Solutions Architect Job Trends in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

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

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 225 104
Rank change year-on-year +7 -121 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 124 70 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.65% 0.79% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.87% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 80 24 115
10th Percentile £69,875 - £60,400
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £73,750 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% -5.45% -5.45%
75th Percentile £99,063 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,710 8,016 11,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.90% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,527 4,478 6,474
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 South East.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South East

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Thames Valley -14 48 £83,750 +28.85% 49
Hampshire -18 35 £100,000 +33.33% 24
Surrey -8 27 £80,000 -11.11% 23
Berkshire -8 25 £86,250 +32.69% 31
Oxfordshire -34 14 £85,000 +30.77% 6
West Sussex -16 12 £90,000 -29.24% 8
Buckinghamshire -1 9 £82,500 +22.22% 12
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 South East region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 30 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.16%) Azure
2 25 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
4 17 (13.71%) Agile
4 17 (13.71%) Enterprise Architecture
4 17 (13.71%) Microsoft
5 16 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
7 13 (10.48%) DV Cleared
7 13 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (10.48%) Translating Business Requirements
8 12 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (9.68%) IT Strategy
8 12 (9.68%) Technology Strategy
9 11 (8.87%) AWS
9 11 (8.87%) CI/CD
10 10 (8.06%) Architecture Governance
10 10 (8.06%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.06%) DevOps
11 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (6.45%) Active Directory
12 8 (6.45%) Business Strategy
12 8 (6.45%) ICAEW
12 8 (6.45%) Microservices
12 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (6.45%) Power Platform
12 8 (6.45%) ServiceNow
13 7 (5.65%) Architectural Design

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.61%) CMS
3 2 (1.61%) JBoss
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.61%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) PTC Creo
1 2 (1.61%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (2.42%) Infor M3
2 3 (2.42%) Lawson
2 3 (2.42%) Movex
2 3 (2.42%) SAP HR
2 3 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.16%) Azure
2 11 (8.87%) AWS
3 9 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.84%) SaaS
5 6 (4.84%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (2.42%) GCP
6 3 (2.42%) IaaS
6 3 (2.42%) PaaS
7 2 (1.61%) Boomi
7 2 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.81%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) Firewall
1 2 (1.61%) RFID
2 1 (0.81%) LAN
2 1 (0.81%) VLAN
2 1 (0.81%) WAN
2 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.42%) JIRA
General
1 33 (26.61%) Finance
2 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Aerospace
4 9 (7.26%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.65%) Retail
6 6 (4.84%) Aviation
6 6 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.03%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.23%) Italian Language
8 4 (3.23%) Japanese Language
8 4 (3.23%) Marketing
9 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Automotive
11 1 (0.81%) Cyber-Physical System
11 1 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.03%) .NET
1 5 (4.03%) LDAP
2 4 (3.23%) Middleware
3 3 (2.42%) Web Services
4 2 (1.61%) Kafka
4 2 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.81%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.81%) CSS
5 1 (0.81%) JDBC
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.23%) PKI
5 3 (2.42%) Mashup
5 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) Social Media
6 2 (1.61%) Contactless
6 2 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.81%) CMDB
7 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) GNSS
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Lidar
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.65%) Windows
2 5 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.61%) Linux
4 1 (0.81%) macOS
4 1 (0.81%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
2 17 (13.71%) Agile
2 17 (13.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 16 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
5 13 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (10.48%) Translating Business Requirements
6 12 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (9.68%) IT Strategy
6 12 (9.68%) Technology Strategy
7 11 (8.87%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.06%) Architecture Governance
8 10 (8.06%) Data Modelling
8 10 (8.06%) DevOps
9 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (6.45%) Business Strategy
10 8 (6.45%) Microservices
11 7 (5.65%) Architectural Design
11 7 (5.65%) ERP
11 7 (5.65%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.61%) Java
3 1 (0.81%) C#
3 1 (0.81%) C++
3 1 (0.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.45%) ICAEW
5 6 (4.84%) Degree
6 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.61%) MCAD
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.81%) HND
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) PhD
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.42%) NIST
2 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.61%) WCAG
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.84%) SAP
4 5 (4.03%) Aruba
4 5 (4.03%) EMC
4 5 (4.03%) Juniper
4 5 (4.03%) Thales
4 5 (4.03%) VMware
5 3 (2.42%) Infor
5 3 (2.42%) Intentia
5 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.61%) Adobe
6 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle
6 2 (1.61%) PTC
6 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.61%) Sparx
6 2 (1.61%) Workday
7 1 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central