Solutions Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 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 199 171 156
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 412 578 696
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.61% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.73% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 243 348 508
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,875 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,462
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +1 111 £75,000 +7.14% 41
South East -21 109 £85,000 +8.97% 66
Midlands +5 91 £75,000 - 21
North West +18 72 £75,000 +19.26% 24
West Midlands +17 64 £77,500 -3.13% 8
South West -20 39 £77,250 +10.36% 23
East of England +30 30 £90,000 +20.00% 23
East Midlands -23 27 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Scotland -34 21 £87,500 +9.38% 8
North East +15 20 £75,000 +19.47% 5
Yorkshire -39 19 £82,500 +4.48% 13
Northern Ireland -5 9 £52,000 -35.00% 1
Wales +5 7 £80,000 +18.85% 4
Solutions Architect
UK

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 92 (22.33%) Azure
2 75 (18.20%) Project Management
3 72 (17.48%) Enterprise Architecture
4 69 (16.75%) Roadmaps
5 65 (15.78%) SAP
6 64 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (14.08%) Business Strategy
8 57 (13.83%) AI
9 56 (13.59%) TOGAF
10 54 (13.11%) Agile
10 54 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (13.11%) Security Cleared
11 50 (12.14%) AWS
12 46 (11.17%) Analytics
13 43 (10.44%) SAP S/4HANA
14 42 (10.19%) SaaS
15 41 (9.95%) DevOps
15 41 (9.95%) Risk Management
15 41 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 40 (9.71%) Project Delivery
17 37 (8.98%) Indirect Procurement
17 37 (8.98%) Microsoft
17 37 (8.98%) OpenText
17 37 (8.98%) OpenText VIM for SAP
17 37 (8.98%) SAP MDG
17 37 (8.98%) Source to Pay
18 36 (8.74%) ERP
18 36 (8.74%) SC Cleared
18 36 (8.74%) Strategic Thinking
19 35 (8.50%) Business Development

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (2.43%) Confluence
2 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.49%) CMS
5 2 (0.49%) JBoss
5 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 43 (10.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (8.98%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 37 (8.98%) SAP MDG
3 10 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.73%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Maximo
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 92 (22.33%) Azure
2 50 (12.14%) AWS
3 42 (10.19%) SaaS
4 22 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (4.85%) GCP
5 20 (4.85%) PaaS
6 18 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.13%) IaaS
8 13 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (2.43%) GitHub
9 10 (2.43%) Serverless
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon Bedrock
10 9 (2.18%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.94%) OCI
12 4 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.97%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.73%) Azure AKS
13 3 (0.73%) Boomi
13 3 (0.73%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.46%) Firewall
2 5 (1.21%) Broadband
2 5 (1.21%) SAN
3 3 (0.73%) Network Security
3 3 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.49%) VLAN
4 2 (0.49%) VoIP
5 1 (0.24%) 5G
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) LAN
5 1 (0.24%) MIMO
5 1 (0.24%) MPLS
5 1 (0.24%) NAS
5 1 (0.24%) NGN
5 1 (0.24%) OSPF
5 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.49%) GIS
2 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (0.49%) Power BI
3 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.24%) Big Data
3 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (2.43%) JIRA
2 7 (1.70%) GitLab
3 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 146 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (17.72%) Finance
4 60 (14.56%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (5.10%) Marketing
7 15 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.67%) Law
9 9 (2.18%) Banking
10 7 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.21%) Games
12 5 (1.21%) Legal
13 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Back Office
15 2 (0.49%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.49%) Military
15 2 (0.49%) Retail
15 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.18%) Kafka
2 8 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.94%) REST
3 7 (1.70%) .NET
3 7 (1.70%) SOAP
4 5 (1.21%) Middleware
5 4 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (0.97%) React
5 4 (0.97%) Visualforce
6 3 (0.73%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.73%) Apollo GraphQL
6 3 (0.73%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.73%) Node.js
7 2 (0.49%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.49%) Spring
7 2 (0.49%) Struts
7 2 (0.49%) Web Services
7 2 (0.49%) XML
8 1 (0.24%) RESTful
8 1 (0.24%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.83%) Virtual Team
4 12 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.18%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.94%) IoT
7 8 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.49%) DataPower
10 2 (0.49%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.24%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.24%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.24%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.46%) Windows
2 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (18.20%) Project Management
2 72 (17.48%) Enterprise Architecture
3 69 (16.75%) Roadmaps
4 64 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (14.08%) Business Strategy
6 57 (13.83%) AI
7 56 (13.59%) TOGAF
8 54 (13.11%) Agile
8 54 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (11.17%) Analytics
10 41 (9.95%) DevOps
10 41 (9.95%) Risk Management
10 41 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (9.71%) Project Delivery
12 37 (8.98%) Indirect Procurement
12 37 (8.98%) Source to Pay
13 36 (8.74%) ERP
13 36 (8.74%) Strategic Thinking
14 35 (8.50%) Business Development
14 35 (8.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.64%) Python
2 10 (2.43%) C#
2 10 (2.43%) SQL
3 8 (1.94%) Bicep
3 8 (1.94%) Java
4 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
4 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.97%) SOQL
4 4 (0.97%) SOSL
5 3 (0.73%) PHP
5 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.49%) Go
7 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 54 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.07%) Degree
4 18 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (2.18%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.73%) CCNA
13 2 (0.49%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.24%) CCSP
14 1 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.18%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Def Stans
2 2 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (2.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (2.43%) Kubernetes
1 10 (2.43%) Terraform
2 9 (2.18%) Netcool
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
3 2 (0.49%) vRealize
4 1 (0.24%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (15.78%) SAP
2 37 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.98%) OpenText
3 16 (3.88%) Oracle
4 10 (2.43%) BiZZdesign
4 10 (2.43%) VMware
5 9 (2.18%) Siemens
6 7 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.46%) Informatica
7 6 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.21%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.97%) IBM
9 4 (0.97%) Splunk
10 3 (0.73%) Adobe
10 3 (0.73%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco
11 2 (0.49%) Databricks
11 2 (0.49%) Google
11 2 (0.49%) Pega
11 2 (0.49%) SonicWALL