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 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 129 109
Rank change year-on-year -78 -20 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 623 1,253 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.43% 2.06% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 2.16% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 358 774 902
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £71,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,875 £112,500
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 39,701 57,976 46,608
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 95.09% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24,469 32,971 36,040
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 October 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 31 October 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 -37 259 £90,000 -2.70% 165
North of England -57 106 £80,000 +14.29% 53
South East -79 82 £75,000 -3.85% 163
Midlands -27 78 £78,750 +5.00% 35
North West -30 72 £80,000 +6.67% 35
South West -16 52 £82,500 +10.00% 34
West Midlands +4 51 £77,500 - 26
East Midlands -21 27 £81,250 +16.07% 8
East of England +25 22 £82,500 +10.00% 16
Yorkshire -44 18 £82,500 +17.86% 12
North East +18 16 £62,500 -10.71% 6
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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.

1 200 (32.10%) Azure
2 174 (27.93%) Agile
3 161 (25.84%) Roadmaps
4 131 (21.03%) AWS
5 123 (19.74%) TOGAF
6 117 (18.78%) DevOps
7 102 (16.37%) Microservices
8 101 (16.21%) Enterprise Architecture
8 101 (16.21%) Presales
9 100 (16.05%) Business Strategy
10 84 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
11 83 (13.32%) Degree
12 82 (13.16%) Microsoft
13 81 (13.00%) AI
14 76 (12.20%) GCP
15 75 (12.04%) SaaS
16 73 (11.72%) SAP
16 73 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 64 (10.27%) Security Cleared
18 61 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (9.79%) Project Management
19 59 (9.47%) Analytics
20 55 (8.83%) Risk Management
21 54 (8.67%) Business Development
21 54 (8.67%) Migration
22 52 (8.35%) Computer Science
22 52 (8.35%) SAP S/4HANA
23 51 (8.19%) ERP
24 50 (8.03%) Architectural Design

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 12 (1.93%) CMS
2 6 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.80%) Apache
3 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (0.48%) Confluence
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.64%) PlantUML
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 52 (8.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (6.26%) SAP MDG
3 37 (5.94%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 19 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (2.09%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.80%) Shopify
7 4 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.64%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.32%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 200 (32.10%) Azure
2 131 (21.03%) AWS
3 76 (12.20%) GCP
4 75 (12.04%) SaaS
5 31 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.01%) OCI
8 24 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.85%) PaaS
9 23 (3.69%) Serverless
10 19 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (2.57%) GitHub
11 16 (2.57%) IaaS
12 11 (1.77%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.44%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
15 7 (1.12%) Azure AI
15 7 (1.12%) Entra ID
16 6 (0.96%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.44%) Firewall
2 5 (0.80%) WAN
3 4 (0.64%) SAN
3 4 (0.64%) VPN
4 3 (0.48%) DNS
4 3 (0.48%) LAN
4 3 (0.48%) MPLS
4 3 (0.48%) VoIP
4 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.32%) Network Security
5 2 (0.32%) PBX
5 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.32%) Skype
5 2 (0.32%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.16%) 5G
6 1 (0.16%) MIMO
6 1 (0.16%) NAS
6 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.16%) VLAN
6 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.01%) NoSQL
2 13 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.61%) Power BI
4 9 (1.44%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.12%) Big Data
5 7 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.64%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.64%) DataStage
6 4 (0.64%) Metadata
6 4 (0.64%) QlikView
6 4 (0.64%) Tableau
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.32%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.32%) GIS
8 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (1.61%) JIRA
2 4 (0.64%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.64%) ERwin
2 4 (0.64%) GitLab
2 4 (0.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 232 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 155 (24.88%) Finance
3 112 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.99%) Banking
5 48 (7.70%) Law
6 44 (7.06%) Public Sector
7 38 (6.10%) Retail
8 34 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.73%) Marketing
10 13 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.93%) Legal
12 11 (1.77%) Billing
13 6 (0.96%) Electronics
13 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.80%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.64%) Back Office
15 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.46%) React
2 27 (4.33%) Node.js
3 25 (4.01%) REST
4 24 (3.85%) React Native
5 22 (3.53%) Middleware
6 16 (2.57%) .NET
7 12 (1.93%) Kafka
8 11 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.28%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.28%) RESTful
10 7 (1.12%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.12%) Vue
11 6 (0.96%) SOAP
12 4 (0.64%) Apache Beam
12 4 (0.64%) Web Services
13 3 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
13 3 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
14 2 (0.32%) .NET Core
14 2 (0.32%) Apollo GraphQL
14 2 (0.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.46%) Management Information System
3 32 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 20 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.73%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.93%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
10 11 (1.77%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.61%) IoT
12 8 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.96%) CMDB
14 6 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.80%) Blog
15 5 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Windows
1 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (27.93%) Agile
2 161 (25.84%) Roadmaps
3 123 (19.74%) TOGAF
4 117 (18.78%) DevOps
5 102 (16.37%) Microservices
6 101 (16.21%) Enterprise Architecture
6 101 (16.21%) Presales
7 100 (16.05%) Business Strategy
8 84 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
9 81 (13.00%) AI
10 73 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 61 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (9.79%) Project Management
12 59 (9.47%) Analytics
13 55 (8.83%) Risk Management
14 54 (8.67%) Business Development
14 54 (8.67%) Migration
15 52 (8.35%) Computer Science
16 51 (8.19%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 45 (7.22%) C#
2 36 (5.78%) Python
2 36 (5.78%) SQL
3 26 (4.17%) Java
4 8 (1.28%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.28%) PHP
5 7 (1.12%) Bicep
5 7 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.48%) Go
8 2 (0.32%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.32%) X++
9 1 (0.16%) C
9 1 (0.16%) C++
9 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 83 (13.32%) Degree
2 64 (10.27%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (6.10%) TOGAF Certification
5 36 (5.78%) SC Cleared
6 35 (5.62%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 23 (3.69%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (2.25%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.80%) MCP
15 4 (0.64%) CCNA
15 4 (0.64%) CISSP
15 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.48%) CCSP
16 3 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.89%) GDPR
2 15 (2.41%) QA
3 13 (2.09%) SLA
4 11 (1.77%) NIST
5 10 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (3.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.69%) Terraform
3 3 (0.48%) Ansible
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.16%) Autotask
4 1 (0.16%) Netcool
4 1 (0.16%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 82 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 73 (11.72%) SAP
3 42 (6.74%) Oracle
4 37 (5.94%) OpenText
5 29 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.53%) Google
8 15 (2.41%) Databricks
9 14 (2.25%) Workday
10 10 (1.61%) IBM
11 8 (1.28%) Cisco
11 8 (1.28%) Guidewire
12 7 (1.12%) Informatica
12 7 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.12%) Software AG
13 5 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (0.80%) VMware
14 4 (0.64%) Ariba
15 3 (0.48%) Fortinet
15 3 (0.48%) Foundry