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.10%) Netcool
4 9 (0.99%) Ansible
5 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.44%) vRealize
6 2 (0.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) MOM
Vendors
1 115 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.11%) SAP
3 24 (2.63%) Oracle
3 24 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.41%) Dell
5 20 (2.19%) VMware
6 13 (1.43%) Cisco
6 13 (1.43%) Siemens
7 12 (1.32%) IBM
8 11 (1.21%) Ariba
8 11 (1.21%) Databricks
8 11 (1.21%) Informatica
8 11 (1.21%) Software AG
9 10 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.10%) Google
10 8 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.77%) BiZZdesign
12 6 (0.66%) Barracuda Networks
12 6 (0.66%) N-able
12 6 (0.66%) Workday