Solutions Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Solution Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 58 46
Rank change year-on-year +39 -12 0
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 41 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.69% 0.39% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.06% 0.43% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 1 14
10th Percentile £445 - £525
25th Percentile £451 £363 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £606
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -38.14% +5.43%
75th Percentile £725 £388 £654
90th Percentile £738 - £733
North West median daily rate £625 £600 £606
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.03% +21.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 509 470 514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.50% 91.62% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 316 283
10th Percentile £282 £288 £183
25th Percentile £375 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.59%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 26 30
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.13 £12.48
25th Percentile £16.32 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.57 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +14.18% +5.36%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.51
90th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +7.71% +31.51% +29.73%

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 30 May 2024.

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 30 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
Crewe - 15 £600 -
Knutsford - 9 £445 -
Chester - 8 £725 -
Macclesfield -8 4 £535 +42.67%
Warrington +6 1 - -
Solutions Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Cheshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 17 (41.46%) Banking
1 17 (41.46%) Architectural Design
2 13 (31.71%) Finance
3 10 (24.39%) Automotive
3 10 (24.39%) AWS
4 9 (21.95%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (19.51%) Business Strategy
6 7 (17.07%) Agile
6 7 (17.07%) SDLC
7 6 (14.63%) Microservices
7 6 (14.63%) DevOps
7 6 (14.63%) Azure
7 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (14.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (14.63%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (12.20%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (12.20%) Configuration Management
8 5 (12.20%) Migration
8 5 (12.20%) JIRA
8 5 (12.20%) CMDB
8 5 (12.20%) Waterfall
9 4 (9.76%) SaaS
9 4 (9.76%) Git
9 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
9 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (9.76%) Progress Chef
9 4 (9.76%) API Design
9 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
9 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
9 4 (9.76%) Project Management

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 2 (4.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) SaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Apigee
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Kong
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
2 3 (7.32%) DB2
2 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) OLAP
3 1 (2.44%) OLTP
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (2.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (41.46%) Banking
2 13 (31.71%) Finance
3 10 (24.39%) Automotive
4 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
4 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) .NET
1 3 (7.32%) React
2 2 (4.88%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Camel
3 1 (2.44%) CSS
3 1 (2.44%) HTML
3 1 (2.44%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (2.44%) J2EE
3 1 (2.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.44%) SOAP
3 1 (2.44%) Spring
3 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.44%) Spring Integration
3 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) CMDB
2 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Mainframe
3 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
4 2 (4.88%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.88%) Robotics
4 2 (4.88%) SCADA
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) DataPower
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Android
1 3 (7.32%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Architectural Design
2 9 (21.95%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (19.51%) Business Strategy
4 7 (17.07%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) SDLC
5 6 (14.63%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (14.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (14.63%) DevOps
5 6 (14.63%) Microservices
6 5 (12.20%) Configuration Management
6 5 (12.20%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 5 (12.20%) Waterfall
7 4 (9.76%) API Design
7 4 (9.76%) Project Management
8 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (7.32%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (7.32%) IT Strategy
8 3 (7.32%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) C
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) MCSE
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) QA
1 1 (2.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (4.88%) Adobe
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
1 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
1 2 (4.88%) SAP
2 1 (2.44%) IBM
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) TSYS
2 1 (2.44%) VMware