Solutions Architect Contracts in Central London

Solution Architect
London > Central London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Central London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 49 93
Rank change year-on-year -45 +44 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 39 153 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.61% 3.98% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 4.18% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 72 79
10th Percentile £516 £556 £525
25th Percentile £553 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £705 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +8.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £780 £750
90th Percentile £790 £869 £813
London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,302 3,663 4,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.27% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,641 2,508 3,274
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 51
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.75
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Central London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Central London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Central London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Central London

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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
City of London -36 36 £638 -9.57% 20
West End of London +8 2 £535 - 2
Solutions Architect
London

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 across the Central London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
3 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
4 10 (25.64%) Banking
5 9 (23.08%) Agile
6 8 (20.51%) Analytics
6 8 (20.51%) Microservices
7 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (15.38%) Degree
8 6 (15.38%) AWS
8 6 (15.38%) SaaS
8 6 (15.38%) API Development
8 6 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (12.82%) REST
10 4 (10.26%) Data Analytics
10 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (10.26%) SLA
10 4 (10.26%) Java
10 4 (10.26%) .NET
10 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
10 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
10 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
10 4 (10.26%) Contact Management
10 4 (10.26%) Technology Strategy
10 4 (10.26%) Customer Service
10 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
10 4 (10.26%) Power Automate

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (7.69%) CMS
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.13%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.56%) Primavera
3 1 (2.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (15.38%) SaaS
3 4 (10.26%) Power Automate
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) IaaS
4 3 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Slack
6 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Intranet
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) .NET
3 3 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.13%) HTML
4 2 (5.13%) HTML5
4 2 (5.13%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.56%) Web Services
5 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
2 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.56%) CBDC
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) CentOS
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Agile
2 8 (20.51%) Analytics
2 8 (20.51%) Microservices
3 6 (15.38%) API Development
4 4 (10.26%) Architectural Design
4 4 (10.26%) Case Management
4 4 (10.26%) Contact Management
4 4 (10.26%) Customer Service
4 4 (10.26%) Data Analytics
4 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (10.26%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 3 (7.69%) Content Management
5 3 (7.69%) CRM
5 3 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 3 (7.69%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Java
2 2 (5.13%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) C#
3 1 (2.56%) C++
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) Perl
3 1 (2.56%) Ruby
3 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) SLA
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
1 1 (2.56%) Grafana
1 1 (2.56%) Kibana
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) logstash
1 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Adobe
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Amdocs
4 1 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.56%) Foundry
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Marketo
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Terracotta
4 1 (2.56%) Workday