Senior Solutions Architect Contracts in the City of London

Senior Solution Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in the City of London is £713, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 166
Rank change year-on-year +11 +41 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.046% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.048% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £630 - £680
25th Percentile £675 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.45% +6.19%
75th Percentile £772 - £738
90th Percentile £834 - £753
Central London median daily rate £713 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +1.79% -3.45% +6.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the City of London

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the City of London

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the City of London

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior 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 City of London region featuring Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Workday
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Fund Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (20.00%) Murex
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Workday