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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 213 111
Rank change year-on-year +113 -102 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,571 663 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 1.53% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.69% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,081 375 1,204
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile - £108,750 £132,500
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 83,806 39,235 77,320
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.56% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,024 23,683 55,489
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,629
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +71 788 £95,000 +5.56% 324
North of England +84 286 £80,000 +14.29% 66
North West +87 183 £80,000 +13.88% 26
South West +16 155 £75,000 -3.23% 31
South East +64 133 £85,000 +15.25% 61
Midlands +10 122 £75,000 - 32
West Midlands +27 92 £75,000 -11.76% 30
Yorkshire +2 73 £82,500 +14.60% 30
East of England +17 57 £75,000 +10.13% 13
East Midlands -30 30 £60,000 -14.89% 1
North East -35 30 £80,000 +23.08% 10
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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 (21.90%) Azure
2 324 (20.62%) AWS
3 260 (16.55%) AI
4 201 (12.79%) Security Cleared
5 196 (12.48%) Microsoft
6 189 (12.03%) Roadmaps
7 177 (11.27%) Presales
8 149 (9.48%) SC Cleared
9 141 (8.98%) Agile
10 140 (8.91%) Analytics
11 137 (8.72%) DevOps
12 126 (8.02%) TOGAF
13 118 (7.51%) Enterprise Architecture
14 113 (7.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 107 (6.81%) Migration
16 102 (6.49%) Degree
16 102 (6.49%) ERP
17 100 (6.37%) SaaS
18 92 (5.86%) Integration Patterns
19 90 (5.73%) Microservices
19 90 (5.73%) Problem-Solving
19 90 (5.73%) SAP
20 89 (5.67%) Technical Leadership
21 87 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
22 84 (5.35%) Mentoring
23 83 (5.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 81 (5.16%) Architectural Patterns
25 75 (4.77%) Cloud Computing
26 67 (4.26%) CI/CD
26 67 (4.26%) Microsoft 365

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 (0.95%) Confluence
2 11 (0.70%) SAS
3 9 (0.57%) CMS
3 9 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.13%) Appian
5 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.13%) Camunda
5 2 (0.13%) Drupal
5 2 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.064%) Apache
6 1 (0.064%) CICS
6 1 (0.064%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.45%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.13%) Windchill
5 1 (0.064%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.064%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 49 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.83%) Endur
4 9 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.51%) Shopify
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.13%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.064%) SAP MDM
10 1 (0.064%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 344 (21.90%) Azure
2 324 (20.62%) AWS
3 100 (6.37%) SaaS
4 75 (4.77%) Cloud Computing
5 67 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (4.20%) Power Platform
7 59 (3.76%) GCP
8 49 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (2.99%) Serverless
10 42 (2.67%) PaaS
11 21 (1.34%) IaaS
12 19 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.15%) dbt
13 18 (1.15%) Lucidchart
14 16 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (0.95%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.89%) Entra ID
17 11 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
18 10 (0.64%) GitHub
18 10 (0.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.50%) Internet
2 30 (1.91%) Firewall
3 16 (1.02%) Network Security
4 15 (0.95%) WAN
5 14 (0.89%) Broadband
6 13 (0.83%) LAN
7 11 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.70%) VSAN
8 10 (0.64%) VPN
9 8 (0.51%) MPLS
10 6 (0.38%) RFID
11 4 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.19%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.19%) 5G
12 3 (0.19%) AMQP
12 3 (0.19%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.19%) WLAN
13 2 (0.13%) MQTT
13 2 (0.13%) Wireless
14 1 (0.064%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
1 16 (1.02%) SAP HANA
2 15 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 13 (0.83%) Data Lake
4 13 (0.83%) Db2
5 10 (0.64%) DTS
5 10 (0.64%) Power BI
6 8 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.45%) Big Data
7 7 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.45%) Metadata
8 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.25%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.19%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.25%) GitLab
2 4 (0.25%) JIRA
3 3 (0.19%) Balsamiq
