Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 223 119
Rank change year-on-year +106 -104 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,489 683 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.61% 1.54% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.73% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 996 410 1,439
10th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £73,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £74,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +1.18% -6.33%

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 87,000 39,565 98,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.42% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 58,806 22,312 71,677
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -6.54%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 June 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 +95 1,278 £82,500 +6.45% 702
UK excluding London +89 683 £75,000 +0.17% 360
London +64 621 £95,000 +5.56% 365
Work from Home +114 446 £82,500 - 337
North of England +35 202 £79,250 +13.21% 108
South West +31 124 £75,000 +4.18% 54
North West +35 123 £82,500 +37.50% 72
South East +60 119 £85,000 +13.33% 99
Midlands +13 119 £75,000 - 33
West Midlands +25 80 £75,000 -11.76% 22
East of England +20 68 £90,000 +35.95% 27
Yorkshire -27 54 £76,997 -8.06% 30
East Midlands -17 39 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Scotland +11 37 £83,750 -11.50% 27
North East -26 25 £78,500 +20.77% 7
Wales -31 10 £40,000 -34.26% 7
Northern Ireland -31 10 £55,000 -26.67% 8

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 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 featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 328 (22.03%) Azure
2 254 (17.06%) AWS
3 214 (14.37%) AI
4 203 (13.63%) Security Cleared
5 183 (12.29%) Agile
6 176 (11.82%) Microsoft
7 169 (11.35%) Presales
8 167 (11.22%) Roadmaps
9 146 (9.81%) DevOps
10 139 (9.34%) TOGAF
11 138 (9.27%) SC Cleared
12 108 (7.25%) Enterprise Architecture
12 108 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (6.78%) Analytics
14 91 (6.11%) SaaS
15 87 (5.84%) Degree
15 87 (5.84%) Microservices
15 87 (5.84%) Migration
16 86 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
17 79 (5.31%) Integration Patterns
18 77 (5.17%) Stakeholder Management
19 73 (4.90%) Architectural Patterns
19 73 (4.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 72 (4.84%) CI/CD
20 72 (4.84%) SAP
21 70 (4.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 66 (4.43%) Event-Driven
22 66 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
23 63 (4.23%) Power Platform
24 62 (4.16%) ERP

