Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 228 103
Rank change year-on-year +123 -125 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,813 592 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 1.36% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.51% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 318 868
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,977 £66,313 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £109,125 £132,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 96,623 39,251 63,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 90.47% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,718 23,170 36,636
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +87 867 £100,000 +5.26% 818
North of England +122 401 £80,000 +3.23% 137
North West +103 252 £80,000 - 75
South West +32 178 £75,000 -7.69% 78
Midlands +25 143 £75,000 - 60
South East +6 131 £85,000 +15.25% 187
Yorkshire +55 127 £82,500 +10.00% 46
West Midlands +29 117 £80,000 +6.67% 44
East of England +3 67 £75,000 -9.09% 47
East Midlands -46 26 £60,000 -20.00% 16
North East -47 22 £80,000 +31.15% 16
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 357 (19.69%) Azure
2 318 (17.54%) AI
3 313 (17.26%) AWS
4 238 (13.13%) Microsoft
5 222 (12.24%) Security Cleared
6 208 (11.47%) Roadmaps
7 168 (9.27%) Presales
8 160 (8.83%) SC Cleared
9 157 (8.66%) Agile
9 157 (8.66%) Analytics
10 153 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
11 133 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 131 (7.23%) Enterprise Architecture
13 127 (7.00%) Migration
14 120 (6.62%) DevOps
15 118 (6.51%) ERP
16 115 (6.34%) SaaS
17 112 (6.18%) Integration Patterns
18 110 (6.07%) TOGAF
19 109 (6.01%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 97 (5.35%) Microservices
20 97 (5.35%) SAP
21 92 (5.07%) Translating Business Requirements
22 87 (4.80%) Mentoring
22 87 (4.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 86 (4.74%) Degree
24 81 (4.47%) Power Platform
24 81 (4.47%) Technology Strategy
25 80 (4.41%) Architectural Patterns
26 79 (4.36%) Architecture Governance

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
3 9 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.39%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) Appian
7 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.11%) Camunda
7 2 (0.11%) Drupal
7 2 (0.11%) IIS
7 2 (0.11%) JBoss
7 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.055%) Apache
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (1.21%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.11%) Windchill
4 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 53 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) Endur
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
6 5 (0.28%) Shopify
7 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.17%) Movex
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 357 (19.69%) Azure
2 313 (17.26%) AWS
3 115 (6.34%) SaaS
4 81 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 68 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
6 60 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (3.14%) GCP
8 56 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
9 36 (1.99%) Serverless
10 31 (1.71%) PaaS
11 19 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (1.05%) Lucidchart
12 18 (0.99%) dbt
13 16 (0.88%) Azure API Management
13 16 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (0.88%) Entra ID
14 14 (0.77%) Power Automate
14 14 (0.77%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.66%) OCI
16 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.81%) Internet
2 29 (1.60%) Firewall
3 16 (0.88%) LAN
3 16 (0.88%) Network Security
4 15 (0.83%) WAN
5 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.55%) VSAN
7 8 (0.44%) VPN
8 7 (0.39%) Broadband
9 6 (0.33%) Wireless
10 5 (0.28%) RFID
11 4 (0.22%) DNS
11 4 (0.22%) MPLS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (1.54%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.88%) SAP HANA
3 12 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (0.66%) Relational Database
4 11 (0.61%) Power BI
5 10 (0.55%) Big Data
5 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.55%) Db2
5 10 (0.55%) DTS
6 9 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.39%) Metadata
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%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.22%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 1 (0.055%) Maven
6 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 379 (20.90%) Finance
2 221 (12.19%) Social Skills
3 98 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 59 (3.25%) Retail
5 55 (3.03%) Banking
6 52 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (2.32%) Marketing
8 40 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (2.15%) Law
10 38 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (1.88%) Military
12 31 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.54%) Back Office
14 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.27%) Legal
15 23 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.94%) Public Speaking
17 16 (0.88%) Advertising
17 16 (0.88%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.70%) .NET
2 34 (1.88%) Middleware
3 25 (1.38%) Node.js
3 25 (1.38%) RESTful
4 23 (1.27%) Terraform
5 22 (1.21%) Kafka
6 19 (1.05%) OpenAPI
6 19 (1.05%) Swagger
7 18 (0.99%) REST
8 13 (0.72%) Spring
8 13 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 12 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (0.50%) SOAP
11 8 (0.44%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (0.33%) LDAP
12 6 (0.33%) XML
13 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
13 5 (0.28%) JSON
13 5 (0.28%) React
14 4 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
4 58 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.65%) Blog
7 27 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 18 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
12 16 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.77%) IoT
14 13 (0.72%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.55%) EPoS
15 10 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 10 (0.55%) iSeries
15 10 (0.55%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.05%) Windows
2 10 (0.55%) Linux
3 8 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.055%) AIX
4 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.055%) Unix
4 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (17.54%) AI
2 208 (11.47%) Roadmaps
3 168 (9.27%) Presales
4 157 (8.66%) Agile
4 157 (8.66%) Analytics
5 153 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
6 133 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (7.23%) Enterprise Architecture
8 127 (7.00%) Migration
9 120 (6.62%) DevOps
10 118 (6.51%) ERP
11 112 (6.18%) Integration Patterns
12 110 (6.07%) TOGAF
13 109 (6.01%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 97 (5.35%) Microservices
15 92 (5.07%) Translating Business Requirements
16 87 (4.80%) Mentoring
16 87 (4.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 81 (4.47%) Technology Strategy
18 80 (4.41%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 66 (3.64%) Python
2 63 (3.47%) C#
3 56 (3.09%) SQL
4 46 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.15%) Java
6 11 (0.61%) Bicep
7 10 (0.55%) RPG
8 8 (0.44%) Go
9 5 (0.28%) Rust
10 3 (0.17%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.17%) R
10 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.11%) Solidity
12 1 (0.055%) C++
12 1 (0.055%) Scala
12 1 (0.055%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 160 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 86 (4.74%) Degree
4 52 (2.87%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 35 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 12 (0.66%) CISSP
13 10 (0.55%) VCAP
13 10 (0.55%) VCDX
13 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.50%) ICAEW
15 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 18 (0.99%) GDPR
3 16 (0.88%) NIST
4 14 (0.77%) GRC
5 13 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.39%) QA
8 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.17%) NCSC
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%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.055%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (0.94%) Docker
3 14 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 5 (0.28%) vCloud
6 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.055%) KVM
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.44%) Ansible
3 6 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.28%) Grafana
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.11%) CASB
5 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.11%) vRealize
6 1 (0.055%) Argo
6 1 (0.055%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.055%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 238 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.35%) SAP
3 48 (2.65%) Oracle
4 32 (1.77%) Salesforce
5 27 (1.49%) VMware
6 26 (1.43%) Databricks
7 23 (1.27%) Google
7 23 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.10%) Cisco
9 18 (0.99%) Adobe
9 18 (0.99%) Juniper
10 14 (0.77%) Guidewire
11 13 (0.72%) IBM
12 12 (0.66%) Mitel
13 11 (0.61%) Aruba
14 10 (0.55%) Broadcom
14 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.50%) Computacenter
16 8 (0.44%) Infor
16 8 (0.44%) Workday