Solutions Architect Job Trends in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect salary in the South East is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 125 146
Rank change year-on-year -93 +21 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 72 245 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.80% 2.12% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 2.19% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 25 113 83
10th Percentile - £61,050 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% -5.45% +3.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £100,000 £93,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,060 11,167 7,821
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 96.43% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,525 6,317 5,516
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% -1.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 -44 56 £65,000 -10.34% 43
Berkshire -16 42 £65,000 -13.33% 35
Oxfordshire +18 9 £65,000 -9.09% 2
Hampshire -17 7 £75,000 -6.25% 27
East Sussex +1 5 - - 4
Buckinghamshire -36 5 £70,000 +1.08% 8
Surrey +6 3 £90,000 +28.57% 5
West Sussex -12 1 £127,185 +81.69% 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 40 (55.56%) SAP
2 39 (54.17%) Risk Management
3 38 (52.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (51.39%) Business Strategy
4 37 (51.39%) Indirect Procurement
4 37 (51.39%) OpenText
4 37 (51.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 37 (51.39%) Project Management
4 37 (51.39%) SAP MDG
4 37 (51.39%) Source to Pay
5 10 (13.89%) CMS
6 9 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (11.11%) C#
7 8 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 8 (11.11%) Presales
8 7 (9.72%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.33%) Agile
9 6 (8.33%) Azure
10 5 (6.94%) Architectural Design
11 3 (4.17%) Analytics
11 3 (4.17%) Data Governance
11 3 (4.17%) Docker
11 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Architecture
11 3 (4.17%) ERP
11 3 (4.17%) Mentoring
11 3 (4.17%) PaaS
11 3 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (4.17%) Regulatory Compliance
11 3 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (4.17%) Technical Architecture

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 10 (13.89%) CMS
Business Applications
1 38 (52.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (51.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 37 (51.39%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.39%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.39%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.39%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.39%) SAP IBP
3 1 (1.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) Azure
2 3 (4.17%) PaaS
3 2 (2.78%) AWS
3 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.78%) iPaaS
3 2 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.39%) CloudFront
4 1 (1.39%) Datadog
4 1 (1.39%) GitHub
4 1 (1.39%) IaaS
4 1 (1.39%) Serverless
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) 5G
1 1 (1.39%) MIMO
1 1 (1.39%) NGN
1 1 (1.39%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
General
1 43 (59.72%) Social Skills
2 41 (56.94%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.17%) Finance
3 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Legal
4 2 (2.78%) Marketing
4 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Billing
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Retail
5 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.39%) IoT
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.17%) Risk Management
2 37 (51.39%) Business Strategy
2 37 (51.39%) Indirect Procurement
2 37 (51.39%) Project Management
2 37 (51.39%) Source to Pay
3 9 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 8 (11.11%) Presales
5 7 (9.72%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.33%) Agile
7 5 (6.94%) Architectural Design
8 3 (4.17%) Analytics
8 3 (4.17%) Data Governance
8 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (4.17%) ERP
8 3 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (4.17%) Regulatory Compliance
8 3 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (4.17%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (4.17%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (1.39%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Netcool
1 1 (1.39%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (55.56%) SAP
2 37 (51.39%) OpenText
3 1 (1.39%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.39%) IBM
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.39%) Pega
3 1 (1.39%) Peregrine
3 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.39%) UiPath