Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £84,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 143 134
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 702 921 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.25% 1.97% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 2.14% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 425 549 1,028
10th Percentile £63,000 £52,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,400 £108,250
UK median annual salary £84,500 £81,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.52% -2.94%

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 51,087 43,080 58,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 32,513 22,455 47,048
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,160
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -17 282 £92,500 +2.78% 122
North of England -27 119 £75,000 +7.14% 54
South East -4 113 £85,000 +6.25% 84
Midlands -9 89 £75,000 - 32
North West +7 76 £73,500 +22.50% 34
West Midlands +16 61 £77,500 -4.62% 20
South West -21 43 £79,500 +13.57% 12
East of England +35 35 £90,000 +21.21% 12
East Midlands -22 28 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North East +16 24 £75,000 +22.17% 10
Yorkshire -48 19 £82,500 - 10
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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.

1 179 (25.50%) Azure
2 144 (20.51%) Agile
3 140 (19.94%) Roadmaps
4 124 (17.66%) DevOps
5 111 (15.81%) Enterprise Architecture
5 111 (15.81%) Microservices
6 106 (15.10%) AWS
7 100 (14.25%) AI
8 96 (13.68%) TOGAF
9 95 (13.53%) SaaS
10 94 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (13.11%) SAP
12 85 (12.11%) Security Cleared
13 83 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
14 81 (11.54%) Microsoft
15 80 (11.40%) Business Strategy
16 75 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (10.40%) Degree
18 71 (10.11%) Analytics
18 71 (10.11%) Project Management
19 63 (8.97%) Presales
20 62 (8.83%) Project Delivery
21 59 (8.40%) SAP S/4HANA
22 58 (8.26%) Decision-Making
23 57 (8.12%) Architectural Design
24 54 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
25 52 (7.41%) Software Engineering
26 50 (7.12%) SC Cleared
27 49 (6.98%) ERP
28 48 (6.84%) CRM

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 (1.99%) Confluence
2 10 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.28%) CMS
4 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) JBoss
6 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (8.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 37 (5.27%) SAP MDG
3 21 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.43%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 179 (25.50%) Azure
2 106 (15.10%) AWS
3 95 (13.53%) SaaS
4 45 (6.41%) Power Platform
5 42 (5.98%) GCP
6 34 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (3.70%) Serverless
9 25 (3.56%) PaaS
10 19 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.56%) IaaS
12 15 (2.14%) GitHub
13 9 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
13 9 (1.28%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.14%) OCI
15 7 (1.00%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.00%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
17 5 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
17 5 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.57%) Firewall
2 8 (1.14%) WAN
3 7 (1.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.85%) MPLS
5 5 (0.71%) Network Security
5 5 (0.71%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) Broadband
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
7 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.28%) BGP
8 2 (0.28%) LAN
8 2 (0.28%) OSPF
8 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
8 2 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) MIMO
9 1 (0.14%) NAS
9 1 (0.14%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.99%) Power BI
2 11 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.42%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.00%) Metadata
5 7 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.57%) Big Data
7 4 (0.57%) DataStage
7 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.57%) QlikView
7 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.57%) Tableau
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.28%) GIS
9 2 (0.28%) Looker
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (2.14%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.57%) ERwin
2 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.28%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.28%) GitLab
3 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.14%) Git
4 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 233 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.37%) Finance
3 107 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (9.97%) Banking
5 64 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (4.99%) Retail
8 27 (3.85%) Law
9 26 (3.70%) Marketing
10 23 (3.28%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.99%) Legal
14 13 (1.85%) Back Office
15 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.71%) Aviation
16 5 (0.71%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.41%) Middleware
2 28 (3.99%) React
3 25 (3.56%) REST
4 20 (2.85%) Node.js
5 14 (1.99%) React Native
6 12 (1.71%) .NET
7 10 (1.42%) AngularJS
7 10 (1.42%) Kafka
8 9 (1.28%) A2A Protocol
8 9 (1.28%) RESTful
9 8 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.00%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.00%) Vue
11 5 (0.71%) SOAP
12 4 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.57%) OAuth
12 4 (0.57%) OpenAPI
12 4 (0.57%) OpenID
12 4 (0.57%) Swagger
13 3 (0.43%) Apollo GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.85%) Virtual Team
6 19 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.99%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.71%) IoT
11 11 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.00%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.71%) AS400
16 5 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 5 (0.71%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.42%) Windows
2 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (20.51%) Agile
2 140 (19.94%) Roadmaps
3 124 (17.66%) DevOps
4 111 (15.81%) Enterprise Architecture
4 111 (15.81%) Microservices
5 100 (14.25%) AI
6 96 (13.68%) TOGAF
7 94 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
9 80 (11.40%) Business Strategy
10 75 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (10.11%) Analytics
11 71 (10.11%) Project Management
12 63 (8.97%) Presales
13 62 (8.83%) Project Delivery
14 58 (8.26%) Decision-Making
15 57 (8.12%) Architectural Design
16 54 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (7.41%) Software Engineering
18 49 (6.98%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 33 (4.70%) Python
2 23 (3.28%) Java
3 19 (2.71%) SQL
4 15 (2.14%) C#
5 14 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.85%) Bicep
9 3 (0.43%) PHP
10 2 (0.28%) Go
10 2 (0.28%) Scala
10 2 (0.28%) X++
11 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.14%) Bash
11 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 85 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.40%) Degree
3 50 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.42%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.14%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.71%) CISSP
14 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.43%) MBA
15 3 (0.43%) SAP Certification
16 2 (0.28%) CCNA
16 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.85%) QA
2 8 (1.14%) GDPR
3 7 (1.00%) SLA
4 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.57%) GRC
5 4 (0.57%) NCSC
6 3 (0.43%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.43%) NIST
6 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.43%) PMO
7 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.14%) Basel III
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) MiFID
8 1 (0.14%) SEPA
8 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.85%) Docker
2 7 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (2.56%) Terraform
2 14 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.42%) Netcool
4 4 (0.57%) vRealize
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Autotask
6 1 (0.14%) MOM
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (13.11%) SAP
2 81 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.27%) OpenText
4 18 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.42%) Oracle
6 14 (1.99%) Software AG
7 13 (1.85%) VMware
8 11 (1.57%) IBM
8 11 (1.57%) Informatica
8 11 (1.57%) Siemens
9 10 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
10 8 (1.14%) Cisco
10 8 (1.14%) Databricks
10 8 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.00%) Google
12 6 (0.85%) Ariba
12 6 (0.85%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.71%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.57%) Cognizant
14 4 (0.57%) Pega