Lead Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Lead Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 508 613
Rank change year-on-year +44 +105 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 21 34 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.091% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.099% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 30
10th Percentile £569 £641 £586
25th Percentile £625 £675 £655
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £763 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +5.17% +11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £875 £784
90th Percentile £744 £923 £830
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in England

Lead Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in England

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in England

Lead Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in England

Lead Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +35 14 £650 -7.14% 6
South West +39 3 - - 3
South East +47 2 £625 -24.24% 3
North of England +19 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (33.33%) CMDB
2 7 (33.33%) Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) Service Management
2 7 (33.33%) ITSM
2 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) Web Services
2 7 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 7 (33.33%) RBAC
2 7 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 7 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) AWS
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 5 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (19.05%) Finance
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Pega
6 3 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.76%) Hazelcast
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 7 (33.33%) HTML
1 7 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) iSeries
2 2 (9.52%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (33.33%) Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) ITSM
2 7 (33.33%) RBAC
2 7 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 7 (33.33%) Service Management
3 6 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
7 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (9.52%) ERP
7 2 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.52%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (14.29%) Pega
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce