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 £503, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 31 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 33 36 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.18% 4.50% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.58% 4.82% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 27
10th Percentile £411 - £523
25th Percentile £446 £445 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £567
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -20.63% -1.39%
75th Percentile £594 £473 £681
90th Percentile £825 £564 £843
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.10 - -
Median hourly rate £30.20 - -
75th Percentile £30.30 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.20 £91.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.81% +21.33% +4.90%

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 721 747 809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 93.38% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 448 582
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £330 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 52 47
10th Percentile £15.54 £12.71 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.98% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £25.96 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -20 15 £453 +1.87% 2
Derbyshire +12 11 £800 +33.33% 8
Lincolnshire +2 3 £505 -34.84% 2
Nottinghamshire - 3 £588 - 4
Leicestershire - 1 £500 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Banking
3 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) Microservices
3 8 (24.24%) Architectural Design
4 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
4 7 (21.21%) Service Delivery
4 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
5 6 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (18.18%) Azure
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Serverless
6 5 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (15.15%) Kafka
6 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
6 5 (15.15%) PLM
6 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
6 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (15.15%) Siemens
7 4 (12.12%) Web Services
7 4 (12.12%) CAD
7 4 (12.12%) Autodesk
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) Teamcenter
7 4 (12.12%) Agile
7 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) Docker

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Fusion 360
1 4 (12.12%) Siemens NX
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Teamcenter
2 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.03%) Apigee
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.03%) Kong
6 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DMZ
1 2 (6.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Big Data
2 1 (3.03%) GIS
2 1 (3.03%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Gradle
2 2 (6.06%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Banking
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Police
4 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Kafka
2 4 (12.12%) RESTful
2 4 (12.12%) Web Services
3 3 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (6.06%) RAML
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) SailPoint
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) Express.js
5 1 (3.03%) IDoc
5 1 (3.03%) MERN Stack
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) OAuth
5 1 (3.03%) OpenID
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (3.03%) SAP PI
5 1 (3.03%) Spring
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Derivative
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Architectural Design
1 8 (24.24%) Microservices
2 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
2 7 (21.21%) Service Delivery
3 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (15.15%) PLM
4 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
5 4 (12.12%) Agile
5 4 (12.12%) CAD
5 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
5 4 (12.12%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.12%) SDLC
5 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (12.12%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) ABAP
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Siemens
2 4 (12.12%) Autodesk
3 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Trapeze