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 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 172 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 -34 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 907 683 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.31% 1.86% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 2.06% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 587 477 1,209
10th Percentile £64,500 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,884 £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 £84,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.94% - -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 64,000 33,086 73,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.97% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 42,045 21,264 57,443
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,419 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 29 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 29 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 +25 383 £95,000 +5.56% 128
North of England -36 153 £75,000 +12.78% 42
Midlands +7 115 £75,000 - 27
South East +11 112 £85,000 +9.68% 44
North West 0 97 £73,000 +19.18% 29
West Midlands +13 75 £75,000 -18.81% 19
South West -5 75 £75,000 +4.18% 35
East of England +4 52 £90,000 +35.95% 15
East Midlands -28 40 £65,000 -3.70% 8
North East -3 33 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Yorkshire -78 23 £82,500 - 12
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 224 (24.70%) Azure
2 147 (16.21%) Roadmaps
3 135 (14.88%) AI
4 133 (14.66%) AWS
4 133 (14.66%) DevOps
5 127 (14.00%) Agile
6 114 (12.57%) Microsoft
6 114 (12.57%) Presales
6 114 (12.57%) Security Cleared
7 110 (12.13%) Enterprise Architecture
7 110 (12.13%) TOGAF
8 107 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (11.58%) SaaS
10 91 (10.03%) Microservices
11 89 (9.81%) Degree
12 80 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 76 (8.38%) SAP
14 74 (8.16%) Analytics
14 74 (8.16%) SC Cleared
14 74 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
15 63 (6.95%) Decision-Making
16 62 (6.84%) Architectural Design
17 61 (6.73%) Power Platform
18 60 (6.62%) Project Delivery
19 59 (6.50%) ERP
20 58 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
21 56 (6.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 54 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
23 52 (5.73%) Architectural Patterns
23 52 (5.73%) 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 (1.87%) Confluence
2 11 (1.21%) CMS
3 10 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.22%) JBoss
6 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.11%) Camunda
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
7 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 30 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.98%) 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 IBP
5 2 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.22%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG-M
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 224 (24.70%) Azure
2 133 (14.66%) AWS
3 105 (11.58%) SaaS
4 61 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 54 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (5.07%) GCP
7 35 (3.86%) PaaS
8 31 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (2.98%) IaaS
10 25 (2.76%) Serverless
11 23 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.65%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.65%) GitHub
15 13 (1.43%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (0.77%) Snowflake
17 6 (0.66%) Power Automate
18 5 (0.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.43%) Firewall
2 10 (1.10%) Broadband
2 10 (1.10%) SD-WAN
2 10 (1.10%) WAN
3 9 (0.99%) Network Security
4 8 (0.88%) MPLS
5 7 (0.77%) LAN
6 5 (0.55%) Internet
6 5 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (0.55%) SAN
7 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.44%) VPN
8 3 (0.33%) 3GPP
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
8 3 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.22%) NGN
9 2 (0.22%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) AMQP
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.11%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.21%) Power BI
2 14 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.10%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.77%) Metadata
5 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.66%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.55%) Tableau
8 4 (0.44%) Big Data
8 4 (0.44%) DataStage
8 4 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.44%) QlikView
8 4 (0.44%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.33%) DB2
9 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.22%) GIS
10 2 (0.22%) Looker
10 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.11%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (1.98%) 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
1 208 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 168 (18.52%) Finance
3 67 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 61 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.62%) Banking
6 40 (4.41%) Retail
7 39 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 29 (3.20%) Marketing
9 28 (3.09%) Law
10 26 (2.87%) Back Office
11 22 (2.43%) Legal
12 16 (1.76%) 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 42 (4.63%) Middleware
2 24 (2.65%) .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%) A2A Protocol
9 4 (0.44%) SOAP
9 4 (0.44%) YAML
10 3 (0.33%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (0.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 9 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (0.99%) IoT
12 8 (0.88%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.77%) Cyberattack
14 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.66%) Web Conferencing
15 5 (0.55%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.98%) Windows
2 4 (0.44%) Linux
2 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (16.21%) Roadmaps
2 135 (14.88%) AI
3 133 (14.66%) DevOps
4 127 (14.00%) Agile
5 114 (12.57%) Presales
6 110 (12.13%) Enterprise Architecture
6 110 (12.13%) TOGAF
7 107 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (10.03%) Microservices
9 80 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 74 (8.16%) Analytics
10 74 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
11 63 (6.95%) Decision-Making
12 62 (6.84%) Architectural Design
13 60 (6.62%) Project Delivery
14 59 (6.50%) ERP
15 58 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (6.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 52 (5.73%) Architectural Patterns
17 52 (5.73%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.75%) Python
2 23 (2.54%) SQL
3 20 (2.21%) C#
3 20 (2.21%) 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
1 114 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 89 (9.81%) Degree
3 74 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.52%) Master's Degree
5 28 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 26 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 17 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.66%) CCNP
11 6 (0.66%) CISSP
12 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.44%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.32%) QA
2 11 (1.21%) NIST
3 10 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.66%) GDPR
6 5 (0.55%) NCSC
6 5 (0.55%) PMO
7 4 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.44%) GRC
8 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.11%) Basel III
10 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.21%) Docker
3 7 (0.77%) 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 (2.65%) Terraform
2 19 (2.09%) 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
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.38%) SAP
3 24 (2.65%) Oracle
3 24 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.43%) Dell
5 19 (2.09%) VMware
6 13 (1.43%) Cisco
6 13 (1.43%) Siemens
7 12 (1.32%) Ariba
7 12 (1.32%) IBM
7 12 (1.32%) Software AG
8 11 (1.21%) Informatica
9 10 (1.10%) Databricks
9 10 (1.10%) Google
10 9 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 8 (0.88%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.77%) BiZZdesign
13 6 (0.66%) Workday
14 5 (0.55%) Meraki
14 5 (0.55%) Sparx