Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 215 100
Rank change year-on-year +115 -115 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,818 619 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.81% 1.44% 2.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.59% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 328 936
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £69,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile - £110,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -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 93,904 38,815 65,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.34% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,374 23,183 40,037
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +90 873 £100,000 +5.26% 918
North of England +113 399 £80,000 +6.67% 177
North West +99 250 £80,000 - 114
South West +18 182 £73,706 -9.28% 73
Midlands +15 146 £75,000 - 78
Yorkshire +53 129 £80,000 +6.67% 47
South East +1 120 £85,000 +21.43% 192
West Midlands +23 114 £80,000 +6.67% 61
East of England +15 71 £80,000 -3.03% 44
East Midlands -23 32 £60,000 -20.00% 17
North East -52 20 £80,000 +28.00% 16
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 356 (19.58%) Azure
2 336 (18.48%) AWS
3 324 (17.82%) AI
4 229 (12.60%) Security Cleared
5 226 (12.43%) Microsoft
6 196 (10.78%) Roadmaps
7 183 (10.07%) Presales
8 162 (8.91%) SC Cleared
9 152 (8.36%) Agile
9 152 (8.36%) Analytics
10 134 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
11 125 (6.88%) Enterprise Architecture
12 123 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 121 (6.66%) DevOps
13 121 (6.66%) Migration
13 121 (6.66%) TOGAF
14 116 (6.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 111 (6.11%) ERP
16 109 (6.00%) SaaS
17 108 (5.94%) Integration Patterns
18 102 (5.61%) Degree
19 98 (5.39%) Microservices
20 97 (5.34%) SAP
21 87 (4.79%) Translating Business Requirements
22 86 (4.73%) Mentoring
22 86 (4.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 84 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
24 81 (4.46%) Architectural Patterns
25 74 (4.07%) Power Platform
26 71 (3.91%) Cloud Computing

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 (0.77%) Confluence
2 11 (0.61%) SAS
2 11 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (0.39%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.11%) Camunda
6 2 (0.11%) Drupal
6 2 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.055%) Apache
7 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (1.21%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.11%) Windchill
5 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 50 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) Endur
3 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.17%) Lawson
8 3 (0.17%) Movex
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.11%) Primavera
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.11%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 356 (19.58%) Azure
2 336 (18.48%) AWS
3 109 (6.00%) SaaS
4 74 (4.07%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
6 60 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
8 54 (2.97%) GCP
9 36 (1.98%) Serverless
10 33 (1.82%) PaaS
11 20 (1.10%) Lucidchart
12 18 (0.99%) dbt
13 15 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (0.83%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (0.66%) OCI
16 11 (0.61%) Power Automate
17 10 (0.55%) Azure API Management
17 10 (0.55%) IaaS
17 10 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.86%) Internet
2 30 (1.65%) Firewall
3 17 (0.94%) WAN
4 16 (0.88%) LAN
4 16 (0.88%) Network Security
5 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.61%) VSAN
7 9 (0.50%) Broadband
8 7 (0.39%) VPN
9 6 (0.33%) MPLS
9 6 (0.33%) RFID
10 5 (0.28%) Wireless
11 4 (0.22%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.17%) 5G
12 3 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.17%) WLAN
13 2 (0.11%) AMQP
13 2 (0.11%) MQTT
14 1 (0.055%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.88%) SAP HANA
3 13 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (0.61%) Db2
5 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.55%) DTS
6 9 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.44%) Big Data
7 8 (0.44%) Metadata
7 8 (0.44%) Power BI
7 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.28%) MySQL
9 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.22%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 1 (0.055%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.055%) GitLab
5 1 (0.055%) Maven
5 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 346 (19.03%) Finance
2 215 (11.83%) Social Skills
3 98 (5.39%) Public Sector
4 66 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (3.14%) Retail
6 49 (2.70%) Banking
7 41 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (2.09%) Law
9 34 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (1.82%) Marketing
11 29 (1.60%) Military
12 26 (1.43%) Back Office
13 25 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.94%) Legal
16 17 (0.94%) Public Speaking
17 12 (0.66%) Advertising
17 12 (0.66%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.86%) .NET
2 32 (1.76%) Middleware
3 25 (1.38%) Node.js
4 22 (1.21%) RESTful
5 21 (1.16%) Kafka
6 19 (1.05%) Terraform
7 16 (0.88%) OpenAPI
7 16 (0.88%) Swagger
8 13 (0.72%) Spring
8 13 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 11 (0.61%) REST
10 9 (0.50%) Model Context Protocol
10 9 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (0.44%) SOAP
12 7 (0.39%) React
12 7 (0.39%) XML
13 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
13 5 (0.28%) JSON
13 5 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (0.28%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.65%) Blog
8 24 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.16%) Cyberattack
10 21 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 16 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.83%) IoT
13 14 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (0.55%) EPoS
15 10 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 10 (0.55%) iSeries
15 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.88%) Windows
2 8 (0.44%) Linux
3 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.055%) AIX
4 1 (0.055%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (17.82%) AI
2 196 (10.78%) Roadmaps
3 183 (10.07%) Presales
4 152 (8.36%) Agile
4 152 (8.36%) Analytics
5 134 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
6 125 (6.88%) Enterprise Architecture
7 123 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 121 (6.66%) DevOps
8 121 (6.66%) Migration
8 121 (6.66%) TOGAF
9 116 (6.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 111 (6.11%) ERP
11 108 (5.94%) Integration Patterns
12 98 (5.39%) Microservices
13 87 (4.79%) Translating Business Requirements
14 86 (4.73%) Mentoring
14 86 (4.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 84 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
16 81 (4.46%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 63 (3.47%) C#
1 63 (3.47%) Python
2 52 (2.86%) SQL
3 44 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 38 (2.09%) Java
5 10 (0.55%) RPG
6 8 (0.44%) Go
7 6 (0.33%) Bicep
8 5 (0.28%) Rust
9 3 (0.17%) R
10 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.055%) Bash
11 1 (0.055%) C++
11 1 (0.055%) COBOL
11 1 (0.055%) JCL
11 1 (0.055%) Scala
11 1 (0.055%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.055%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 229 (12.60%) Security Cleared
2 162 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 102 (5.61%) Degree
4 53 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 34 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 23 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 18 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.61%) CISSP
12 11 (0.61%) VCAP
12 11 (0.61%) VCDX
12 11 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (0.50%) ICAEW
13 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.54%) NIST
2 27 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.83%) GDPR
4 14 (0.77%) GRC
5 12 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.39%) QA
8 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.22%) NCSC
9 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.17%) WCAG
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HITRUST
10 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.11%) SEPA
11 1 (0.055%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.055%) PERC
11 1 (0.055%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (0.72%) Docker
2 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 11 (0.61%) vSphere
4 9 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.33%) vCloud
6 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.055%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.50%) Ansible
3 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.11%) CASB
6 2 (0.11%) Grafana
6 2 (0.11%) vRealize
7 1 (0.055%) Argo
7 1 (0.055%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.055%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 226 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.34%) SAP
3 44 (2.42%) Oracle
4 31 (1.71%) VMware
5 28 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.49%) Databricks
7 24 (1.32%) Cisco
8 19 (1.05%) Dell
8 19 (1.05%) Google
9 17 (0.94%) Adobe
9 17 (0.94%) Juniper
9 17 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 14 (0.77%) Guidewire
10 14 (0.77%) IBM
11 12 (0.66%) Mitel
12 11 (0.61%) Broadcom
13 10 (0.55%) Aruba
14 9 (0.50%) Computacenter
14 9 (0.50%) Fortinet
14 9 (0.50%) Palo Alto