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 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 126 116
Rank change year-on-year -42 -10 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 224 490 598
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.48% 2.44% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 2.53% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 116 324 437
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,809 £63,631
25th Percentile £72,875 £70,000 £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 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £142,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,156 19,346 20,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 96.51% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9,046 12,165 16,676
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.64% -2.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025, 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 70 (31.25%) Agile
2 69 (30.80%) Azure
3 63 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (25.45%) Roadmaps
5 51 (22.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (22.77%) Presales
6 49 (21.88%) B2B
7 48 (21.43%) AWS
8 45 (20.09%) Analytics
9 42 (18.75%) AI
9 42 (18.75%) TOGAF
10 37 (16.52%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (16.07%) DevOps
11 36 (16.07%) Project Management
12 35 (15.63%) Decision-Making
13 32 (14.29%) Business Development
14 31 (13.84%) Strategic Thinking
14 31 (13.84%) Technical Architecture
15 30 (13.39%) Enterprise Architecture
15 30 (13.39%) GCP
15 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (12.95%) Security Cleared
17 26 (11.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
17 26 (11.61%) SaaS
18 25 (11.16%) Customer Experience
18 25 (11.16%) Node.js
18 25 (11.16%) React
19 24 (10.71%) B2C
19 24 (10.71%) Customer Insight
19 24 (10.71%) Due Diligence

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 (1.79%) Confluence
2 2 (0.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (4.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.34%) Shopify
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.89%) SAP SCM
3 2 (0.89%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.45%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.45%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.45%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (30.80%) Azure
2 48 (21.43%) AWS
3 30 (13.39%) GCP
4 26 (11.61%) SaaS
5 18 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.57%) IaaS
8 8 (3.57%) PaaS
8 8 (3.57%) Serverless
9 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.68%) GitHub
10 6 (2.68%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.79%) Alation
11 4 (1.79%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.34%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.89%) Azure App Service
13 2 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) Broadband
1 5 (2.23%) Firewall
2 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.34%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.34%) VPN
3 3 (1.34%) WAN
4 2 (0.89%) MPLS
5 1 (0.45%) 5G
5 1 (0.45%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) MIMO
5 1 (0.45%) NGN
5 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.45%) SAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.68%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.68%) Power BI
4 5 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.79%) DataStage
5 4 (1.79%) Metadata
5 4 (1.79%) QlikView
5 4 (1.79%) Tableau
6 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) GIS
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.46%) JIRA
2 6 (2.68%) ERwin
2 6 (2.68%) GitLab
3 4 (1.79%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 103 (45.98%) Social Skills
2 71 (31.70%) Finance
3 46 (20.54%) Public Sector
4 41 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.61%) Presentation Skills
6 24 (10.71%) Retail
7 12 (5.36%) Banking
8 11 (4.91%) Marketing
9 9 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (4.02%) Law
10 8 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.68%) Back Office
12 5 (2.23%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.79%) Games
14 3 (1.34%) Billing
14 3 (1.34%) Legal
15 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.16%) Node.js
1 25 (11.16%) React
2 24 (10.71%) React Native
3 7 (3.13%) .NET
3 7 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.23%) REST
5 4 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.79%) SOAP
5 4 (1.79%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.34%) Kafka
6 3 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.34%) RESTful
7 2 (0.89%) Middleware
7 2 (0.89%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.89%) PySpark
7 2 (0.89%) Swagger
8 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.45%) IDoc
8 1 (0.45%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.45%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (12.05%) Virtual Team
3 25 (11.16%) Mobile App
4 19 (8.48%) Cloud Native
5 18 (8.04%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) CMDB
10 4 (1.79%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.79%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.89%) Blog
12 2 (0.89%) Derivative
12 2 (0.89%) IoT
12 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.45%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.25%) Agile
2 63 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (25.45%) Roadmaps
4 51 (22.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (22.77%) Presales
5 49 (21.88%) B2B
6 45 (20.09%) Analytics
7 42 (18.75%) AI
7 42 (18.75%) TOGAF
8 37 (16.52%) Technical Leadership
9 36 (16.07%) DevOps
9 36 (16.07%) Project Management
10 35 (15.63%) Decision-Making
11 32 (14.29%) Business Development
12 31 (13.84%) Strategic Thinking
12 31 (13.84%) Technical Architecture
13 30 (13.39%) Enterprise Architecture
13 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (11.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 25 (11.16%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.04%) Python
2 15 (6.70%) SQL
3 14 (6.25%) C#
4 13 (5.80%) Java
5 4 (1.79%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.79%) SOQL
5 4 (1.79%) SOSL
6 3 (1.34%) Go
7 2 (0.89%) Bicep
8 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 19 (8.48%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 15 (6.70%) Degree
6 12 (5.36%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.46%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.68%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.89%) CCNA
11 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.02%) GDPR
2 7 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 7 (3.13%) NIST
3 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Autotask
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (9.38%) Microsoft
1 21 (9.38%) SAP
2 18 (8.04%) Google
3 15 (6.70%) Workday
4 9 (4.02%) Databricks
5 7 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.68%) Ariba
7 5 (2.23%) IBM
7 5 (2.23%) Oracle
8 4 (1.79%) Cisco
8 4 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.79%) Informatica
8 4 (1.79%) Splunk
9 3 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.89%) Foundry
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) Sparx
11 1 (0.45%) Ubiquiti