Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 223 118
Rank change year-on-year +114 -105 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,788 569 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.71% 1.34% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.47% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 315 825
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,794 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile - £109,500 £121,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 96,937 38,621 60,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 90.71% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,736 23,236 34,475
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,160 £35,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +96 855 £100,000 +5.26% 68
North of England +116 401 £80,000 - 23
North West +90 245 £80,000 - 7
South West +28 168 £77,500 -4.62% 24
Midlands +14 135 £80,000 +6.67% 17
South East -4 131 £85,000 +17.24% 44
Yorkshire +60 128 £86,250 +15.00% 12
West Midlands +22 113 £80,000 +6.67% 13
East of England +4 73 £75,000 -9.09% 11
North East -51 28 £80,000 +32.23% 4
East Midlands -42 22 £60,000 -22.58% 4
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 349 (19.52%) Azure
2 334 (18.68%) AI
3 299 (16.72%) AWS
4 246 (13.76%) Microsoft
5 215 (12.02%) Roadmaps
6 213 (11.91%) Security Cleared
7 172 (9.62%) Presales
8 163 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
9 159 (8.89%) Agile
10 156 (8.72%) Analytics
11 154 (8.61%) SC Cleared
12 146 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 131 (7.33%) Enterprise Architecture
14 127 (7.10%) ERP
15 125 (6.99%) Migration
16 117 (6.54%) DevOps
17 115 (6.43%) SaaS
18 111 (6.21%) Integration Patterns
19 105 (5.87%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 105 (5.87%) TOGAF
20 98 (5.48%) SAP
21 95 (5.31%) Microservices
21 95 (5.31%) Translating Business Requirements
22 93 (5.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 89 (4.98%) Degree
23 89 (4.98%) Mentoring
24 86 (4.81%) Architecture Governance
24 86 (4.81%) Power Platform
25 82 (4.59%) Architectural Patterns
26 80 (4.47%) Event-Driven

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 (0.62%) SAS
3 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.34%) CMS
5 4 (0.22%) Camunda
5 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) Appian
7 2 (0.11%) Drupal
7 2 (0.11%) IIS
7 2 (0.11%) JBoss
7 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 54 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.73%) Endur
4 12 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
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
8 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.17%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 349 (19.52%) Azure
2 299 (16.72%) AWS
3 115 (6.43%) SaaS
4 86 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 78 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
6 65 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.36%) GCP
8 56 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
9 32 (1.79%) PaaS
10 31 (1.73%) Serverless
11 19 (1.06%) Lucidchart
12 18 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (1.01%) dbt
13 17 (0.95%) Entra ID
14 16 (0.89%) Azure API Management
14 16 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (0.89%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.84%) PowerApps
16 12 (0.67%) IaaS
16 12 (0.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.80%) Internet
2 26 (1.45%) Firewall
3 16 (0.89%) Network Security
4 15 (0.84%) LAN
4 15 (0.84%) WAN
5 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.50%) VPN
6 9 (0.50%) VSAN
7 6 (0.34%) Broadband
7 6 (0.34%) Wireless
8 5 (0.28%) DNS
9 4 (0.22%) MPLS
9 4 (0.22%) RFID
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (1.62%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.89%) SAP HANA
3 11 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (0.62%) Power BI
3 11 (0.62%) Relational Database
4 10 (0.56%) Big Data
4 10 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 10 (0.56%) Db2
4 10 (0.56%) DTS
5 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.34%) MySQL
9 5 (0.28%) Metadata
10 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.22%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 1 (0.056%) Maven
6 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.056%) SonarQube
General
1 394 (22.04%) Finance
2 234 (13.09%) Social Skills
3 96 (5.37%) Public Sector
4 67 (3.75%) Banking
5 62 (3.47%) Retail
6 46 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (2.24%) Law
9 40 (2.24%) Marketing
10 37 (2.07%) Military
11 34 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.68%) Back Office
13 28 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.17%) Legal
16 17 (0.95%) Public Speaking
17 15 (0.84%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.52%) .NET
2 36 (2.01%) Middleware
3 26 (1.45%) RESTful
4 24 (1.34%) Node.js
5 22 (1.23%) Kafka
6 21 (1.17%) OpenAPI
6 21 (1.17%) Swagger
6 21 (1.17%) Terraform
7 20 (1.12%) REST
8 15 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (0.84%) Spring
8 15 (0.84%) Spring Boot
9 10 (0.56%) SOAP
10 8 (0.45%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (0.34%) LDAP
12 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
12 5 (0.28%) JSON
12 5 (0.28%) XML
13 4 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (0.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.09%) Cloud Native
2 71 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 58 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (1.96%) AI Agents
7 30 (1.68%) Blog
8 24 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
12 16 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.73%) IoT
14 12 (0.67%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.67%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.56%) EPoS
15 10 (0.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 10 (0.56%) iSeries
15 10 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.01%) Windows
2 10 (0.56%) Linux
3 7 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.056%) AIX
4 1 (0.056%) macOS
4 1 (0.056%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
4 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (18.68%) AI
2 215 (12.02%) Roadmaps
3 172 (9.62%) Presales
4 163 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
5 159 (8.89%) Agile
6 156 (8.72%) Analytics
7 146 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 131 (7.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 127 (7.10%) ERP
10 125 (6.99%) Migration
11 117 (6.54%) DevOps
12 111 (6.21%) Integration Patterns
13 105 (5.87%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 105 (5.87%) TOGAF
14 95 (5.31%) Microservices
14 95 (5.31%) Translating Business Requirements
15 93 (5.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 89 (4.98%) Mentoring
17 86 (4.81%) Architecture Governance
18 82 (4.59%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 66 (3.69%) Python
2 63 (3.52%) C#
3 55 (3.08%) SQL
4 48 (2.68%) JavaScript
5 42 (2.35%) Java
6 12 (0.67%) Bicep
7 10 (0.56%) RPG
8 9 (0.50%) Go
9 6 (0.34%) Rust
10 3 (0.17%) R
10 3 (0.17%) Solidity
10 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.11%) C++
11 2 (0.11%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.056%) Scala
12 1 (0.056%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 154 (8.61%) SC Cleared
3 89 (4.98%) Degree
4 49 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 37 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.62%) CISSP
13 9 (0.50%) VCAP
13 9 (0.50%) VCDX
13 9 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.45%) ICAEW
14 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.39%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 18 (1.01%) GDPR
3 15 (0.84%) GRC
4 12 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.45%) NIST
7 7 (0.39%) QA
8 5 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.22%) PSD2
10 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.17%) NCSC
10 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.11%) HITRUST
11 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.11%) SEPA
11 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (1.06%) Docker
1 19 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.50%) vSphere
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.22%) vCloud
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.056%) KVM
9 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.34%) Ansible
2 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.28%) Grafana
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.11%) CASB
4 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.056%) Argo
5 1 (0.056%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.056%) vRealize
Vendors
1 246 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.48%) SAP
3 57 (3.19%) Oracle
4 32 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 28 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 27 (1.51%) Google
7 25 (1.40%) Databricks
7 25 (1.40%) VMware
8 18 (1.01%) Cisco
8 18 (1.01%) Juniper
9 17 (0.95%) Adobe
10 13 (0.73%) IBM
11 12 (0.67%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.67%) Mitel
12 10 (0.56%) Aruba
12 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.50%) Broadcom
13 9 (0.50%) Computacenter
14 8 (0.45%) Infor
14 8 (0.45%) Workday