Principal Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Principal Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Solution Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 652 778
Rank change year-on-year +121 +126 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 12 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.012% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.012% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile - £735 -
25th Percentile £588 £750 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +5.08%
75th Percentile £763 £863 £775
90th Percentile - £885 -
UK median daily rate £675 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +5.08%

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 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Solutions Architect in England

Principal Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Solutions Architect in England

Principal 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 Principal Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +115 12 £675 -20.59% 1
Principal Solutions Architect
UK

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Principal 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 Principal Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Service Management
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Puppet
1 12 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
1 12 (100.00%) SDLC
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
1 12 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 12 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
1 12 (100.00%) Data Lake
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 12 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) SDLC
1 12 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) Puppet
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform