Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £89,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 219 101
Rank change year-on-year +116 -118 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,808 610 1,713
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 1.41% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.56% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 323 929
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £69,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile - £110,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £85,258 £83,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.80% +4.69% -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 94,838 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66,862 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 18 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 18 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 +95 867 £100,000 +5.26% 768
North of England +107 400 £80,000 +5.61% 141
North West +105 249 £80,000 - 88
South West +15 180 £74,353 -7.06% 56
Midlands +21 146 £75,000 - 71
Yorkshire +52 130 £80,000 +6.67% 38
South East +3 121 £85,000 +21.43% 186
West Midlands +20 115 £78,738 +4.98% 50
East of England +10 67 £78,738 -5.98% 38
East Midlands -38 31 £60,000 -21.82% 21
North East -58 21 £80,000 +28.00% 15
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 361 (19.97%) Azure
2 333 (18.42%) AWS
3 323 (17.87%) AI
4 232 (12.83%) Microsoft
5 227 (12.56%) Security Cleared
6 200 (11.06%) Roadmaps
7 178 (9.85%) Presales
8 160 (8.85%) SC Cleared
9 154 (8.52%) Agile
10 153 (8.46%) Analytics
11 136 (7.52%) Technical Leadership
12 128 (7.08%) Enterprise Architecture
12 128 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 123 (6.80%) Migration
14 122 (6.75%) DevOps
15 120 (6.64%) TOGAF
16 117 (6.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 112 (6.19%) ERP
18 111 (6.14%) SaaS
19 107 (5.92%) Integration Patterns
20 97 (5.37%) Degree
20 97 (5.37%) Microservices
21 95 (5.25%) SAP
22 87 (4.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 87 (4.81%) Translating Business Requirements
23 86 (4.76%) Mentoring
24 83 (4.59%) Architectural Patterns
25 79 (4.37%) Problem-Solving
26 75 (4.15%) Power Platform
26 75 (4.15%) Technology Strategy

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 (0.77%) Confluence
2 11 (0.61%) SAS
2 11 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (0.39%) CMS
4 5 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) Appian
6 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.11%) Camunda
6 2 (0.11%) Drupal
6 2 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.055%) Apache
7 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.055%) CICS
7 1 (0.055%) JBoss
7 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.055%) 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 (0.055%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 50 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) Endur
3 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
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%) Primavera
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 361 (19.97%) Azure
2 333 (18.42%) AWS
3 111 (6.14%) SaaS
4 75 (4.15%) Power Platform
5 66 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
6 62 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
8 54 (2.99%) GCP
9 36 (1.99%) Serverless
10 31 (1.71%) PaaS
11 20 (1.11%) Lucidchart
12 18 (1.00%) dbt
13 17 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (0.72%) OCI
15 13 (0.72%) PowerApps
16 12 (0.66%) Azure API Management
16 12 (0.66%) Power Automate
17 10 (0.55%) IaaS
18 9 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.88%) Internet
2 29 (1.60%) Firewall
3 16 (0.88%) Network Security
3 16 (0.88%) WAN
4 14 (0.77%) LAN
5 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 11 (0.61%) VSAN
6 9 (0.50%) Broadband
7 7 (0.39%) VPN
8 5 (0.28%) MPLS
8 5 (0.28%) RFID
8 5 (0.28%) Wireless
9 4 (0.22%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.17%) 5G
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.17%) WLAN
11 2 (0.11%) AMQP
11 2 (0.11%) MQTT
12 1 (0.055%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.88%) SAP HANA
3 13 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (0.61%) Db2
5 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.55%) DTS
6 9 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 9 (0.50%) Power BI
6 9 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.44%) Big Data
7 8 (0.44%) Metadata
8 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.28%) MySQL
9 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.22%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 1 (0.055%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.055%) GitLab
5 1 (0.055%) Maven
5 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 349 (19.30%) Finance
