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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 175 123
Rank change year-on-year +36 -52 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,130 704 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.41% 1.86% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 2.09% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 750 466 1,243
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,875 £118,500
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 74,248 33,643 78,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 88.94% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,779 21,258 60,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%

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 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 1 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 +42 517 £95,000 +5.56% 161
North of England -26 170 £78,500 +20.77% 43
Midlands +9 136 £75,000 - 19
South East +22 125 £85,000 +9.68% 59
South West +10 109 £75,000 +4.18% 27
North West +7 106 £75,000 +25.00% 29
West Midlands +14 92 £75,000 -14.16% 14
East of England +10 60 £90,000 +35.95% 16
East Midlands -30 44 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Yorkshire -68 39 £82,500 -1.49% 12
North East -24 25 £78,500 +20.77% 2
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 239 (21.15%) Azure
2 165 (14.60%) AWS
3 144 (12.74%) Security Cleared
4 142 (12.57%) AI
5 129 (11.42%) Agile
6 128 (11.33%) DevOps
7 126 (11.15%) Microsoft
8 123 (10.88%) Roadmaps
9 115 (10.18%) Presales
10 113 (10.00%) TOGAF
11 109 (9.65%) Enterprise Architecture
12 97 (8.58%) SC Cleared
13 89 (7.88%) SaaS
14 87 (7.70%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (7.08%) Microservices
16 74 (6.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (6.37%) Degree
18 68 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
19 65 (5.75%) Analytics
19 65 (5.75%) SAP
20 59 (5.22%) Integration Patterns
20 59 (5.22%) Migration
21 57 (5.04%) Architectural Patterns
22 54 (4.78%) Architectural Design
22 54 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
23 53 (4.69%) ERP
24 52 (4.60%) Business Strategy
24 52 (4.60%) CI/CD
24 52 (4.60%) Power Platform
24 52 (4.60%) 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 14 (1.24%) Confluence
2 12 (1.06%) CMS
3 11 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) JBoss
7 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.088%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.088%) Camunda
8 1 (0.088%) CICS
8 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.088%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (0.53%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.088%) Abaqus
3 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.80%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.53%) Shopify
4 5 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.35%) Endur
5 4 (0.35%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.088%) Actimize
7 1 (0.088%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.088%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.088%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG-M
7 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 239 (21.15%) Azure
2 165 (14.60%) AWS
3 89 (7.88%) SaaS
4 54 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.45%) PaaS
7 37 (3.27%) GCP
8 34 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (2.83%) Serverless
10 29 (2.57%) IaaS
11 23 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.50%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (1.15%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.71%) GitHub
15 8 (0.71%) Mimecast
16 7 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (0.62%) Nutanix
17 6 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.95%) Firewall
2 14 (1.24%) Network Security
3 13 (1.15%) Broadband
4 11 (0.97%) WAN
5 10 (0.88%) LAN
5 10 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.71%) MPLS
7 7 (0.62%) Internet
8 6 (0.53%) VPN
9 4 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.35%) VSAN
10 3 (0.27%) 3GPP
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.18%) RFID
11 2 (0.18%) VoIP
11 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.088%) DHCP
12 1 (0.088%) DNS
12 1 (0.088%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.15%) Power BI
2 11 (0.97%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 8 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.71%) Metadata
4 8 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.35%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.27%) DB2
6 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.18%) Big Data
7 2 (0.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.18%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.18%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.088%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.088%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.088%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.088%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (1.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.44%) Balsamiq
