Solutions Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 80 95
Rank change year-on-year -186 +15 +119
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 230 1,217 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 3.53% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 3.67% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 129 620 663
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,809 £62,800
25th Percentile £68,525 £72,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,250 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +2.44% -2.67%
75th Percentile £98,474 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £142,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £74,870 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.41% -5.88% +3.01%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 18,642 33,194 34,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 96.26% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,397 25,043 25,467
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -11.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,688
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Solutions Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solutions Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Solutions Architect.

Solutions Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Solutions Architect salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Solutions Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 93 (40.43%) Azure
2 86 (37.39%) Agile
3 74 (32.17%) Finance
4 71 (30.87%) Microservices
5 70 (30.43%) TOGAF
6 60 (26.09%) GCP
7 59 (25.65%) Roadmaps
8 57 (24.78%) Microsoft
8 57 (24.78%) AWS
9 56 (24.35%) Banking
10 54 (23.48%) Social Skills
11 49 (21.30%) DevOps
12 46 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 42 (18.26%) Containerisation
14 37 (16.09%) SQL
15 36 (15.65%) Management Information System
15 36 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (15.22%) Kubernetes
16 35 (15.22%) Java
17 34 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (14.35%) Security Cleared
18 33 (14.35%) API Design
19 32 (13.91%) Domain-Driven Design
19 32 (13.91%) Python
20 31 (13.48%) Google
21 30 (13.04%) Docker
22 29 (12.61%) Analytics
22 29 (12.61%) Architectural Design
22 29 (12.61%) Product Ownership
22 29 (12.61%) NoSQL

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.78%) Umbraco
2 4 (1.74%) SAS
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
3 2 (0.87%) NetWeaver
3 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.61%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.17%) SAP PP
3 5 (2.17%) Shopify
4 3 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.30%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.87%) Magento
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.87%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.43%) Odoo
6 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.43%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.43%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 93 (40.43%) Azure
2 60 (26.09%) GCP
3 57 (24.78%) AWS
4 17 (7.39%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.65%) SaaS
7 12 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.22%) PaaS
8 8 (3.48%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.04%) OCI
10 6 (2.61%) Apigee
10 6 (2.61%) GitHub
10 6 (2.61%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.74%) Serverless
13 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.30%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.48%) Firewall
2 3 (1.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.87%) FCoE
3 2 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (0.87%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.87%) LAN
3 2 (0.87%) Multicast
3 2 (0.87%) NAS
3 2 (0.87%) VPN
3 2 (0.87%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.61%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.22%) Data Lake
3 12 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.78%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.91%) Big Data
6 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.87%) MySQL
8 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (3.91%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.43%) ERwin
3 1 (0.43%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 74 (32.17%) Finance
2 56 (24.35%) Banking
3 54 (23.48%) Social Skills
4 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.61%) Retail
9 4 (1.74%) Law
9 4 (1.74%) Local Government
9 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Advertising
10 2 (0.87%) Games
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Swedish Language
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.70%) React
2 12 (5.22%) CSS
3 11 (4.78%) Ajax
3 11 (4.78%) jQuery
3 11 (4.78%) OAuth
3 11 (4.78%) OpenID
3 11 (4.78%) SAML
4 9 (3.91%) RESTful
5 8 (3.48%) .NET
5 8 (3.48%) React Native
6 7 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.04%) REST
7 5 (2.17%) Kafka
8 3 (1.30%) HTML
8 3 (1.30%) Middleware
8 3 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.87%) JSON
9 2 (0.87%) LDAP
9 2 (0.87%) Node.js
9 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.65%) Management Information System
2 29 (12.61%) Product Ownership
3 23 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.48%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.61%) DataPower
6 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.61%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.17%) CMDB
7 5 (2.17%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.74%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.87%) Clustering
10 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.61%) Android
1 6 (2.61%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.17%) Linux
3 4 (1.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.87%) Solaris
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (37.39%) Agile
2 71 (30.87%) Microservices
3 70 (30.43%) TOGAF
4 59 (25.65%) Roadmaps
5 49 (21.30%) DevOps
6 46 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 42 (18.26%) Containerisation
8 36 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
9 34 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (14.35%) API Design
11 32 (13.91%) Domain-Driven Design
12 29 (12.61%) Analytics
12 29 (12.61%) Architectural Design
13 28 (12.17%) CI/CD
14 25 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (10.43%) API Management
16 22 (9.57%) Technology Roadmap
17 20 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (8.70%) Data Management
17 20 (8.70%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.09%) SQL
2 35 (15.22%) Java
3 32 (13.91%) Python
4 25 (10.87%) C#
5 23 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.61%) R
7 4 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.87%) ABAP
9 2 (0.87%) Bash
9 2 (0.87%) Bicep
9 2 (0.87%) C
9 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.87%) X++
10 1 (0.43%) COBOL
10 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.17%) AWS Certification
3 27 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.74%) TOGAF Certification
4 22 (9.57%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.83%) Degree
6 16 (6.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CCNA
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.83%) GDPR
2 15 (6.52%) NIST
3 12 (5.22%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.74%) Basel II
5 4 (1.74%) Basel III
5 4 (1.74%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (1.74%) IFRS
5 4 (1.74%) IFRS 9
5 4 (1.74%) QA
6 3 (1.30%) JSP 440
6 3 (1.30%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 30 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.87%) KVM
2 2 (0.87%) NFS
2 2 (0.87%) SRDF
2 2 (0.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.87%) Xen
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.74%) Terraform
4 2 (0.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Puppet
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.48%) Google
3 14 (6.09%) Oracle
3 14 (6.09%) SAP
4 12 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.35%) IBM
5 10 (4.35%) Workday
6 6 (2.61%) Apple
6 6 (2.61%) PayPal
7 5 (2.17%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco
8 3 (1.30%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) EMC
9 2 (0.87%) F5
9 2 (0.87%) NetApp
9 2 (0.87%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat