Solutions Designer Job Trends

Solution Designer
UK

The median Solution Designer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 622 677 698
Rank change year-on-year +55 +21 +263
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 21 27 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.049% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.052% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 5
10th Percentile £59,250 - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £90,100 £110,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,549 - £76,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.88%

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 53,945 51,888 49,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 93.39% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 33,290 27,533 38,048
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,598 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Solutions Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Solutions Designer job vacancy trend in the UK

Solutions Designer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Designer job vacancies in the UK

Solutions Designer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Designer over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 December 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 +69 17 £75,000 +7.14% 6
London +75 12 £87,750 -20.23%
UK excluding London +38 9 £62,500 +4.17% 6
West Midlands +29 4 £62,500 -
Midlands +19 4 £62,500 -
Work from Home +66 3 £57,500 -47.73% 3
North of England +18 2 £69,700 +21.22% 2
Scotland - 2 - -
South East +24 1 £87,500 +34.61% 1
Yorkshire -10 1 £57,500 - 2
North West - 1 £81,900 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Solutions Designer 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 Designer in the job title.

1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) CISM
2 11 (52.38%) CISSP
2 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (52.38%) Design Patterns
2 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (52.38%) Security Architecture
2 11 (52.38%) Zero Trust
3 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Boomi
4 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
4 5 (23.81%) Informatica
4 5 (23.81%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (23.81%) MuleSoft
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow
6 2 (9.52%) ITIL
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Prototyping
6 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
6 2 (9.52%) Systems Analysis

Solutions Designer 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 3 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Boomi
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
General
1 17 (80.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Finance
3 11 (52.38%) Banking
3 11 (52.38%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (52.38%) Legal
3 11 (52.38%) Retail
4 5 (23.81%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (52.38%) Design Patterns
1 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Architecture
1 11 (52.38%) Security Architecture
1 11 (52.38%) Zero Trust
2 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Workflow
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL
5 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Prototyping
5 2 (9.52%) SDLC
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) UML
5 2 (9.52%) User Experience
5 2 (9.52%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) CISM
1 11 (52.38%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) IIBA
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Informatica
1 5 (23.81%) MuleSoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce