Solutions Architect Contracts in the City of London

Solution Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the City of London is £700, 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 55 91 54
Rank change year-on-year +36 -37 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 68 35 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.87% 1.59% 4.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.16% 1.67% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 68
10th Percentile £528 £519 £554
25th Percentile £611 £557 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £718
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -11.15% +7.89%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £785
90th Percentile £821 £794 £872
Central London median daily rate £695 £625 £718
% change year-on-year +11.20% -12.89% +9.33%

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%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the City of London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the City of London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the City of London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the City of London

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

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

1 35 (51.47%) Azure
2 26 (38.24%) Finance
3 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
4 17 (25.00%) AWS
5 15 (22.06%) Agile
5 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
6 13 (19.12%) Migration
7 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (16.18%) TOGAF
8 11 (16.18%) DevOps
9 9 (13.24%) Microservices
9 9 (13.24%) Cloud Native
9 9 (13.24%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (11.76%) SAP
10 8 (11.76%) GCP
10 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (11.76%) ServiceNow
10 8 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
11 7 (10.29%) Business Strategy
11 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.29%) Data Architecture
11 7 (10.29%) PaaS
11 7 (10.29%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (10.29%) Databricks
11 7 (10.29%) Java
11 7 (10.29%) ERP
11 7 (10.29%) Banking
11 7 (10.29%) Technical Architecture

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.41%) SAP MDG
2 3 (4.41%) SAP MDG-S
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) Azure
2 17 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (11.76%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) PaaS
5 5 (7.35%) SaaS
5 5 (7.35%) Serverless
6 4 (5.88%) IaaS
6 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.47%) Boomi
9 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.47%) Collibra
9 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.47%) GitHub
9 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.47%) IBM Watson
9 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Modbus
1 4 (5.88%) MQTT
2 2 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Big Data
2 3 (4.41%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Tableau
4 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) DB2
4 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.47%) Metadata
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
1 4 (5.88%) MSI
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (38.24%) Finance
2 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Legal
4 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.94%) Marketing
4 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Back Office
5 1 (1.47%) Billing
5 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) JSON
2 3 (4.41%) GraphQL
2 3 (4.41%) HTML
2 3 (4.41%) Kafka
2 3 (4.41%) Middleware
2 3 (4.41%) Node.js
2 3 (4.41%) React
2 3 (4.41%) Web Services
3 2 (2.94%) .NET
3 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.94%) XML
4 1 (1.47%) CSS
4 1 (1.47%) FHIR
4 1 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.47%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.47%) SOAP
4 1 (1.47%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.88%) IoT
2 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.41%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.94%) CMDB
4 2 (2.94%) iSeries
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.47%) IVR
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) Agile
2 13 (19.12%) Migration
3 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (16.18%) DevOps
4 11 (16.18%) TOGAF
5 9 (13.24%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (13.24%) Microservices
6 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.29%) Business Strategy
7 7 (10.29%) Data Architecture
7 7 (10.29%) ERP
7 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.29%) Technical Architecture
8 6 (8.82%) Analytics
8 6 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.82%) Risk Management
8 6 (8.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.29%) Java
2 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (2.94%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
2 7 (10.29%) Degree
3 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.47%) CISM
7 1 (1.47%) CISSP
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) DICOM
2 1 (1.47%) GRC
2 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.47%) HL7
2 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Ansible
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) SAP
2 8 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.29%) Databricks
4 5 (7.35%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle
5 3 (4.41%) Google
5 3 (4.41%) IBM
6 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.94%) Workday
7 1 (1.47%) Aderant
7 1 (1.47%) Ariba
7 1 (1.47%) Genesys
7 1 (1.47%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.47%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.47%) IFS
7 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.47%) Murex
7 1 (1.47%) Qualys