Lead Solutions Architect Job Trends

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 January 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 656 663
Rank change year-on-year +84 +7 +231
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 75 52 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.096% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 35 47 39
10th Percentile £65,000 £81,323 £68,700
25th Percentile £74,509 £84,375 £84,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £125,500 £123,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,535 £92,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year -17.90% +20.66% -10.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 54,184 50,447 51,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 92.94% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33,461 26,369 39,567
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Lead Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +91 69 £85,000 -10.53% 19
London +60 35 £100,000 +5.26% 8
UK excluding London +69 34 £75,535 -17.90% 12
Midlands +26 13 £65,000 -23.53% 7
North of England +16 12 £97,500 +5.98% 1
Work from Home +48 11 £102,500 +7.89% 10
North West +35 11 £95,000 +35.71% 1
East Midlands - 11 £65,000 - 6
South East +29 6 £75,535 - 1
West Midlands +22 2 £87,500 +2.94% 1
Wales - 2 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -19 1 £100,000 +7.16%
South West - 1 £80,000 - 1

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 January 2026, Lead 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 featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 29 (38.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 28 (37.33%) Azure
3 25 (33.33%) AWS
4 23 (30.67%) Microservices
5 21 (28.00%) Agile
6 20 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 20 (26.67%) Business Strategy
7 18 (24.00%) Data Architecture
7 18 (24.00%) DevOps
8 17 (22.67%) Roadmaps
9 15 (20.00%) AI
9 15 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 14 (18.67%) Event-Driven
10 14 (18.67%) SAP
10 14 (18.67%) TOGAF
11 13 (17.33%) Architecture Roadmap
11 13 (17.33%) ERP
11 13 (17.33%) SaaS
12 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
12 12 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (14.67%) Customer Experience
13 11 (14.67%) Integration Patterns
13 11 (14.67%) Serverless
14 10 (13.33%) CAD
14 10 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
14 10 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
14 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (13.33%) PLM
14 10 (13.33%) React

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Abaqus
1 1 (1.33%) Siemens NX
1 1 (1.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) DELMIA
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.33%) Azure
2 25 (33.33%) AWS
3 13 (17.33%) SaaS
4 11 (14.67%) Serverless
5 7 (9.33%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (6.67%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.33%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.33%) Azure API Management
7 4 (5.33%) PaaS
8 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.00%) Kong
8 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.33%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) ERwin
General
1 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 10 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Retail
5 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Banking
6 4 (5.33%) Finance
7 3 (4.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) React
2 7 (9.33%) AngularJS
2 7 (9.33%) REST
2 7 (9.33%) Vue
3 3 (4.00%) Apollo GraphQL
3 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.00%) Kafka
3 3 (4.00%) Node.js
4 2 (2.67%) Middleware
5 1 (1.33%) RESTful
5 1 (1.33%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.67%) Low-Code
2 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (8.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) AS400
5 4 (5.33%) iSeries
6 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (1.33%) IoT
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 23 (30.67%) Microservices
3 21 (28.00%) Agile
4 20 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 20 (26.67%) Business Strategy
5 18 (24.00%) Data Architecture
5 18 (24.00%) DevOps
6 17 (22.67%) Roadmaps
7 15 (20.00%) AI
7 15 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 14 (18.67%) Event-Driven
8 14 (18.67%) TOGAF
9 13 (17.33%) Architecture Roadmap
9 13 (17.33%) ERP
10 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
10 12 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (14.67%) Customer Experience
11 11 (14.67%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
12 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.00%) Java
2 3 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 7 (9.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.33%) FFIEC
4 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.33%) PMP
4 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.33%) GRC
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) NCSC
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.33%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) MOM
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) SAP
2 10 (13.33%) Siemens
3 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) IBM
5 3 (4.00%) Adobe
5 3 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) Databricks
7 1 (1.33%) ANSYS
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) PTC
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) Splunk