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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 230 103
Rank change year-on-year +124 -127 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,818 591 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 1.37% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.51% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 321 875
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £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 - £108,750 £131,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 96,512 39,065 63,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 90.52% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,878 23,017 36,945
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 1 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 1 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 +97 866 £100,000 +5.26% 710
North of England +112 402 £80,000 +1.59% 143
North West +100 252 £80,000 - 79
South West +22 178 £75,000 -7.69% 70
Midlands +23 148 £75,000 - 59
South East -8 129 £85,000 +15.25% 154
Yorkshire +62 128 £82,500 +10.00% 49
West Midlands +23 121 £80,000 +6.67% 45
East of England +11 68 £75,000 -9.09% 33
East Midlands -33 27 £60,000 -20.00% 14
North East -53 22 £80,000 +31.15% 15
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 358 (19.69%) Azure
2 320 (17.60%) AI
3 317 (17.44%) AWS
4 241 (13.26%) Microsoft
5 223 (12.27%) Security Cleared
6 208 (11.44%) Roadmaps
7 169 (9.30%) Presales
8 160 (8.80%) SC Cleared
9 159 (8.75%) Analytics
10 157 (8.64%) Agile
11 150 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
12 135 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 130 (7.15%) Enterprise Architecture
14 127 (6.99%) Migration
15 124 (6.82%) DevOps
16 118 (6.49%) ERP
17 117 (6.44%) TOGAF
18 115 (6.33%) SaaS
19 112 (6.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 111 (6.11%) Integration Patterns
21 97 (5.34%) Microservices
21 97 (5.34%) SAP
22 93 (5.12%) Translating Business Requirements
23 89 (4.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 88 (4.84%) Degree
25 87 (4.79%) Mentoring
26 81 (4.46%) Architectural Patterns
27 79 (4.35%) Architecture Governance
27 79 (4.35%) Power Platform
27 79 (4.35%) 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
3 10 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.39%) CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
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
6 2 (0.11%) JBoss
6 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.055%) Apache
7 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (1.21%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.17%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.11%) Windchill
4 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 53 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) Endur
3 12 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.33%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.17%) Lawson
9 3 (0.17%) Movex
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 358 (19.69%) Azure
2 317 (17.44%) AWS
3 115 (6.33%) SaaS
4 79 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 66 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
6 61 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 56 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
8 55 (3.03%) GCP
9 37 (2.04%) Serverless
10 31 (1.71%) PaaS
11 19 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (1.05%) Lucidchart
12 18 (0.99%) dbt
13 16 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (0.88%) Entra ID
14 15 (0.83%) Azure API Management
14 15 (0.83%) Power Automate
15 14 (0.77%) PowerApps
16 12 (0.66%) OCI
17 11 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.86%) Internet
2 31 (1.71%) Firewall
3 17 (0.94%) LAN
4 16 (0.88%) Network Security
4 16 (0.88%) WAN
5 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.55%) VSAN
7 9 (0.50%) VPN
8 8 (0.44%) Broadband
9 6 (0.33%) Wireless
10 5 (0.28%) RFID
11 4 (0.22%) DNS
11 4 (0.22%) MPLS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
2 16 (0.88%) SAP HANA
3 13 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.55%) Big Data
5 10 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.55%) Db2
5 10 (0.55%) DTS
5 10 (0.55%) Power BI
6 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.39%) Metadata
9 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.28%) MySQL
10 4 (0.22%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (0.17%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.28%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.22%) JIRA
4 3 (0.17%) Snyk
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
6 1 (0.055%) Maven
6 1 (0.055%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
General
1 375 (20.63%) Finance
2 225 (12.38%) Social Skills
3 98 (5.39%) Public Sector
4 60 (3.30%) Retail
5 59 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (3.03%) Banking
7 40 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (2.15%) Law
8 39 (2.15%) Marketing
9 38 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (1.82%) Military
11 31 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.54%) Back Office
13 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.27%) Legal
14 23 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.94%) Public Speaking
16 15 (0.83%) Advertising
16 15 (0.83%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.75%) .NET
2 35 (1.93%) Middleware
3 25 (1.38%) Node.js
3 25 (1.38%) RESTful
4 24 (1.32%) Terraform
5 22 (1.21%) Kafka
6 19 (1.05%) OpenAPI
6 19 (1.05%) Swagger
7 18 (0.99%) REST
8 13 (0.72%) Spring
8 13 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 12 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (0.50%) SOAP
11 8 (0.44%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (0.33%) XML
13 5 (0.28%) A2A Protocol
13 5 (0.28%) JSON
13 5 (0.28%) LDAP
13 5 (0.28%) React
14 4 (0.22%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.39%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.65%) Blog
7 27 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 18 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
11 16 (0.88%) Public Cloud
11 16 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.83%) IoT
13 14 (0.77%) Cyberattack
14 10 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 10 (0.55%) iSeries
14 10 (0.55%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.05%) Windows
2 10 (0.55%) Linux
3 8 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.055%) AIX
4 1 (0.055%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.055%) Unix
4 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (17.60%) AI
2 208 (11.44%) Roadmaps
3 169 (9.30%) Presales
4 159 (8.75%) Analytics
5 157 (8.64%) Agile
6 150 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
7 135 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 130 (7.15%) Enterprise Architecture
9 127 (6.99%) Migration
10 124 (6.82%) DevOps
11 118 (6.49%) ERP
12 117 (6.44%) TOGAF
13 112 (6.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 111 (6.11%) Integration Patterns
15 97 (5.34%) Microservices
16 93 (5.12%) Translating Business Requirements
17 89 (4.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 87 (4.79%) Mentoring
19 81 (4.46%) Architectural Patterns
20 79 (4.35%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 66 (3.63%) Python
2 64 (3.52%) C#
3 56 (3.08%) SQL
4 46 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.15%) Java
6 11 (0.61%) Bicep
7 10 (0.55%) RPG
8 8 (0.44%) Go
9 5 (0.28%) Rust
10 3 (0.17%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.17%) R
10 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.11%) Solidity
12 1 (0.055%) C++
12 1 (0.055%) Scala
12 1 (0.055%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 223 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 160 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 88 (4.84%) Degree
4 52 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 37 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 34 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.66%) CISSP
10 12 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.55%) VCAP
11 10 (0.55%) VCDX
11 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.50%) ICAEW
13 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.39%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 22 (1.21%) NIST
3 18 (0.99%) GDPR
4 14 (0.77%) GRC
5 13 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.39%) QA
8 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.17%) NCSC
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 (0.055%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.055%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (0.99%) Docker
3 14 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.28%) vCloud
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.055%) KVM
9 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.44%) Ansible
3 6 (0.33%) Grafana
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.11%) CASB
5 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.11%) vRealize
6 1 (0.055%) Argo
6 1 (0.055%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.055%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 241 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.34%) SAP
3 46 (2.53%) Oracle
4 31 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 28 (1.54%) VMware
6 26 (1.43%) Databricks
7 22 (1.21%) Google
8 21 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 20 (1.10%) Cisco
10 18 (0.99%) Adobe
10 18 (0.99%) Juniper
11 14 (0.77%) Guidewire
12 13 (0.72%) IBM
13 12 (0.66%) Mitel
14 11 (0.61%) Aruba
15 10 (0.55%) Broadcom
15 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.50%) Computacenter
17 8 (0.44%) Infor
17 8 (0.44%) Workday