Solutions Architect Contracts in Central London

Solution Architect
London > Central London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Central London is £683, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 95 50
Rank change year-on-year +41 -45 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 76 38 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.81% 1.55% 3.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 1.63% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 68
10th Percentile £500 £516 £554
25th Percentile £588 £553 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £625 £718
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -12.89% +9.33%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £785
90th Percentile £815 £790 £872
London median daily rate £650 £650 £675
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +40 70 £700 +9.80% 15
West End of London -1 3 £650 +21.50% 4
Camden - 1 £550 - 2
Solutions Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 40 (52.63%) Azure
2 26 (34.21%) Finance
3 19 (25.00%) Agile
3 19 (25.00%) AWS
3 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 14 (18.42%) Migration
6 13 (17.11%) DevOps
7 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (14.47%) TOGAF
8 11 (14.47%) ServiceNow
9 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
10 9 (11.84%) Microservices
10 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (11.84%) ERP
11 8 (10.53%) SAP
11 8 (10.53%) Degree
11 8 (10.53%) GCP
11 8 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (10.53%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
12 7 (9.21%) Business Strategy
12 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.21%) SAP S/4HANA
12 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.21%) Big Data
12 7 (9.21%) Data Architecture
12 7 (9.21%) SaaS
12 7 (9.21%) PaaS

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 4 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.95%) SAP MDG
2 3 (3.95%) SAP MDG-S
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (52.63%) Azure
2 19 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (10.53%) GCP
4 7 (9.21%) PaaS
4 7 (9.21%) SaaS
5 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.58%) Serverless
7 4 (5.26%) IaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.26%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.32%) Collibra
9 1 (1.32%) GitHub
9 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.32%) IBM Watson
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Modbus
1 4 (5.26%) MQTT
2 2 (2.63%) Firewall
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) Big Data
2 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.95%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.63%) Power BI
3 2 (2.63%) Tableau
4 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.32%) DB2
4 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.32%) Metadata
4 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) JIRA
1 4 (5.26%) MSI
2 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (34.21%) Finance
2 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.21%) Banking
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Legal
4 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.63%) Marketing
4 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (1.32%) Back Office
5 1 (1.32%) Billing
5 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) JSON
2 3 (3.95%) GraphQL
2 3 (3.95%) HTML
2 3 (3.95%) Kafka
2 3 (3.95%) Middleware
2 3 (3.95%) Node.js
2 3 (3.95%) React
2 3 (3.95%) REST
2 3 (3.95%) Web Services
3 2 (2.63%) .NET
3 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.63%) XML
4 1 (1.32%) CSS
4 1 (1.32%) FHIR
4 1 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.32%) RESTful
4 1 (1.32%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.32%) SOAP
4 1 (1.32%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) IoT
2 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) CMDB
3 3 (3.95%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) iSeries
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.32%) IVR
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.00%) Agile
2 14 (18.42%) Migration
3 13 (17.11%) DevOps
4 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.47%) TOGAF
6 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (11.84%) ERP
6 9 (11.84%) Microservices
7 8 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 8 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
8 7 (9.21%) Business Strategy
8 7 (9.21%) Data Architecture
8 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
8 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.21%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (7.89%) Risk Management
9 6 (7.89%) Service Management
9 6 (7.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.21%) Java
2 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.95%) SQL
4 2 (2.63%) Python
5 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.32%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Degree
1 8 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
2 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) CISM
5 2 (2.63%) CISSP
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) CISA
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) DICOM
2 1 (1.32%) GRC
2 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.32%) HL7
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.32%) Nagios
3 1 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.47%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.53%) SAP
4 7 (9.21%) Databricks
5 5 (6.58%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (6.58%) Oracle
6 3 (3.95%) Google
6 3 (3.95%) IBM
7 2 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.63%) Qualys
7 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.63%) Workday
8 1 (1.32%) Aderant
8 1 (1.32%) Ariba
8 1 (1.32%) BMC
8 1 (1.32%) Genesys
8 1 (1.32%) Informatica
8 1 (1.32%) Murex
8 1 (1.32%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.32%) Snow