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 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 151 137
Rank change year-on-year -42 -14 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 202 368 629
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 2.26% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 2.35% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 101 207 439
10th Percentile £71,250 £59,168 £63,631
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £91,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £84,500 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.42% - -2.94%

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 14,717 15,645 24,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 96.01% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,610 9,402 20,464
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.37%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 60 (29.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (26.24%) Agile
4 50 (24.75%) AI
4 50 (24.75%) Roadmaps
5 47 (23.27%) Azure
6 45 (22.28%) Analytics
6 45 (22.28%) Presales
7 41 (20.30%) B2B
8 40 (19.80%) Project Management
9 39 (19.31%) Security Cleared
10 35 (17.33%) AWS
10 35 (17.33%) Business Development
11 33 (16.34%) DevOps
11 33 (16.34%) Technical Architecture
12 32 (15.84%) Decision-Making
13 31 (15.35%) SaaS
14 30 (14.85%) Strategic Thinking
15 29 (14.36%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (13.86%) Project Delivery
17 27 (13.37%) Customer Experience
17 27 (13.37%) Software Engineering
18 26 (12.87%) Creative Problem-Solving
19 24 (11.88%) Customer Insight
19 24 (11.88%) Due Diligence
19 24 (11.88%) Financial Modelling
20 23 (11.39%) TOGAF
21 22 (10.89%) Microservices
21 22 (10.89%) SC Cleared
21 22 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management

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 (2.48%) CMS
2 3 (1.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) JBoss
3 2 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.50%) Actimize
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.27%) Azure
2 35 (17.33%) AWS
3 31 (15.35%) SaaS
4 21 (10.40%) GCP
4 21 (10.40%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.47%) GitHub
7 7 (3.47%) Serverless
8 5 (2.48%) IaaS
8 5 (2.48%) PaaS
8 5 (2.48%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.98%) Alation
9 4 (1.98%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.99%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.99%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) Broadband
2 5 (2.48%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.48%) WAN
3 4 (1.98%) Firewall
4 3 (1.49%) VPN
4 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.99%) MPLS
6 1 (0.50%) 5G
6 1 (0.50%) LAN
6 1 (0.50%) MIMO
6 1 (0.50%) NGN
6 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.97%) Power BI
3 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.98%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.98%) DataStage
4 4 (1.98%) Metadata
4 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.98%) QlikView
4 4 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.98%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) GIS
5 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.47%) GitLab
3 6 (2.97%) ERwin
3 6 (2.97%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.98%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.98%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.49%) JIRA
6 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 64 (31.68%) Finance
3 46 (22.77%) Public Sector
4 36 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (12.38%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (10.89%) Retail
7 20 (9.90%) Marketing
8 17 (8.42%) Banking
8 17 (8.42%) Law
9 15 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (5.45%) Back Office
11 8 (3.96%) Games
11 8 (3.96%) Legal
12 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.48%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.99%) Billing
15 2 (0.99%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.42%) Node.js
1 17 (8.42%) React
2 16 (7.92%) React Native
3 9 (4.46%) Middleware
3 9 (4.46%) REST
4 8 (3.96%) .NET
4 8 (3.96%) SOAP
5 7 (3.47%) RESTful
6 6 (2.97%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (2.97%) Visualforce
7 4 (1.98%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.98%) Swagger
8 3 (1.49%) Kafka
8 3 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.49%) Web Services
9 2 (0.99%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.99%) Spring
9 2 (0.99%) Struts
9 2 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.34%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (12.87%) Virtual Team
3 17 (8.42%) Mobile App
4 12 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.98%) Blog
8 4 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.98%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.98%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.99%) DataPower
10 2 (0.99%) IoT
10 2 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.50%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (29.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (26.24%) Agile
4 50 (24.75%) AI
4 50 (24.75%) Roadmaps
5 45 (22.28%) Analytics
5 45 (22.28%) Presales
6 41 (20.30%) B2B
7 40 (19.80%) Project Management
8 35 (17.33%) Business Development
9 33 (16.34%) DevOps
9 33 (16.34%) Technical Architecture
10 32 (15.84%) Decision-Making
11 30 (14.85%) Strategic Thinking
12 29 (14.36%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (13.86%) Project Delivery
14 27 (13.37%) Customer Experience
14 27 (13.37%) Software Engineering
15 26 (12.87%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 24 (11.88%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.45%) Java
2 9 (4.46%) Python
3 7 (3.47%) SQL
4 6 (2.97%) Apex Code
4 6 (2.97%) C#
4 6 (2.97%) SOQL
4 6 (2.97%) SOSL
5 3 (1.49%) Go
6 2 (0.99%) Bicep
6 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.99%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.94%) Degree
4 11 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.96%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.98%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.49%) CISSP
11 3 (1.49%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.50%) CCNA
13 1 (0.50%) FFIEC
13 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.48%) QA
2 4 (1.98%) GDPR
2 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.99%) GRC
3 2 (0.99%) NCSC
3 2 (0.99%) NIST
3 2 (0.99%) PMO
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Autotask
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.92%) SAP
3 9 (4.46%) Databricks
4 7 (3.47%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.47%) Splunk
5 5 (2.48%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.48%) Google
6 4 (1.98%) Cisco
6 4 (1.98%) IBM
6 4 (1.98%) Informatica
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.99%) Ariba
8 2 (0.99%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.50%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.50%) Sparx
9 1 (0.50%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (0.50%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) Zscaler