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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 135 115
Rank change year-on-year -58 -20 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 683 1,204 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 1.98% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 2.09% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 392 756 869
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £63,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,539
90th Percentile £108,750 £114,375 £112,500
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 41,700 57,688 44,920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.73% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,376 32,518 34,740
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -37 275 £90,000 -2.70% 258
North of England -12 122 £77,500 +10.71% 79
South East -61 93 £75,000 - 146
Midlands 0 89 £76,250 +1.67% 48
North West +25 80 £80,000 +6.67% 52
West Midlands +8 61 £75,000 -3.23% 36
South West -19 56 £80,000 +6.67% 37
East Midlands -10 28 £81,250 +16.07% 11
East of England +26 24 £85,000 +13.33% 23
Yorkshire -40 22 £82,500 +17.86% 23
North East +14 20 £62,500 -4.73% 4
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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.

1 208 (30.45%) Azure
2 176 (25.77%) Agile
3 160 (23.43%) Roadmaps
4 136 (19.91%) AWS
5 124 (18.16%) DevOps
5 124 (18.16%) TOGAF
6 111 (16.25%) Presales
7 109 (15.96%) Enterprise Architecture
8 106 (15.52%) Microservices
9 98 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
10 97 (14.20%) Business Strategy
11 90 (13.18%) Microsoft
12 89 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
13 87 (12.74%) AI
14 81 (11.86%) Degree
14 81 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 80 (11.71%) SAP
16 76 (11.13%) SaaS
17 73 (10.69%) GCP
18 70 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 70 (10.25%) Project Management
19 67 (9.81%) Security Cleared
20 65 (9.52%) Analytics
21 59 (8.64%) Business Development
22 57 (8.35%) Decision-Making
23 56 (8.20%) ERP
23 56 (8.20%) Migration
24 55 (8.05%) Architectural Design
24 55 (8.05%) Risk Management
24 55 (8.05%) SAP S/4HANA

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 12 (1.76%) CMS
2 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.73%) Apache
3 5 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.73%) Confluence
4 4 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.29%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Revit
Business Applications
1 55 (8.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (5.71%) SAP MDG
3 37 (5.42%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 20 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.73%) Shopify
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.59%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.44%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.29%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 208 (30.45%) Azure
2 136 (19.91%) AWS
3 76 (11.13%) SaaS
4 73 (10.69%) GCP
5 35 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (4.25%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.66%) OCI
8 24 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.51%) PaaS
8 24 (3.51%) Serverless
9 17 (2.49%) GitHub
10 16 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (2.34%) IaaS
11 11 (1.61%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
12 9 (1.32%) Azure AKS
13 7 (1.02%) Azure AI
13 7 (1.02%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.32%) Firewall
2 6 (0.88%) WAN
3 5 (0.73%) SAN
4 4 (0.59%) LAN
4 4 (0.59%) VoIP
4 4 (0.59%) VPN
4 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.44%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) MPLS
5 3 (0.44%) Network Security
5 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.29%) PBX
6 2 (0.29%) Skype
6 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) MIMO
7 1 (0.15%) NAS
7 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.37%) NoSQL
2 13 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (1.90%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.61%) Power BI
4 9 (1.32%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.02%) Big Data
5 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.59%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.59%) DataStage
6 4 (0.59%) Metadata
6 4 (0.59%) QlikView
6 4 (0.59%) Tableau
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.29%) GIS
8 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.29%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (1.76%) JIRA
2 4 (0.59%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.59%) ERwin
2 4 (0.59%) GitLab
2 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 248 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 171 (25.04%) Finance
3 121 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.64%) Banking
5 58 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.44%) Law
7 42 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (5.71%) Retail
9 35 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.64%) Marketing
11 16 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.90%) Legal
14 10 (1.46%) Billing
15 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.73%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.59%) Back Office
17 4 (0.59%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.98%) React
2 27 (3.95%) Node.js
3 26 (3.81%) REST
4 24 (3.51%) Middleware
4 24 (3.51%) React Native
5 15 (2.20%) .NET
6 12 (1.76%) Kafka
7 11 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.17%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.17%) RESTful
9 7 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.02%) Vue
10 6 (0.88%) SOAP
11 4 (0.59%) Apache Beam
11 4 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (0.59%) Web Services
12 3 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
13 2 (0.29%) OpenAPI
13 2 (0.29%) Swagger
13 2 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.10%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 31 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 26 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 16 (2.34%) Reinsurance
8 14 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.46%) IoT
11 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
1 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (25.77%) Agile
2 160 (23.43%) Roadmaps
3 124 (18.16%) DevOps
3 124 (18.16%) TOGAF
4 111 (16.25%) Presales
5 109 (15.96%) Enterprise Architecture
6 106 (15.52%) Microservices
7 98 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (14.20%) Business Strategy
9 89 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
10 87 (12.74%) AI
11 81 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 70 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (10.25%) Project Management
13 65 (9.52%) Analytics
14 59 (8.64%) Business Development
15 57 (8.35%) Decision-Making
16 56 (8.20%) ERP
16 56 (8.20%) Migration
17 55 (8.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (6.44%) C#
2 39 (5.71%) Python
3 36 (5.27%) SQL
4 25 (3.66%) Java
5 9 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.32%) PHP
6 8 (1.17%) Bicep
6 8 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.44%) Go
9 2 (0.29%) X++
10 1 (0.15%) Bash
10 1 (0.15%) C
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.86%) Degree
2 67 (9.81%) Security Cleared
3 39 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
4 36 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (5.27%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.12%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 22 (3.22%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 14 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.73%) MCP
14 4 (0.59%) CCNA
14 4 (0.59%) CISSP
14 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.44%) CCSP
15 3 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.49%) GDPR
2 15 (2.20%) QA
3 11 (1.61%) SLA
4 10 (1.46%) NIST
5 8 (1.17%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.29%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Basel III
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) SEPA
9 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (3.51%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.51%) Terraform
3 3 (0.44%) Ansible
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.15%) Autotask
4 1 (0.15%) Netcool
4 1 (0.15%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 90 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.71%) SAP
3 42 (6.15%) Oracle
4 37 (5.42%) OpenText
5 28 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 21 (3.07%) Google
8 15 (2.20%) Databricks
9 14 (2.05%) Workday
10 10 (1.46%) IBM
11 8 (1.17%) Cisco
11 8 (1.17%) Software AG
12 7 (1.02%) Guidewire
12 7 (1.02%) Informatica
12 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.02%) VMware
13 6 (0.88%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (0.59%) Ariba
14 4 (0.59%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.59%) Siemens