Digital Solutions Architect Contracts

Digital Solution Architect
UK

The median Digital Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 655 774
Rank change year-on-year +81 +119 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 16 48 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.081% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.086% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 40 64
10th Percentile £555 £624 £550
25th Percentile £563 £650 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £675 £790 £725
90th Percentile £720 £815 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -17.14% +7.69% +26.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Digital Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK

Digital Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK

Digital Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK

Digital Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +98 16 £575 -17.89% 5
UK excluding London +45 10 £580 -17.14% 2
London +82 6 £575 -24.59% 2
Work from Home +111 4 £650 -7.21% 1
North of England +29 4 £575 -14.81% 1
North West +19 3 - - 1
South East +8 3 £568 -18.96%
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +19 1 £575 -17.86%
South West +18 1 £675 -18.89%

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Digital 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 featuring Digital Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Content Management
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Microservices
2 3 (18.75%) CRM
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
2 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
2 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (12.50%) User Stories
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (12.50%) Wireframes
3 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (12.50%) TDD
3 2 (12.50%) CMS
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) .NET

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.50%) CMS
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) FHIR
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5
3 1 (6.25%) React Native
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
3 1 (6.25%) CBDC
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (6.25%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.25%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Agile
1 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
1 3 (18.75%) Content Management
1 3 (18.75%) CRM
1 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
1 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
1 3 (18.75%) Microservices
2 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (12.50%) BDD
2 2 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (12.50%) TDD
2 2 (12.50%) User Stories
2 2 (12.50%) Wireframes
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (6.25%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) DICOM
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Roku
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Samsung
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Sitecore