Senior Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Senior Solution Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in Bristol is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.15% 0.27% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South West median daily rate £650 £613 £675
% change year-on-year +6.12% -9.26% -6.44%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,253 676 852
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 92.35% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 326 455
10th Percentile £381 £250 £216
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £763 £700
South West median daily rate £535 £513 £508
% change year-on-year +4.39% +0.99% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 147 154
10th Percentile £20.60 £12.82 £19.83
25th Percentile £46.52 £18.87 £55.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -52.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.48 £68.00 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £60.33 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +139.88% -62.74% +12.50%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Senior Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Bristol

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Solutions Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Solutions Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 8 October 2026, Senior Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Facilities Management
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Facilities Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods