Solutions Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 71 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 63 103 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.31% 2.99% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 3.16% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 68 133
10th Percentile £519 £532 £440
25th Percentile £600 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £750 £708 £688
90th Percentile £783 £783 £770
England median daily rate £650 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,508 3,256 4,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.65% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,289 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £223 £206
25th Percentile £325 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +3.83% +14.38%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 177
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.74% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £32.70
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands +17 46 £650 +4.00% 16
East Midlands -7 16 £595 -9.85% 10
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) Finance
3 12 (19.05%) Agile
4 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
5 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
6 8 (12.70%) Migration
6 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
6 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
7 7 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (11.11%) Salesforce
7 7 (11.11%) Windows
7 7 (11.11%) CRM
7 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 7 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
8 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (9.52%) SQL
8 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (9.52%) Banking
9 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
9 5 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.94%) Impact Assessments
9 5 (7.94%) Wireframes
9 5 (7.94%) User Stories
10 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
10 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity

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

Applications
1 1 (1.59%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (1.59%) RMDS
3 1 (1.59%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) AWS
3 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.76%) Boomi
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) SaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.17%) IaaS
7 1 (1.59%) OCI
7 1 (1.59%) PaaS
7 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) DNS
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
1 3 (4.76%) NetScaler
2 2 (3.17%) SAN
2 2 (3.17%) WAN
3 1 (1.59%) IPsec
3 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.59%) SDH
3 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.17%) Big Data
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (26.98%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Local Government
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) OpenAPI
1 3 (4.76%) RAML
1 3 (4.76%) RESTful
1 3 (4.76%) Swagger
2 2 (3.17%) HTML
2 2 (3.17%) OAuth
2 2 (3.17%) React Native
2 2 (3.17%) SAML
2 2 (3.17%) Visualforce
2 2 (3.17%) Web Services
2 2 (3.17%) XML
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.59%) Node.js
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Fat Client
1 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
1 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
1 3 (4.76%) Thin Client
2 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.59%) Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Agile
2 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
2 8 (12.70%) Migration
3 7 (11.11%) CRM
3 7 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (7.94%) Impact Assessments
5 5 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (7.94%) User Stories
5 5 (7.94%) Wireframes
6 4 (6.35%) Business Strategy
6 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (6.35%) Data Management
6 4 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (4.76%) Application Packaging
7 3 (4.76%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.76%) Data Integration
7 3 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (4.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) SQL
2 3 (4.76%) C#
2 3 (4.76%) Java
2 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) Apex Code
3 2 (3.17%) SOQL
4 1 (1.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CAPM
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) GDPR
1 1 (1.59%) ISO 22301
1 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.76%) XenApp
2 3 (4.76%) XenDesktop
3 2 (3.17%) Docker
3 2 (3.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.76%) Citrix
3 3 (4.76%) Informatica
3 3 (4.76%) NetApp
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) Juniper
5 1 (1.59%) Nokia
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) Remedy