Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £84,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 151 138
Rank change year-on-year -30 -13 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 743 883 1,419
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.28% 1.97% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.16% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 453 531 1,064
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% - -2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £84,500 £82,500 £80,250
% change year-on-year +2.42% +2.80% -5.59%

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 53,129 40,956 62,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.52% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34,017 21,669 49,845
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,600 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,973 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
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 11 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 11 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 -13 299 £95,000 +5.56% 122
North of England -29 127 £75,000 +4.18% 42
South East +8 121 £85,000 +6.25% 73
Midlands -2 93 £75,000 - 41
North West +19 82 £73,500 +22.50% 27
West Midlands +11 61 £75,000 -11.76% 26
South West -26 45 £75,000 +4.18% 14
East of England +24 37 £90,000 +35.95% 11
East Midlands -30 32 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North East +12 27 £77,500 +26.24% 8
Yorkshire -67 18 £82,500 +1.54% 8
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 185 (24.90%) Azure
2 151 (20.32%) Agile
3 143 (19.25%) Roadmaps
4 132 (17.77%) DevOps
5 115 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
6 112 (15.07%) AWS
7 109 (14.67%) Microservices
8 107 (14.40%) AI
9 104 (14.00%) TOGAF
10 101 (13.59%) SaaS
11 98 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
12 97 (13.06%) SAP
13 89 (11.98%) Security Cleared
14 88 (11.84%) Microsoft
15 83 (11.17%) Business Strategy
15 83 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
16 78 (10.50%) Degree
17 76 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (9.69%) Analytics
19 71 (9.56%) Project Management
20 70 (9.42%) Presales
21 63 (8.48%) Project Delivery
21 63 (8.48%) SAP S/4HANA
22 59 (7.94%) Architectural Design
23 57 (7.67%) Decision-Making
24 56 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
25 54 (7.27%) ERP
25 54 (7.27%) SC Cleared
26 52 (7.00%) Software Engineering
27 50 (6.73%) Risk Management

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 (2.02%) Confluence
2 10 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.21%) CMS
3 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.27%) JBoss
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Camunda
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (8.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (4.98%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 37 (4.98%) SAP MDG
3 20 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.40%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.40%) 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 (0.13%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 185 (24.90%) Azure
2 112 (15.07%) AWS
3 101 (13.59%) SaaS
4 48 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 43 (5.79%) GCP
6 39 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.31%) PaaS
8 29 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (3.63%) Serverless
10 21 (2.83%) IaaS
11 20 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.02%) GitHub
13 11 (1.48%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.21%) Amazon Bedrock
14 9 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.08%) OCI
16 7 (0.94%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.94%) Snowflake
17 5 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.35%) Firewall
2 9 (1.21%) WAN
3 8 (1.08%) SD-WAN
4 7 (0.94%) MPLS
5 6 (0.81%) Broadband
5 6 (0.81%) SAN
6 5 (0.67%) Network Security
7 4 (0.54%) VPN
7 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.40%) LAN
8 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.40%) VoIP
9 2 (0.27%) BGP
9 2 (0.27%) NGN
9 2 (0.27%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 1 (0.13%) DHCP
10 1 (0.13%) DNS
10 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.88%) Power BI
2 12 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.94%) Metadata
4 7 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.94%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 6 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.67%) Big Data
7 4 (0.54%) DataStage
7 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.54%) QlikView
7 4 (0.54%) Tableau
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) GIS
9 2 (0.27%) Looker
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (2.15%) JIRA
2 5 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (0.54%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.54%) ER Studio
3 4 (0.54%) ERwin
3 4 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.27%) GitLab
5 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.13%) Git
6 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 245 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 158 (21.27%) Finance
3 105 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.15%) Banking
5 63 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (4.58%) Retail
8 28 (3.77%) Law
9 27 (3.63%) Marketing
10 24 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.56%) Back Office
13 18 (2.42%) Legal
14 15 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.81%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.67%) Aviation
18 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
19 4 (0.54%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.06%) Middleware
2 26 (3.50%) React
3 23 (3.10%) REST
4 18 (2.42%) Node.js
5 14 (1.88%) .NET
6 12 (1.62%) React Native
7 11 (1.48%) Kafka
8 10 (1.35%) RESTful
9 8 (1.08%) A2A Protocol
9 8 (1.08%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.81%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.81%) SOAP
11 5 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (0.67%) Vue
12 4 (0.54%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (0.54%) OAuth
12 4 (0.54%) OpenAPI
12 4 (0.54%) OpenID
12 4 (0.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.69%) Virtual Team
6 17 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.62%) IoT
9 12 (1.62%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.67%) AS400
15 5 (0.67%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.48%) Windows
2 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (20.32%) Agile
2 143 (19.25%) Roadmaps
3 132 (17.77%) DevOps
4 115 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
5 109 (14.67%) Microservices
6 107 (14.40%) AI
7 104 (14.00%) TOGAF
8 98 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (11.17%) Business Strategy
9 83 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
10 76 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 72 (9.69%) Analytics
12 71 (9.56%) Project Management
13 70 (9.42%) Presales
14 63 (8.48%) Project Delivery
15 59 (7.94%) Architectural Design
16 57 (7.67%) Decision-Making
17 56 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (7.27%) ERP
19 52 (7.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (4.85%) Python
2 23 (3.10%) Java
2 23 (3.10%) SQL
3 17 (2.29%) C#
4 14 (1.88%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.35%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.81%) Bicep
8 3 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.27%) Go
9 2 (0.27%) Scala
9 2 (0.27%) X++
10 1 (0.13%) Bash
10 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) SOQL
10 1 (0.13%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 89 (11.98%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.50%) Degree
3 54 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.98%) TOGAF Certification
5 30 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.42%) Azure Certification
10 16 (2.15%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.67%) CISSP
15 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.40%) MBA
16 3 (0.40%) SAP Certification
17 2 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.75%) QA
2 8 (1.08%) GDPR
3 6 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.67%) NCSC
4 5 (0.67%) SLA
5 4 (0.54%) GRC
5 4 (0.54%) NIST
5 4 (0.54%) PMO
6 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.75%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (2.56%) Terraform
2 15 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.35%) Netcool
4 4 (0.54%) vRealize
5 3 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.13%) MOM
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 97 (13.06%) SAP
2 88 (11.84%) Microsoft
3 37 (4.98%) OpenText
4 21 (2.83%) Oracle
5 18 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.88%) Software AG
6 14 (1.88%) VMware
7 12 (1.62%) Siemens
8 11 (1.48%) IBM
8 11 (1.48%) Informatica
9 10 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
10 9 (1.21%) Ariba
11 8 (1.08%) Databricks
11 8 (1.08%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.94%) Cisco
12 7 (0.94%) Google
13 6 (0.81%) Dell
14 5 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.67%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.54%) Pega