Technical Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 411 488
Rank change year-on-year +25 +77 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Solutions Architect 15 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.084% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.089% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 13
10th Percentile £455 £513 £514
25th Percentile £525 £554 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £656 £712 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £680
UK median daily rate £575 £687 £675
% change year-on-year -16.33% +1.81% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Technical Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North of England +19 5 £575 +10.05% 3
North West +16 3 £575 +10.05% 3
West Midlands +16 3 £470 - 1
Midlands +14 3 £470 - 2
East of England +6 3 £675 -3.57%
South West +3 3 £638 +4.98% 1
Scotland +47 1 £625 -3.81%
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 -
North East - 1 £525 -
Technical Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (20.00%) Local Government
4 3 (20.00%) Service Design
4 3 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Zachman Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (6.67%) Google
6 1 (6.67%) Electronics
6 1 (6.67%) Telecoms

Technical 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Local Government
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (20.00%) Service Design
2 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Fintech
4 1 (6.67%) Microservices
4 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) AirWatch
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) Apple
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Dell
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) Samsung
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) VMware