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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 216 91
Rank change year-on-year -4 -125 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 123 75 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.84% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.94% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 93 30 122
10th Percentile £67,750 £63,625 £61,025
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £98,750 £77,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £89,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.71% +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 17,632 8,021 12,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.55% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,514 4,438 7,342
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +2 55 £85,000 +30.77% 76
Hampshire -27 28 £100,000 +33.33% 34
Berkshire -4 25 £92,500 +42.31% 65
Surrey -8 25 £80,000 -11.11% 32
Buckinghamshire +13 15 £83,750 +28.85% 8
Oxfordshire -23 15 £85,000 +30.77% 3
West Sussex -13 7 £87,500 +12.90% 16
Home Counties - 1 £95,000 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 (24.39%) Azure
2 28 (22.76%) Security Cleared
3 24 (19.51%) SC Cleared
4 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
5 19 (15.45%) Agile
6 17 (13.82%) Enterprise Architecture
7 16 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (11.38%) DV Cleared
8 14 (11.38%) Roadmaps
9 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (9.76%) AWS
10 12 (9.76%) CI/CD
10 12 (9.76%) DevOps
10 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (8.94%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.13%) Microservices
13 9 (7.32%) Architecture Governance
13 9 (7.32%) ICAEW
13 9 (7.32%) IT Strategy
13 9 (7.32%) Presales
13 9 (7.32%) Project Delivery
13 9 (7.32%) Technology Strategy
14 8 (6.50%) Data Modelling
14 8 (6.50%) Power Platform
14 8 (6.50%) SaaS
14 8 (6.50%) VMware
15 7 (5.69%) .NET

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 5 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.44%) CMS
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) PTC Creo
1 2 (1.63%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.44%) Infor M3
2 3 (2.44%) Lawson
2 3 (2.44%) Movex
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (1.63%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.39%) Azure
2 12 (9.76%) AWS
3 11 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.50%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.50%) SaaS
5 7 (5.69%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.07%) Mimecast
7 5 (4.07%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.44%) GCP
8 3 (2.44%) IaaS
8 3 (2.44%) PaaS
9 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.63%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.81%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.88%) Firewall
2 3 (2.44%) Network Security
2 3 (2.44%) RFID
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) VLAN
3 1 (0.81%) VSAN
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
3 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.63%) JIRA
General
1 31 (25.20%) Finance
2 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.57%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.88%) Aerospace
4 6 (4.88%) Aviation
5 5 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.07%) Retail
6 4 (3.25%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.44%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.44%) Japanese Language
7 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) Front Office
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.69%) .NET
2 4 (3.25%) LDAP
3 3 (2.44%) Web Services
4 2 (1.63%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.63%) Middleware
5 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.81%) CSS
5 1 (0.81%) JDBC
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth
5 1 (0.81%) OpenID
5 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.13%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.07%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.07%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (2.44%) Contactless
5 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Mashup
5 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.44%) PKI
5 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Social Media
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.81%) CMDB
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Windows
2 6 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.45%) Agile
2 17 (13.82%) Enterprise Architecture
3 16 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
4 14 (11.38%) Roadmaps
5 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (9.76%) CI/CD
6 12 (9.76%) DevOps
6 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (8.94%) Translating Business Requirements
8 10 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (8.13%) Microservices
9 9 (7.32%) Architecture Governance
9 9 (7.32%) IT Strategy
9 9 (7.32%) Presales
9 9 (7.32%) Project Delivery
9 9 (7.32%) Technology Strategy
10 8 (6.50%) Data Modelling
11 7 (5.69%) ERP
11 7 (5.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.63%) C#
2 2 (1.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.32%) ICAEW
5 5 (4.07%) Degree
6 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.63%) MCAD
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
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
8 1 (0.81%) VCAP
8 1 (0.81%) VCDX
8 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.44%) NIST
1 3 (2.44%) WCAG
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.44%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.81%) vCloud
5 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.63%) vRealize
3 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) VMware
3 5 (4.07%) Barracuda Networks
3 5 (4.07%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.07%) N-able
3 5 (4.07%) SAP
3 5 (4.07%) Sophos
4 4 (3.25%) Aruba
4 4 (3.25%) Juniper
4 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.44%) Adobe
5 3 (2.44%) Cisco
5 3 (2.44%) Infor
5 3 (2.44%) Intentia
5 3 (2.44%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.44%) Sparx
6 2 (1.63%) EMC
6 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.63%) Thales