Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 142 117
Rank change year-on-year -35 -25 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 703 1,153 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.49% 1.98% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.11% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 407 747 861
10th Percentile £60,983 £55,000 £63,631
25th Percentile £71,250 £69,875 £72,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £108,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 42,665 54,684 43,142
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 94.11% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 27,522 30,487 33,687
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,913 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,656 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.95% -4.17% -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -32 273 £92,500 - 105
North of England -10 117 £75,000 +7.14% 22
South East -25 111 £75,000 - 106
Midlands +20 98 £75,000 - 38
North West +30 75 £80,000 +8.47% 12
West Midlands +32 68 £75,000 -3.23% 35
South West -21 58 £80,000 +12.28% 24
East Midlands +5 30 £85,000 +21.43% 3
East of England +27 23 £90,000 +20.00% 16
Yorkshire -38 22 £82,500 +17.86% 9
North East +22 20 £62,500 +2.11% 1
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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.

1 212 (30.16%) Azure
2 177 (25.18%) Agile
3 147 (20.91%) Roadmaps
4 138 (19.63%) AWS
5 125 (17.78%) DevOps
6 124 (17.64%) TOGAF
7 114 (16.22%) Microservices
8 112 (15.93%) Enterprise Architecture
9 104 (14.79%) Presales
10 101 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
11 93 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
12 90 (12.80%) AI
13 89 (12.66%) Microsoft
14 88 (12.52%) Business Strategy
15 85 (12.09%) SAP
15 85 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
16 79 (11.24%) Security Cleared
17 77 (10.95%) SaaS
18 74 (10.53%) Degree
19 72 (10.24%) GCP
20 71 (10.10%) Project Management
21 63 (8.96%) Analytics
22 61 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
23 57 (8.11%) Architectural Design
23 57 (8.11%) Decision-Making
23 57 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
24 55 (7.82%) Project Delivery
25 51 (7.25%) Risk Management
26 50 (7.11%) CRM
27 48 (6.83%) Business Development

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 13 (1.85%) CMS
2 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.00%) Confluence
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.71%) Apache
4 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.57%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.28%) JBoss
6 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Luigi
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (5.55%) SAP MDG
3 37 (5.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 20 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.28%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.28%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 212 (30.16%) Azure
2 138 (19.63%) AWS
3 77 (10.95%) SaaS
4 72 (10.24%) GCP
5 33 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (3.70%) PaaS
8 25 (3.56%) Serverless
9 22 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.56%) IaaS
11 17 (2.42%) GitHub
12 16 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (1.71%) OCI
13 12 (1.71%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.42%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
15 9 (1.28%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.00%) Azure AI
17 6 (0.85%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.28%) Firewall
2 6 (0.85%) WAN
3 5 (0.71%) VPN
4 4 (0.57%) MPLS
4 4 (0.57%) SAN
4 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.43%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) LAN
5 3 (0.43%) Network Security
5 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.43%) VoIP
5 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.28%) BGP
6 2 (0.28%) OSPF
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) NGN
7 1 (0.14%) PBX
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.84%) NoSQL
2 14 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.71%) Power BI
4 10 (1.42%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.42%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.00%) Big Data
6 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.57%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.57%) DataStage
6 4 (0.57%) Metadata
6 4 (0.57%) QlikView
6 4 (0.57%) Tableau
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.28%) GIS
8 2 (0.28%) Looker
8 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.99%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) ER Studio
2 4 (0.57%) ERwin
2 4 (0.57%) GitLab
2 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.14%) Git
General
1 255 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 167 (23.76%) Finance
3 119 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.97%) Banking
6 42 (5.97%) Retail
7 38 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (3.84%) Law
10 20 (2.84%) Marketing
11 19 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.99%) Legal
14 10 (1.42%) Billing
15 7 (1.00%) Back Office
16 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.71%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.43%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.98%) React
2 29 (4.13%) Middleware
3 28 (3.98%) Node.js
4 26 (3.70%) REST
5 24 (3.41%) React Native
6 14 (1.99%) .NET
7 11 (1.56%) Kafka
7 11 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.14%) RESTful
9 7 (1.00%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.00%) Vue
10 6 (0.85%) SOAP
10 6 (0.85%) Web Services
11 4 (0.57%) Apache Beam
11 4 (0.57%) XML
12 3 (0.43%) Apollo GraphQL
12 3 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
13 2 (0.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 18 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.28%) Reinsurance
10 14 (1.99%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.71%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.28%) IoT
14 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.71%) AS400
16 5 (0.71%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (25.18%) Agile
2 147 (20.91%) Roadmaps
3 125 (17.78%) DevOps
4 124 (17.64%) TOGAF
5 114 (16.22%) Microservices
6 112 (15.93%) Enterprise Architecture
7 104 (14.79%) Presales
8 101 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
10 90 (12.80%) AI
11 88 (12.52%) Business Strategy
12 85 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 71 (10.10%) Project Management
14 63 (8.96%) Analytics
15 61 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (8.11%) Architectural Design
16 57 (8.11%) Decision-Making
17 55 (7.82%) Project Delivery
18 51 (7.25%) Risk Management
19 50 (7.11%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.26%) C#
2 36 (5.12%) SQL
3 34 (4.84%) Python
4 24 (3.41%) Java
5 9 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.14%) Bicep
7 7 (1.00%) PHP
7 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.43%) Go
9 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.28%) X++
10 1 (0.14%) Bash
10 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 79 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 74 (10.53%) Degree
3 44 (6.26%) SC Cleared
4 36 (5.12%) TOGAF Certification
5 30 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.84%) DV Cleared
8 24 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 17 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.57%) MCP
14 4 (0.57%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.43%) CCNA
15 3 (0.43%) CISSP
16 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.28%) GDPR
1 16 (2.28%) QA
2 8 (1.14%) NIST
2 8 (1.14%) SLA
3 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.14%) Basel III
6 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.14%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) SEPA
6 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (2.99%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.70%) Terraform
3 4 (0.57%) Netcool
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.14%) Autotask
6 1 (0.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) vRealize
6 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 89 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 85 (12.09%) SAP
3 37 (5.26%) OpenText
4 27 (3.84%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.70%) Oracle
6 18 (2.56%) Google
7 17 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.28%) Databricks
9 14 (1.99%) Workday
10 10 (1.42%) IBM
11 9 (1.28%) Software AG
12 8 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
12 8 (1.14%) Informatica
12 8 (1.14%) VMware
13 7 (1.00%) Cisco
13 7 (1.00%) Guidewire
13 7 (1.00%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.85%) Ariba
15 5 (0.71%) Siemens
16 4 (0.57%) Cognizant