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 13 (0.87%) Confluence
2 12 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) CMS
4 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.067%) Camunda
8 1 (0.067%) CICS
8 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.067%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.47%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.13%) Windchill
5 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.01%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.54%) Shopify
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
5 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.27%) Endur
6 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.13%) SAP Retail
9 1 (0.067%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.067%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.067%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 328 (22.03%) Azure
2 254 (17.06%) AWS
3 91 (6.11%) SaaS
4 66 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 61 (4.10%) GCP
7 42 (2.82%) PaaS
8 41 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (2.69%) Serverless
10 22 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (1.48%) IaaS
11 21 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.21%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.07%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
15 11 (0.74%) Nutanix
16 10 (0.67%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.60%) Lucidchart
18 8 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
18 8 (0.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.28%) Firewall
2 26 (1.75%) Broadband
3 23 (1.54%) WAN
4 19 (1.28%) SD-WAN
5 15 (1.01%) Network Security
6 12 (0.81%) LAN
6 12 (0.81%) VSAN
7 9 (0.60%) MPLS
8 8 (0.54%) Internet
9 7 (0.47%) VPN
10 5 (0.34%) RFID
11 4 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.20%) 3GPP
12 3 (0.20%) Modbus
12 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.20%) WLAN
13 2 (0.13%) HTTP
13 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.13%) SAN
13 2 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (0.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (0.81%) Power BI
4 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.60%) Metadata
6 8 (0.54%) GIS
6 8 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.47%) Db2
8 5 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.27%) DTS
9 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.20%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.13%) Big Data
11 2 (0.13%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.13%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.13%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 18 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 14 (0.94%) GitLab
3 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 9 (0.60%) JIRA
5 5 (0.34%) Balsamiq
5 5 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.20%) Snyk
7 2 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.067%) CircleCI
General
1 250 (16.79%) Finance
2 207 (13.90%) Social Skills
3 95 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 67 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (2.69%) Banking
7 39 (2.62%) Retail
8 36 (2.42%) Marketing
9 33 (2.22%) Law
10 31 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.81%) Legal
12 20 (1.34%) Back Office
13 15 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.81%) Games
16 10 (0.67%) Aviation
16 10 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.54%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.96%) .NET
2 34 (2.28%) Middleware
3 29 (1.95%) REST
4 20 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (1.07%) Node.js
6 14 (0.94%) SOAP
7 13 (0.87%) Kafka
7 13 (0.87%) RESTful
8 12 (0.81%) React
9 10 (0.67%) Visualforce
10 7 (0.47%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.47%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (0.47%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.47%) Spring Boot
10 7 (0.47%) Swagger
11 6 (0.40%) OAuth
11 6 (0.40%) OpenID
11 6 (0.40%) SAML
11 6 (0.40%) Spring
11 6 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 35 (2.35%) Data Centre
2 35 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (1.68%) Virtual Team
5 23 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 21 (1.41%) Cyberattack
7 15 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (0.87%) Operational Technology
9 11 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 10 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.54%) IoT
11 8 (0.54%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.54%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (0.47%) Driving Licence
12 7 (0.47%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.47%) Reinsurance
13 6 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.21%) Windows
2 7 (0.47%) Linux
2 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.067%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (14.37%) AI
2 183 (12.29%) Agile
3 169 (11.35%) Presales
4 167 (11.22%) Roadmaps
5 146 (9.81%) DevOps
6 139 (9.34%) TOGAF
7 108 (7.25%) Enterprise Architecture
7 108 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (6.78%) Analytics
9 87 (5.84%) Microservices
9 87 (5.84%) Migration
10 86 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
11 79 (5.31%) Integration Patterns
12 77 (5.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 73 (4.90%) Architectural Patterns
13 73 (4.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 72 (4.84%) CI/CD
15 70 (4.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 66 (4.43%) Event-Driven
17 62 (4.16%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 56 (3.76%) Python
2 45 (3.02%) C#
3 37 (2.48%) SQL
4 31 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 20 (1.34%) Java
6 10 (0.67%) Apex Code
6 10 (0.67%) SOQL
6 10 (0.67%) SOSL
7 8 (0.54%) Bicep
8 6 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.27%) RPG
9 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.13%) COBOL
10 2 (0.13%) Scala
11 1 (0.067%) Bash
11 1 (0.067%) JCL
11 1 (0.067%) PHP
11 1 (0.067%) R
11 1 (0.067%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 203 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 138 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 87 (5.84%) Degree
4 39 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 30 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (0.81%) CCNP
12 10 (0.67%) VCAP
12 10 (0.67%) VCDX
13 9 (0.60%) CISSP
13 9 (0.60%) ICAEW
14 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.47%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.47%) CCIE
16 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (1.95%) NIST
2 25 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.67%) GRC
5 9 (0.60%) GDPR
6 8 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.54%) QA
7 6 (0.40%) NCSC
8 5 (0.34%) PMO
9 4 (0.27%) WCAG
10 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.067%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.067%) GxP
11 1 (0.067%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.067%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.067%) PERC
11 1 (0.067%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.07%) VMware NSX
3 12 (0.81%) Docker
4 10 (0.67%) vSphere
5 7 (0.47%) vCloud
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.48%) Terraform
3 16 (1.07%) Ansible
4 6 (0.40%) Netcool
5 4 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.27%) vRealize
6 3 (0.20%) Grafana
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.20%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.067%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.067%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.067%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 176 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.84%) SAP
3 34 (2.28%) Salesforce
4 31 (2.08%) Oracle
4 31 (2.08%) VMware
5 28 (1.88%) Dell
6 27 (1.81%) Cisco
7 15 (1.01%) Databricks
8 14 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 13 (0.87%) Broadcom
9 13 (0.87%) Google
10 12 (0.81%) Juniper
10 12 (0.81%) Splunk
11 11 (0.74%) Ariba
11 11 (0.74%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.67%) NetApp
13 9 (0.60%) IBM
13 9 (0.60%) Meraki
14 8 (0.54%) Siemens
15 7 (0.47%) Sophos