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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 148 132
Rank change year-on-year -26 -16 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 243 349 712
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.46% 2.41% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 2.54% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 125 218 504
10th Percentile £66,000 £59,168 £58,775
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,097 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £88,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +10.94% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,750 £108,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15,571 13,750 27,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.04% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,451 8,756 22,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,724 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 65 (26.75%) Azure
2 64 (26.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (23.46%) Agile
4 57 (23.46%) Roadmaps
5 56 (23.05%) AI
6 54 (22.22%) Security Cleared
7 51 (20.99%) AWS
8 47 (19.34%) Presales
9 45 (18.52%) DevOps
10 44 (18.11%) Analytics
11 39 (16.05%) Project Management
12 38 (15.64%) TOGAF
13 37 (15.23%) SC Cleared
14 36 (14.81%) Business Development
14 36 (14.81%) SaaS
15 35 (14.40%) Technical Architecture
16 34 (13.99%) B2B
16 34 (13.99%) Decision-Making
17 31 (12.76%) Microsoft
17 31 (12.76%) Project Delivery
18 28 (11.52%) Software Engineering
18 28 (11.52%) Strategic Thinking
19 27 (11.11%) Customer Experience
19 27 (11.11%) GCP
19 27 (11.11%) Power Platform
20 26 (10.70%) Creative Problem-Solving
21 25 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
22 24 (9.88%) Customer Insight
22 24 (9.88%) Due Diligence

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 (2.47%) CMS
2 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) JBoss
3 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.41%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
4 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (26.75%) Azure
2 51 (20.99%) AWS
3 36 (14.81%) SaaS
4 27 (11.11%) GCP
4 27 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.53%) Serverless
7 10 (4.12%) IaaS
8 9 (3.70%) PaaS
9 7 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.88%) GitHub
10 4 (1.65%) Alation
10 4 (1.65%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.23%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.23%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.58%) Broadband
2 8 (3.29%) SD-WAN
2 8 (3.29%) WAN
3 4 (1.65%) MPLS
3 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.23%) LAN
5 2 (0.82%) Firewall
5 2 (0.82%) Network Security
5 2 (0.82%) NGN
5 2 (0.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.41%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) AMQP
6 1 (0.41%) MIMO
6 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.41%) VoIP
6 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.47%) Power BI
2 5 (2.06%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.65%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.65%) DataStage
3 4 (1.65%) Metadata
3 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.65%) QlikView
3 4 (1.65%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.65%) Tableau
4 3 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.53%) GitLab
3 10 (4.12%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.47%) ERwin
5 4 (1.65%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.65%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.82%) JIRA
6 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 73 (30.04%) Finance
3 48 (19.75%) Public Sector
4 39 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.70%) Marketing
6 25 (10.29%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (9.05%) Retail
8 21 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (8.64%) Law
9 17 (7.00%) Banking
10 14 (5.76%) Back Office
11 13 (5.35%) Legal
12 12 (4.94%) Games
13 8 (3.29%) Manufacturing
14 6 (2.47%) Financial Institution
15 5 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.65%) Retail Banking
17 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
18 2 (0.82%) Billing
18 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.35%) REST
2 12 (4.94%) SOAP
3 11 (4.53%) Middleware
4 10 (4.12%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (4.12%) RESTful
4 10 (4.12%) Visualforce
5 9 (3.70%) Node.js
5 9 (3.70%) React
6 8 (3.29%) .NET
6 8 (3.29%) React Native
7 6 (2.47%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.47%) Swagger
8 3 (1.23%) Kafka
8 3 (1.23%) OAuth
8 3 (1.23%) OpenID
8 3 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.23%) Spring
8 3 (1.23%) Web Services
9 2 (0.82%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.58%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.70%) Virtual Team
3 19 (7.82%) Cloud Native
4 17 (7.00%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.70%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.65%) Blog
9 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.82%) DataPower
11 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.82%) Over-the-Top Content
11 2 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
12 1 (0.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (23.46%) Agile
3 57 (23.46%) Roadmaps
4 56 (23.05%) AI
5 47 (19.34%) Presales
6 45 (18.52%) DevOps
7 44 (18.11%) Analytics
8 39 (16.05%) Project Management
9 38 (15.64%) TOGAF
10 36 (14.81%) Business Development
11 35 (14.40%) Technical Architecture
12 34 (13.99%) B2B
12 34 (13.99%) Decision-Making
13 31 (12.76%) Project Delivery
14 28 (11.52%) Software Engineering
14 28 (11.52%) Strategic Thinking
15 27 (11.11%) Customer Experience
16 26 (10.70%) Creative Problem-Solving
17 25 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.12%) Apex Code
1 10 (4.12%) Java
1 10 (4.12%) SOQL
1 10 (4.12%) SOSL
2 6 (2.47%) Python
3 5 (2.06%) C#
3 5 (2.06%) SQL
4 2 (0.82%) Scala
5 1 (0.41%) Bicep
5 1 (0.41%) Go
5 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.35%) Degree
3 13 (5.35%) TOGAF Certification
4 10 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.29%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.47%) CISSP
7 6 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.65%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.82%) CCNP
11 2 (0.82%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.41%) CCNA
12 1 (0.41%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.06%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.06%) PMO
2 4 (1.65%) GDPR
3 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.23%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) GRC
4 2 (0.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.47%) Terraform
3 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.41%) SAP
3 11 (4.53%) Salesforce
3 11 (4.53%) Splunk
4 8 (3.29%) Google
5 7 (2.88%) Databricks
6 5 (2.06%) Cisco
6 5 (2.06%) Oracle
7 4 (1.65%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.65%) IBM
7 4 (1.65%) Informatica
8 3 (1.23%) Ariba
9 2 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.82%) Meraki
9 2 (0.82%) Okta
9 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.82%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.41%) Netskope
10 1 (0.41%) OpenAI