Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 222 100
Rank change year-on-year +120 -122 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,798 626 1,734
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 1.44% 2.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.60% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 332 963
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £69,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile - £109,875 £135,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -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 93,551 39,204 65,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.37% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,181 23,579 40,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +91 862 £100,000 +5.26% 576
North of England +114 390 £80,000 +6.67% 105
North West +96 243 £80,000 - 55
South West +27 183 £73,706 -7.87% 48
Midlands +24 144 £75,000 - 55
Yorkshire +47 127 £80,000 +6.67% 41
South East +11 122 £85,000 +21.43% 135
West Midlands +20 113 £80,000 +6.67% 39
East of England +14 70 £78,738 -4.56% 39
East Midlands -31 31 £60,000 -20.00% 15
North East -53 20 £80,000 +28.00% 9
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 357 (19.86%) Azure
2 337 (18.74%) AWS
3 323 (17.96%) AI
4 228 (12.68%) Security Cleared
5 226 (12.57%) Microsoft
6 193 (10.73%) Roadmaps
7 183 (10.18%) Presales
8 161 (8.95%) SC Cleared
9 153 (8.51%) Agile
10 151 (8.40%) Analytics
11 129 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
12 122 (6.79%) Enterprise Architecture
12 122 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 121 (6.73%) Migration
14 120 (6.67%) TOGAF
15 119 (6.62%) DevOps
16 116 (6.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 110 (6.12%) ERP
18 109 (6.06%) SaaS
19 106 (5.90%) Integration Patterns
20 100 (5.56%) Degree
21 97 (5.39%) SAP
22 96 (5.34%) Microservices
23 87 (4.84%) Mentoring
24 86 (4.78%) Translating Business Requirements
25 85 (4.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 83 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
27 81 (4.51%) Architectural Patterns
28 71 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
28 71 (3.95%) 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 14 (0.78%) Confluence
2 11 (0.61%) SAS
3 10 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.33%) CMS
6 5 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) Appian
8 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.11%) Camunda
8 2 (0.11%) Drupal
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.056%) Apache
9 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.056%) CICS
9 1 (0.056%) JBoss
9 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (1.22%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
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%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 50 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) Endur
3 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
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
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.11%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 357 (19.86%) Azure
2 337 (18.74%) AWS
3 109 (6.06%) SaaS
4 71 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
4 71 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
7 55 (3.06%) GCP
8 36 (2.00%) Serverless
9 33 (1.84%) PaaS
10 20 (1.11%) Lucidchart
11 18 (1.00%) dbt
12 15 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (0.78%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (0.67%) OCI
16 10 (0.56%) IaaS
16 10 (0.56%) Power Automate
16 10 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
17 9 (0.50%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.89%) Internet
2 31 (1.72%) Firewall
3 17 (0.95%) Network Security
3 17 (0.95%) WAN
4 16 (0.89%) LAN
5 12 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.61%) VSAN
7 9 (0.50%) Broadband
8 7 (0.39%) VPN
9 6 (0.33%) MPLS
9 6 (0.33%) RFID
10 5 (0.28%) Wireless
11 4 (0.22%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.17%) 5G
12 3 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.17%) WLAN
13 2 (0.11%) AMQP
13 2 (0.11%) MQTT
14 1 (0.056%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.28%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.89%) SAP HANA
3 13 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (0.61%) Db2
5 10 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.56%) DTS
6 9 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.44%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) Big Data
8 7 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.33%) Power BI
10 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.28%) MySQL
11 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.22%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 2 (0.11%) GitLab
6 1 (0.056%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.056%) Maven
6 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 337 (18.74%) Finance
2 212 (11.79%) Social Skills
3 97 (5.39%) Public Sector
4 66 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (3.11%) Retail
6 48 (2.67%) Banking
7 40 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (2.17%) Law
9 34 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.72%) Marketing
11 29 (1.61%) Military
12 26 (1.45%) Back Office
13 25 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.95%) Public Speaking
17 16 (0.89%) Legal
18 12 (0.67%) Advertising
18 12 (0.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.78%) .NET
2 32 (1.78%) Middleware
3 25 (1.39%) Node.js
4 21 (1.17%) Kafka
4 21 (1.17%) RESTful
5 19 (1.06%) Terraform
6 16 (0.89%) OpenAPI
6 16 (0.89%) Swagger
7 13 (0.72%) Spring
7 13 (0.72%) Spring Boot
8 11 (0.61%) REST
9 9 (0.50%) Model Context Protocol
10 8 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (0.44%) SOAP
11 7 (0.39%) React
11 7 (0.39%) XML
12 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
12 5 (0.28%) JSON
12 5 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (0.28%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.67%) Blog
8 24 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.17%) Cyberattack
9 21 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 16 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 15 (0.83%) IoT
12 14 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (0.56%) EPoS
14 10 (0.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 10 (0.56%) iSeries
14 10 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.89%) Windows
2 8 (0.44%) Linux
3 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.056%) AIX
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (17.96%) AI
2 193 (10.73%) Roadmaps
3 183 (10.18%) Presales
4 153 (8.51%) Agile
5 151 (8.40%) Analytics
6 129 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
7 122 (6.79%) Enterprise Architecture
7 122 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 121 (6.73%) Migration
9 120 (6.67%) TOGAF
10 119 (6.62%) DevOps
11 116 (6.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 110 (6.12%) ERP
13 106 (5.90%) Integration Patterns
14 96 (5.34%) Microservices
15 87 (4.84%) Mentoring
16 86 (4.78%) Translating Business Requirements
17 85 (4.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 83 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
19 81 (4.51%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 63 (3.50%) Python
2 61 (3.39%) C#
3 51 (2.84%) SQL
4 43 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.11%) Java
6 10 (0.56%) RPG
7 8 (0.44%) Go
8 6 (0.33%) Bicep
9 5 (0.28%) Rust
10 3 (0.17%) R
11 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.056%) Bash
12 1 (0.056%) C++
12 1 (0.056%) COBOL
12 1 (0.056%) JCL
12 1 (0.056%) Scala
12 1 (0.056%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.056%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 228 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 161 (8.95%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.56%) Degree
4 53 (2.95%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 34 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 23 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.61%) CISSP
12 11 (0.61%) VCAP
12 11 (0.61%) VCDX
12 11 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (0.50%) ICAEW
13 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.56%) NIST
2 27 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.83%) GDPR
4 14 (0.78%) GRC
5 11 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.33%) QA
8 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.22%) NCSC
9 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.17%) WCAG
10 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.11%) HITRUST
10 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.11%) SEPA
11 1 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.056%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.056%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (0.72%) Docker
2 13 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 11 (0.61%) vSphere
4 9 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.33%) vCloud
6 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.056%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.50%) Ansible
3 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.11%) CASB
6 2 (0.11%) Grafana
6 2 (0.11%) vRealize
7 1 (0.056%) Argo
7 1 (0.056%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.056%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 226 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.39%) SAP
3 42 (2.34%) Oracle
4 32 (1.78%) VMware
5 28 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.50%) Databricks
7 25 (1.39%) Cisco
8 20 (1.11%) Google
9 19 (1.06%) Dell
10 17 (0.95%) Juniper
10 17 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 16 (0.89%) Adobe
12 14 (0.78%) Guidewire
13 13 (0.72%) IBM
14 12 (0.67%) Mitel
15 11 (0.61%) Broadcom
16 10 (0.56%) Aruba
16 10 (0.56%) Fortinet
17 9 (0.50%) Computacenter
17 9 (0.50%) Palo Alto