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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 156 125
Rank change year-on-year -34 -31 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 196 346 569
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 2.11% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.19% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 108 200 392
10th Percentile £65,362 £57,500 £63,631
25th Percentile £75,938 £70,962 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -2.94%

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 13,996 15,789 20,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 96.08% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,087 9,529 17,098
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 12 January 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 12 January 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 59 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (29.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (27.04%) Agile
4 49 (25.00%) Presales
4 49 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 46 (23.47%) AI
5 46 (23.47%) Azure
6 45 (22.96%) B2B
7 44 (22.45%) Analytics
8 39 (19.90%) Project Management
9 37 (18.88%) Security Cleared
10 35 (17.86%) AWS
11 33 (16.84%) Business Development
11 33 (16.84%) Technical Architecture
11 33 (16.84%) Technical Leadership
12 32 (16.33%) Decision-Making
13 31 (15.82%) Strategic Thinking
14 29 (14.80%) DevOps
15 27 (13.78%) Project Delivery
15 27 (13.78%) SaaS
16 26 (13.27%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 26 (13.27%) Customer Experience
17 24 (12.24%) Customer Insight
17 24 (12.24%) Due Diligence
17 24 (12.24%) Financial Modelling
17 24 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 22 (11.22%) Software Engineering
18 22 (11.22%) TOGAF
19 21 (10.71%) Node.js
19 21 (10.71%) React

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 5 (2.55%) CMS
2 4 (2.04%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) JBoss
3 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (4.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.51%) Actimize
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.47%) Azure
2 35 (17.86%) AWS
3 27 (13.78%) SaaS
4 18 (9.18%) GCP
5 15 (7.65%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.57%) GitHub
8 7 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.57%) Serverless
9 6 (3.06%) IaaS
9 6 (3.06%) PaaS
10 5 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.04%) Alation
11 4 (2.04%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (2.04%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.53%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.02%) Azure AI
13 2 (1.02%) Azure App Service
13 2 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Broadband
2 4 (2.04%) Firewall
2 4 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.04%) WAN
3 3 (1.53%) VPN
3 3 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.02%) MPLS
5 1 (0.51%) 5G
5 1 (0.51%) LAN
5 1 (0.51%) MIMO
5 1 (0.51%) NGN
5 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.06%) Power BI
3 5 (2.55%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.04%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.04%) DataStage
4 4 (2.04%) Metadata
4 4 (2.04%) QlikView
4 4 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.04%) Tableau
5 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) GIS
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.06%) ERwin
2 5 (2.55%) GitLab
2 5 (2.55%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.55%) JIRA
3 4 (2.04%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (2.04%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (48.47%) Social Skills
2 59 (30.10%) Finance
3 47 (23.98%) Public Sector
4 37 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (12.76%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (11.22%) Retail
7 16 (8.16%) Marketing
8 13 (6.63%) Banking
9 10 (5.10%) Law
10 9 (4.59%) Back Office
10 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 5 (2.55%) Games
13 5 (2.55%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.53%) Legal
15 2 (1.02%) Billing
15 2 (1.02%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.71%) Node.js
1 21 (10.71%) React
2 20 (10.20%) React Native
3 8 (4.08%) .NET
4 7 (3.57%) Middleware
4 7 (3.57%) REST
5 6 (3.06%) SOAP
6 4 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (2.04%) RESTful
6 4 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (2.04%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.53%) Kafka
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.53%) Web Services
8 2 (1.02%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.02%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.02%) Spring
8 2 (1.02%) Struts
8 2 (1.02%) Swagger
8 2 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.80%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (13.27%) Virtual Team
3 21 (10.71%) Mobile App
4 12 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.04%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.02%) Blog
10 2 (1.02%) DataPower
10 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (29.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (27.04%) Agile
4 49 (25.00%) Presales
4 49 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 46 (23.47%) AI
6 45 (22.96%) B2B
7 44 (22.45%) Analytics
8 39 (19.90%) Project Management
9 33 (16.84%) Business Development
9 33 (16.84%) Technical Architecture
9 33 (16.84%) Technical Leadership
10 32 (16.33%) Decision-Making
11 31 (15.82%) Strategic Thinking
12 29 (14.80%) DevOps
13 27 (13.78%) Project Delivery
14 26 (13.27%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 26 (13.27%) Customer Experience
15 24 (12.24%) Customer Insight
15 24 (12.24%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.10%) Python
2 9 (4.59%) Java
3 8 (4.08%) SQL
4 7 (3.57%) C#
5 4 (2.04%) Apex Code
5 4 (2.04%) SOQL
5 4 (2.04%) SOSL
6 3 (1.53%) Go
7 2 (1.02%) Bicep
7 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.59%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.04%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.04%) SAP Certification
9 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) CCNA
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.51%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.55%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) GDPR
2 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.02%) GRC
4 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) Autotask
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (9.69%) SAP
2 18 (9.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.59%) Databricks
4 6 (3.06%) Google
5 5 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.55%) Splunk
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco
6 4 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.04%) IBM
6 4 (2.04%) Informatica
7 3 (1.53%) Ariba
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle
7 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 1 (0.51%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.51%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) Sparx
9 1 (0.51%) Ubiquiti