3 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.19%) Snyk
4 2 (0.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.064%) Maven
5 1 (0.064%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 256 (16.30%) Finance
2 201 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 81 (5.16%) Public Sector
4 61 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (3.25%) Retail
6 47 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (2.42%) Law
8 31 (1.97%) Military
8 31 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 30 (1.91%) Back Office
10 28 (1.78%) Banking
10 28 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.46%) Legal
12 22 (1.40%) Marketing
13 19 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.08%) Public Speaking
16 10 (0.64%) Front Office
17 9 (0.57%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.06%) .NET
2 29 (1.85%) Middleware
3 26 (1.65%) Node.js
4 24 (1.53%) Kafka
5 17 (1.08%) RESTful
6 13 (0.83%) Model Context Protocol
6 13 (0.83%) Spring
6 13 (0.83%) Spring Boot
7 12 (0.76%) OpenAPI
7 12 (0.76%) Swagger
8 11 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (0.57%) React
9 9 (0.57%) REST
10 6 (0.38%) XML
10 6 (0.38%) YAML
11 5 (0.32%) A2A Protocol
11 5 (0.32%) SOAP
11 5 (0.32%) XBRL
12 4 (0.25%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.04%) Blog
7 21 (1.34%) Cyberattack
8 20 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 16 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 15 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.70%) IoT
13 10 (0.64%) EPoS
13 10 (0.64%) iSeries
14 9 (0.57%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.40%) Windows
2 8 (0.51%) Linux
3 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.064%) AIX
4 1 (0.064%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (16.55%) AI
2 189 (12.03%) Roadmaps
3 177 (11.27%) Presales
4 141 (8.98%) Agile
5 140 (8.91%) Analytics
6 137 (8.72%) DevOps
7 126 (8.02%) TOGAF
8 118 (7.51%) Enterprise Architecture
9 113 (7.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 107 (6.81%) Migration
11 102 (6.49%) ERP
12 92 (5.86%) Integration Patterns
13 90 (5.73%) Microservices
13 90 (5.73%) Problem-Solving
14 89 (5.67%) Technical Leadership
15 87 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 84 (5.35%) Mentoring
17 83 (5.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 81 (5.16%) Architectural Patterns
19 67 (4.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 57 (3.63%) Python
2 45 (2.86%) C#
2 45 (2.86%) SQL
3 35 (2.23%) JavaScript
4 32 (2.04%) Java
5 10 (0.64%) RPG
6 9 (0.57%) Bicep
7 4 (0.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.19%) Go
8 3 (0.19%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.064%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.064%) Bash
9 1 (0.064%) COBOL
9 1 (0.064%) JCL
9 1 (0.064%) R
9 1 (0.064%) SOQL
9 1 (0.064%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 201 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 149 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.49%) Degree
4 46 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 11 (0.70%) VCAP
13 11 (0.70%) VCDX
14 10 (0.64%) CISSP
15 9 (0.57%) CCNP
15 9 (0.57%) ICAEW
15 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (1.85%) NIST
2 23 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.95%) GDPR
4 12 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.64%) GRC
6 9 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.38%) NCSC
7 6 (0.38%) QA
8 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.25%) PMO
8 4 (0.25%) WCAG
9 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.13%) HITRUST
10 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.064%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.064%) PERC
11 1 (0.064%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.89%) VMware NSX
4 12 (0.76%) Docker
5 11 (0.70%) vSphere
6 6 (0.38%) vCloud
7 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.59%) Terraform
2 23 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.95%) Ansible
4 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.19%) vRealize
7 2 (0.13%) CASB
7 2 (0.13%) Grafana
8 1 (0.064%) Argo
8 1 (0.064%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.064%) Netcool
8 1 (0.064%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.064%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 196 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.73%) SAP
3 31 (1.97%) Oracle
3 31 (1.97%) VMware
4 27 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 25 (1.59%) Cisco
5 25 (1.59%) Dell
6 19 (1.21%) Databricks
7 14 (0.89%) IBM
8 11 (0.70%) Adobe
8 11 (0.70%) Broadcom
8 11 (0.70%) Fortinet
8 11 (0.70%) Juniper
9 10 (0.64%) Google
9 10 (0.64%) Palo Alto
9 10 (0.64%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.57%) Ariba
11 8 (0.51%) Mitel
11 8 (0.51%) NetApp
11 8 (0.51%) Workday