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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 231 109
Rank change year-on-year +124 -122 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,774 566 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.70% 1.32% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.46% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,180 310 825
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,692 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile - £110,000 £123,250
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 96,394 38,710 60,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.53% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,344 23,101 34,738
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 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 13 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 +101 853 £100,000 +5.26% 640
North of England +124 397 £80,000 +3.23% 123
North West +91 245 £80,000 - 65
South West +28 171 £75,000 -7.69% 47
Midlands +6 132 £77,477 +3.30% 51
Yorkshire +59 126 £82,500 +10.00% 48
South East +7 124 £85,000 +15.25% 127
West Midlands +28 111 £80,000 +6.67% 43
East of England +14 72 £75,000 -9.09% 35
North East -50 26 £80,000 +33.33% 10
East Midlands -38 21 £60,000 -22.58% 8
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 344 (19.39%) Azure
2 324 (18.26%) AI
3 301 (16.97%) AWS
4 234 (13.19%) Microsoft
5 216 (12.18%) Security Cleared
6 214 (12.06%) Roadmaps
7 166 (9.36%) Presales
8 157 (8.85%) Agile
8 157 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
9 156 (8.79%) SC Cleared
10 154 (8.68%) Analytics
11 136 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 131 (7.38%) Enterprise Architecture
13 125 (7.05%) Migration
14 124 (6.99%) ERP
15 118 (6.65%) DevOps
16 113 (6.37%) SaaS
17 110 (6.20%) Integration Patterns
18 106 (5.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 105 (5.92%) TOGAF
20 97 (5.47%) SAP
21 94 (5.30%) Translating Business Requirements
22 93 (5.24%) Microservices
23 92 (5.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 87 (4.90%) Mentoring
25 85 (4.79%) Degree
26 82 (4.62%) Architectural Patterns
26 82 (4.62%) Power Platform
27 81 (4.57%) Architecture Governance
28 79 (4.45%) IT 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 14 (0.79%) Confluence
2 11 (0.62%) SAS
3 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Camunda
5 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) Appian
7 2 (0.11%) Drupal
7 2 (0.11%) IIS
7 2 (0.11%) JBoss
7 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (1.24%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.11%) Windchill
5 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 54 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.73%) Endur
4 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.17%) Lawson
8 3 (0.17%) Movex
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 344 (19.39%) Azure
2 301 (16.97%) AWS
3 113 (6.37%) SaaS
4 82 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
6 60 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (3.27%) GCP
8 56 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
9 32 (1.80%) Serverless
10 29 (1.63%) PaaS
11 19 (1.07%) Lucidchart
12 18 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (1.01%) dbt
13 16 (0.90%) Azure API Management
13 16 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (0.90%) Entra ID
13 16 (0.90%) Power Automate
14 15 (0.85%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.68%) GitHub
15 12 (0.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.82%) Internet
2 26 (1.47%) Firewall
3 15 (0.85%) LAN
3 15 (0.85%) WAN
4 14 (0.79%) Network Security
5 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.56%) VSAN
7 9 (0.51%) VPN
8 6 (0.34%) Broadband
8 6 (0.34%) Wireless
9 5 (0.28%) DNS
10 4 (0.23%) MPLS
10 4 (0.23%) RFID
10 4 (0.23%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.17%) 5G
11 3 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.17%) WLAN
12 2 (0.11%) AMQP
12 2 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (1.58%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.90%) SAP HANA
3 11 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (0.62%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.56%) Big Data
4 10 (0.56%) Db2
4 10 (0.56%) DTS
4 10 (0.56%) Power BI
5 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.39%) Metadata
8 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.34%) MySQL
9 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.23%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 1 (0.056%) Maven
6 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 387 (21.82%) Finance
2 229 (12.91%) Social Skills
3 97 (5.47%) Public Sector
4 62 (3.49%) Retail
5 60 (3.38%) Banking
6 49 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (2.31%) Law
7 41 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (2.25%) Marketing
9 39 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (1.97%) Military
11 32 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.75%) Back Office
13 29 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.18%) Legal
16 17 (0.96%) Public Speaking
17 15 (0.85%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.48%) .NET
2 36 (2.03%) Middleware
3 27 (1.52%) RESTful
4 24 (1.35%) Node.js
5 22 (1.24%) Kafka
5 22 (1.24%) OpenAPI
5 22 (1.24%) Swagger
5 22 (1.24%) Terraform
6 18 (1.01%) REST
7 15 (0.85%) Spring
7 15 (0.85%) Spring Boot
8 14 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (0.51%) SOAP
10 8 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (0.34%) LDAP
11 6 (0.34%) XML
12 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
12 5 (0.28%) JSON
13 4 (0.23%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (0.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.24%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
4 58 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 30 (1.69%) Blog
8 23 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
12 16 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 15 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.73%) IoT
15 12 (0.68%) Management Information System
15 12 (0.68%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.56%) EPoS
16 10 (0.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 10 (0.56%) iSeries
16 10 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.01%) Windows
2 10 (0.56%) Linux
3 7 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.056%) AIX
4 1 (0.056%) macOS
4 1 (0.056%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
4 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (18.26%) AI
2 214 (12.06%) Roadmaps
3 166 (9.36%) Presales
4 157 (8.85%) Agile
4 157 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
5 154 (8.68%) Analytics
6 136 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (7.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 125 (7.05%) Migration
9 124 (6.99%) ERP
10 118 (6.65%) DevOps
11 110 (6.20%) Integration Patterns
12 106 (5.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 105 (5.92%) TOGAF
14 94 (5.30%) Translating Business Requirements
15 93 (5.24%) Microservices
16 92 (5.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 87 (4.90%) Mentoring
18 82 (4.62%) Architectural Patterns
19 81 (4.57%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 66 (3.72%) Python
2 62 (3.49%) C#
3 55 (3.10%) SQL
4 46 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 41 (2.31%) Java
6 12 (0.68%) Bicep
7 10 (0.56%) RPG
8 9 (0.51%) Go
9 6 (0.34%) Rust
10 3 (0.17%) R
10 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.11%) C++
11 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.11%) Solidity
12 1 (0.056%) Scala
12 1 (0.056%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 216 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 156 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 85 (4.79%) Degree
4 49 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 39 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 36 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.62%) CISSP
12 10 (0.56%) VCAP
12 10 (0.56%) VCDX
12 10 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.45%) ICAEW
13 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.39%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 18 (1.01%) GDPR
3 15 (0.85%) GRC
4 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.56%) NIST
6 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.39%) QA
8 4 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.17%) NCSC
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.11%) HITRUST
10 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.11%) PSD2
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.11%) SEPA
10 2 (0.11%) WCAG
11 1 (0.056%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (1.07%) Docker
3 14 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.56%) vSphere
6 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.28%) vCloud
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.056%) KVM
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.39%) Ansible
3 6 (0.34%) 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
6 1 (0.056%) Argo
6 1 (0.056%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.056%) vRealize
Vendors
1 234 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.47%) SAP
3 56 (3.16%) Oracle
4 32 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 26 (1.47%) Google
5 26 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 26 (1.47%) VMware
6 25 (1.41%) Databricks
7 18 (1.01%) Cisco
8 17 (0.96%) Adobe
8 17 (0.96%) Juniper
9 13 (0.73%) Guidewire
9 13 (0.73%) IBM
10 12 (0.68%) Mitel
11 10 (0.56%) Aruba
11 10 (0.56%) Broadcom
11 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.51%) Computacenter
13 8 (0.45%) Infor
13 8 (0.45%) Workday