Hybrid/Remote Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 142 126
Rank change year-on-year -28 -16 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 257 333 756
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.52% 2.47% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 2.61% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 138 213 549
10th Percentile £65,000 £59,168 £61,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,097 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% -3.03%
75th Percentile £96,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,375 £109,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -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 15,831 12,774 28,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 94.68% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,739 8,896 24,013
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,625 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,313 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 71 (27.63%) Azure
2 65 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (24.12%) AI
4 59 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (22.57%) Roadmaps
6 57 (22.18%) AWS
7 56 (21.79%) Agile
8 53 (20.62%) Security Cleared
9 49 (19.07%) DevOps
9 49 (19.07%) Presales
10 45 (17.51%) Analytics
11 42 (16.34%) TOGAF
12 39 (15.18%) Project Management
13 38 (14.79%) Decision-Making
14 37 (14.40%) Business Development
15 36 (14.01%) SaaS
15 36 (14.01%) SC Cleared
16 35 (13.62%) Technical Architecture
17 33 (12.84%) Microsoft
18 32 (12.45%) GCP
19 30 (11.67%) B2B
19 30 (11.67%) Project Delivery
19 30 (11.67%) Software Engineering
20 28 (10.89%) Event-Driven
20 28 (10.89%) Strategic Thinking
21 27 (10.51%) Customer Experience
22 26 (10.12%) CI/CD
22 26 (10.12%) Creative Problem-Solving
22 26 (10.12%) Enterprise Architecture
22 26 (10.12%) Power Platform

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 7 (2.72%) CMS
2 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.78%) Shopify
4 1 (0.39%) Actimize
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (27.63%) Azure
2 57 (22.18%) AWS
3 36 (14.01%) SaaS
4 32 (12.45%) GCP
5 26 (10.12%) Power Platform
6 22 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.89%) Serverless
8 8 (3.11%) IaaS
9 7 (2.72%) PaaS
10 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.33%) GitHub
11 4 (1.56%) Alation
11 4 (1.56%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.56%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.17%) ChatGPT
12 3 (1.17%) OCI
12 3 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.00%) Broadband
2 10 (3.89%) SD-WAN
2 10 (3.89%) WAN
3 5 (1.95%) MPLS
4 4 (1.56%) LAN
4 4 (1.56%) Network Security
4 4 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.17%) Modbus
5 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.78%) Firewall
6 2 (0.78%) NGN
7 1 (0.39%) 5G
7 1 (0.39%) AMQP
7 1 (0.39%) MIMO
7 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.39%) VoIP
7 1 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.11%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.33%) Power BI
3 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.56%) DataStage
4 4 (1.56%) Metadata
4 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.56%) QlikView
4 4 (1.56%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.56%) Tableau
5 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.39%) GIS
6 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.67%) GitLab
2 12 (4.67%) SonarQube
3 6 (2.33%) ERwin
4 4 (1.56%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.56%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 86 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.40%) Finance
3 46 (17.90%) Public Sector
4 42 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (11.28%) Marketing
6 27 (10.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (10.12%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (8.95%) Law
9 21 (8.17%) Retail
10 18 (7.00%) Banking
11 15 (5.84%) Back Office
12 14 (5.45%) Games
13 12 (4.67%) Legal
14 10 (3.89%) Manufacturing
15 7 (2.72%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.56%) Retail Banking
18 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
18 2 (0.78%) General Ledger
19 1 (0.39%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.00%) REST
2 14 (5.45%) SOAP
3 12 (4.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 12 (4.67%) Visualforce
4 11 (4.28%) .NET
4 11 (4.28%) Middleware
4 11 (4.28%) RESTful
5 7 (2.72%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.72%) Swagger
6 5 (1.95%) Node.js
7 4 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.56%) React
7 4 (1.56%) React Native
8 3 (1.17%) gRPC
8 3 (1.17%) Kafka
8 3 (1.17%) OAuth
8 3 (1.17%) OpenID
8 3 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.17%) Spring
8 3 (1.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.84%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.12%) Virtual Team
3 22 (8.56%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.78%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.56%) Blog
9 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.17%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.78%) IoT
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (24.12%) AI
3 59 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (22.57%) Roadmaps
5 56 (21.79%) Agile
6 49 (19.07%) DevOps
6 49 (19.07%) Presales
7 45 (17.51%) Analytics
8 42 (16.34%) TOGAF
9 39 (15.18%) Project Management
10 38 (14.79%) Decision-Making
11 37 (14.40%) Business Development
12 35 (13.62%) Technical Architecture
13 30 (11.67%) B2B
13 30 (11.67%) Project Delivery
13 30 (11.67%) Software Engineering
14 28 (10.89%) Event-Driven
14 28 (10.89%) Strategic Thinking
15 27 (10.51%) Customer Experience
16 26 (10.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.67%) Apex Code
1 12 (4.67%) SOQL
1 12 (4.67%) SOSL
2 10 (3.89%) Java
3 8 (3.11%) C#
3 8 (3.11%) SQL
4 4 (1.56%) Python
5 2 (0.78%) Scala
6 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.45%) Degree
3 14 (5.45%) TOGAF Certification
4 10 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.33%) CISSP
7 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.56%) CCNP
9 4 (1.56%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.39%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.95%) PMO
2 4 (1.56%) GDPR
2 4 (1.56%) NIST
3 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.17%) QA
4 2 (0.78%) GRC
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.00%) SAP
3 14 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.06%) Splunk
5 8 (3.11%) Cisco
5 8 (3.11%) Google
6 7 (2.72%) Databricks
7 5 (1.95%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.95%) Oracle
8 4 (1.56%) IBM
8 4 (1.56%) Informatica
8 4 (1.56%) Meraki
9 3 (1.17%) Okta
9 3 (1.17%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.78%) Ariba
10 2 (0.78%) Netskope
10 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.39%) Juniper
11 1 (0.39%) Siemens
11 1 (0.39%) Sophos