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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 145 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 -46 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 311 316 924
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.81% 2.44% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 2.61% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 188 212 558
10th Percentile £60,500 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,097 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,375 £116,125
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -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 16,140 12,123 30,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.78% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,576 8,988 24,807
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.96% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 88 (28.30%) Azure
2 67 (21.54%) AWS
3 66 (21.22%) AI
4 64 (20.58%) Security Cleared
5 63 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (18.33%) TOGAF
8 53 (17.04%) Agile
8 53 (17.04%) DevOps
8 53 (17.04%) Roadmaps
9 52 (16.72%) Presales
10 49 (15.76%) SC Cleared
11 48 (15.43%) Microsoft
12 45 (14.47%) Analytics
13 38 (12.22%) Project Management
13 38 (12.22%) SaaS
14 37 (11.90%) Decision-Making
14 37 (11.90%) Software Engineering
15 36 (11.58%) Technical Architecture
16 35 (11.25%) Business Development
17 34 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (10.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
19 31 (9.97%) GCP
20 30 (9.65%) Project Delivery
21 28 (9.00%) Enterprise Architecture
22 27 (8.68%) Customer Experience
22 27 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
22 27 (8.68%) Strategic Thinking
23 26 (8.36%) B2B
24 24 (7.72%) Customer Insight

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 7 (2.25%) CMS
2 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.64%) JBoss
3 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.64%) Shopify
4 1 (0.32%) Actimize
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 88 (28.30%) Azure
2 67 (21.54%) AWS
3 38 (12.22%) SaaS
4 31 (9.97%) GCP
5 27 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (7.40%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (3.86%) Serverless
8 10 (3.22%) IaaS
9 8 (2.57%) PaaS
10 6 (1.93%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.29%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.29%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.29%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.96%) GitHub
13 3 (0.96%) OCI
14 2 (0.64%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (0.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.14%) Broadband
2 10 (3.22%) SD-WAN
2 10 (3.22%) WAN
3 9 (2.89%) Network Security
4 5 (1.61%) Firewall
4 5 (1.61%) LAN
5 4 (1.29%) MPLS
6 3 (0.96%) Modbus
6 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.64%) NGN
7 2 (0.64%) VSAN
7 2 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) AMQP
8 1 (0.32%) MIMO
8 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.32%) VoIP
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.61%) Data Lake
1 5 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
2 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.96%) Metadata
3 3 (0.96%) Power BI
3 3 (0.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.32%) DataStage
5 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.32%) GIS
5 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.32%) QGIS
5 1 (0.32%) QlikView
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.86%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.22%) GitLab
2 10 (3.22%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.96%) ERwin
4 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.32%) JIRA
5 1 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 89 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 77 (24.76%) Finance
3 57 (18.33%) Public Sector
4 42 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (12.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (9.97%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (8.36%) Marketing
8 25 (8.04%) Law
9 15 (4.82%) Back Office
9 15 (4.82%) Banking
9 15 (4.82%) Retail
10 13 (4.18%) Legal
11 12 (3.86%) Games
12 9 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 7 (2.25%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.64%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.32%) International Banking
16 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.14%) .NET
1 16 (5.14%) REST
2 12 (3.86%) RESTful
2 12 (3.86%) SOAP
3 11 (3.54%) Middleware
4 10 (3.22%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (3.22%) Visualforce
5 7 (2.25%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.25%) Swagger
6 4 (1.29%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.29%) OAuth
6 4 (1.29%) OpenID
6 4 (1.29%) XML
7 3 (0.96%) gRPC
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.96%) Spring
7 3 (0.96%) Web Services
8 2 (0.64%) Akka
8 2 (0.64%) Kafka
8 2 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.61%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.04%) Virtual Team
3 22 (7.07%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.14%) Cyberattack
6 11 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.22%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.93%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.93%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.29%) Blog
10 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.96%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.96%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.64%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.61%) Windows
2 2 (0.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (21.22%) AI
2 63 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (18.33%) TOGAF
5 53 (17.04%) Agile
5 53 (17.04%) DevOps
5 53 (17.04%) Roadmaps
6 52 (16.72%) Presales
7 45 (14.47%) Analytics
8 38 (12.22%) Project Management
9 37 (11.90%) Decision-Making
9 37 (11.90%) Software Engineering
10 36 (11.58%) Technical Architecture
11 35 (11.25%) Business Development
12 34 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (10.61%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 30 (9.65%) Project Delivery
15 28 (9.00%) Enterprise Architecture
16 27 (8.68%) Customer Experience
16 27 (8.68%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.54%) C#
1 11 (3.54%) Java
2 10 (3.22%) Apex Code
2 10 (3.22%) SOQL
2 10 (3.22%) SOSL
3 9 (2.89%) SQL
4 5 (1.61%) Python
5 2 (0.64%) Scala
6 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 49 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.11%) Degree
4 16 (5.14%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.22%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.25%) CISSP
8 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.61%) CCNP
9 4 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.64%) VCAP
11 2 (0.64%) VCDX
11 2 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.79%) NIST
2 5 (1.61%) PMO
3 4 (1.29%) GDPR
4 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.96%) QA
5 2 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.61%) Docker
3 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) vCloud
4 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.64%) vSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.64%) Ansible
3 2 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.82%) SAP
3 12 (3.86%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.54%) Cisco
4 11 (3.54%) Splunk
5 8 (2.57%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.93%) Barracuda Networks
6 6 (1.93%) Meraki
6 6 (1.93%) N-able
6 6 (1.93%) Oracle
6 6 (1.93%) Sophos
6 6 (1.93%) VMware
7 5 (1.61%) Databricks
7 5 (1.61%) Google
8 4 (1.29%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.96%) Netskope
9 3 (0.96%) Okta
9 3 (0.96%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.64%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.64%) Nimble Storage