Hybrid/Remote Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 254 85
Rank change year-on-year +141 -169 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 575 180 745
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.31% 1.07% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 1.15% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 413 103 346
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £71,085 £67,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £89,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.29% +6.25% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 23,349 15,648 21,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 92.99% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16,180 8,788 13,430
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Solutions Architect job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Solutions Architect job vacancies

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Solutions Architect salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 155 (26.96%) Azure
2 113 (19.65%) Presales
3 108 (18.78%) Microsoft
4 107 (18.61%) Security Cleared
5 99 (17.22%) AI
6 91 (15.83%) Roadmaps
7 85 (14.78%) SC Cleared
8 76 (13.22%) AWS
9 75 (13.04%) Agile
10 70 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
11 61 (10.61%) Migration
12 59 (10.26%) Technical Architecture
13 57 (9.91%) SaaS
14 56 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (9.39%) DevOps
16 51 (8.87%) TOGAF
17 50 (8.70%) Business Development
17 50 (8.70%) ERP
18 49 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 48 (8.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 48 (8.35%) Translating Business Requirements
20 44 (7.65%) Analytics
21 42 (7.30%) Dynamics 365
22 41 (7.13%) Integration Patterns
23 37 (6.43%) Mentoring
24 36 (6.26%) Software Engineering
25 35 (6.09%) Enterprise Architecture
25 35 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
26 34 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
27 33 (5.74%) Customer Engagement

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.17%) Apache
3 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.17%) Appian
3 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.17%) CMS
3 1 (0.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.17%) JBoss
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 10 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 155 (26.96%) Azure
2 76 (13.22%) AWS
3 57 (9.91%) SaaS
4 42 (7.30%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (5.57%) GCP
6 25 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 21 (3.65%) PaaS
8 17 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.43%) Serverless
10 13 (2.26%) dbt
11 9 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.39%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.39%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.39%) OCI
12 8 (1.39%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.39%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.87%) Azure API Management
14 5 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (0.87%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.26%) Firewall
2 10 (1.74%) Network Security
2 10 (1.74%) VSAN
3 9 (1.57%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.57%) WAN
4 7 (1.22%) Broadband
4 7 (1.22%) Unified Communications
5 6 (1.04%) MPLS
6 4 (0.70%) LAN
7 3 (0.52%) SDH
7 3 (0.52%) VPN
7 3 (0.52%) WLAN
8 2 (0.35%) DNS
8 2 (0.35%) Wireless
9 1 (0.17%) DHCP
9 1 (0.17%) Internet
9 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.17%) SSL
9 1 (0.17%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.04%) Data Lake
1 6 (1.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
2 5 (0.87%) MySQL
3 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 4 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.52%) Metadata
5 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.17%) Big Data
6 1 (0.17%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.17%) GIS
6 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Power BI
6 1 (0.17%) QGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.87%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (0.52%) Snyk
4 2 (0.35%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) JIRA
General
1 155 (26.96%) Finance
2 119 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (4.87%) Law
5 28 (4.87%) Retail
6 27 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (4.35%) Banking
8 17 (2.96%) Back Office
8 17 (2.96%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.22%) Advertising
10 7 (1.22%) French Language
10 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.04%) Legal
11 6 (1.04%) Marketing
12 5 (0.87%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.52%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.52%) RESTful
2 19 (3.30%) OpenAPI
2 19 (3.30%) Swagger
3 15 (2.61%) Middleware
4 13 (2.26%) .NET
5 10 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (1.39%) Terraform
7 6 (1.04%) REST
8 4 (0.70%) Node.js
8 4 (0.70%) SOAP
9 3 (0.52%) XML
10 2 (0.35%) GeoJSON
10 2 (0.35%) JSON
10 2 (0.35%) Kafka
10 2 (0.35%) LDAP
10 2 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.35%) Web Services
10 2 (0.35%) XBRL
11 1 (0.17%) LangChain
11 1 (0.17%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.39%) Cyberattack
8 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.52%) CMDB
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.52%) IoT
10 3 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.87%) Windows
2 4 (0.70%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (19.65%) Presales
2 99 (17.22%) AI
3 91 (15.83%) Roadmaps
4 75 (13.04%) Agile
5 70 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
6 61 (10.61%) Migration
7 59 (10.26%) Technical Architecture
8 56 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (9.39%) DevOps
10 51 (8.87%) TOGAF
11 50 (8.70%) Business Development
11 50 (8.70%) ERP
12 49 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 48 (8.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 48 (8.35%) Translating Business Requirements
14 44 (7.65%) Analytics
15 41 (7.13%) Integration Patterns
16 37 (6.43%) Mentoring
17 36 (6.26%) Software Engineering
18 35 (6.09%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.96%) C#
1 17 (2.96%) Python
2 11 (1.91%) SQL
3 9 (1.57%) Java
4 6 (1.04%) Bicep
5 5 (0.87%) Go
5 5 (0.87%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.87%) Rust
6 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 107 (18.61%) Security Cleared
2 85 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.83%) Degree
4 20 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 18 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 16 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.91%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.74%) VCAP
9 10 (1.74%) VCDX
9 10 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.87%) CCIE
12 5 (0.87%) CCNP
12 5 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.09%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.57%) GRC
2 9 (1.57%) NIST
3 7 (1.22%) GDPR
4 4 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.35%) NCSC
5 2 (0.35%) QA
6 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.17%) GxP
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) PERC
6 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.74%) VMware NSX
2 10 (1.74%) vSphere
3 5 (0.87%) vCloud
3 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.70%) Docker
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.87%) vCenter Server
3 4 (0.70%) Grafana
4 3 (0.52%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) CASB
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.52%) Oracle
3 20 (3.48%) SAP
4 13 (2.26%) VMware
5 12 (2.09%) Juniper
6 11 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.74%) Broadcom
7 10 (1.74%) Cisco
7 10 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.04%) Blue Prism
10 6 (1.04%) Databricks
11 5 (0.87%) Dell
11 5 (0.87%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.87%) Google
11 5 (0.87%) IFS
11 5 (0.87%) Infor
11 5 (0.87%) Nimble Storage