Solutions Architect Contracts in the South West

Solution Architect
England > South West

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South West is £650 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 43 71 67
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 137 113 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.32% 3.12% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.62% 3.37% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 89 84
10th Percentile £523 £563 £525
25th Percentile £575 £613 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £668 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +6.88% +5.26%
75th Percentile £755 £725 £698
90th Percentile £775 £800 £796
England median daily rate £650 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £73.00 -
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,964 3,354 3,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 92.50% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,517 2,538
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 267 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.62 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +9.94%
75th Percentile £70.96 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.43
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +57 87 £650 -3.70% 13
Wiltshire -12 32 £750 +7.14%
Gloucestershire +12 13 £710 +23.48%
Somerset +4 2 - - 5
Dorset 0 1 £625 +4.17% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

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 South West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 104 (75.91%) Security Cleared
2 63 (45.99%) SC Cleared
3 61 (44.53%) DV Cleared
4 49 (35.77%) Telecoms
5 28 (20.44%) Microsoft
5 28 (20.44%) TOGAF
5 28 (20.44%) Public Sector
6 27 (19.71%) Architecture Governance
6 27 (19.71%) ArchiMate
7 26 (18.98%) Roadmaps
8 24 (17.52%) Azure
8 24 (17.52%) Enterprise Architecture
8 24 (17.52%) Finance
9 22 (16.06%) Juniper
9 22 (16.06%) Cisco
10 21 (15.33%) PBX
10 21 (15.33%) VoIP
10 21 (15.33%) Nokia
10 21 (15.33%) Rational DOORS
11 20 (14.60%) Decision-Making
12 19 (13.87%) Presales
12 19 (13.87%) Migration
12 19 (13.87%) SAP
12 19 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (13.87%) Degree
13 18 (13.14%) IBM
13 18 (13.14%) ITIL
13 18 (13.14%) Social Skills
14 17 (12.41%) Strategic Roadmap
14 17 (12.41%) Marketing

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (1.46%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.46%) Confluence
1 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.65%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.19%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.52%) Azure
2 16 (11.68%) SaaS
3 15 (10.95%) PaaS
4 13 (9.49%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.03%) AWS
5 11 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.65%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.46%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.73%) IaaS
9 1 (0.73%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.33%) PBX
1 21 (15.33%) VoIP
2 11 (8.03%) SDH
3 10 (7.30%) WAN
4 5 (3.65%) Junos
5 1 (0.73%) DNS
5 1 (0.73%) Network Security
5 1 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.65%) Power BI
1 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.19%) GIS
3 3 (2.19%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.73%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.33%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.46%) JIRA
General
1 49 (35.77%) Telecoms
2 28 (20.44%) Public Sector
3 24 (17.52%) Finance
4 18 (13.14%) Social Skills
5 17 (12.41%) Marketing
6 14 (10.22%) Electronics
6 14 (10.22%) Manufacturing
7 12 (8.76%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (6.57%) Aerospace
9 7 (5.11%) Digital Economy
9 7 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.65%) Aeronautics
11 4 (2.92%) Banking
12 3 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.46%) Military
13 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.73%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.19%) SOAP
1 3 (2.19%) XML
2 1 (0.73%) Middleware
2 1 (0.73%) Node.js
2 1 (0.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (7.30%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.57%) Blackberry
4 3 (2.19%) Blog
4 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.19%) Replication
5 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) CMDB
6 1 (0.73%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.73%) PKI
6 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (20.44%) TOGAF
2 27 (19.71%) ArchiMate
2 27 (19.71%) Architecture Governance
3 26 (18.98%) Roadmaps
4 24 (17.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 20 (14.60%) Decision-Making
6 19 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (13.87%) Migration
6 19 (13.87%) Presales
7 18 (13.14%) ITIL
8 17 (12.41%) BPMN
8 17 (12.41%) Strategic Roadmap
9 14 (10.22%) Computer Science
9 14 (10.22%) Digital Marketing
9 14 (10.22%) Programme Management
10 13 (9.49%) Agile
10 13 (9.49%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (9.49%) Customer Engagement
10 13 (9.49%) Data Protection
11 12 (8.76%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.65%) SQL
2 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (75.91%) Security Cleared
2 63 (45.99%) SC Cleared
3 61 (44.53%) DV Cleared
4 19 (13.87%) Degree
5 12 (8.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (8.03%) HND
7 8 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (5.11%) CCNP
9 5 (3.65%) JNCIA
10 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.73%) CCNA
11 1 (0.73%) CISSP
11 1 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.73%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.73%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) GDPR
2 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.46%) COBIT
4 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.06%) Cisco
2 22 (16.06%) Juniper
3 21 (15.33%) Nokia
4 19 (13.87%) SAP
5 18 (13.14%) IBM
6 11 (8.03%) Google
7 9 (6.57%) Avaya
7 9 (6.57%) Ericsson
7 9 (6.57%) Ribbon
8 7 (5.11%) VMware
9 5 (3.65%) Ciena
9 5 (3.65%) Oracle
9 5 (3.65%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.92%) Dell
11 3 (2.19%) Adobe
12 2 (1.46%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.46%) EMC
12 2 (1.46%) Mapbox
13 1 (0.73%) Sparx