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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 33 34 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.86% 4.55% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.19% 4.88% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 30
10th Percentile £413 £444 £499
25th Percentile £439 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £535
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -16.74% -12.38%
75th Percentile £619 £455 £675
90th Percentile £825 £487 £839
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -

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 788 697 764
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 93.31% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 414 557
10th Percentile £190 £250 £200
25th Percentile £340 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -7.05% +2.70%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 54
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.27 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.18 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.13% +6.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.56 £28.75
90th Percentile £26.50 £51.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +55.53%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -18 16 £453 +1.87% 5
Derbyshire +10 9 £800 +33.33%
Nottinghamshire - 5 £600 -
Leicestershire - 2 £450 -
Lincolnshire -10 1 £505 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 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 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Architectural Design
2 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (24.24%) Azure
4 7 (21.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (21.21%) Java
4 7 (21.21%) Microservices
4 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
6 5 (15.15%) Agile
6 5 (15.15%) Kafka
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.15%) Serverless
7 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) Docker
7 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) PLM
7 4 (12.12%) RESTful
7 4 (12.12%) SDLC
7 4 (12.12%) Siemens
7 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership

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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (9.09%) Fusion 360
2 3 (9.09%) Siemens NX
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Teamcenter
2 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) 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%) 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%) 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
1 3 (9.09%) Tableau
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Big Data
2 1 (3.03%) GIS
2 1 (3.03%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Gradle
3 2 (6.06%) Maven
General
1 9 (27.27%) Banking
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Local Government
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%) 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%) Middleware
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) RAML
5 1 (3.03%) React
5 1 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (3.03%) SAP PI
5 1 (3.03%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Architectural Design
1 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (21.21%) Microservices
3 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 6 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
5 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (12.12%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 4 (12.12%) PLM
5 4 (12.12%) SDLC
5 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) ABAP
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Siemens
2 3 (9.09%) Autodesk
3 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Trapeze