Solutions Architect Contracts in Coventry

Solution Architect
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Coventry is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 4 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 4.12% 5.59% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.49% 5.80% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £536 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.81% -14.29%
75th Percentile £598 £688 £538
90th Percentile £611 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -11.54% +1.96% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 89 138 269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 96.50% 97.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 112 188
10th Percentile £200 £351 £222
25th Percentile £236 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +9.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £519 £616 £550
90th Percentile £635 £675 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £18.11
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.73%
75th Percentile - - £24.42
90th Percentile - - £26.57
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Coventry

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Coventry.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Coventry region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle