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 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 142 117
Rank change year-on-year -41 -25 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 698 1,113 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.44% 1.98% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 2.11% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 407 715 846
10th Percentile £60,958 £55,000 £63,065
25th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £71,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £108,750 £113,750 £110,000
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 43,942 52,815 42,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.87% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28,046 29,361 33,392
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,710 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

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 December 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 6 December 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 -32 271 £95,000 +2.70% 84
North of England -10 114 £75,000 +7.14% 57
South East -31 110 £75,535 +0.71% 81
Midlands +8 99 £75,000 - 46
North West +24 73 £80,000 +14.29% 36
West Midlands +18 69 £75,000 -3.23% 33
South West -13 57 £80,000 +14.29% 32
East Midlands 0 30 £81,250 +16.07% 12
East of England +26 23 £90,000 +20.00% 25
Yorkshire -46 21 £82,500 +17.86% 20
North East +18 20 £62,500 +0.82% 2
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 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.

1 210 (30.09%) Azure
2 176 (25.21%) Agile
3 143 (20.49%) Roadmaps
4 135 (19.34%) AWS
5 127 (18.19%) DevOps
6 123 (17.62%) TOGAF
7 115 (16.48%) Microservices
8 114 (16.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 101 (14.47%) Presales
9 101 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (13.04%) AI
10 91 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
11 90 (12.89%) Microsoft
12 85 (12.18%) Business Strategy
12 85 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 84 (12.03%) SAP
14 81 (11.60%) Security Cleared
15 78 (11.17%) SaaS
16 70 (10.03%) Degree
16 70 (10.03%) Project Management
17 69 (9.89%) GCP
18 66 (9.46%) Analytics
19 58 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
20 56 (8.02%) Architectural Design
20 56 (8.02%) Decision-Making
20 56 (8.02%) Project Delivery
20 56 (8.02%) SAP S/4HANA
21 51 (7.31%) CRM
21 51 (7.31%) Risk Management
22 47 (6.73%) Business Development

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 13 (1.86%) CMS
2 8 (1.15%) Confluence
3 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.72%) Apache
4 5 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.57%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
6 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Luigi
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (8.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (5.44%) SAP MDG
3 37 (5.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 21 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.29%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 210 (30.09%) Azure
2 135 (19.34%) AWS
3 78 (11.17%) SaaS
4 69 (9.89%) GCP
5 34 (4.87%) Power Platform
6 33 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (4.15%) PaaS
8 27 (3.87%) Serverless
9 26 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.01%) IaaS
12 18 (2.58%) GitHub
13 15 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.72%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.58%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.58%) OCI
16 9 (1.29%) Amazon Bedrock
16 9 (1.29%) Azure AKS
17 7 (1.00%) Azure AI
18 6 (0.86%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.15%) Firewall
2 5 (0.72%) VPN
2 5 (0.72%) WAN
3 4 (0.57%) MPLS
3 4 (0.57%) SAN
3 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.43%) Network Security
4 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.29%) BGP
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) OSPF
5 2 (0.29%) VLAN
5 2 (0.29%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) Broadband
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) NGN
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.72%) NoSQL
2 15 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.72%) Power BI
4 11 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 10 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.15%) Big Data
7 5 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.57%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.57%) DataStage
8 4 (0.57%) Metadata
8 4 (0.57%) QlikView
8 4 (0.57%) Tableau
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.29%) GIS
10 2 (0.29%) Looker
10 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (2.15%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.57%) ERwin
2 4 (0.57%) GitLab
2 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.14%) Git
4 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 255 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 167 (23.93%) Finance
3 118 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.17%) Banking
6 42 (6.02%) Retail
7 38 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.58%) Law
10 20 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.72%) Marketing
12 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.15%) Legal
13 14 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.29%) Billing
15 8 (1.15%) Back Office
16 6 (0.86%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.72%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.43%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.87%) React
2 30 (4.30%) Middleware
3 27 (3.87%) Node.js
4 26 (3.72%) REST
5 23 (3.30%) React Native
6 14 (2.01%) .NET
7 12 (1.72%) Kafka
8 10 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.15%) RESTful
10 7 (1.00%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.00%) Vue
11 6 (0.86%) SOAP
11 6 (0.86%) Web Services
12 4 (0.57%) Apache Beam
12 4 (0.57%) XML
13 3 (0.43%) Apollo GraphQL
13 3 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
13 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
14 2 (0.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.58%) Mobile App
6 21 (3.01%) Virtual Team
7 18 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.15%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.29%) IoT
13 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.72%) AS400
15 5 (0.72%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (25.21%) Agile
2 143 (20.49%) Roadmaps
3 127 (18.19%) DevOps
4 123 (17.62%) TOGAF
5 115 (16.48%) Microservices
6 114 (16.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 101 (14.47%) Presales
7 101 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (13.04%) AI
8 91 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
9 85 (12.18%) Business Strategy
9 85 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (10.03%) Project Management
11 66 (9.46%) Analytics
12 58 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (8.02%) Architectural Design
13 56 (8.02%) Decision-Making
13 56 (8.02%) Project Delivery
14 51 (7.31%) CRM
14 51 (7.31%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.30%) SQL
2 36 (5.16%) C#
3 35 (5.01%) Python
4 23 (3.30%) Java
5 9 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.15%) Bicep
7 7 (1.00%) PHP
7 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.43%) Go
8 3 (0.43%) X++
9 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.14%) Bash
10 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.03%) Degree
3 46 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.87%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 27 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.30%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.57%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.43%) CCNA
13 3 (0.43%) CISSP
13 3 (0.43%) MCP
14 2 (0.29%) CCSP
14 2 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.29%) GDPR
2 15 (2.15%) QA
3 8 (1.15%) NIST
3 8 (1.15%) SLA
4 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.43%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
7 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.14%) GRC
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (2.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.72%) Terraform
3 4 (0.57%) Netcool
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Autotask
6 1 (0.14%) MOM
6 1 (0.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) vRealize
6 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 90 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 84 (12.03%) SAP
3 37 (5.30%) OpenText
4 26 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.44%) Oracle
6 16 (2.29%) Databricks
6 16 (2.29%) Google
7 14 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.01%) Workday
8 10 (1.43%) IBM
9 9 (1.29%) BiZZdesign
9 9 (1.29%) Software AG
10 8 (1.15%) Informatica
10 8 (1.15%) VMware
11 7 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.86%) Ariba
12 6 (0.86%) Cisco
12 6 (0.86%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.86%) Siemens
13 4 (0.57%) Cognizant