Solutions Architect Contracts in the East of England

Solution Architect
England > East of England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the East of England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 97 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 36 26 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.89% 1.26% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.37% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 31
10th Percentile £527 £513 £513
25th Percentile £553 £604 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £747 £769 £803
90th Percentile £829 £790 £809
England median daily rate £650 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £86.20 £61.95 -
25th Percentile £86.50 £62.63 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.63 -
90th Percentile - £65.85 -
England median hourly rate £88.00 £66.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +11.86% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,701 1,892 2,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 91.53% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,157 1,384
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £542
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 294 370
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.54
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +15 14 £532 -6.67% 1
Essex +6 9 £675 -10.00%
Hertfordshire -9 7 £725 +3.57% 3
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 1
Suffolk +11 2 £700 +17.94%
Norfolk - 1 £525 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (33.33%) Finance
1 12 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 12 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (25.00%) SAP
2 9 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Digital Media
3 8 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (19.44%) Migration
4 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
5 6 (16.67%) Banking
5 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (16.67%) Data Science
5 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 6 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 5 (13.89%) Technology Transformation
6 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Fintech
6 5 (13.89%) GCP
6 5 (13.89%) Zachman Framework
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
6 5 (13.89%) French Language
6 5 (13.89%) Google

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (13.89%) SAP SD
3 2 (5.56%) SAP CO
3 2 (5.56%) SAP ERP
3 2 (5.56%) SAP FI
3 2 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (5.56%) SAP MM
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.78%) SAP SCM
4 1 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (13.89%) GCP
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) OCI
5 2 (5.56%) AWS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) LAN
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.78%) MySQL
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) French Language
5 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Local Government
7 1 (2.78%) Automotive
7 1 (2.78%) Games
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Publishing
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (22.22%) Digital Media
3 6 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Life Science
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 12 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 7 (19.44%) Computer Science
3 7 (19.44%) Migration
3 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 6 (16.67%) Data Science
5 5 (13.89%) Agile
5 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
5 5 (13.89%) DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) Fintech
5 5 (13.89%) Technology Transformation
5 5 (13.89%) Zachman Framework
6 4 (11.11%) Identity Management
6 4 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.33%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) Bash
2 1 (2.78%) PHP
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (19.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.33%) SAP Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) COBIT
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) GxP
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.78%) Puppet
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) SAP
2 5 (13.89%) Google
2 5 (13.89%) Salesforce
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Sparx