Solutions Designer Contracts

Solution Designer
UK

The median Solution Designer daily rate in the UK is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 654 722
Rank change year-on-year +68 +68 -131
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 14 59 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.10% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 91
10th Percentile £474 £565 £500
25th Percentile £475 £633 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £684 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +13.96% +26.32%
75th Percentile £539 £791 £688
90th Percentile £606 £838 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £675 £585
% change year-on-year -24.07% +15.38% +23.16%

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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £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 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Solutions Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
UK excluding London +56 12 £513 -24.07% 5
England +68 9 £513 -29.31% 8
Work from Home +79 4 £556 -23.28% 5
Scotland +35 4 £588 -11.99%
South East +15 4 £513 -32.79% 1
North of England +25 3 £500 -11.50% 3
North West +21 3 £500 -11.50% 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1

Solutions Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in the job title.

1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) ERP
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (21.43%) Microservices
1 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
1 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
2 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Workday
2 2 (14.29%) CRM
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Project Management
3 1 (7.14%) SOA
3 1 (7.14%) Open Source
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics

Solutions Designer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) IaaS
1 1 (7.14%) PaaS
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
2 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) ERP
1 3 (21.43%) Microservices
1 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (14.29%) CRM
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Open Source
3 1 (7.14%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Project Management
3 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) SOA
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 2 (14.29%) Workday
2 1 (7.14%) SAP