Technical Solutions Architect Contracts

Technical Solution Architect
UK

The median Technical Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 669 765
Rank change year-on-year +91 +96 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Solutions Architect 22 47 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.084% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 50
10th Percentile £510 £540 £525
25th Percentile £525 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £628
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £663 £757 £725
90th Percentile £720 £829 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +27.78%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Technical Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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 +104 20 £600 -11.11% 8
Work from Home +126 14 £575 -4.17% 4
UK excluding London +47 12 £625 -3.85% 5
London +104 8 £575 -20.69% 4
North of England +35 5 £575 -
North West +29 3 £575 -
East of England +18 3 £675 -3.57%
South East +19 2 £650 -
Scotland +38 1 £625 -3.81%
Midlands +22 1 £750 -
Yorkshire +20 1 £550 -
East Midlands +19 1 £750 -
North East - 1 £525 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 featuring Technical Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) SaaS
4 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
5 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.64%) Local Government
5 3 (13.64%) Windows
6 2 (9.09%) Java
6 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 2 (9.09%) LAN
6 2 (9.09%) WAN
6 2 (9.09%) B2B
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (9.09%) Dell
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
6 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) Scrum

Technical 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 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) SaaS
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Asana
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) OCI
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) LAN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (13.64%) Local Government
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Police
3 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.55%) Middleware
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
6 2 (9.09%) B2B
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.09%) Data Science
6 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (9.09%) Fintech
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) Scrum
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) C++
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 2 (9.09%) VxRail
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco
1 2 (9.09%) Dell
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
1 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow