IT Role Rank Poland
#4 by score · #7 editorially · Cloud and Infrastructure

Cloud / Solutions Architect

Tier 1 · AI-era winnersAI risk: lowMixed56 offers on SOLID.Jobs

Design judgement and trade-offs; AI supports, it does not replace

Overall scoreDerived
7.66/ 10
#4 of 73 by score with the default weights. #7 in the editorial ranking.
  • Salary 30% × 6.41.91
  • AI resistance 35% × 9.03.15
  • Demand 20% × 8.01.60
  • Remote work 10% × 8.00.80
  • Low stress 5% × 4.00.20

Salary, k PLN per month

Mixed
05101520253035404550Estimate≈25–42Market B2B28–30.3 · 50 offers · SOLID.JobsMarket employment24.4–27.1 · 6 offers · SOLID.JobsReport B2B26.9–31.9 · No Fluff Jobs

estimate MID → SENIORmarket (SOLID.Jobs): middle half of offersreport (No Fluff Jobs H1 2026): mid → senior, B2B range mediansmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)

Range MID → SENIOR
≈25–42
Range midpoint
≈33.5
Junior Derived
≈16.8
Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
≈22.8
Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
≈27.5

NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.

Easiest transitions

Estimate
Enterprise ArchitectCTOPresales/Consulting

2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)

Key certifications

Estimate
AZ-305 / AWS SA Professional / GCP PCA

Scores 1–10

Estimate
  • AI resistance9/10
    10 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
  • Demand8/10
    10 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
  • Remote work8/10
    10 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
  • Stress6/10
    10 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
  • Entry barrier8/10
    10 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
  • Prestige9/10
    10 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula

The market in job ads

From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 13/11/2026
56offers · 14 employers
29.5kB2B median · 28–30.3k
25.8kemployment median · 6 offers
45%remote · 59% hybrid

Most common stack

  • REST
  • Java
  • Solution architecture
  • Flutter
  • Kotlin
  • Laravel
  • Microservices
  • PHP
  • Swift
  • Swift UI
  • Vue.js
  • Cloud architecture

requirednice to have% of this role's offers

Experience level

Junior 0%Regular 11%Senior 89%

8925 Q16525 Q24025 Q35225 Q47026 Q19126 Q29926 Q32126 Q4
Offers per quarter in Architecture · hollow dot = quarter in progress

Matching: 55 by title, 1 by category. Pay is the midpoint of each offer's range in PLN per month (B2B net, employment gross); the median and the band holding the middle half of offers are shown.

Salaries in job-board reports

From reports

No Fluff Jobs: „Kariera w IT 2026”data for H1 2026

Report category: Architecture.

LevelB2B netEmployment, gross
Junior––
Mid26.9–30.218–22.4
Senior26.9–31.918.5–25

Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. A dash means the report gives no amount because there were too few ads. Source: page 30 of the report.

No Fluff Jobs: „Rynek pracy IT w Polsce 2025/2026”data for 2025

Report category: Architecture.

LevelB2B netEmployment, gross
Overall26.9–32.819–25
Junior––
Mid25.2–30.215–21
Senior26.9–33.620–28

Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. Year-on-year change of the overall upper median: B2B +2.4%, employment -10.7%. Source: pages 27 and 32 of the report.

Reports are shown on their own, with a link and page number. They are not averaged with SOLID.Jobs data because they measure something else: the report gives the median lower and upper bounds, SOLID.Jobs the median of the range midpoints.