Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Solution Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 45 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 22 11 34
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.47% 1.90% 4.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 2.06% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 31
10th Percentile £413 £409 £489
25th Percentile £455 £445 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -8.24% -17.85%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £625
90th Percentile £625 £645 £750
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 815 533 688
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 92.06% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 324 486
10th Percentile £185 £205 £186
25th Percentile £350 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £525 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £618 £675
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 25 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £13.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.57 £22.50 £17.83
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +26.17% +4.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £27.86
90th Percentile £25.81 £32.95 £58.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +36.36%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -14 13 £455 +2.25%
Nottinghamshire - 4 £600 - 2
Derbyshire +2 2 - -
Leicestershire -7 2 £450 -30.77% 2
Lincolnshire -11 1 £505 - 5
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 January 2026, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (68.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (45.45%) Architectural Design
3 10 (45.45%) Confluence
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) JIRA
3 10 (45.45%) Project Delivery
3 10 (45.45%) Records Management
3 10 (45.45%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (45.45%) Tableau
4 9 (40.91%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (18.18%) AWS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure
5 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (13.64%) Kafka
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
6 3 (13.64%) Serverless
7 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
7 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.09%) CyberArk
7 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.09%) Java
7 2 (9.09%) Microservices
7 2 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (45.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Tableau
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) Big Data
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Banking
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Agriculture
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (4.55%) Express.js
3 1 (4.55%) IDoc
3 1 (4.55%) MERN Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) RAML
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.55%) SAP PI
3 1 (4.55%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (45.45%) Architectural Design
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Project Delivery
2 10 (45.45%) Records Management
2 10 (45.45%) Regulatory Compliance
3 9 (40.91%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 2 (9.09%) TOGAF
7 1 (4.55%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (4.55%) Design Patterns
7 1 (4.55%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (4.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) ABAP
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) SAP