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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 204 119
Rank change year-on-year +70 -85 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,189 670 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 1.71% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.91% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 796 439 1,250
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,375 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 74,941 35,125 79,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.53% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50,440 21,315 60,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +51 550 £95,000 +5.56% 150
North of England +3 185 £77,500 +19.23% 39
Midlands +20 133 £75,000 - 15
South East +41 124 £85,000 +9.68% 54
South West +28 117 £75,000 +4.18% 26
North West +34 114 £75,000 +25.00% 24
West Midlands +24 90 £75,000 -14.16% 8
East of England +20 60 £90,000 +35.95% 16
Yorkshire -51 46 £76,997 -8.06% 12
East Midlands -13 43 £65,000 -3.70% 7
North East -29 25 £78,500 +20.77% 3
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 257 (21.61%) Azure
2 184 (15.48%) AWS
3 158 (13.29%) Security Cleared
4 156 (13.12%) AI
5 138 (11.61%) Agile
6 131 (11.02%) Microsoft
7 130 (10.93%) DevOps
8 127 (10.68%) Roadmaps
9 119 (10.01%) Presales
10 114 (9.59%) TOGAF
11 106 (8.92%) SC Cleared
12 104 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
13 92 (7.74%) SaaS
14 89 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
15 84 (7.06%) Microservices
16 78 (6.56%) Analytics
17 73 (6.14%) Technical Leadership
18 70 (5.89%) Degree
19 66 (5.55%) Stakeholder Management
20 65 (5.47%) Migration
20 65 (5.47%) SAP
21 63 (5.30%) Integration Patterns
22 58 (4.88%) Architectural Patterns
23 55 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
24 54 (4.54%) CI/CD
24 54 (4.54%) Power Platform
24 54 (4.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 52 (4.37%) ERP
26 51 (4.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
26 51 (4.29%) Software Engineering

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 (1.09%) Confluence
2 12 (1.01%) CMS
3 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.17%) JBoss
7 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.084%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.084%) Camunda
8 1 (0.084%) CICS
8 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.084%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.50%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.084%) Abaqus
4 1 (0.084%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 8 (0.67%) Shopify
4 6 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Endur
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.084%) Actimize
9 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.084%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.084%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 257 (21.61%) Azure
2 184 (15.48%) AWS
3 92 (7.74%) SaaS
4 55 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (4.54%) Power Platform
6 44 (3.70%) PaaS
7 42 (3.53%) GCP
8 35 (2.94%) Serverless
9 33 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.44%) IaaS
11 22 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.51%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
15 12 (1.01%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.67%) Nutanix
17 7 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (0.59%) GitHub
17 7 (0.59%) Mimecast
18 6 (0.50%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.19%) Firewall
2 15 (1.26%) Network Security
3 14 (1.18%) WAN
4 13 (1.09%) Broadband
4 13 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 11 (0.93%) LAN
6 9 (0.76%) MPLS
7 7 (0.59%) Internet
7 7 (0.59%) VPN
8 5 (0.42%) VSAN
9 4 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.25%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.25%) RFID
10 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.17%) SAN
11 2 (0.17%) VoIP
11 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.17%) WLAN
12 1 (0.084%) NGN
12 1 (0.084%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.18%) Power BI
2 11 (0.93%) Data Lake
2 11 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.67%) Metadata
3 8 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 7 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.34%) DB2
6 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.17%) Big Data
8 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.17%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.17%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.084%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.084%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.084%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.084%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (1.01%) JIRA
2 5 (0.42%) Balsamiq
2 5 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.34%) GitLab
4 2 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.17%) Snyk
4 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.084%) Git
5 1 (0.084%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.084%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio
General
1 180 (15.14%) Finance
2 172 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 71 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 52 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (3.36%) Banking
7 35 (2.94%) Law
8 34 (2.86%) Retail
9 28 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.35%) Marketing
10 23 (1.93%) Back Office
10 23 (1.93%) Legal
10 23 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (0.84%) Aviation
13 10 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.59%) Military
16 5 (0.42%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.20%) Middleware
2 37 (3.11%) .NET
3 13 (1.09%) React
4 12 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (1.01%) RESTful
5 11 (0.93%) Kafka
5 11 (0.93%) Node.js
6 7 (0.59%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (0.59%) REST
6 7 (0.59%) XML
7 6 (0.50%) OAuth
7 6 (0.50%) OpenAPI
7 6 (0.50%) OpenID
7 6 (0.50%) Swagger
7 6 (0.50%) YAML
8 5 (0.42%) XBRL
9 4 (0.34%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.34%) JSON
9 4 (0.34%) SOAP
9 4 (0.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 35 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 23 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (1.93%) Product Ownership
5 21 (1.77%) Cyberattack
6 18 (1.51%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.93%) Operational Technology
11 10 (0.84%) IoT
12 9 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
13 8 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.59%) Driving Licence
14 7 (0.59%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.68%) Windows
2 6 (0.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.34%) Linux
4 1 (0.084%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (13.12%) AI
2 138 (11.61%) Agile
3 130 (10.93%) DevOps
4 127 (10.68%) Roadmaps
5 119 (10.01%) Presales
6 114 (9.59%) TOGAF
7 104 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
8 89 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (7.06%) Microservices
10 78 (6.56%) Analytics
11 73 (6.14%) Technical Leadership
12 66 (5.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 65 (5.47%) Migration
14 63 (5.30%) Integration Patterns
15 58 (4.88%) Architectural Patterns
16 54 (4.54%) CI/CD
16 54 (4.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 52 (4.37%) ERP
18 51 (4.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 51 (4.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (3.28%) Python
2 31 (2.61%) C#
3 28 (2.35%) SQL
4 16 (1.35%) Java
5 15 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.67%) Bicep
7 7 (0.59%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.17%) Bash
9 2 (0.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.084%) COBOL
10 1 (0.084%) JCL
10 1 (0.084%) PHP
10 1 (0.084%) R
10 1 (0.084%) RPG
10 1 (0.084%) SOQL
10 1 (0.084%) SOSL
10 1 (0.084%) X++
Qualifications
1 158 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 106 (8.92%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.89%) Degree
4 29 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 27 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 17 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.67%) CCNP
12 8 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.50%) CISSP
14 5 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.42%) ICAEW
14 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.42%) VCAP
14 5 (0.42%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.27%) NIST
2 16 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (0.84%) QA
4 8 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.67%) GRC
5 7 (0.59%) GDPR
6 6 (0.50%) NCSC
7 5 (0.42%) PMO
8 4 (0.34%) WCAG
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.084%) Basel III
10 1 (0.084%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.084%) MiFID
10 1 (0.084%) PERC
10 1 (0.084%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.93%) Docker
4 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.42%) vCloud
5 5 (0.42%) vSphere
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (1.85%) Terraform
2 20 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.01%) Ansible
4 9 (0.76%) Netcool
5 5 (0.42%) vRealize
6 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.084%) MOM
8 1 (0.084%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.084%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 131 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.47%) SAP
3 26 (2.19%) Dell
4 24 (2.02%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.02%) VMware
5 21 (1.77%) Oracle
6 19 (1.60%) Cisco
7 13 (1.09%) Fortinet
8 11 (0.93%) Ariba
8 11 (0.93%) Databricks
9 9 (0.76%) Siemens
10 8 (0.67%) Google
10 8 (0.67%) Juniper
10 8 (0.67%) NetApp
10 8 (0.67%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.59%) Barracuda Networks
11 7 (0.59%) N-able
11 7 (0.59%) Sophos
12 6 (0.50%) Broadcom
12 6 (0.50%) Meraki