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 £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 56 99
Rank change year-on-year -36 +43 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 41 146 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.84% 3.95% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 4.14% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 68 78
10th Percentile £523 £558 £534
25th Percentile £563 £613 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £718 £665
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +7.89% +10.83%
75th Percentile £719 £800 £750
90th Percentile £783 £906 £813
Central London median daily rate £638 £725 £663
% change year-on-year -12.07% +9.43% +10.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,116 3,524 4,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.24% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 2,380 3,073
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.66 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 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 City of London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (36.59%) Finance
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
3 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
4 10 (24.39%) Microservices
5 8 (19.51%) Analytics
6 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (12.20%) AWS
7 5 (12.20%) DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) API Development
7 5 (12.20%) Architectural Design
7 5 (12.20%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
8 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.76%) Technology Strategy
8 4 (9.76%) Cloud Security
8 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (9.76%) GCP
8 4 (9.76%) SaaS
8 4 (9.76%) Degree
8 4 (9.76%) Data Analytics
8 4 (9.76%) PRINCE2
8 4 (9.76%) Java
8 4 (9.76%) .NET
8 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
8 4 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (9.76%) SLA

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 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (7.32%) CMS
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.88%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (2.44%) Primavera
3 1 (2.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (9.76%) GCP
3 4 (9.76%) SaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.88%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.44%) Slack
6 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Intranet
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) WAN
3 1 (2.44%) 5G
3 1 (2.44%) LAN
3 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Law
6 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Advertising
7 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Local Government
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) .NET
2 3 (7.32%) .NET Framework
2 3 (7.32%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) HTML
3 2 (4.88%) HTML5
3 2 (4.88%) Middleware
3 2 (4.88%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Mainframe
2 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.88%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (4.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.44%) LIMS
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) CentOS
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Agile
1 10 (24.39%) Microservices
2 8 (19.51%) Analytics
3 5 (12.20%) API Development
3 5 (12.20%) Architectural Design
3 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
3 5 (12.20%) DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
4 4 (9.76%) Cloud Security
4 4 (9.76%) Data Analytics
4 4 (9.76%) PRINCE2
4 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (9.76%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (7.32%) Case Management
5 3 (7.32%) Contact Management
5 3 (7.32%) Content Management
5 3 (7.32%) CRM
5 3 (7.32%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (7.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) Java
2 2 (4.88%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.44%) Perl
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.44%) Ruby
3 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) PMP
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) SLA
2 2 (4.88%) SEPA
3 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Ansible
1 1 (2.44%) Grafana
1 1 (2.44%) Kibana
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.44%) logstash
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Adobe
2 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.88%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco
3 2 (4.88%) CyberArk
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Amdocs
4 1 (2.44%) Avaya
4 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Infor
4 1 (2.44%) Juniper
4 1 (2.44%) LabWare
4 1 (2.44%) Marketo
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Terracotta
4 1 (2.44%) Veeam