2 216 (11.95%) Social Skills
3 97 (5.37%) Public Sector
4 64 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (3.26%) Retail
6 52 (2.88%) Banking
7 41 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (2.21%) Law
9 34 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (1.88%) Marketing
10 30 (1.66%) Military
11 26 (1.44%) Back Office
12 25 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.05%) Legal
16 17 (0.94%) Public Speaking
17 13 (0.72%) Advertising
18 12 (0.66%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.88%) .NET
2 32 (1.77%) Middleware
3 25 (1.38%) Node.js
4 23 (1.27%) RESTful
5 21 (1.16%) Kafka
6 19 (1.05%) Terraform
7 17 (0.94%) OpenAPI
7 17 (0.94%) Swagger
8 14 (0.77%) REST
9 13 (0.72%) Spring
9 13 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (0.50%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (0.44%) SOAP
13 7 (0.39%) React
13 7 (0.39%) XML
14 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
14 5 (0.28%) JSON
14 5 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
14 5 (0.28%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.64%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.66%) Blog
8 24 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.05%) Cyberattack
9 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 16 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 15 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (0.83%) IoT
12 14 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (0.55%) EPoS
13 10 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 10 (0.55%) iSeries
13 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.88%) Windows
2 8 (0.44%) Linux
3 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.055%) AIX
4 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.055%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (17.87%) AI
2 200 (11.06%) Roadmaps
3 178 (9.85%) Presales
4 154 (8.52%) Agile
5 153 (8.46%) Analytics
6 136 (7.52%) Technical Leadership
7 128 (7.08%) Enterprise Architecture
7 128 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 123 (6.80%) Migration
9 122 (6.75%) DevOps
10 120 (6.64%) TOGAF
11 117 (6.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 112 (6.19%) ERP
13 107 (5.92%) Integration Patterns
14 97 (5.37%) Microservices
15 87 (4.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 87 (4.81%) Translating Business Requirements
16 86 (4.76%) Mentoring
17 83 (4.59%) Architectural Patterns
18 79 (4.37%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 64 (3.54%) Python
2 63 (3.48%) C#
3 53 (2.93%) SQL
4 44 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.10%) Java
6 10 (0.55%) RPG
7 8 (0.44%) Go
8 6 (0.33%) Bicep
9 5 (0.28%) Rust
10 3 (0.17%) R
10 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.055%) Bash
12 1 (0.055%) C++
12 1 (0.055%) COBOL
12 1 (0.055%) JCL
12 1 (0.055%) Scala
12 1 (0.055%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.055%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 227 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 160 (8.85%) SC Cleared
3 97 (5.37%) Degree
4 54 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 34 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.61%) CISSP
13 11 (0.61%) VCAP
13 11 (0.61%) VCDX
13 11 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (0.50%) ICAEW
14 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.39%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (1.44%) Data Quality
1 26 (1.44%) NIST
2 15 (0.83%) GDPR
3 14 (0.77%) GRC
4 13 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.39%) QA
7 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.22%) NCSC
8 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.17%) WCAG
9 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.11%) HITRUST
9 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.11%) SEPA
10 1 (0.055%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.055%) PERC
10 1 (0.055%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (1.38%) 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 (0.055%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (1.05%) 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 (0.055%) Argo
7 1 (0.055%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.055%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 232 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.25%) SAP
3 43 (2.38%) Oracle
4 31 (1.71%) VMware
5 28 (1.55%) Databricks
5 28 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 22 (1.22%) Cisco
7 21 (1.16%) Google
8 18 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 17 (0.94%) Adobe
10 16 (0.88%) Juniper
11 15 (0.83%) Dell
12 14 (0.77%) Guidewire
12 14 (0.77%) IBM
13 12 (0.66%) Mitel
14 11 (0.61%) Broadcom
15 9 (0.50%) Aruba
15 9 (0.50%) Computacenter
15 9 (0.50%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.44%) Palo Alto