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 £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 44 38 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.88% 5.33% 3.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.37% 5.96% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 22
10th Percentile £438 £402 -
25th Percentile £514 £446 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +9.89% -32.59%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £473
90th Percentile £694 £825 £585
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £30.10 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £30.20 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -45.09% -
75th Percentile - £30.30 £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £61.50 £89.00
% change year-on-year +15.89% -30.90% +34.85%

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 1,007 638 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.88% 89.48% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 434 524
10th Percentile £200 £203 £188
25th Percentile £401 £332 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £414 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -2.65% -8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £553
90th Percentile £650 £593 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 53 90
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.10 £11.83
25th Percentile £14.65 £17.87 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.39 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +19.76% -14.95%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.15 £27.50
90th Percentile £51.25 £35.68 £51.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -8.95%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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
Nottinghamshire -6 15 £600 +17.07% 1
Northamptonshire +1 13 £650 +44.44%
Derbyshire -7 11 £600 -8.75% 2
Leicestershire -7 3 £650 +3.17%
Lincolnshire -14 2 £603 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 18 (40.91%) SAP
2 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 10 (22.73%) Analytics
4 10 (22.73%) ERP
5 9 (20.45%) TOGAF
6 8 (18.18%) Azure
6 8 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 7 (15.91%) Middleware
8 6 (13.64%) Architecture Governance
8 6 (13.64%) AWS
8 6 (13.64%) Oracle
8 6 (13.64%) SaaS
8 6 (13.64%) SAP ERP
9 5 (11.36%) Edge Computing
9 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
10 4 (9.09%) Logistics
10 4 (9.09%) OCI
10 4 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (9.09%) PaaS
10 4 (9.09%) SAP Certification
10 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (6.82%) Agile
11 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
11 3 (6.82%) Data Modelling
11 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
11 3 (6.82%) GCP
11 3 (6.82%) Microservices
11 3 (6.82%) SAP BW
11 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared

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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (13.64%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.27%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) SaaS
3 4 (9.09%) OCI
3 4 (9.09%) PaaS
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Network Security
1 2 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SAP BW
2 2 (4.55%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Hudson
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Banking
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
3 8 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Aviation
4 2 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) Middleware
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (4.55%) OAuth
3 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.55%) OpenID
3 2 (4.55%) SAML
4 1 (2.27%) Express.js
4 1 (2.27%) Kafka
4 1 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.27%) MERN Stack
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) PySpark
4 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.36%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (11.36%) Robotics
3 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 10 (22.73%) Analytics
3 10 (22.73%) ERP
4 9 (20.45%) TOGAF
5 6 (13.64%) Architecture Governance
6 5 (11.36%) Edge Computing
7 4 (9.09%) Logistics
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (6.82%) Agile
8 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.82%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (6.82%) Microservices
8 3 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.82%) Validation
9 2 (4.55%) Business Strategy
9 2 (4.55%) Interactive Application Security Testing
9 2 (4.55%) SOAR
9 2 (4.55%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.55%) Bicep
1 2 (4.55%) SQL
2 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.27%) Java
2 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) SAP Certification
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GDPR
1 2 (4.55%) GRC
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
1 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.27%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) SAP
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Concur
4 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce