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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 250 126
Rank change year-on-year +68 -124 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 133 38 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.84% 0.44% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 111 30 121
10th Percentile £70,000 - £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £73,750 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% -3.28% -10.29%
75th Percentile £93,500 £81,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £79,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.26% -0.94% -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 15,208 7,696 15,127
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.59% 89.06% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,779 4,289 10,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,854 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +58 69 £85,000 +30.77% 12
Berkshire +38 29 £90,000 +38.46% 4
Hampshire -22 27 £100,000 +33.33% 8
Oxfordshire 0 24 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Surrey +5 22 £80,000 -5.88% 4
Buckinghamshire +6 16 £85,000 +61.90% 6
Kent -16 4 £75,000 -25.00% 4
East Sussex -17 2 £95,000 -
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 20 July 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 31 (23.31%) Azure
2 24 (18.05%) Agile
3 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
4 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
5 18 (13.53%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (13.53%) Presales
5 18 (13.53%) SC Cleared
5 18 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (11.28%) AWS
8 14 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 13 (9.77%) DevOps
9 13 (9.77%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (9.02%) DV Cleared
11 11 (8.27%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.77%) Degree
12 9 (6.77%) ICAEW
12 9 (6.77%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (6.77%) Scrum
12 9 (6.77%) VMware
13 8 (6.02%) .NET
13 8 (6.02%) Containerisation
13 8 (6.02%) Customer Requirements
13 8 (6.02%) Firewall
13 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (6.02%) Microservices
13 8 (6.02%) Migration
13 8 (6.02%) Roadmaps

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 (3.01%) CMS
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.01%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) PTC Creo
1 2 (1.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.01%) Oracle Retail
1 4 (3.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.50%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.31%) Azure
2 15 (11.28%) AWS
3 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.26%) Mimecast
5 6 (4.51%) SaaS
6 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.01%) GCP
6 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.26%) IaaS
7 3 (2.26%) PaaS
8 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.75%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) Firewall
2 4 (3.01%) Network Security
2 4 (3.01%) RFID
3 2 (1.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.75%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.75%) Broadband
4 1 (0.75%) Modbus
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VLAN
4 1 (0.75%) VSAN
4 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.75%) GitLab
1 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (18.05%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.29%) Finance
3 12 (9.02%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (5.26%) Aviation
5 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Marketing
5 5 (3.76%) Retail
6 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.01%) Military
7 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Front Office
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) .NET
2 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.50%) REST
3 2 (1.50%) Web Services
4 1 (0.75%) gRPC
4 1 (0.75%) Kafka
4 1 (0.75%) LDAP
4 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.75%) OAuth
4 1 (0.75%) OpenID
4 1 (0.75%) SAML
4 1 (0.75%) SOAP
4 1 (0.75%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 14 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.26%) Web Conferencing
4 6 (4.51%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.01%) Contactless
6 3 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.50%) PKI
7 2 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Windows
1 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.05%) Agile
2 18 (13.53%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (13.53%) Presales
2 18 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
3 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 14 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
4 14 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 13 (9.77%) DevOps
5 13 (9.77%) Enterprise Architecture
6 11 (8.27%) Project Delivery
7 9 (6.77%) Integration Patterns
7 9 (6.77%) Scrum
8 8 (6.02%) Containerisation
8 8 (6.02%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (6.02%) Microservices
8 8 (6.02%) Migration
8 8 (6.02%) Roadmaps
8 8 (6.02%) TOGAF
9 7 (5.26%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.26%) C#
2 2 (1.50%) Java
3 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.75%) Python
3 1 (0.75%) SOQL
3 1 (0.75%) SOSL
3 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.02%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) Degree
4 9 (6.77%) ICAEW
5 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.50%) MCAD
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) PhD
6 1 (0.75%) VCAP
6 1 (0.75%) VCDX
6 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) WCAG
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.26%) NIST
4 2 (1.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.01%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.75%) Docker
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) vCloud
4 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.26%) vRealize
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) Netcool
3 1 (0.75%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) VMware
3 7 (5.26%) Barracuda Networks
3 7 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 7 (5.26%) N-able
3 7 (5.26%) Sophos
4 5 (3.76%) Sparx
5 4 (3.01%) Cisco
5 4 (3.01%) Oracle
5 4 (3.01%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.26%) Adobe
6 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) Pega
7 2 (1.50%) PTC
7 2 (1.50%) SAP
7 2 (1.50%) UiPath
8 1 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.75%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Splunk