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 £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 35 30
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 25 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.85% 4.11% 4.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.10% 4.41% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 32
10th Percentile £415 £442 £490
25th Percentile £435 £445 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £535
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -15.81% -13.30%
75th Percentile £625 £459 £688
90th Percentile £825 £495 £831
England median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -

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 807 680 750
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 93.15% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 398 547
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £346 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £442 £453
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -2.54% +0.67%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £581
90th Percentile £627 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 36 54
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.09 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.32 £24.18 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +27.45% +11.82%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.19 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.92 £52.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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 -27 9 £441 -0.84% 6
Derbyshire +10 8 £800 +33.33% 1
Nottinghamshire - 5 £600 - 3
Leicestershire - 2 £450 -
Lincolnshire -13 1 £505 - 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, 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 8 (32.00%) Azure
1 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) Architectural Design
3 6 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) Microservices
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Java
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.00%) Web Services
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Confluence
6 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) ETL
6 3 (12.00%) JIRA
6 3 (12.00%) Kafka
6 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (12.00%) PLM
6 3 (12.00%) Records Management
6 3 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (12.00%) Serverless

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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.00%) Fusion 360
2 2 (8.00%) Siemens NX
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DMZ
1 2 (8.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (12.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) GIS
2 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Gradle
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Agriculture
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Web Services
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (8.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.00%) Express.js
4 1 (4.00%) IDoc
4 1 (4.00%) MERN Stack
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) RAML
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (4.00%) SAP PI
4 1 (4.00%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (24.00%) Architectural Design
2 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.00%) Microservices
3 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) ETL
5 3 (12.00%) PLM
5 3 (12.00%) Records Management
5 3 (12.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (8.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) ABAP
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Siemens
2 2 (8.00%) Autodesk
2 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Trapeze