Solutions Architect Contracts in the East of England

Solution Architect
England > East of England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the East of England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 68 95
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 15 36 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.20% 2.14% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 2.45% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 13
10th Percentile £413 £513 £487
25th Percentile £552 £532 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £735
90th Percentile £806 £747 £790
England median daily rate £625 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,084 1,472 1,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.79% 87.62% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 634 1,090
10th Percentile £188 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £301 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £478
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.52% +0.68%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 500 271
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.24 £13.41
25th Percentile £19.13 £21.34 £16.54
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.90 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +21.10% +82.99%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the East of England

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bedfordshire +1 10 £563 - 1
Hertfordshire +8 4 £713 +5.56% 8
Suffolk -1 1 £300 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (26.67%) API Management
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Firewall
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (13.33%) VPN
5 2 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (6.67%) VMware
6 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Patterns

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Life Science
1 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Smart Meter
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) API Management
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
1 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (6.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (6.67%) Statistical Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) F5
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Genesys
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Workday