Solutions Architect Jobs

Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 112 123
Rank change year-on-year -106 +11 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 842 2,393 2,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.50% 2.40% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.53% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 532 1,381 1,565
10th Percentile £59,168 £56,809 £63,631
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £71,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,875 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -0.70% -6.45% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,837 94,491 90,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.69% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,317 67,546 57,366
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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
England -99 758 £75,000 -6.25% 630
UK excluding London -93 456 £71,991 -0.70% 358
London -57 335 £90,000 -2.70% 345
Work from Home -149 264 £85,000 +6.25% 325
North of England -45 232 £60,000 -20.00% 70
North West -36 177 £60,000 -14.29% 38
Midlands -90 62 £75,000 +15.38% 64
South East -111 57 £77,500 - 154
Yorkshire -41 44 £81,250 +4.84% 30
Scotland +64 36 £89,069 +22.85% 10
South West -7 34 £71,991 +2.84% 43
West Midlands -62 31 £87,375 +12.74% 34
East Midlands -46 30 £67,500 +12.50% 25
East of England +44 26 £66,200 -33.80% 20
North East +19 11 £65,000 -17.79% 2
Wales +25 5 £67,122 +49.16% 5
Northern Ireland +27 4 £87,500 -2.78% 3

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Solutions Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 247 (29.33%) Roadmaps
2 245 (29.10%) Azure
3 241 (28.62%) Agile
4 209 (24.82%) Social Skills
5 187 (22.21%) Finance
6 183 (21.73%) TOGAF
7 166 (19.71%) Microsoft
8 157 (18.65%) Enterprise Architecture
9 156 (18.53%) AWS
10 139 (16.51%) CAD
11 137 (16.27%) ERP
12 136 (16.15%) Manufacturing
13 130 (15.44%) Business Strategy
14 129 (15.32%) Microservices
15 125 (14.85%) GCP
16 124 (14.73%) Degree
17 116 (13.78%) PLM
18 113 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 113 (13.42%) BPSS Clearance
19 105 (12.47%) SAP
20 99 (11.76%) Analytics
21 98 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
22 97 (11.52%) Security Cleared
23 92 (10.93%) SaaS
23 92 (10.93%) Banking
23 92 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
24 91 (10.81%) DevOps
25 76 (9.03%) SC Cleared
26 73 (8.67%) Computer Science
27 71 (8.43%) Business Analysis

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (7.36%) Confluence
2 12 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.31%) Umbraco
4 10 (1.19%) OpenEdge
5 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.59%) CMS
6 5 (0.59%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.36%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.24%) Windchill
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.19%) Postilion
4 6 (0.71%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.48%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.24%) Magento
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) Odoo
8 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 245 (29.10%) Azure
2 156 (18.53%) AWS
3 125 (14.85%) GCP
4 92 (10.93%) SaaS
5 59 (7.01%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (5.23%) Power Platform
7 33 (3.92%) PaaS
8 27 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
10 24 (2.85%) Serverless
11 21 (2.49%) IaaS
12 17 (2.02%) Entra ID
12 17 (2.02%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.66%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.54%) Azure AI
15 12 (1.43%) GitHub
15 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (1.43%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.87%) Firewall
2 30 (3.56%) LAN
3 28 (3.33%) WAN
4 13 (1.54%) DNS
5 10 (1.19%) ATM
6 7 (0.83%) DHCP
6 7 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.36%) VPN
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) FCoE
8 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.24%) Internet
8 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.24%) Multicast
8 2 (0.24%) NAS
8 2 (0.24%) SAN
8 2 (0.24%) Wireless
9 1 (0.12%) 4G
9 1 (0.12%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.46%) NoSQL
2 27 (3.21%) Data Lake
3 24 (2.85%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (2.14%) Big Data
5 18 (2.14%) BigQuery
6 12 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (1.43%) Power BI
7 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.48%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (0.48%) Data Vault
9 4 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.48%) GIS
9 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.36%) MySQL
10 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 70 (8.31%) JIRA
2 6 (0.71%) Git
3 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.12%) ERwin
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 209 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 187 (22.21%) Finance
3 136 (16.15%) Manufacturing
4 92 (10.93%) Banking
5 54 (6.41%) Law
6 45 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 44 (5.23%) Public Sector
7 44 (5.23%) Retail
8 42 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.97%) Marketing
11 23 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.90%) Legal
13 13 (1.54%) Electronics
14 12 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.95%) Retail Banking
16 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.59%) Advertising
17 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.44%) React
2 27 (3.21%) .NET
3 24 (2.85%) REST
4 17 (2.02%) RESTful
5 15 (1.78%) CSS
6 12 (1.43%) SAML
7 11 (1.31%) Ajax
7 11 (1.31%) jQuery
7 11 (1.31%) OAuth
7 11 (1.31%) OpenID
7 11 (1.31%) React Native
8 10 (1.19%) Kafka
8 10 (1.19%) Middleware
9 9 (1.07%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.83%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.83%) JSON
10 7 (0.83%) Spring
11 6 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.71%) SOAP
12 5 (0.59%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 45 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.43%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.19%) IBM Mainframe
9 10 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.95%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.95%) DataPower
11 8 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (0.95%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.95%) Operational Technology
12 7 (0.83%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.71%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.19%) Linux
1 10 (1.19%) zOS
2 7 (0.83%) Windows
3 6 (0.71%) Android
3 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.24%) Solaris
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (29.33%) Roadmaps
2 241 (28.62%) Agile
3 183 (21.73%) TOGAF
4 157 (18.65%) Enterprise Architecture
5 139 (16.51%) CAD
6 137 (16.27%) ERP
7 130 (15.44%) Business Strategy
8 129 (15.32%) Microservices
9 116 (13.78%) PLM
10 113 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 99 (11.76%) Analytics
12 98 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
13 92 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
14 91 (10.81%) DevOps
15 73 (8.67%) Computer Science
16 71 (8.43%) Business Analysis
16 71 (8.43%) Customer Requirements
16 71 (8.43%) Strategic Roadmap
17 67 (7.96%) Containerisation
17 67 (7.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (7.84%) SQL
2 59 (7.01%) Python
3 51 (6.06%) Java
4 41 (4.87%) C#
5 35 (4.16%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.66%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.83%) R
7 7 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.59%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.36%) ABAP
9 3 (0.36%) Bash
9 3 (0.36%) C
9 3 (0.36%) Scala
10 2 (0.24%) Bicep
10 2 (0.24%) X++
11 1 (0.12%) C++
11 1 (0.12%) COBOL
11 1 (0.12%) Go
11 1 (0.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (14.73%) Degree
2 113 (13.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 97 (11.52%) Security Cleared
4 76 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 63 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (6.65%) TOGAF Certification
7 43 (5.11%) Azure Certification
8 41 (4.87%) AWS Certification
9 27 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.85%) CCNA
10 24 (2.85%) JNCIA
11 21 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.71%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.48%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.36%) CCSP
15 3 (0.36%) CISSP
16 2 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
17 1 (0.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.63%) GDPR
2 20 (2.38%) NIST
3 14 (1.66%) QA
4 13 (1.54%) SLA
5 11 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.07%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.59%) Basel II
9 5 (0.59%) Basel III
9 5 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
9 5 (0.59%) IFRS
9 5 (0.59%) IFRS 9
9 5 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.48%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 54 (6.41%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
5 2 (0.24%) NFS
5 2 (0.24%) SRDF
5 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.24%) Xen
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (1.78%) Terraform
4 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.83%) SCCM
5 6 (0.71%) Ansible
6 5 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 166 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 105 (12.47%) SAP
3 68 (8.08%) Google
4 58 (6.89%) Siemens
5 42 (4.99%) ServiceNow
6 32 (3.80%) Salesforce
7 31 (3.68%) Oracle
8 29 (3.44%) IBM
9 27 (3.21%) Cisco
10 25 (2.97%) Aruba
11 24 (2.85%) Fortinet
11 24 (2.85%) Juniper
12 22 (2.61%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.78%) Databricks
13 15 (1.78%) Workday
14 11 (1.31%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.95%) VMware
16 6 (0.71%) Apple
16 6 (0.71%) PayPal
16 6 (0.71%) Zoho