Solutions Architect Contracts in Leeds

Solution Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Leeds is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 46 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 18 51 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.26% 3.84% 5.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 3.92% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 41
10th Percentile £550 £513 £525
25th Percentile £563 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £713 £788 £688
90th Percentile £770 £805 £763
West Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £688 £636
% change year-on-year -5.45% +8.06% +10.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 733 1,301 1,549
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 97.89% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 949 1,131
10th Percentile £300 £350 £275
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +7.24%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 23
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.75 £15.45
25th Percentile £11.88 £17.24 £18.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +141.07% +3.04%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £18.27 - £28.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £17.18
% change year-on-year -53.32% +89.23% -21.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Leeds

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Leeds

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Leeds region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Data Management
4 4 (22.22%) Degree
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Service Design
4 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 2 (11.11%) OpenText
5 2 (11.11%) Brio
5 2 (11.11%) PLM
5 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) NHS
5 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (11.11%) Logistics
5 2 (11.11%) Social Skills

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Retail
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Data Management
3 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
3 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Service Design
4 2 (11.11%) Logistics
4 2 (11.11%) PLM
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.56%) B2B
5 1 (5.56%) B2C
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) CRM
5 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.56%) ERP
5 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Brio
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) OpenText
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Confluent
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) VMware