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Solutions architect jobs
Designing how systems fit together, and deciding what gets built, bought or retired.
£60,288 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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What solutions architect jobs pay
Median full-time pay for it business analysts, architects and systems designers was £60,288 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 1.5 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers software developers, IT managers, architects, analysts, cyber security specialists and IT project managers, not solutions architect jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £70,000 |
| South East | £58,157 |
| East of England | £55,852 |
| South West | £54,150 |
| West Midlands | £53,320 |
| East Midlands | £49,599 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £50,876 |
| North West | £51,394 |
| North East | £53,152 |
| Wales | £48,344 |
| Scotland | £49,665 |
Why there are no area pages for this role
The census is the only source that publishes occupation down to local authority level, and it publishes it in groups of related jobs rather than one job at a time. Solutions architect jobs sit in group 213, alongside software developer jobs, it manager jobs, it project manager jobs, cyber security jobs.
So there is one number for all of them in any given area. Building a page per role per area would mean the same figure appearing under several different headings, in 175 places each, which is the doorway pattern this site is built to avoid. One role carries the local pages for the group and the rest say so plainly.
For local figures on this group, see software developer jobs. The pay figures above are specific to solutions architect jobs and are not shared with the rest of the group.
Solutions architect: the full picture
Architecture is a writing job
Most of the output is documents and diagrams that other people act on: options papers, target states, decision records, integration designs. The technical judgement has to be right and it has to be legible to people who will not read the second page.
The other half is influence without authority. Architects rarely manage the teams that implement the design, so the design succeeds or fails on whether engineers agree with it.
Getting there
Almost everyone arrives after years of hands-on engineering, and the ones who did not are usually found out quickly. Depth in at least one domain, and enough breadth to know what you do not know, is the honest specification.
Cloud certifications appear in a lot of adverts. They demonstrate familiarity with one vendor's services and they do not demonstrate architecture, which is why interviews lean on a design exercise instead.
Before you apply
- Years of hands-on engineering before the design work
- Cloud certifications are common and rarely mandatory
- Right to work in the UK
Solutions architect jobs: common questions
Does solutions architect work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for it business analysts, architects and systems designers was £60,288 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a solutions architect?
Years of hands-on engineering before the design work. Cloud certifications are common and rarely mandatory. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for solutions architect jobs?
Nowhere, and the reason is worth stating. The census publishes occupation in groups of related jobs, and solutions architect jobs share a group with software developer jobs, it manager jobs, it project manager jobs, cyber security jobs. Local pages for each of them would show the same figure under different headings, so only one role carries them. For local figures on this group, see software developer jobs. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
Do you decide who gets sent to an employer?
No. You read the adverts, you choose one, and you apply to that employer yourself. Nothing on this site forwards a person to a job they did not apply to, and no employer is given a list of people.
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