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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 252 74
Rank change year-on-year +147 -178 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 578 181 889
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.48% 1.10% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 1.19% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 440 101 436
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile - £105,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 21,941 15,228 23,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.62% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,614 9,294 16,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 1 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 1 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.

1 161 (27.85%) Azure
2 116 (20.07%) Presales
3 105 (18.17%) Security Cleared
4 104 (17.99%) Microsoft
5 90 (15.57%) AI
6 88 (15.22%) AWS
7 84 (14.53%) SC Cleared
8 78 (13.49%) Agile
9 75 (12.98%) Roadmaps
10 61 (10.55%) TOGAF
11 58 (10.03%) DevOps
12 56 (9.69%) Technical Architecture
13 55 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 54 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (9.00%) Migration
16 49 (8.48%) SaaS
17 48 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (7.79%) Business Development
18 45 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
19 44 (7.61%) Analytics
19 44 (7.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 42 (7.27%) ERP
21 39 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
21 39 (6.75%) Integration Patterns
22 38 (6.57%) GCP
23 36 (6.23%) Customer Engagement
23 36 (6.23%) Enterprise Architecture
23 36 (6.23%) Translating Business Requirements
24 35 (6.06%) Creative Problem-Solving
25 34 (5.88%) Mentoring

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 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
2 2 (0.35%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.87%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (27.85%) Azure
2 88 (15.22%) AWS
3 49 (8.48%) SaaS
4 39 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
5 38 (6.57%) GCP
6 20 (3.46%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (3.29%) PaaS
8 13 (2.25%) dbt
8 13 (2.25%) Serverless
9 7 (1.21%) Azure AKS
9 7 (1.21%) Nutanix
10 6 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.04%) Mimecast
10 6 (1.04%) OCI
11 5 (0.87%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (0.69%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (0.52%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.42%) Firewall
2 12 (2.08%) Network Security
2 12 (2.08%) SD-WAN
2 12 (2.08%) VSAN
2 12 (2.08%) WAN
3 11 (1.90%) Broadband
4 8 (1.38%) MPLS
5 7 (1.21%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.87%) LAN
7 3 (0.52%) Modbus
7 3 (0.52%) SDH
7 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.52%) WLAN
8 1 (0.17%) VLAN
8 1 (0.17%) VPN
8 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.56%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.87%) MySQL
4 4 (0.69%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.69%) Metadata
4 4 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.35%) GIS
6 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.35%) QGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.04%) GitLab
3 5 (0.87%) Rational Rhapsody
4 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 134 (23.18%) Finance
2 106 (18.34%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.84%) Law
7 27 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (4.15%) Retail
9 16 (2.77%) Banking
10 12 (2.08%) Back Office
10 12 (2.08%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.08%) Marketing
11 11 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.21%) Advertising
12 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.87%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.87%) Legal
15 4 (0.69%) Games
16 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.46%) RESTful
2 16 (2.77%) .NET
3 14 (2.42%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.42%) Swagger
4 12 (2.08%) Middleware
4 12 (2.08%) REST
5 8 (1.38%) SOAP
6 6 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.87%) XML
8 4 (0.69%) Node.js
8 4 (0.69%) Terraform
8 4 (0.69%) Visualforce
8 4 (0.69%) XBRL
9 3 (0.52%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.52%) gRPC
9 3 (0.52%) JSON
10 2 (0.35%) Django
10 2 (0.35%) GeoJSON
10 2 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.54%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.33%) Virtual Team
4 21 (3.63%) Cyberattack
5 20 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.04%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
10 5 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.52%) IoT
11 3 (0.52%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.52%) Social Media
11 3 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.69%) Linux
1 4 (0.69%) Windows
2 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (20.07%) Presales
2 90 (15.57%) AI
3 78 (13.49%) Agile
4 75 (12.98%) Roadmaps
5 61 (10.55%) TOGAF
6 58 (10.03%) DevOps
7 56 (9.69%) Technical Architecture
8 55 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
10 52 (9.00%) Migration
11 48 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 45 (7.79%) Business Development
12 45 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (7.61%) Analytics
13 44 (7.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 42 (7.27%) ERP
15 39 (6.75%) Integration Patterns
16 36 (6.23%) Customer Engagement
16 36 (6.23%) Enterprise Architecture
16 36 (6.23%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (3.11%) C#
2 17 (2.94%) Python
3 13 (2.25%) SQL
4 8 (1.38%) Java
5 6 (1.04%) Apex Code
6 5 (0.87%) Go
6 5 (0.87%) Rust
7 4 (0.69%) SOQL
7 4 (0.69%) SOSL
8 3 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 105 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.50%) Degree
4 16 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.08%) VCAP
6 12 (2.08%) VCDX
6 12 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.38%) CCNP
8 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.87%) CCIE
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.63%) NIST
2 11 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.21%) GRC
4 6 (1.04%) GDPR
5 4 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.17%) GxP
7 1 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 17 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (2.08%) VMware NSX
2 12 (2.08%) vSphere
3 7 (1.21%) vCloud
4 4 (0.69%) Docker
4 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.52%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.87%) vCenter Server
3 4 (0.69%) Ansible
4 2 (0.35%) CASB
4 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 104 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.46%) Oracle
3 19 (3.29%) SAP
4 17 (2.94%) VMware
5 16 (2.77%) Cisco
5 16 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.08%) Broadcom
7 11 (1.90%) Juniper
8 10 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.56%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.21%) Databricks
10 7 (1.21%) Dell
10 7 (1.21%) NetApp
10 7 (1.21%) Nimble Storage
11 6 (1.04%) Barracuda Networks
11 6 (1.04%) N-able
11 6 (1.04%) Sophos
12 5 (0.87%) IFS
12 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow