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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 168 120
Rank change year-on-year +19 -48 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,086 717 1,944
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.39% 1.92% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 2.15% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 722 482 1,236
10th Percentile £62,625 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,125 £65,000 £66,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,125 £116,250
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 72,689 33,363 78,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 89.26% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,571 21,428 59,865
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 24 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 24 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 +32 482 £95,000 +5.56% 105
North of England -33 169 £77,500 +19.23% 39
Midlands +11 136 £75,000 - 32
South East +12 126 £85,000 +9.68% 52
South West +6 104 £75,000 +4.18% 24
North West 0 103 £75,000 +25.00% 24
West Midlands +24 91 £75,000 -14.16% 24
East of England -10 57 £90,000 +35.95% 14
East Midlands -42 45 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Yorkshire -76 36 £82,500 - 13
North East -20 30 £78,000 +20.00% 2
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 238 (21.92%) Azure
2 157 (14.46%) AWS
3 142 (13.08%) AI
4 134 (12.34%) Security Cleared
5 132 (12.15%) Roadmaps
6 129 (11.88%) DevOps
6 129 (11.88%) Microsoft
7 122 (11.23%) Agile
8 117 (10.77%) TOGAF
9 114 (10.50%) Presales
10 113 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
11 98 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
12 93 (8.56%) SaaS
13 91 (8.38%) SC Cleared
14 85 (7.83%) Microservices
15 78 (7.18%) Degree
16 77 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (6.91%) Analytics
18 69 (6.35%) SAP
19 66 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
20 62 (5.71%) Architectural Patterns
21 59 (5.43%) Decision-Making
21 59 (5.43%) Integration Patterns
22 58 (5.34%) Continuous Improvement
23 57 (5.25%) Architectural Design
23 57 (5.25%) Migration
24 56 (5.16%) ERP
24 56 (5.16%) Power Platform
25 54 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
25 54 (4.97%) Software Engineering

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 (1.29%) Confluence
2 11 (1.01%) CMS
2 11 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.18%) JBoss
5 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.092%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.092%) Camunda
6 1 (0.092%) CICS
6 1 (0.092%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.092%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.55%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.092%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.092%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.74%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.46%) Shopify
4 5 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.37%) Endur
6 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.092%) Actimize
8 1 (0.092%) DELMIA
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.092%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (21.92%) Azure
2 157 (14.46%) AWS
3 93 (8.56%) SaaS
4 56 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 54 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (3.41%) PaaS
7 36 (3.31%) GCP
8 29 (2.67%) IaaS
8 29 (2.67%) Serverless
9 28 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.57%) Entra ID
12 17 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (1.20%) PowerApps
14 8 (0.74%) GitHub
14 8 (0.74%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (0.55%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.03%) Firewall
2 15 (1.38%) Network Security
3 13 (1.20%) Broadband
4 11 (1.01%) WAN
5 10 (0.92%) LAN
5 10 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.74%) MPLS
7 7 (0.64%) Internet
8 6 (0.55%) VPN
9 4 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.37%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.28%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.28%) SAN
10 3 (0.28%) VoIP
10 3 (0.28%) VSAN
11 2 (0.18%) RFID
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
11 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.092%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.092%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.38%) Power BI
2 11 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.92%) Data Lake
4 8 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.74%) Metadata
4 8 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.37%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.28%) DB2
6 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.18%) Big Data
7 2 (0.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.18%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.18%) Looker
7 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.092%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.092%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.092%) GIS
8 1 (0.092%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.38%) JIRA
2 5 (0.46%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.37%) GitLab
3 4 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.092%) Git
6 1 (0.092%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.092%) Visual Studio
General
1 197 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 175 (16.11%) Finance
3 76 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 54 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.05%) Banking
5 44 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (3.22%) Retail
8 30 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.58%) Marketing
10 27 (2.49%) Law
11 23 (2.12%) Back Office
11 23 (2.12%) Legal
12 13 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.74%) Aviation
15 8 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.55%) Military
17 5 (0.46%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.50%) Middleware
2 34 (3.13%) .NET
3 13 (1.20%) Kafka
3 13 (1.20%) RESTful
4 12 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (1.10%) React
5 8 (0.74%) Node.js
5 8 (0.74%) REST
6 7 (0.64%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (0.64%) OAuth
6 7 (0.64%) OpenID
6 7 (0.64%) XML
7 6 (0.55%) OpenAPI
7 6 (0.55%) Swagger
7 6 (0.55%) YAML
8 5 (0.46%) JSON
8 5 (0.46%) XBRL
9 4 (0.37%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.01%) Cloud Native
2 31 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (2.39%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.93%) Cyberattack
6 21 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.01%) IoT
11 11 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.01%) Operational Technology
12 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
12 9 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
13 8 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.64%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.75%) Windows
2 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.28%) Linux
4 1 (0.092%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (13.08%) AI
2 132 (12.15%) Roadmaps
3 129 (11.88%) DevOps
4 122 (11.23%) Agile
5 117 (10.77%) TOGAF
6 114 (10.50%) Presales
7 113 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 98 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (7.83%) Microservices
10 77 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 75 (6.91%) Analytics
12 66 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
13 62 (5.71%) Architectural Patterns
14 59 (5.43%) Decision-Making
14 59 (5.43%) Integration Patterns
15 58 (5.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (5.25%) Architectural Design
16 57 (5.25%) Migration
17 56 (5.16%) ERP
18 54 (4.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.31%) Python
2 26 (2.39%) C#
3 25 (2.30%) SQL
4 18 (1.66%) Java
5 12 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.74%) Bicep
6 8 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.18%) Bash
8 2 (0.18%) PHP
8 2 (0.18%) Scala
9 1 (0.092%) COBOL
9 1 (0.092%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.092%) JCL
9 1 (0.092%) R
9 1 (0.092%) SOQL
9 1 (0.092%) SOSL
9 1 (0.092%) X++
Qualifications
1 134 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 91 (8.38%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.18%) Degree
4 32 (2.95%) Master's Degree
5 23 (2.12%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 19 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.55%) CCNP
11 6 (0.55%) CISSP
11 6 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.28%) MBA
13 3 (0.28%) VCAP
13 3 (0.28%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.39%) NIST
2 10 (0.92%) QA
3 9 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.64%) GDPR
5 6 (0.55%) NCSC
6 5 (0.46%) PMO
7 4 (0.37%) GRC
8 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.28%) WCAG
9 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.092%) Basel III
10 1 (0.092%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.092%) MiFID
10 1 (0.092%) PERC
10 1 (0.092%) SEPA
10 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.01%) Docker
4 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.28%) vCloud
5 3 (0.28%) vSphere
6 1 (0.092%) Firmware
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (2.12%) Terraform
2 19 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.92%) Ansible
4 9 (0.83%) Netcool
5 5 (0.46%) vRealize
6 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.092%) MOM
8 1 (0.092%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.092%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 129 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.35%) SAP
3 27 (2.49%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.21%) Dell
5 23 (2.12%) VMware
6 21 (1.93%) Oracle
7 16 (1.47%) Cisco
8 12 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.01%) Siemens
10 10 (0.92%) Ariba
10 10 (0.92%) Databricks
11 8 (0.74%) Google
11 8 (0.74%) Software AG
12 7 (0.64%) Barracuda Networks
12 7 (0.64%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.64%) N-able
12 7 (0.64%) Sophos
13 6 (0.55%) Meraki
13 6 (0.55%) NetApp
13 6 (0.55%) Workday