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 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 138 116
Rank change year-on-year -48 -22 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 223 458 615
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 2.32% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 2.40% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 113 301 454
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £63,631
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +7.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £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 14,732 19,114 20,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 96.64% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,120 11,911 16,927
10th Percentile £29,475 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,233 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -4.00% +1.00%
75th Percentile £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,275 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 13 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 13 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 73 (32.74%) Agile
2 70 (31.39%) Azure
3 63 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (27.35%) Roadmaps
5 53 (23.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (23.32%) Presales
7 49 (21.97%) AWS
7 49 (21.97%) B2B
8 44 (19.73%) Analytics
9 42 (18.83%) TOGAF
10 40 (17.94%) AI
10 40 (17.94%) DevOps
11 37 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (15.70%) Decision-Making
12 35 (15.70%) Project Management
13 32 (14.35%) Business Development
13 32 (14.35%) Technical Architecture
14 31 (13.90%) GCP
15 30 (13.45%) Enterprise Architecture
15 30 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (13.45%) Strategic Thinking
16 28 (12.56%) Security Cleared
17 26 (11.66%) CI/CD
17 26 (11.66%) Creative Problem-Solving
17 26 (11.66%) SaaS
18 25 (11.21%) Customer Experience
18 25 (11.21%) Node.js
18 25 (11.21%) React
19 24 (10.76%) Architectural Design
19 24 (10.76%) Azure Certification

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 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.24%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.24%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (2.24%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (2.24%) Shopify
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.90%) SAP SCM
3 2 (0.90%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
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
Cloud Services
1 70 (31.39%) Azure
2 49 (21.97%) AWS
3 31 (13.90%) GCP
4 26 (11.66%) SaaS
5 18 (8.07%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.59%) IaaS
8 8 (3.59%) PaaS
8 8 (3.59%) Serverless
9 6 (2.69%) GitHub
9 6 (2.69%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.79%) Alation
11 4 (1.79%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.79%) OCI
12 3 (1.35%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.35%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) Broadband
1 5 (2.24%) Firewall
2 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.35%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.35%) VPN
3 3 (1.35%) WAN
4 2 (0.90%) 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%) SAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.69%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.69%) Power BI
4 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.79%) DataStage
4 4 (1.79%) Metadata
4 4 (1.79%) QlikView
4 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.79%) Tableau
5 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.45%) GIS
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.48%) JIRA
2 6 (2.69%) ERwin
2 6 (2.69%) GitLab
3 4 (1.79%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (46.64%) Social Skills
2 72 (32.29%) Finance
3 44 (19.73%) Public Sector
4 39 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (12.56%) Presentation Skills
6 24 (10.76%) Retail
7 14 (6.28%) Banking
8 10 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.48%) Law
9 9 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.04%) Marketing
10 7 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.24%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.79%) Back Office
12 4 (1.79%) Games
13 3 (1.35%) Billing
13 3 (1.35%) Legal
13 3 (1.35%) Local Government
14 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.21%) Node.js
1 25 (11.21%) React
2 24 (10.76%) React Native
3 8 (3.59%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (2.69%) .NET
5 5 (2.24%) REST
6 4 (1.79%) Kafka
6 4 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.79%) SOAP
6 4 (1.79%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.35%) RESTful
8 2 (0.90%) Middleware
8 2 (0.90%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.90%) PySpark
8 2 (0.90%) Swagger
9 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.45%) IDoc
9 1 (0.45%) SAPUI5
9 1 (0.45%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.56%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (11.66%) Virtual Team
3 25 (11.21%) Mobile App
4 22 (9.87%) Management Information System
5 18 (8.07%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) CMDB
9 4 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.79%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.90%) Blog
11 2 (0.90%) Derivative
11 2 (0.90%) IoT
11 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.45%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.74%) Agile
2 63 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (27.35%) Roadmaps
4 53 (23.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (23.32%) Presales
6 49 (21.97%) B2B
7 44 (19.73%) Analytics
8 42 (18.83%) TOGAF
9 40 (17.94%) AI
9 40 (17.94%) DevOps
10 37 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
11 35 (15.70%) Decision-Making
11 35 (15.70%) Project Management
12 32 (14.35%) Business Development
12 32 (14.35%) Technical Architecture
13 30 (13.45%) Enterprise Architecture
13 30 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (13.45%) Strategic Thinking
14 26 (11.66%) CI/CD
14 26 (11.66%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.42%) Python
2 16 (7.17%) SQL
3 14 (6.28%) C#
3 14 (6.28%) Java
4 4 (1.79%) Apex Code
4 4 (1.79%) SOQL
4 4 (1.79%) SOSL
5 3 (1.35%) Go
6 2 (0.90%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.76%) Azure Certification
3 19 (8.52%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.62%) SC Cleared
5 15 (6.73%) Degree
6 13 (5.83%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (4.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.93%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.14%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.90%) CCNA
11 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.48%) GDPR
2 8 (3.59%) HIPAA
2 8 (3.59%) NIST
3 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (7.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Autotask
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.42%) SAP
3 20 (8.97%) Google
4 15 (6.73%) Workday
5 9 (4.04%) Databricks
6 7 (3.14%) Oracle
6 7 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.69%) Ariba
8 5 (2.24%) IBM
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco
9 4 (1.79%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.79%) Informatica
9 4 (1.79%) Splunk
10 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.90%) Foundry
12 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.45%) Sparx
12 1 (0.45%) Ubiquiti