Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 150 140
Rank change year-on-year -29 -10 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 746 880 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.26% 1.98% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 2.17% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 460 524 1,079
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £73,375 £66,813 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.48% -5.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,375 £107,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -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 54,122 40,636 63,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 91.44% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 34,857 21,382 50,354
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,500 £28,802
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 February 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 February 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 -12 301 £95,000 +5.56% 117
North of England -32 131 £75,000 +4.18% 52
South East +3 116 £85,000 +6.25% 74
Midlands -13 91 £75,000 - 39
North West +11 86 £73,000 +21.67% 31
West Midlands +15 59 £75,000 -6.25% 21
South West -11 50 £79,500 +11.98% 18
East of England +29 37 £90,000 +35.95% 14
East Midlands -29 32 £65,000 -7.14% 18
North East +17 28 £77,500 +26.24% 6
Yorkshire -75 17 £82,500 -1.49% 16
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 February 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.

1 184 (24.66%) Azure
2 147 (19.71%) Agile
3 140 (18.77%) Roadmaps
4 129 (17.29%) DevOps
5 113 (15.15%) AWS
6 111 (14.88%) Enterprise Architecture
7 107 (14.34%) AI
8 105 (14.08%) Microservices
9 103 (13.81%) SaaS
10 102 (13.67%) TOGAF
11 95 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
12 93 (12.47%) Security Cleared
13 90 (12.06%) SAP
14 89 (11.93%) Microsoft
15 80 (10.72%) Technical Leadership
16 76 (10.19%) Business Strategy
16 76 (10.19%) Degree
17 75 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (9.65%) Analytics
18 72 (9.65%) Presales
19 63 (8.45%) Project Management
20 62 (8.31%) Project Delivery
21 59 (7.91%) Architectural Design
22 58 (7.77%) SC Cleared
23 55 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
23 55 (7.37%) Decision-Making
23 55 (7.37%) SAP S/4HANA
24 53 (7.10%) Software Engineering
25 52 (6.97%) ERP
26 49 (6.57%) Power Platform

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 16 (2.14%) Confluence
2 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.21%) CMS
3 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.27%) JBoss
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Camunda
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (7.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (3.89%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 29 (3.89%) SAP MDG
3 19 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.40%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 184 (24.66%) Azure
2 113 (15.15%) AWS
3 103 (13.81%) SaaS
4 49 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 42 (5.63%) GCP
6 41 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.42%) PaaS
8 28 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (3.49%) Serverless
10 23 (3.08%) IaaS
11 20 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.01%) GitHub
13 11 (1.47%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.21%) Amazon Bedrock
14 9 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.94%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.94%) Snowflake
17 5 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
17 5 (0.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.47%) Firewall
2 9 (1.21%) WAN
3 8 (1.07%) SD-WAN
4 7 (0.94%) MPLS
5 6 (0.80%) Broadband
5 6 (0.80%) SAN
6 5 (0.67%) Network Security
7 4 (0.54%) LAN
7 4 (0.54%) VPN
7 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.40%) VoIP
9 2 (0.27%) BGP
9 2 (0.27%) NGN
9 2 (0.27%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 1 (0.13%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.88%) Power BI
2 12 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.47%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.94%) Metadata
4 7 (0.94%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.80%) BigQuery
5 6 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.67%) Big Data
7 4 (0.54%) DataStage
7 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.54%) QlikView
7 4 (0.54%) Tableau
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) GIS
9 2 (0.27%) Looker
10 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.28%) JIRA
2 5 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (0.54%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.54%) ER Studio
3 4 (0.54%) ERwin
3 4 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.27%) GitLab
5 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.13%) Git
6 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 234 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 154 (20.64%) Finance
3 95 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.12%) Banking
5 60 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (4.69%) Retail
8 28 (3.75%) Law
9 26 (3.49%) Marketing
10 25 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.82%) Back Office
12 19 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.55%) Legal
13 15 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.67%) Aviation
17 4 (0.54%) Military
17 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.90%) Middleware
2 23 (3.08%) React
3 20 (2.68%) REST
4 15 (2.01%) Node.js
5 14 (1.88%) .NET
6 12 (1.61%) RESTful
7 11 (1.47%) Kafka
8 10 (1.34%) React Native
9 8 (1.07%) A2A Protocol
9 8 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.80%) OpenAPI
11 6 (0.80%) SOAP
11 6 (0.80%) Swagger
12 5 (0.67%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (0.54%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (0.54%) OAuth
13 4 (0.54%) OpenID
13 4 (0.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.68%) Virtual Team
6 16 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.47%) IoT
9 11 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.67%) AS400
13 5 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.67%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.47%) Windows
2 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (19.71%) Agile
2 140 (18.77%) Roadmaps
3 129 (17.29%) DevOps
4 111 (14.88%) Enterprise Architecture
5 107 (14.34%) AI
6 105 (14.08%) Microservices
7 102 (13.67%) TOGAF
8 95 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (10.72%) Technical Leadership
10 76 (10.19%) Business Strategy
11 75 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (9.65%) Analytics
12 72 (9.65%) Presales
13 63 (8.45%) Project Management
14 62 (8.31%) Project Delivery
15 59 (7.91%) Architectural Design
16 55 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (7.37%) Decision-Making
17 53 (7.10%) Software Engineering
18 52 (6.97%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 34 (4.56%) Python
2 23 (3.08%) SQL
3 22 (2.95%) Java
4 14 (1.88%) C#
5 13 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.34%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.21%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.80%) Bicep
9 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.27%) PHP
9 2 (0.27%) Scala
9 2 (0.27%) X++
10 1 (0.13%) Bash
10 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) SOQL
10 1 (0.13%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 93 (12.47%) Security Cleared
2 76 (10.19%) Degree
3 58 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.83%) TOGAF Certification
5 29 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.89%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.28%) Azure Certification
9 16 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.67%) CISSP
14 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.40%) CCNP
15 3 (0.40%) MBA
15 3 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.61%) QA
2 8 (1.07%) GDPR
3 6 (0.80%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.67%) NCSC
4 5 (0.67%) PMO
5 4 (0.54%) GRC
5 4 (0.54%) NIST
5 4 (0.54%) SLA
6 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Basel III
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.74%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (2.68%) Terraform
2 16 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.34%) Netcool
4 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) vRealize
5 2 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) MOM
6 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (12.06%) SAP
2 89 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.89%) OpenText
4 18 (2.41%) Oracle
5 17 (2.28%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.88%) Software AG
6 14 (1.88%) VMware
7 13 (1.74%) Siemens
8 11 (1.47%) IBM
8 11 (1.47%) Informatica
9 10 (1.34%) BiZZdesign
10 9 (1.21%) Ariba
11 8 (1.07%) Cisco
11 8 (1.07%) Databricks
11 8 (1.07%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.94%) Google
13 6 (0.80%) Dell
14 5 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.67%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.54%) Pega