Digital Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Digital Solution Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Digital Solution Architect daily rate in the City of London is £738, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 126 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.054% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.057% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £650 - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £738 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,306 1,741 2,043
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 93.40% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,115 1,396
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £453 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £796
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £20.25 £32.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% +23.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £39.81 £62.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -22.89% +9.60% -21.70%

Digital Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Digital Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Digital Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Solutions Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Solutions Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, Digital 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 City of London region featuring Digital Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Presales
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) CMS
3 2 (20.00%) Content Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Discovery
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (10.00%) Business Development
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Presales
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Content Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Discovery
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google