Solutions Architect Contracts in the East Midlands

Solution Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 38 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.27% 3.59% 3.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.93% 3.81% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 36
10th Percentile £402 - £538
25th Percentile £446 £445 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -32.59% +31.71%
75th Percentile £575 £473 £800
90th Percentile £825 £585 £850
England median daily rate £625 £646 £675
% change year-on-year -3.25% -4.30% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
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 £61.50 £88.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -30.11% +33.33% +11.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 641 814 966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.90% 94.21% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 522 742
10th Percentile £203 £190 £213
25th Percentile £332 £311 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -10.53% +6.15%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £593 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 89 50
10th Percentile £15.10 £11.83 £13.11
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.16
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.00 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -17.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £52.81
90th Percentile £35.68 £51.91 £65.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect 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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect 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 6 July 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
Northamptonshire -12 18 £450 - 18
Derbyshire +18 12 £658 - 18
Leicestershire +4 4 £630 +7.23% 10
Lincolnshire +3 2 - - 9
Nottinghamshire - 2 £513 - 13
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 14 (36.84%) Banking
3 12 (31.58%) Finance
4 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
5 7 (18.42%) Migration
5 7 (18.42%) Java
5 7 (18.42%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
5 7 (18.42%) Microservices
5 7 (18.42%) Architectural Design
5 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.79%) Azure
6 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
6 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) TOGAF
7 5 (13.16%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (13.16%) RESTful
7 5 (13.16%) Siemens
7 5 (13.16%) PLM
7 5 (13.16%) Docker
7 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
7 5 (13.16%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
8 4 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (10.53%) Fusion 360
8 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Fusion 360
1 4 (10.53%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.89%) Serverless
4 1 (2.63%) Apigee
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.63%) Kong
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DMZ
1 2 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) GIS
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Gradle
2 2 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 14 (36.84%) Banking
2 12 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Retail
5 2 (5.26%) Law
5 2 (5.26%) Police
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Local Government
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) RESTful
2 4 (10.53%) Kafka
3 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (2.63%) OAuth
5 1 (2.63%) OpenID
5 1 (2.63%) RAML
5 1 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) Spring
5 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
1 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Derivative
3 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
2 7 (18.42%) Agile
2 7 (18.42%) Architectural Design
2 7 (18.42%) Microservices
2 7 (18.42%) Migration
2 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
3 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.79%) TOGAF
4 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.16%) Domain-Driven Design
4 5 (13.16%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (13.16%) PLM
5 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
5 4 (10.53%) ETL
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.53%) Scrum
5 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Siemens
2 4 (10.53%) Autodesk
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) NetApp
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Avaya
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Logitech
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Trapeze