Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 98 81
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 541 592 947
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.64% 2.52% 3.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 2.68% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 418 667
10th Percentile £509 £525 £483
25th Percentile £575 £575 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% +12.82%
75th Percentile £727 £725 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £660 £625
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £75.20 £65.10 -
25th Percentile £87.50 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £91.00 £76.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% +28.81% +7.27%
75th Percentile £92.37 £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £95.52 - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £67.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +14.41% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +12 143 £628 -3.46% 42
North of England +47 135 £615 -1.60% 75
South West +29 132 £650 -2.84% 29
North West +58 94 £615 +1.03% 45
Midlands +4 64 £650 - 36
West Midlands +12 46 £657 +1.08% 21
East of England +20 38 £675 -2.60% 5
Scotland 0 38 £646 -0.62% 10
Yorkshire -3 37 £600 -7.69% 25
East Midlands +1 17 £588 -10.98% 15
Northern Ireland +9 7 £650 +18.18% 7
Wales +9 6 £650 +15.04% 4
North East +12 5 £600 +6.67% 5
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
Solutions Architect
UK

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 200 (36.97%) Security Cleared
2 114 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 109 (20.15%) Social Skills
4 108 (19.96%) Azure
5 104 (19.22%) DV Cleared
6 101 (18.67%) Finance
7 94 (17.38%) Agile
8 80 (14.79%) Roadmaps
9 75 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (13.68%) Microsoft
11 71 (13.12%) TOGAF
12 70 (12.94%) Migration
12 70 (12.94%) Enterprise Architecture
13 68 (12.57%) Telecoms
14 62 (11.46%) Degree
15 61 (11.28%) AWS
16 58 (10.72%) Public Sector
17 51 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
18 45 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
18 45 (8.32%) Banking
19 44 (8.13%) DevOps
19 44 (8.13%) Architectural Design
20 43 (7.95%) Java
21 41 (7.58%) SAP
22 39 (7.21%) Architecture Governance
23 37 (6.84%) Computer Science
23 37 (6.84%) Translating Business Requirements
24 36 (6.65%) ArchiMate
25 35 (6.47%) SaaS
25 35 (6.47%) Project Delivery

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.11%) Confluence
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) CATIA
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.92%) SAP SD
3 5 (0.92%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.55%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 3 (0.55%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.55%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.37%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 108 (19.96%) Azure
2 61 (11.28%) AWS
3 35 (6.47%) Power Platform
3 35 (6.47%) SaaS
4 24 (4.44%) PaaS
5 22 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (2.22%) GCP
8 12 (2.22%) OCI
9 10 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.85%) IaaS
10 4 (0.74%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.74%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Stack
11 3 (0.55%) Boomi
11 3 (0.55%) Serverless
12 2 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.81%) VoIP
2 25 (4.62%) PBX
3 16 (2.96%) WAN
4 13 (2.40%) DNS
4 13 (2.40%) SDH
5 9 (1.66%) DHCP
6 5 (0.92%) ATM
6 5 (0.92%) Firewall
6 5 (0.92%) Internet
6 5 (0.92%) MPLS
7 4 (0.74%) Junos
7 4 (0.74%) SAN
8 3 (0.55%) LAN
8 3 (0.55%) MQTT
8 3 (0.55%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.37%) VSAN
10 1 (0.18%) IPsec
10 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.18%) SSL
10 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 7 (1.29%) Big Data
4 6 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.11%) Power BI
5 4 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.74%) DB2
5 4 (0.74%) GIS
5 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.37%) Redis
7 2 (0.37%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.18%) Metadata
8 1 (0.18%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 23 (4.25%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (1.29%) JIRA
3 2 (0.37%) GitLab
3 2 (0.37%) webpack
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 109 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 101 (18.67%) Finance
3 68 (12.57%) Telecoms
4 58 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 51 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (8.32%) Banking
7 26 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (4.25%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.51%) Marketing
10 17 (3.14%) Retail
11 14 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.40%) Electronics
13 11 (2.03%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.48%) Local Government
15 7 (1.29%) Aeronautics
15 7 (1.29%) Digital Economy
16 6 (1.11%) French Language
17 5 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.77%) .NET
2 14 (2.59%) Middleware
3 7 (1.29%) React
3 7 (1.29%) REST
3 7 (1.29%) SOAP
4 5 (0.92%) Node.js
4 5 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.92%) XML
5 4 (0.74%) RESTful
6 3 (0.55%) Kafka
6 3 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.55%) OAuth
6 3 (0.55%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.55%) RAML
6 3 (0.55%) React Native
6 3 (0.55%) SAML
6 3 (0.55%) Swagger
6 3 (0.55%) Web Services
7 2 (0.37%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.37%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.10%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.14%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.59%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.85%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.66%) Blackberry
8 8 (1.48%) Digital Media
8 8 (1.48%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.11%) CMDB
10 6 (1.11%) NHS
10 6 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.92%) IoT
11 5 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.74%) SCADA
12 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.51%) Windows
2 7 (1.29%) Unix
3 6 (1.11%) Android
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.74%) Linux
6 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (17.38%) Agile
2 80 (14.79%) Roadmaps
3 75 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (13.12%) TOGAF
5 70 (12.94%) Enterprise Architecture
5 70 (12.94%) Migration
6 45 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (8.13%) Architectural Design
7 44 (8.13%) DevOps
8 39 (7.21%) Architecture Governance
9 37 (6.84%) Computer Science
9 37 (6.84%) Translating Business Requirements
10 36 (6.65%) ArchiMate
11 35 (6.47%) Project Delivery
12 33 (6.10%) IT Strategy
13 32 (5.91%) Architectural Patterns
13 32 (5.91%) Decision-Making
14 30 (5.55%) Business Strategy
14 30 (5.55%) Data Protection
15 29 (5.36%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.95%) Java
2 21 (3.88%) SQL
3 6 (1.11%) C#
3 6 (1.11%) PL/SQL
3 6 (1.11%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.74%) C
4 4 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.55%) Python
6 2 (0.37%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.37%) SOQL
7 1 (0.18%) Bash
7 1 (0.18%) PHP
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 200 (36.97%) Security Cleared
2 114 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 104 (19.22%) DV Cleared
4 62 (11.46%) Degree
5 28 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.03%) HND
9 10 (1.85%) CCNP
10 9 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.74%) JNCIA
13 4 (0.74%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.55%) MCSE
14 3 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
16 1 (0.18%) MCP
16 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.33%) QA
2 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.29%) NIST
3 6 (1.11%) GDPR
3 6 (1.11%) NCSC
4 4 (0.74%) COBIT
4 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) GxP
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.92%) Docker
4 4 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.74%) vSphere
5 3 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (0.55%) XenApp
5 3 (0.55%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.29%) Terraform
3 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.74%) VxRail
4 3 (0.55%) SCCM
4 3 (0.55%) SCOM
5 2 (0.37%) Ansible
5 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.37%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.18%) Istio
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.58%) SAP
3 29 (5.36%) Oracle
4 28 (5.18%) Cisco
5 27 (4.99%) VMware
6 23 (4.25%) Juniper
7 22 (4.07%) Nokia
8 21 (3.88%) IBM
9 20 (3.70%) Salesforce
10 15 (2.77%) Google
11 9 (1.66%) Avaya
11 9 (1.66%) Ericsson
11 9 (1.66%) Ribbon
12 8 (1.48%) Dell
13 5 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.74%) Adobe
14 4 (0.74%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.74%) Ciena
14 4 (0.74%) Citrix
14 4 (0.74%) F5