Solutions Architect Job Trends in the East of England

Solution Architect
England > East of England

The median Solution Architect salary in the East of England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 137 203
Rank change year-on-year +21 +66 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 66 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.06% 1.00% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.07% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 48 14 15
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,735 £60,250
25th Percentile £69,897 - £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £66,200 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.40% -32.10% +14.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,850 £113,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,845 2,811 6,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 93.54% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,983 1,500 4,880
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,300 £75,075
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.32%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of 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 the East of England.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Hertfordshire +10 34 £90,000 +9.09% 5
Suffolk +13 13 £95,000 +43.50% 2
Cambridgeshire - 12 £75,000 - 1
Essex -13 4 £67,500 -21.51% 1
Norfolk -21 3 £77,477 -9.91% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 East of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (18.18%) Azure
1 12 (18.18%) Presales
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) ITSM
2 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.61%) AI
5 7 (10.61%) Programme Delivery
5 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
6 6 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (9.09%) DevOps
6 6 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 6 (9.09%) Technology Transformation
7 5 (7.58%) Architecture Roadmap
7 5 (7.58%) Degree
7 5 (7.58%) Dell
7 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.58%) Project Delivery
7 5 (7.58%) Project Management
7 5 (7.58%) SaaS
7 5 (7.58%) Service Delivery
7 5 (7.58%) Systems Thinking
7 5 (7.58%) Technical Debt
8 4 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (6.06%) Data Modelling
8 4 (6.06%) Innovative Thinking
8 4 (6.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
9 3 (4.55%) Agile

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of 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 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (7.58%) SaaS
3 4 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.03%) Serverless
5 1 (1.52%) AWS
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.52%) GCP
5 1 (1.52%) GitHub
5 1 (1.52%) IaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.52%) PaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Broadband
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
1 2 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (1.52%) AMQP
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Marketing
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Advertising
4 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.52%) Police
4 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (3.03%) Node.js
2 1 (1.52%) .NET
2 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.52%) JSON
2 1 (1.52%) Kafka
2 1 (1.52%) REST
2 1 (1.52%) RESTful
2 1 (1.52%) Spring
2 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Operational Technology
2 9 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.18%) Presales
2 10 (15.15%) ITSM
2 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (10.61%) AI
4 7 (10.61%) Programme Delivery
4 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
5 6 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
5 6 (9.09%) DevOps
5 6 (9.09%) Event-Driven
5 6 (9.09%) Technology Transformation
6 5 (7.58%) Architecture Roadmap
6 5 (7.58%) Project Delivery
6 5 (7.58%) Project Management
6 5 (7.58%) Service Delivery
6 5 (7.58%) Systems Thinking
6 5 (7.58%) Technical Debt
7 4 (6.06%) Data Modelling
7 4 (6.06%) Innovative Thinking
8 3 (4.55%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.55%) Python
2 2 (3.03%) SQL
3 1 (1.52%) C#
3 1 (1.52%) PHP
3 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.52%) GDPR
1 1 (1.52%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Dell
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.03%) Computacenter
2 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.03%) VMware
3 1 (1.52%) Aruba
3 1 (1.52%) Broadcom
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco
3 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.52%) Juniper
3 1 (1.52%) Meraki
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle