Hybrid/Remote Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £86,420 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 252 82
Rank change year-on-year +140 -170 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 588 180 749
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.39% 1.11% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 1.20% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 434 101 360
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £71,085 £66,589 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,420 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +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 23,064 14,979 21,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.70% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 16,125 8,882 13,898
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 23 September 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 23 September 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.

1 159 (27.04%) Azure
2 116 (19.73%) Presales
3 109 (18.54%) Microsoft
3 109 (18.54%) Security Cleared
4 97 (16.50%) AI
5 92 (15.65%) Roadmaps
6 86 (14.63%) SC Cleared
7 80 (13.61%) AWS
8 77 (13.10%) Agile
9 65 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
10 64 (10.88%) TOGAF
11 61 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 60 (10.20%) DevOps
12 60 (10.20%) Migration
13 59 (10.03%) Technical Architecture
14 57 (9.69%) SaaS
15 50 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (8.16%) Business Development
17 46 (7.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 46 (7.82%) ERP
18 45 (7.65%) Analytics
19 44 (7.48%) Translating Business Requirements
20 41 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
20 41 (6.97%) Integration Patterns
20 41 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
21 38 (6.46%) Software Engineering
22 36 (6.12%) Mentoring
23 35 (5.95%) Customer Engagement
23 35 (5.95%) Enterprise Architecture
24 33 (5.61%) Creative Problem-Solving

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 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.17%) Apache
3 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.17%) Appian
3 1 (0.17%) CMS
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
1 8 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 159 (27.04%) Azure
2 80 (13.61%) AWS
3 57 (9.69%) SaaS
4 41 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (5.44%) GCP
6 24 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 21 (3.57%) PaaS
8 18 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.38%) Serverless
10 13 (2.21%) dbt
11 10 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.36%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.36%) OCI
12 8 (1.36%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.19%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.19%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.85%) Azure API Management
15 5 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.38%) Firewall
2 11 (1.87%) Network Security
2 11 (1.87%) SD-WAN
2 11 (1.87%) WAN
3 10 (1.70%) VSAN
4 9 (1.53%) Broadband
5 7 (1.19%) MPLS
5 7 (1.19%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.85%) LAN
7 3 (0.51%) SDH
7 3 (0.51%) VPN
7 3 (0.51%) WLAN
8 2 (0.34%) DNS
8 2 (0.34%) Wireless
9 1 (0.17%) DHCP
9 1 (0.17%) HTTP
9 1 (0.17%) Internet
9 1 (0.17%) SSL
9 1 (0.17%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.02%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (0.85%) Metadata
3 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.85%) MySQL
4 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.34%) GIS
6 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.34%) QGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Big Data
7 1 (0.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.17%) Power BI
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.85%) Rational Rhapsody
3 4 (0.68%) GitLab
4 3 (0.51%) Snyk
5 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (26.02%) Finance
2 120 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 63 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (4.76%) Law
5 28 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 27 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (4.42%) Retail
8 22 (3.74%) Banking
9 15 (2.55%) Back Office
9 15 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.53%) Marketing
11 8 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.19%) Advertising
12 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.02%) Legal
14 5 (0.85%) French Language
14 5 (0.85%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.51%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.08%) RESTful
2 17 (2.89%) OpenAPI
2 17 (2.89%) Swagger
3 15 (2.55%) .NET
4 14 (2.38%) Middleware
5 9 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (1.36%) REST
6 8 (1.36%) Terraform
7 6 (1.02%) SOAP
8 5 (0.85%) XML
9 4 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (0.68%) Node.js
9 4 (0.68%) XBRL
10 3 (0.51%) JSON
11 2 (0.34%) Django
11 2 (0.34%) LDAP
11 2 (0.34%) OAuth
11 2 (0.34%) OpenID
11 2 (0.34%) Visualforce
11 2 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.27%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.25%) Virtual Team
4 19 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.89%) Cyberattack
6 15 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.85%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.85%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.68%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.51%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.51%) IoT
11 3 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.51%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.85%) Windows
2 4 (0.68%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (19.73%) Presales
2 97 (16.50%) AI
3 92 (15.65%) Roadmaps
4 77 (13.10%) Agile
5 65 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
6 64 (10.88%) TOGAF
7 61 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (10.20%) DevOps
8 60 (10.20%) Migration
9 59 (10.03%) Technical Architecture
10 50 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 48 (8.16%) Business Development
12 46 (7.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 46 (7.82%) ERP
13 45 (7.65%) Analytics
14 44 (7.48%) Translating Business Requirements
15 41 (6.97%) Integration Patterns
15 41 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (6.46%) Software Engineering
17 36 (6.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.89%) C#
1 17 (2.89%) Python
2 11 (1.87%) SQL
3 9 (1.53%) Java
4 6 (1.02%) Bicep
5 5 (0.85%) Go
5 5 (0.85%) Rust
6 4 (0.68%) Apex Code
6 4 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.34%) SOQL
7 2 (0.34%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 109 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 86 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.42%) Degree
4 18 (3.06%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
5 16 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.70%) VCAP
7 10 (1.70%) VCDX
7 10 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.85%) CCIE
10 5 (0.85%) CCNP
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.89%) NIST
2 11 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.53%) GRC
4 6 (1.02%) GDPR
5 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.34%) NCSC
6 2 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.17%) GxP
7 1 (0.17%) PERC
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.70%) VMware NSX
2 10 (1.70%) vSphere
3 5 (0.85%) Docker
3 5 (0.85%) vCloud
3 5 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.68%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.85%) vCenter Server
3 4 (0.68%) Ansible
3 4 (0.68%) Grafana
4 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.34%) CASB
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 109 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.08%) Oracle
3 20 (3.40%) SAP
4 13 (2.21%) Cisco
4 13 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 13 (2.21%) VMware
5 12 (2.04%) Juniper
6 10 (1.70%) Broadcom
7 9 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (1.19%) Databricks
8 7 (1.19%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.02%) Blue Prism
9 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.85%) Dell
10 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.85%) Google
10 5 (0.85%) IFS
10 5 (0.85%) Infor
10 5 (0.85%) Nimble Storage