Hybrid/Remote Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 266 73
Rank change year-on-year +155 -193 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 570 183 927
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.49% 1.11% 3.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 1.20% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 435 100 476
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,125 £56,809
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,563 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £84,668
Median % change year-on-year - +0.39% +2.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile - £105,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%

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 21,560 15,304 23,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.41% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,389 9,283 17,118
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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.

1 164 (28.77%) Azure
2 113 (19.82%) Presales
3 110 (19.30%) Security Cleared
4 103 (18.07%) Microsoft
5 91 (15.96%) AWS
5 91 (15.96%) SC Cleared
6 87 (15.26%) AI
7 77 (13.51%) Agile
8 72 (12.63%) Roadmaps
9 61 (10.70%) TOGAF
10 59 (10.35%) DevOps
11 54 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (9.47%) Technical Architecture
12 49 (8.60%) Migration
13 48 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (7.89%) Analytics
15 45 (7.89%) SaaS
15 45 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (7.54%) Business Development
17 42 (7.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 41 (7.19%) GCP
19 39 (6.84%) Dynamics 365
20 38 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
20 38 (6.67%) ERP
20 38 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
21 36 (6.32%) Customer Engagement
22 35 (6.14%) Creative Problem-Solving
23 34 (5.96%) Mentoring
24 33 (5.79%) ITIL

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 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.35%) CMS
2 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.18%) Appian
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 164 (28.77%) Azure
2 91 (15.96%) AWS
3 45 (7.89%) SaaS
4 41 (7.19%) GCP
5 39 (6.84%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (3.51%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.16%) PaaS
9 14 (2.46%) Serverless
10 13 (2.28%) dbt
11 7 (1.23%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.23%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.05%) Mimecast
13 5 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (0.70%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.70%) OCI
14 4 (0.70%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.46%) Firewall
1 14 (2.46%) SD-WAN
1 14 (2.46%) WAN
2 13 (2.28%) Broadband
3 12 (2.11%) Network Security
3 12 (2.11%) VSAN
4 9 (1.58%) MPLS
5 7 (1.23%) Unified Communications
6 6 (1.05%) LAN
7 3 (0.53%) Modbus
7 3 (0.53%) SDH
7 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) WLAN
8 1 (0.18%) VLAN
8 1 (0.18%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.58%) Data Lake
2 5 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.70%) Metadata
3 4 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.53%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.53%) MySQL
4 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.35%) GIS
5 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.35%) QGIS
6 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (2.46%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.40%) GitLab
3 6 (1.05%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.88%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 122 (21.40%) Finance
2 100 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.74%) Law
7 24 (4.21%) Retail
8 23 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.63%) Marketing
10 13 (2.28%) Banking
10 13 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.75%) Back Office
11 10 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.23%) Advertising
12 7 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.05%) Games
13 6 (1.05%) Legal
14 5 (0.88%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.16%) RESTful
2 14 (2.46%) .NET
2 14 (2.46%) REST
3 12 (2.11%) OpenAPI
3 12 (2.11%) Swagger
4 11 (1.93%) Middleware
5 10 (1.75%) SOAP
6 8 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (1.05%) Visualforce
8 5 (0.88%) XML
9 4 (0.70%) Node.js
9 4 (0.70%) Terraform
9 4 (0.70%) XBRL
10 3 (0.53%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.53%) gRPC
10 3 (0.53%) JSON
11 2 (0.35%) Django
11 2 (0.35%) OAuth
11 2 (0.35%) OpenID
11 2 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.39%) Virtual Team
3 24 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.68%) Cyberattack
5 20 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.28%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.05%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.53%) IoT
11 3 (0.53%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.53%) Social Media
11 3 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.05%) Windows
2 4 (0.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (19.82%) Presales
2 87 (15.26%) AI
3 77 (13.51%) Agile
4 72 (12.63%) Roadmaps
5 61 (10.70%) TOGAF
6 59 (10.35%) DevOps
7 54 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 54 (9.47%) Technical Architecture
8 49 (8.60%) Migration
9 48 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
11 45 (7.89%) Analytics
11 45 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 43 (7.54%) Business Development
13 42 (7.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 38 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
14 38 (6.67%) ERP
14 38 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
15 36 (6.32%) Customer Engagement
16 35 (6.14%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (2.63%) Python
2 14 (2.46%) C#
3 13 (2.28%) SQL
4 8 (1.40%) Apex Code
5 6 (1.05%) Java
5 6 (1.05%) SOQL
5 6 (1.05%) SOSL
6 3 (0.53%) Go
6 3 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.53%) Rust
7 2 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 110 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 91 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.56%) Degree
4 16 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (2.11%) VCAP
6 12 (2.11%) VCDX
6 12 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.40%) CCNP
8 8 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.88%) CCIE
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.53%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.68%) NIST
2 11 (1.93%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.23%) GRC
4 6 (1.05%) GDPR
5 4 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) QA
7 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.18%) GxP
7 1 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 17 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (2.11%) VMware NSX
2 12 (2.11%) vSphere
3 7 (1.23%) vCloud
4 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.70%) Docker
4 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.88%) vCenter Server
3 4 (0.70%) Ansible
4 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.35%) CASB
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 103 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.33%) Salesforce
2 19 (3.33%) SAP
3 18 (3.16%) Cisco
4 17 (2.98%) VMware
5 14 (2.46%) Oracle
6 12 (2.11%) Broadcom
7 11 (1.93%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.75%) Juniper
9 9 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.23%) Databricks
10 7 (1.23%) Dell
10 7 (1.23%) NetApp
10 7 (1.23%) Nimble Storage
11 6 (1.05%) Barracuda Networks
11 6 (1.05%) Meraki
11 6 (1.05%) N-able
11 6 (1.05%) Sophos
11 6 (1.05%) Splunk