Solutions Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Solution Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £550, 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 18 40 61
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 44 18 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.80% 3.57% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.17% 3.81% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 1
10th Percentile £399 - -
25th Percentile £492 £445 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £671 - -
North West median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 394 472 477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 93.65% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 324 329
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £358 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £629 £651
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 20
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.71 £16.47 £19.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £38.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 £42.58
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford +6 15 £492 +10.56% 3
Crewe - 8 £625 -
Warrington +1 5 £585 - 9
Chester -9 5 £713 -1.72% 8
Macclesfield +15 4 £538 +0.47%
Solutions Architect
North West

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

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 Cheshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 17 (38.64%) Banking
2 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (29.55%) Roadmaps
3 13 (29.55%) AWS
4 11 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 9 (20.45%) Finance
6 8 (18.18%) Agile
7 7 (15.91%) SDLC
7 7 (15.91%) Migration
8 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (13.64%) Java
8 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 6 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
8 6 (13.64%) Public Cloud
8 6 (13.64%) Kafka
8 6 (13.64%) Docker
8 6 (13.64%) Microservices
8 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.36%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (11.36%) Serverless
9 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (11.36%) Project Planning
9 5 (11.36%) Middleware
9 5 (11.36%) ArcGIS
10 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
10 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (9.09%) RESTful
10 4 (9.09%) Budget Control

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (11.36%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.27%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (11.36%) Serverless
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) Azure
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) ATM
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (38.64%) Banking
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Legal
6 3 (6.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Automotive
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) Kafka
2 5 (11.36%) Middleware
3 4 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.27%) JSON
4 1 (2.27%) RAML
4 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Life Science
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (29.55%) Roadmaps
3 11 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 8 (18.18%) Agile
5 7 (15.91%) Migration
5 7 (15.91%) SDLC
6 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis
6 6 (13.64%) Microservices
6 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.36%) Project Planning
7 5 (11.36%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (9.09%) Budget Control
8 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 4 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (6.82%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Ansible
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
2 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
1 3 (6.82%) SAP
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe
2 1 (2.27%) Ariba
2 1 (2.27%) ESRI
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.27%) VMware