Lead Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Lead Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 628 657
Rank change year-on-year +132 +29 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 45 40 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.078% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.082% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 83
10th Percentile £625 £588 £550
25th Percentile £675 £662 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% +6.12%
75th Percentile £875 £794 £781
90th Percentile £940 £875 £820
UK median daily rate £750 £713 £650
% change year-on-year +5.26% +9.62% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,525 48,539 68,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,000 34,387 48,854
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,454 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.43 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

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 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 18 April 2024. 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 +117 22 £700 -3.45% 5
South West +10 14 £838 +14.33%
East of England - 3 - -
North of England - 1 £700 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £700 -
South East - 1 £825 -
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, 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 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Security Cleared
3 18 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 16 (35.56%) Agile
5 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 14 (31.11%) SAP
6 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
7 13 (28.89%) Manufacturing
8 12 (26.67%) DV Cleared
8 12 (26.67%) Presales
9 11 (24.44%) Customer Requirements
10 10 (22.22%) Business Case
10 10 (22.22%) SLA
11 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (20.00%) DevOps
11 9 (20.00%) AWS
12 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
13 7 (15.56%) Digital Marketing
13 7 (15.56%) Marketing
13 7 (15.56%) Programme Management
13 7 (15.56%) Electronics
13 7 (15.56%) Telecoms
13 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (13.33%) Azure
15 5 (11.11%) Infor
15 5 (11.11%) Release Management
15 5 (11.11%) LabWare
15 5 (11.11%) LIMS
15 5 (11.11%) Project Management
15 5 (11.11%) Change Management

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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.22%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.22%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.22%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) GCP
3 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.22%) Alation
4 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) LAN
1 3 (6.67%) WAN
2 2 (4.44%) 5G
2 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.44%) WLAN
3 1 (2.22%) 3G
3 1 (2.22%) 4G
3 1 (2.22%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.22%) PBX
3 1 (2.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Big Data
1 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 18 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
4 13 (28.89%) Manufacturing
5 7 (15.56%) Electronics
5 7 (15.56%) Marketing
5 7 (15.56%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.44%) French Language
7 2 (4.44%) Military
8 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.22%) Billing
8 1 (2.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) .NET
1 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
1 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
1 1 (2.22%) Next.js
1 1 (2.22%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) LIMS
2 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Agile
2 12 (26.67%) Presales
3 11 (24.44%) Customer Requirements
4 10 (22.22%) Business Case
5 9 (20.00%) DevOps
5 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (15.56%) Digital Marketing
7 7 (15.56%) Programme Management
8 5 (11.11%) Change Management
8 5 (11.11%) Migration
8 5 (11.11%) Project Management
8 5 (11.11%) Release Management
9 4 (8.89%) ArchiMate
9 4 (8.89%) Data Migration
10 3 (6.67%) Computer Science
10 3 (6.67%) Cryptography
10 3 (6.67%) PRINCE2
10 3 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) C#
1 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) PMP
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) SAP
2 5 (11.11%) Infor
2 5 (11.11%) LabWare
3 3 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Databricks
4 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.44%) Juniper
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.22%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.22%) Pegasus