Hybrid/Remote Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 142 113
Rank change year-on-year -70 -29 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 206 450 629
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.30% 2.27% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 2.35% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 109 300 465
10th Percentile £61,000 £56,753 £63,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £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 14,947 19,187 20,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 96.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,935 11,981 17,134
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,768 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -

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 6 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 6 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 74 (35.92%) Agile
2 69 (33.50%) Azure
3 62 (30.10%) Roadmaps
4 50 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (23.30%) AWS
5 48 (23.30%) Presales
6 43 (20.87%) TOGAF
7 40 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (19.42%) DevOps
8 38 (18.45%) Technical Leadership
9 37 (17.96%) B2B
10 33 (16.02%) Analytics
11 30 (14.56%) Enterprise Architecture
11 30 (14.56%) GCP
12 29 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (13.11%) AI
13 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
14 26 (12.62%) CI/CD
15 25 (12.14%) Node.js
15 25 (12.14%) React
16 24 (11.65%) Architectural Design
16 24 (11.65%) Azure Certification
16 24 (11.65%) B2C
16 24 (11.65%) Microservices
16 24 (11.65%) React Native
16 24 (11.65%) SaaS
17 23 (11.17%) Decision-Making
18 22 (10.68%) Microsoft
18 22 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 21 (10.19%) Kubernetes

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 (1.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.43%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.43%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (2.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (2.43%) Shopify
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.97%) SAP SCM
3 2 (0.97%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (33.50%) Azure
2 48 (23.30%) AWS
3 30 (14.56%) GCP
4 24 (11.65%) SaaS
5 18 (8.74%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.88%) IaaS
8 8 (3.88%) PaaS
9 7 (3.40%) Serverless
10 6 (2.91%) GitHub
10 6 (2.91%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.94%) Alation
12 4 (1.94%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.94%) OCI
13 3 (1.46%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.46%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) Broadband
1 5 (2.43%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) VPN
2 3 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.97%) MPLS
3 2 (0.97%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.97%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) 5G
4 1 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.49%) MIMO
4 1 (0.49%) NGN
4 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.49%) SAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.37%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.91%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.91%) Power BI
4 4 (1.94%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.94%) DataStage
4 4 (1.94%) Metadata
4 4 (1.94%) QlikView
4 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.94%) Tableau
5 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.49%) GIS
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.85%) JIRA
2 6 (2.91%) ERwin
2 6 (2.91%) GitLab
3 4 (1.94%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.94%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.94%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (44.66%) Social Skills
2 59 (28.64%) Finance
3 30 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (11.65%) Retail
6 16 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (6.80%) Banking
8 10 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.85%) Law
9 9 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.88%) Marketing
11 7 (3.40%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.43%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.94%) Back Office
13 4 (1.94%) Games
14 3 (1.46%) Billing
14 3 (1.46%) Legal
14 3 (1.46%) Local Government
15 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.14%) Node.js
1 25 (12.14%) React
2 24 (11.65%) React Native
3 8 (3.88%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (2.91%) .NET
5 5 (2.43%) REST
6 4 (1.94%) Kafka
6 4 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.94%) RESTful
6 4 (1.94%) SOAP
6 4 (1.94%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.97%) Middleware
8 2 (0.97%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.97%) PySpark
8 2 (0.97%) Swagger
9 1 (0.49%) ADO
9 1 (0.49%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.49%) EDI
9 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.14%) Mobile App
2 22 (10.68%) Management Information System
3 18 (8.74%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.77%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (6.80%) Virtual Team
6 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.94%) CMDB
10 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.94%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.97%) Blog
12 2 (0.97%) Derivative
12 2 (0.97%) IoT
12 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.92%) Agile
2 62 (30.10%) Roadmaps
3 50 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (23.30%) Presales
5 43 (20.87%) TOGAF
6 40 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (19.42%) DevOps
7 38 (18.45%) Technical Leadership
8 37 (17.96%) B2B
9 33 (16.02%) Analytics
10 30 (14.56%) Enterprise Architecture
11 29 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (13.11%) AI
13 26 (12.62%) CI/CD
14 24 (11.65%) Architectural Design
14 24 (11.65%) B2C
14 24 (11.65%) Microservices
15 23 (11.17%) Decision-Making
16 22 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (10.19%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.19%) Python
2 16 (7.77%) SQL
3 14 (6.80%) C#
3 14 (6.80%) Java
4 4 (1.94%) Apex Code
4 4 (1.94%) SOQL
4 4 (1.94%) SOSL
5 3 (1.46%) Go
6 2 (0.97%) Bicep
7 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.65%) Azure Certification
3 19 (9.22%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.77%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.28%) Degree
6 13 (6.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.34%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.40%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.94%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.97%) CCNA
11 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.85%) GDPR
2 8 (3.88%) HIPAA
2 8 (3.88%) NIST
3 4 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.94%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (7.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Ansible
3 1 (0.49%) Autotask
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.19%) SAP
3 20 (9.71%) Google
4 15 (7.28%) Workday
5 9 (4.37%) Databricks
6 7 (3.40%) Oracle
6 7 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.91%) Ariba
8 5 (2.43%) IBM
9 4 (1.94%) Cisco
9 4 (1.94%) Informatica
9 4 (1.94%) Splunk
10 3 (1.46%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.97%) Foundry
12 1 (0.49%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.49%) Sparx