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 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 34 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.35% 3.35% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.77% 3.67% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 19
10th Percentile £404 £410 £481
25th Percentile £440 £450 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -19.15% -10.98%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £738
90th Percentile £680 £630 £775
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -18.52% +15.71%

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 903 491 713
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 91.43% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 326 486
10th Percentile £190 £200 £160
25th Percentile £359 £321 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -10.61%
75th Percentile £539 £524 £538
90th Percentile £625 £600 £631
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 18 77
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.69 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.86 £14.27
Median hourly rate £19.50 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +36.46% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.67 £24.25
90th Percentile £30.25 £38.63 £33.95
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.53%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -11 17 £455 +1.11% 3
Nottinghamshire -3 12 £600 +33.33% 6
Derbyshire -6 3 - - 3
Leicestershire -8 1 £400 -36.51%
Lincolnshire -14 1 £700 - 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 March 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 22 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) Confluence
3 10 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
3 10 (29.41%) JIRA
3 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (29.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (29.41%) SAP
4 9 (26.47%) Analytics
4 9 (26.47%) Project Delivery
4 9 (26.47%) Records Management
4 9 (26.47%) Regulatory Compliance
4 9 (26.47%) Tableau
5 8 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 8 (23.53%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (20.59%) AWS
7 6 (17.65%) Middleware
7 6 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (14.71%) Agile
8 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
9 4 (11.76%) Logistics
9 4 (11.76%) SAP Certification
9 4 (11.76%) TOGAF
10 3 (8.82%) Architecture Governance
10 3 (8.82%) Azure
10 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
10 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
10 3 (8.82%) Kafka
10 3 (8.82%) SDLC

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 (29.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
3 2 (5.88%) SaaS
3 2 (5.88%) Serverless
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
1 2 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Tableau
2 2 (5.88%) SAP BW
2 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 11 (32.35%) Banking
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Aviation
4 2 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Middleware
2 3 (8.82%) Kafka
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.88%) OpenID
3 2 (5.88%) SAML
4 1 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
4 9 (26.47%) Analytics
4 9 (26.47%) Project Delivery
4 9 (26.47%) Records Management
4 9 (26.47%) Regulatory Compliance
5 8 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 8 (23.53%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (14.71%) Agile
7 4 (11.76%) Logistics
7 4 (11.76%) TOGAF
8 3 (8.82%) Architecture Governance
8 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
8 3 (8.82%) SDLC
8 3 (8.82%) Security Architecture
8 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (8.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Bicep
1 2 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.94%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) SAP Certification
2 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
1 2 (5.88%) GRC
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
1 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) SAP
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce