Hybrid/Remote Solutions Architect Job Trends

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 253 80
Rank change year-on-year +142 -173 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 581 182 758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.34% 1.10% 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.19% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 428 103 359
10th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,809
25th Percentile £70,813 £67,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £83,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +4.69% -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 23,243 15,331 22,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.81% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,172 8,912 13,883
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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.

1 159 (27.37%) Azure
2 115 (19.79%) Presales
3 109 (18.76%) Microsoft
4 108 (18.59%) Security Cleared
5 97 (16.70%) AI
6 88 (15.15%) Roadmaps
7 85 (14.63%) SC Cleared
8 80 (13.77%) AWS
9 76 (13.08%) Agile
10 69 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
11 60 (10.33%) Migration
12 59 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (9.98%) DevOps
13 58 (9.98%) Technical Architecture
13 58 (9.98%) TOGAF
14 57 (9.81%) SaaS
15 50 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (8.26%) Business Development
17 47 (8.09%) ERP
18 46 (7.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 45 (7.75%) Analytics
19 45 (7.75%) Translating Business Requirements
20 41 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
20 41 (7.06%) Integration Patterns
21 39 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
22 37 (6.37%) Software Engineering
23 36 (6.20%) Enterprise Architecture
23 36 (6.20%) Mentoring
24 35 (6.02%) Customer Engagement
25 34 (5.85%) Cybersecurity

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 (0.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.17%) Apache
3 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.17%) Appian
3 1 (0.17%) CMS
3 1 (0.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.17%) JBoss
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.55%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 159 (27.37%) Azure
2 80 (13.77%) AWS
3 57 (9.81%) SaaS
4 41 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (5.51%) GCP
6 23 (3.96%) Power Platform
7 21 (3.61%) PaaS
8 17 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.41%) Serverless
10 13 (2.24%) dbt
11 10 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.38%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.38%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.38%) OCI
13 7 (1.20%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.20%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.86%) Azure API Management
15 5 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.41%) Firewall
2 11 (1.89%) Network Security
3 10 (1.72%) VSAN
4 9 (1.55%) SD-WAN
4 9 (1.55%) WAN
5 7 (1.20%) Broadband
5 7 (1.20%) Unified Communications
6 6 (1.03%) MPLS
7 4 (0.69%) LAN
8 3 (0.52%) SDH
8 3 (0.52%) VPN
8 3 (0.52%) WLAN
9 2 (0.34%) DNS
9 2 (0.34%) Wireless
10 1 (0.17%) DHCP
10 1 (0.17%) HTTP
10 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.17%) SSL
10 1 (0.17%) VLAN
10 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (0.86%) Metadata
3 5 (0.86%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.86%) MySQL
4 4 (0.69%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.34%) GIS
6 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.34%) QGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Big Data
7 1 (0.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.17%) Power BI
7 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.86%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (0.52%) Snyk
4 2 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) JIRA
General
1 152 (26.16%) Finance
2 120 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 65 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
6 27 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.65%) Law
7 26 (4.48%) Retail
8 22 (3.79%) Banking
9 15 (2.58%) Back Office
9 15 (2.58%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.20%) Advertising
11 7 (1.20%) Marketing
11 7 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.03%) Legal
13 5 (0.86%) French Language
13 5 (0.86%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.52%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.13%) RESTful
2 17 (2.93%) OpenAPI
2 17 (2.93%) Swagger
3 15 (2.58%) .NET
3 15 (2.58%) Middleware
4 9 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (1.38%) Terraform
6 6 (1.03%) REST
7 5 (0.86%) XML
8 4 (0.69%) Node.js
8 4 (0.69%) SOAP
8 4 (0.69%) XBRL
9 3 (0.52%) JSON
10 2 (0.34%) Django
10 2 (0.34%) GeoJSON
10 2 (0.34%) Kafka
10 2 (0.34%) LDAP
10 2 (0.34%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.34%) Web Services
11 1 (0.17%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.41%) Cyberattack
7 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.86%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.86%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.52%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.52%) IoT
11 3 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.86%) Linux
1 5 (0.86%) Windows
2 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (19.79%) Presales
2 97 (16.70%) AI
3 88 (15.15%) Roadmaps
4 76 (13.08%) Agile
5 69 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
6 60 (10.33%) Migration
7 59 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 58 (9.98%) DevOps
8 58 (9.98%) Technical Architecture
8 58 (9.98%) TOGAF
9 50 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 48 (8.26%) Business Development
11 47 (8.09%) ERP
12 46 (7.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 45 (7.75%) Analytics
13 45 (7.75%) Translating Business Requirements
14 41 (7.06%) Integration Patterns
15 39 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (6.37%) Software Engineering
17 36 (6.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.93%) C#
1 17 (2.93%) Python
2 11 (1.89%) SQL
3 9 (1.55%) Java
4 6 (1.03%) Bicep
5 5 (0.86%) Go
5 5 (0.86%) Rust
6 4 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.34%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 108 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 85 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.30%) Degree
4 19 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
6 16 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.72%) VCAP
8 10 (1.72%) VCDX
8 10 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.86%) CCIE
11 5 (0.86%) CCNP
11 5 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.58%) NIST
2 11 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.55%) GRC
4 7 (1.20%) GDPR
5 4 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.34%) NCSC
6 2 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.17%) GxP
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) PERC
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.72%) VMware NSX
2 10 (1.72%) vSphere
3 5 (0.86%) Docker
3 5 (0.86%) vCloud
3 5 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.86%) vCenter Server
3 4 (0.69%) Ansible
3 4 (0.69%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) CASB
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.30%) Oracle
3 20 (3.44%) SAP
4 14 (2.41%) VMware
5 12 (2.07%) Juniper
6 11 (1.89%) Cisco
6 11 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.72%) Broadcom
8 8 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.20%) Databricks
9 7 (1.20%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.03%) Blue Prism
10 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.86%) Google
11 5 (0.86%) IFS
11 5 (0.86%) Infor
11 5 (0.86%) NetApp
11 5 (0.86%) Nimble Storage