2 5 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.35%) GitLab
4 3 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.088%) Git
6 1 (0.088%) Snyk
6 1 (0.088%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.088%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.088%) Visual Studio
General
1 182 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 168 (14.87%) Finance
3 67 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 44 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (3.72%) Banking
7 34 (3.01%) Retail
8 30 (2.65%) Law
8 30 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (2.57%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.39%) Marketing
11 24 (2.12%) Legal
12 23 (2.04%) Back Office
13 13 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.80%) Aviation
15 9 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.71%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.62%) Military
18 5 (0.44%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.27%) .NET
2 36 (3.19%) Middleware
3 13 (1.15%) React
3 13 (1.15%) RESTful
4 12 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (0.97%) Kafka
6 10 (0.88%) Node.js
7 8 (0.71%) REST
8 7 (0.62%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (0.62%) OAuth
8 7 (0.62%) OpenID
8 7 (0.62%) XML
9 6 (0.53%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.53%) Swagger
9 6 (0.53%) YAML
10 5 (0.44%) JSON
10 5 (0.44%) XBRL
11 4 (0.35%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.35%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 33 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (2.39%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 21 (1.86%) Cyberattack
6 20 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (0.97%) Management Information System
11 11 (0.97%) Operational Technology
12 10 (0.88%) IoT
13 9 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
14 8 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.62%) Driving Licence
16 6 (0.53%) NHS
16 6 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.68%) Windows
2 5 (0.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.27%) Linux
4 1 (0.088%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (12.57%) AI
2 129 (11.42%) Agile
3 128 (11.33%) DevOps
4 123 (10.88%) Roadmaps
5 115 (10.18%) Presales
6 113 (10.00%) TOGAF
7 109 (9.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 87 (7.70%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (7.08%) Microservices
10 74 (6.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
12 65 (5.75%) Analytics
13 59 (5.22%) Integration Patterns
13 59 (5.22%) Migration
14 57 (5.04%) Architectural Patterns
15 54 (4.78%) Architectural Design
16 53 (4.69%) ERP
17 52 (4.60%) CI/CD
17 52 (4.60%) Software Engineering
17 52 (4.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (3.45%) Python
2 29 (2.57%) C#
3 26 (2.30%) SQL
4 16 (1.42%) Java
5 13 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.71%) Bicep
6 8 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.18%) Bash
8 2 (0.18%) PHP
8 2 (0.18%) Scala
9 1 (0.088%) COBOL
9 1 (0.088%) JCL
9 1 (0.088%) R
9 1 (0.088%) SOQL
9 1 (0.088%) SOSL
9 1 (0.088%) X++
Qualifications
1 144 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 97 (8.58%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.37%) Degree
4 30 (2.65%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.06%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.80%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.53%) CCNP
14 6 (0.53%) CISSP
15 5 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.35%) VCAP
16 4 (0.35%) VCDX
17 3 (0.27%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.30%) NIST
2 12 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (0.80%) QA
4 8 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.62%) GDPR
6 6 (0.53%) GRC
6 6 (0.53%) NCSC
7 5 (0.44%) PMO
8 4 (0.35%) WCAG
9 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.088%) Basel III
11 1 (0.088%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.088%) MiFID
11 1 (0.088%) PERC
11 1 (0.088%) SEPA
11 1 (0.088%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.97%) Docker
4 9 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.35%) vCloud
5 4 (0.35%) vSphere
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (1.77%) Terraform
2 19 (1.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.88%) Ansible
4 9 (0.80%) Netcool
5 5 (0.44%) vRealize
6 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.088%) MOM
8 1 (0.088%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.088%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 126 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.75%) SAP
3 27 (2.39%) Salesforce
4 25 (2.21%) Dell
5 23 (2.04%) VMware
6 20 (1.77%) Oracle
7 16 (1.42%) Cisco
8 12 (1.06%) Fortinet
9 11 (0.97%) Siemens
10 10 (0.88%) Ariba
11 9 (0.80%) Databricks
12 8 (0.71%) Google
13 7 (0.62%) Barracuda Networks
13 7 (0.62%) N-able
13 7 (0.62%) NetApp
13 7 (0.62%) Software AG
13 7 (0.62%) Sophos
14 6 (0.53%) Meraki
14 6 (0.53%) Workday
15 5 (0.44%) Broadcom