Digital Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Digital Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Digital Solution Architect daily rate in England is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 602 723
Rank change year-on-year +68 +121 -154
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 15 44 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.090% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.095% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 39 46
10th Percentile £551 £635 £553
25th Percentile £563 £650 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +9.80% +22.60%
75th Percentile £684 £793 £739
90th Percentile £724 £818 £775
UK median daily rate £580 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -17.14% +12.00% +20.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Digital Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Solutions Architect in England

Digital Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Digital Solutions Architect in England

Digital Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Solutions Architect in England

Digital Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
London +82 5 £613 -19.67% 1
North of England +33 4 £575 -11.54% 1
North West +25 3 - - 1
South East +13 3 £568 -18.96%
Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
South West +17 1 £675 -18.89%
Yorkshire +16 1 £575 -14.81%
Digital Solutions Architect
UK

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Digital 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 England region featuring Digital Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) Microservices
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) CRM
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Content Management
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) BDD
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Wireframes
3 2 (13.33%) User Stories

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) FHIR
2 1 (6.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Blockchain
3 1 (6.67%) CBDC
3 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (6.67%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Agile
1 3 (20.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (20.00%) CRM
1 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (20.00%) Microservices
2 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (13.33%) BDD
2 2 (13.33%) Content Management
2 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (13.33%) High Availability
2 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (13.33%) TDD
2 2 (13.33%) User Stories
2 2 (13.33%) Wireframes
3 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (6.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) DICOM
1 1 (6.67%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Roku
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) Samsung
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Sitecore