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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 148 136
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 729 907 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.27% 1.98% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 2.17% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 443 544 1,066
10th Percentile £62,750 £53,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - -2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,350 £107,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +2.48% -5.29%

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 52,463 41,887 62,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 91.66% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 33,551 21,942 50,063
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -9 294 £92,500 +2.78% 139
North of England -27 125 £75,000 +7.14% 53
South East -8 119 £85,000 +6.25% 74
Midlands -12 91 £75,000 - 36
North West +11 80 £74,250 +23.75% 30
West Midlands +7 60 £75,000 -11.76% 22
South West -12 43 £79,500 +10.43% 17
East of England +31 36 £90,000 +22.45% 13
East Midlands -33 31 £65,000 -7.14% 14
North East +16 27 £77,500 +26.24% 11
Yorkshire -71 18 £82,500 +3.13% 12
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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.

1 182 (24.97%) Azure
2 147 (20.16%) Agile
3 141 (19.34%) Roadmaps
4 128 (17.56%) DevOps
5 114 (15.64%) Enterprise Architecture
6 110 (15.09%) AWS
6 110 (15.09%) Microservices
7 108 (14.81%) AI
8 102 (13.99%) SaaS
9 99 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
10 98 (13.44%) TOGAF
11 96 (13.17%) SAP
12 85 (11.66%) Microsoft
12 85 (11.66%) Security Cleared
13 83 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
14 82 (11.25%) Business Strategy
15 79 (10.84%) Degree
16 75 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (9.88%) Analytics
18 71 (9.74%) Project Management
19 69 (9.47%) Presales
20 62 (8.50%) Project Delivery
20 62 (8.50%) SAP S/4HANA
21 58 (7.96%) Architectural Design
21 58 (7.96%) Decision-Making
22 55 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
23 53 (7.27%) ERP
24 52 (7.13%) Software Engineering
25 50 (6.86%) SC Cleared
26 48 (6.58%) Power Platform

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 15 (2.06%) Confluence
2 10 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.23%) CMS
4 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) JBoss
6 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (8.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.08%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 37 (5.08%) SAP MDG
3 20 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.55%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.41%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 182 (24.97%) Azure
2 110 (15.09%) AWS
3 102 (13.99%) SaaS
4 48 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 42 (5.76%) GCP
6 38 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (3.98%) PaaS
8 26 (3.57%) Serverless
9 20 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.61%) IaaS
11 14 (1.92%) GitHub
12 10 (1.37%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.23%) Amazon Bedrock
14 8 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.10%) OCI
14 8 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (0.96%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.96%) Snowflake
16 5 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.37%) Firewall
2 8 (1.10%) WAN
3 7 (0.96%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.82%) MPLS
5 5 (0.69%) Network Security
5 5 (0.69%) SAN
6 4 (0.55%) Broadband
7 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.27%) BGP
8 2 (0.27%) LAN
8 2 (0.27%) OSPF
8 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) VoIP
9 1 (0.14%) 5G
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.14%) DNS
9 1 (0.14%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.92%) Power BI
2 12 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.51%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.96%) Metadata
5 7 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.69%) Big Data
7 5 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.55%) DataStage
8 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.55%) QlikView
8 4 (0.55%) Tableau
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.27%) GIS
10 2 (0.27%) Looker
10 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.19%) JIRA
2 4 (0.55%) Balsamiq
2 4 (0.55%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.55%) ERwin
2 4 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.14%) Git
4 1 (0.14%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 239 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 156 (21.40%) Finance
3 106 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.33%) Banking
5 63 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 39 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (4.66%) Retail
8 28 (3.84%) Law
9 26 (3.57%) Marketing
10 24 (3.29%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.33%) Back Office
12 17 (2.33%) Legal
13 15 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.69%) Aviation
16 5 (0.69%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.55%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.17%) Middleware
2 27 (3.70%) React
3 23 (3.16%) REST
4 18 (2.47%) Node.js
5 14 (1.92%) .NET
6 12 (1.65%) React Native
7 10 (1.37%) Kafka
7 10 (1.37%) RESTful
8 9 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.10%) A2A Protocol
9 8 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.82%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.82%) Vue
11 5 (0.69%) SOAP
12 4 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.55%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (0.55%) OAuth
12 4 (0.55%) OpenAPI
12 4 (0.55%) OpenID
12 4 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.74%) Virtual Team
6 18 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.78%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.65%) IoT
10 10 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.23%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.69%) AS400
14 5 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.37%) Windows
2 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (20.16%) Agile
2 141 (19.34%) Roadmaps
3 128 (17.56%) DevOps
4 114 (15.64%) Enterprise Architecture
5 110 (15.09%) Microservices
6 108 (14.81%) AI
7 99 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (13.44%) TOGAF
9 83 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
10 82 (11.25%) Business Strategy
11 75 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (9.88%) Analytics
13 71 (9.74%) Project Management
14 69 (9.47%) Presales
15 62 (8.50%) Project Delivery
16 58 (7.96%) Architectural Design
16 58 (7.96%) Decision-Making
17 55 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 53 (7.27%) ERP
19 52 (7.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (4.94%) Python
2 23 (3.16%) Java
2 23 (3.16%) SQL
3 17 (2.33%) C#
4 15 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.37%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.69%) Bicep
8 3 (0.41%) PHP
9 2 (0.27%) Go
9 2 (0.27%) Scala
9 2 (0.27%) X++
10 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.14%) Bash
10 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 85 (11.66%) Security Cleared
2 79 (10.84%) Degree
3 50 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.53%) TOGAF Certification
5 30 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 16 (2.19%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.69%) CISSP
15 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.41%) MBA
16 3 (0.41%) SAP Certification
17 2 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.78%) QA
2 8 (1.10%) GDPR
3 6 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.82%) SLA
4 4 (0.55%) GRC
4 4 (0.55%) NCSC
4 4 (0.55%) NIST
4 4 (0.55%) PMO
5 3 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.41%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.78%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (2.47%) Terraform
2 14 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.37%) Netcool
4 4 (0.55%) vRealize
5 3 (0.41%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) MOM
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 96 (13.17%) SAP
2 85 (11.66%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.08%) OpenText
4 19 (2.61%) Oracle
5 17 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.92%) Software AG
7 13 (1.78%) VMware
8 12 (1.65%) Siemens
9 11 (1.51%) IBM
9 11 (1.51%) Informatica
10 10 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
11 8 (1.10%) Ariba
11 8 (1.10%) Databricks
11 8 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.96%) Cisco
12 7 (0.96%) Google
13 6 (0.82%) Dell
14 5 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.69%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.55%) Pega