Lead Solutions Architect Contracts

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 660 721
Rank change year-on-year +110 +61 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 36 47 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.083% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.088% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 87
10th Percentile £611 £600 £550
25th Percentile £684 £666 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +9.80%
75th Percentile £881 £794 £800
90th Percentile £1,048 £850 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £825 £740 £700
% change year-on-year +11.49% +5.71% +9.80%

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 39,655 53,675 84,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.62% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,814 37,483 59,176
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,482 2,013
10th Percentile £12.80 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £75.98 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 34 £825 +13.79% 10
London +99 17 £763 +5.17% 8
UK excluding London +37 16 £825 +11.49% 5
Work from Home +109 15 £713 +4.59% 4
South West -4 10 £850 +14.86%
East of England - 2 - -
Scotland +39 1 £750 +7.14%
North of England +36 1 £700 -
South East +16 1 £825 +11.49% 4
West Midlands - 1 £750 - 1
Midlands - 1 £750 - 1
North West - 1 £700 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
3 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (25.00%) Agile
5 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.22%) SAP
5 8 (22.22%) Presales
6 7 (19.44%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (19.44%) DevOps
6 7 (19.44%) Manufacturing
7 6 (16.67%) Electronics
7 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
7 6 (16.67%) Programme Management
7 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.67%) SLA
7 6 (16.67%) Marketing
7 6 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (16.67%) Azure
7 6 (16.67%) AWS
7 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.67%) Business Case
8 5 (13.89%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.89%) Migration
9 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 4 (11.11%) Degree
9 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 4 (11.11%) ArchiMate

Lead 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.78%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.78%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.78%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
2 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.78%) Alation
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.78%) OCI
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
1 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
3 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Manufacturing
5 6 (16.67%) Electronics
5 6 (16.67%) Marketing
5 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.56%) French Language
8 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
1 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
1 1 (2.78%) Next.js
1 1 (2.78%) Visualforce
1 1 (2.78%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Blog
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.78%) NHS
2 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) Presales
2 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (19.44%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Business Case
4 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 6 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Migration
6 4 (11.11%) ArchiMate
6 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 3 (8.33%) Cryptography
7 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis
7 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
1 1 (2.78%) C#
1 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) PhD
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) SAP
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow