Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in East London

Solution Architect
London > East London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in East London is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 September 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
24 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 -
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 6 3 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 5.08% 2.00% 10.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.00% 2.38% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 27
10th Percentile £594 £684 £563
25th Percentile £675 £698 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £720 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £749 £760 £630
90th Percentile £783 £784 £701
London median daily rate £645 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 100 126 257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.75% 84.00% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 220
10th Percentile £190 £288 £188
25th Percentile £333 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -12.84% +9.00%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £650
90th Percentile £776 £669 £750
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £23.33 £21.11 -
25th Percentile £24.70 £21.13 -
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.80 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +52.55% +15.13% -41.93%
75th Percentile £56.88 £23.09 -
90th Percentile £75.89 £23.48 -
London median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.27% +18.54%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in East London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in East London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in East London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in East London over the 6 months to 24 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in East London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in East London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in East London

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the East London region over the 6 months to 24 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets +1 5 £700 -2.78%
Havering - 1 £525 -
Solutions Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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 East London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
1 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (66.67%) Concur
3 3 (50.00%) QA
3 3 (50.00%) SAP ERP
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (50.00%) ERP
3 3 (50.00%) Ariba
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (50.00%) Business Case
4 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
4 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (33.33%) SAP Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) BC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
1 3 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Case
1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (50.00%) ERP
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 4 (66.67%) Concur
3 3 (50.00%) Ariba
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) VMware