Solutions Architect Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect salary in London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 125 105
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 257 396 549
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.84% 2.57% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.77% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 159 222 432
10th Percentile £72,500 £50,000 £66,713
25th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £117,750 £116,125 £120,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £84,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.33% -0.59%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,761 14,282 17,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 92.67% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,461 8,232 14,026
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +28 61 £100,000 +5.26% 27
West London -12 11 £79,500 +59.00% 7
East London - 2 £80,000 - 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 104 (40.47%) Agile
2 83 (32.30%) Azure
3 81 (31.52%) DevOps
4 74 (28.79%) Microservices
5 62 (24.12%) Roadmaps
6 60 (23.35%) Technical Leadership
7 56 (21.79%) AWS
8 45 (17.51%) Microsoft
9 43 (16.73%) SaaS
9 43 (16.73%) TOGAF
10 42 (16.34%) Degree
11 36 (14.01%) AI
11 36 (14.01%) Decision-Making
12 34 (13.23%) Middleware
13 33 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
15 30 (11.67%) Data Architecture
15 30 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (11.28%) Computer Science
16 29 (11.28%) React
17 27 (10.51%) Architectural Design
17 27 (10.51%) Presales
18 26 (10.12%) Analytics
19 25 (9.73%) Software Engineering
20 24 (9.34%) Architectural Patterns
21 23 (8.95%) Data Integration
21 23 (8.95%) Machine Learning
22 22 (8.56%) Migration
22 22 (8.56%) Project Delivery
23 21 (8.17%) CI/CD

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (1.95%) CMS
2 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (4.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Actimize
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.39%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.30%) Azure
2 56 (21.79%) AWS
3 43 (16.73%) SaaS
4 21 (8.17%) GCP
5 17 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.23%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.45%) Serverless
8 10 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.72%) PaaS
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub
12 5 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.56%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.56%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.56%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) Firewall
1 4 (1.56%) SD-WAN
1 4 (1.56%) WAN
2 3 (1.17%) MPLS
3 2 (0.78%) Broadband
3 2 (0.78%) Network Security
3 2 (0.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) BGP
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.39%) DHCP
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) NGFW
4 1 (0.39%) OSPF
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.89%) Power BI
2 9 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 8 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.33%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.33%) Metadata
6 4 (1.56%) DataStage
6 4 (1.56%) QlikView
6 4 (1.56%) Tableau
7 3 (1.17%) Big Data
8 2 (0.78%) Looker
8 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.56%) ER Studio
1 4 (1.56%) ERwin
1 4 (1.56%) JIRA
1 4 (1.56%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (0.78%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 81 (31.52%) Finance
3 58 (22.57%) Banking
4 42 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (12.45%) Retail
6 16 (6.23%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.89%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.50%) Law
10 8 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.72%) Back Office
12 6 (2.33%) Legal
13 5 (1.95%) Marketing
13 5 (1.95%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.56%) International Banking
15 3 (1.17%) Billing
15 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.78%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.23%) Middleware
2 29 (11.28%) React
3 21 (8.17%) Node.js
4 20 (7.78%) React Native
4 20 (7.78%) REST
5 7 (2.72%) AngularJS
5 7 (2.72%) Vue
6 4 (1.56%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.56%) RESTful
7 3 (1.17%) EDI
8 2 (0.78%) .NET
8 2 (0.78%) OAuth
8 2 (0.78%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.78%) OpenID
8 2 (0.78%) SOAP
8 2 (0.78%) Swagger
9 1 (0.39%) Akka
9 1 (0.39%) JSON
9 1 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.17%) Mobile App
3 20 (7.78%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.45%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.89%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.95%) AS400
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.95%) iSeries
8 5 (1.95%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.17%) IVR
11 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (40.47%) Agile
2 81 (31.52%) DevOps
3 74 (28.79%) Microservices
4 62 (24.12%) Roadmaps
5 60 (23.35%) Technical Leadership
6 43 (16.73%) TOGAF
7 36 (14.01%) AI
7 36 (14.01%) Decision-Making
8 33 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
10 30 (11.67%) Data Architecture
10 30 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (11.28%) Computer Science
12 27 (10.51%) Architectural Design
12 27 (10.51%) Presales
13 26 (10.12%) Analytics
14 25 (9.73%) Software Engineering
15 24 (9.34%) Architectural Patterns
16 23 (8.95%) Data Integration
16 23 (8.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.06%) Python
2 12 (4.67%) SQL
3 11 (4.28%) Java
3 11 (4.28%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.33%) C#
4 6 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.78%) X++
7 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.39%) Bash
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) Go
7 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (16.34%) Degree
2 20 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.39%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.61%) TOGAF Certification
5 16 (6.23%) Security Cleared
6 11 (4.28%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.72%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.56%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.17%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.78%) FFIEC
12 2 (0.78%) MBA
12 2 (0.78%) MCP
13 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.39%) CCIE
13 1 (0.39%) CRISC
13 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.72%) SLA
2 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) NIST
4 4 (1.56%) QA
5 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) GRC
6 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) Basel III
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) SEPA
7 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (4.28%) Terraform
2 7 (2.72%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.39%) Autotask
Vendors
1 45 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.45%) SAP
3 13 (5.06%) Software AG
4 12 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.50%) IBM
6 7 (2.72%) Oracle
7 6 (2.33%) Databricks
7 6 (2.33%) Google
8 5 (1.95%) Ariba
8 5 (1.95%) Informatica
9 4 (1.56%) Cisco
9 4 (1.56%) Cognizant
10 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.17%) Intapp
10 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.78%) Concur
12 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.39%) iManage
12 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.39%) Ubiquiti