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 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 138 108
Rank change year-on-year -35 -30 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 224 459 596
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.46% 2.41% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 2.50% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 118 297 426
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,809 £63,631
25th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 14,313 18,389 19,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 96.46% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,142 11,505 15,926
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,394
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.65% -3.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 4 December 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 4 December 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 67 (29.91%) Agile
2 66 (29.46%) Azure
3 63 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (25.89%) Roadmaps
5 52 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (22.32%) Presales
7 48 (21.43%) B2B
8 46 (20.54%) Analytics
8 46 (20.54%) AWS
9 44 (19.64%) AI
10 40 (17.86%) TOGAF
11 36 (16.07%) Project Management
11 36 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (15.18%) Decision-Making
12 34 (15.18%) DevOps
13 32 (14.29%) Business Development
14 31 (13.84%) Technical Architecture
15 30 (13.39%) Security Cleared
15 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (13.39%) Strategic Thinking
16 29 (12.95%) Enterprise Architecture
17 28 (12.50%) GCP
18 26 (11.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
18 26 (11.61%) SaaS
19 25 (11.16%) Customer Experience
20 24 (10.71%) Customer Insight
20 24 (10.71%) Due Diligence
20 24 (10.71%) Financial Modelling
20 24 (10.71%) Node.js
20 24 (10.71%) React

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 (2.23%) Confluence
2 3 (1.34%) CMS
3 2 (0.89%) JBoss
3 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.45%) Actimize
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
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%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (29.46%) Azure
2 46 (20.54%) AWS
3 28 (12.50%) GCP
4 26 (11.61%) SaaS
5 17 (7.59%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (4.02%) Serverless
8 7 (3.13%) GitHub
8 7 (3.13%) IaaS
8 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.13%) PaaS
9 6 (2.68%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.79%) Alation
10 4 (1.79%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.34%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.89%) Azure App Service
12 2 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) Broadband
2 4 (1.79%) Firewall
3 3 (1.34%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.34%) VPN
3 3 (1.34%) WAN
3 3 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
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%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.68%) Power BI
3 6 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.79%) DataStage
4 4 (1.79%) Metadata
4 4 (1.79%) QlikView
4 4 (1.79%) Tableau
5 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.45%) GIS
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.91%) 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
1 100 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 69 (30.80%) Finance
3 45 (20.09%) Public Sector
4 40 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.16%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (11.16%) Retail
6 12 (5.36%) Marketing
7 11 (4.91%) Banking
8 9 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.02%) Law
9 8 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.13%) Back Office
10 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.23%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.79%) Games
13 3 (1.34%) Legal
14 2 (0.89%) Billing
14 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.71%) Node.js
1 24 (10.71%) React
2 23 (10.27%) React Native
3 9 (4.02%) .NET
4 7 (3.13%) REST
5 6 (2.68%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (2.68%) SOAP
6 4 (1.79%) Kafka
6 4 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.79%) Middleware
6 4 (1.79%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.34%) RESTful
7 3 (1.34%) Web Services
8 2 (0.89%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.89%) PySpark
8 2 (0.89%) Spring
8 2 (0.89%) Struts
8 2 (0.89%) Swagger
8 2 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (12.05%) Virtual Team
3 24 (10.71%) Mobile App
4 18 (8.04%) Cloud Native
5 16 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) CMDB
9 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.79%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.89%) Blog
11 2 (0.89%) DataPower
11 2 (0.89%) Derivative
11 2 (0.89%) IoT
11 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.91%) Agile
2 63 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (25.89%) Roadmaps
4 52 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (22.32%) Presales
6 48 (21.43%) B2B
7 46 (20.54%) Analytics
8 44 (19.64%) AI
9 40 (17.86%) TOGAF
10 36 (16.07%) Project Management
10 36 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
11 34 (15.18%) Decision-Making
11 34 (15.18%) DevOps
12 32 (14.29%) Business Development
13 31 (13.84%) Technical Architecture
14 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (13.39%) Strategic Thinking
15 29 (12.95%) Enterprise Architecture
16 26 (11.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
17 25 (11.16%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.04%) SQL
2 17 (7.59%) Python
3 14 (6.25%) Java
4 13 (5.80%) C#
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
7 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.04%) AWS Certification
2 18 (8.04%) Azure Certification
3 16 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.70%) Degree
5 11 (4.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 10 (4.46%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.68%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.45%) CCNA
13 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.57%) GDPR
2 6 (2.68%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.68%) NIST
3 5 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.79%) QA
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (5.80%) 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
2 20 (8.93%) SAP
3 16 (7.14%) Google
4 15 (6.70%) Workday
5 10 (4.46%) Databricks
6 6 (2.68%) Ariba
6 6 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.23%) Oracle
8 4 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.79%) IBM
8 4 (1.79%) Informatica
8 4 (1.79%) Splunk
9 3 (1.34%) Cisco
9 3 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.89%) Foundry
11 1 (0.45%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) Sparx