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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 167 134
Rank change year-on-year +6 -33 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 964 689 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.33% 1.88% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 2.09% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 639 482 1,215
10th Percentile £62,200 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,768 £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 £115,000
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 66,961 32,899 74,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 89.80% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,022 21,259 58,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +30 411 £95,000 +5.56% 128
North of England -40 159 £75,920 +14.17% 42
Midlands +6 122 £75,000 - 27
South East +3 116 £85,000 +9.68% 44
North West +1 100 £75,000 +22.45% 29
South West 0 87 £75,000 +4.18% 35
West Midlands +23 83 £75,000 -18.81% 19
East of England 0 53 £90,000 +35.95% 15
East Midlands -34 39 £65,000 -3.70% 8
North East -7 34 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Yorkshire -76 25 £82,500 - 12
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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.

1 228 (23.65%) Azure
2 142 (14.73%) AWS
3 140 (14.52%) Roadmaps
4 139 (14.42%) AI
5 132 (13.69%) DevOps
6 127 (13.17%) Agile
7 118 (12.24%) Microsoft
8 117 (12.14%) Security Cleared
9 116 (12.03%) Presales
9 116 (12.03%) TOGAF
10 108 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
11 105 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
12 100 (10.37%) SaaS
13 88 (9.13%) Degree
13 88 (9.13%) Microservices
14 83 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 77 (7.99%) SC Cleared
16 76 (7.88%) Analytics
17 74 (7.68%) SAP
18 68 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
19 63 (6.54%) Decision-Making
20 62 (6.43%) Architectural Design
21 60 (6.22%) ERP
21 60 (6.22%) Power Platform
22 58 (6.02%) Project Delivery
23 56 (5.81%) Architectural Patterns
24 55 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
25 54 (5.60%) Continuous Improvement
25 54 (5.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 52 (5.39%) 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 16 (1.66%) Confluence
2 11 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.04%) CMS
4 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.21%) JBoss
6 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.10%) Camunda
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.41%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.10%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.52%) Shopify
3 5 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.21%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.10%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG-M
6 1 (0.10%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 228 (23.65%) Azure
2 142 (14.73%) AWS
3 100 (10.37%) SaaS
4 60 (6.22%) Power Platform
5 55 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (4.67%) GCP
7 34 (3.53%) PaaS
8 32 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (2.80%) IaaS
9 27 (2.80%) Serverless
10 23 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
11 22 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
13 15 (1.56%) Entra ID
14 13 (1.35%) GitHub
14 13 (1.35%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.73%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.73%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (0.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.87%) Firewall
2 11 (1.14%) Broadband
2 11 (1.14%) Network Security
3 10 (1.04%) WAN
4 9 (0.93%) LAN
4 9 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.73%) MPLS
6 6 (0.62%) Internet
7 5 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (0.52%) VPN
8 4 (0.41%) SAN
8 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.31%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.31%) VoIP
10 2 (0.21%) NGN
10 2 (0.21%) VLAN
10 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.10%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.10%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.97%) Power BI
2 13 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 8 (0.83%) Metadata
6 7 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.52%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.41%) Big Data
9 4 (0.41%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.41%) Tableau
10 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.31%) DataStage
10 3 (0.31%) DB2
10 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.31%) QlikView
11 2 (0.21%) GIS
11 2 (0.21%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.21%) Looker
11 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.76%) JIRA
2 5 (0.52%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.41%) GitLab
3 4 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (0.31%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.31%) ERwin
4 3 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.10%) Git
6 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 169 (17.53%) Finance
3 68 (7.05%) Public Sector
4 56 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (5.50%) Banking
6 39 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (3.94%) Retail
8 31 (3.22%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.90%) Law
9 28 (2.90%) Marketing
10 26 (2.70%) Back Office
11 22 (2.28%) Legal
12 16 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.73%) Aviation
16 7 (0.73%) Military
17 4 (0.41%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.15%) Middleware
2 24 (2.49%) .NET
3 13 (1.35%) RESTful
4 12 (1.24%) Kafka
5 11 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (1.04%) React
7 9 (0.93%) REST
8 7 (0.73%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (0.73%) OAuth
8 7 (0.73%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.73%) OpenID
8 7 (0.73%) Swagger
9 6 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.52%) Node.js
11 4 (0.41%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.41%) SOAP
11 4 (0.41%) XML
11 4 (0.41%) YAML
12 3 (0.31%) EDI
12 3 (0.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.39%) Data Centre
5 18 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 18 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 17 (1.76%) Virtual Team
7 16 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.56%) Cyberattack
8 15 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.14%) IoT
9 11 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 9 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (0.83%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
12 5 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.52%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.87%) Windows
2 4 (0.41%) Linux
2 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (14.52%) Roadmaps
2 139 (14.42%) AI
3 132 (13.69%) DevOps
4 127 (13.17%) Agile
5 116 (12.03%) Presales
5 116 (12.03%) TOGAF
6 108 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
7 105 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (9.13%) Microservices
9 83 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 76 (7.88%) Analytics
11 68 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
12 63 (6.54%) Decision-Making
13 62 (6.43%) Architectural Design
14 60 (6.22%) ERP
15 58 (6.02%) Project Delivery
16 56 (5.81%) Architectural Patterns
17 54 (5.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (5.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 52 (5.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (3.63%) Python
2 25 (2.59%) SQL
3 20 (2.07%) C#
4 19 (1.97%) Java
5 12 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 9 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.83%) Bicep
8 5 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.21%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.21%) Bash
9 2 (0.21%) PHP
9 2 (0.21%) Scala
9 2 (0.21%) X++
10 1 (0.10%) COBOL
10 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.10%) JCL
10 1 (0.10%) R
10 1 (0.10%) SOQL
10 1 (0.10%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 117 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 88 (9.13%) Degree
3 77 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.94%) Master's Degree
5 27 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 23 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.62%) CCNP
12 5 (0.52%) CISSP
12 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.31%) CCDA
14 3 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.97%) NIST
2 11 (1.14%) QA
3 9 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.52%) GDPR
5 5 (0.52%) NCSC
5 5 (0.52%) PMO
6 4 (0.41%) GRC
7 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) Basel III
9 1 (0.10%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.10%) MiFID
9 1 (0.10%) SEPA
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.35%) Active Directory
1 13 (1.35%) Docker
2 9 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.52%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.10%) Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) vCloud
5 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (2.59%) Terraform
2 21 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.04%) Netcool
4 9 (0.93%) Ansible
5 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.41%) vRealize
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.10%) MOM
Vendors
1 118 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.68%) SAP
3 25 (2.59%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.39%) Oracle
5 22 (2.28%) Dell
6 20 (2.07%) VMware
7 14 (1.45%) Cisco
8 13 (1.35%) Siemens
9 11 (1.14%) Ariba
9 11 (1.14%) Google
9 11 (1.14%) IBM
10 10 (1.04%) Databricks
10 10 (1.04%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.04%) Informatica
10 10 (1.04%) Software AG
11 8 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.62%) Barracuda Networks
12 6 (0.62%) Meraki
12 6 (0.62%) Sophos
12 6 (0.62%) Workday