Lead Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 508 558
Rank change year-on-year -7 +50 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 13 20 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.047% 0.062% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.067% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 20
10th Percentile £573 £621 £601
25th Percentile £675 £675 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £719
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £738 £838 £775
90th Percentile £758 £1,140 £871
UK median daily rate £700 £750 £719
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.35% -0.86%

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 25,491 30,015 39,142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,452 18,397 27,353
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,389 1,357 1,375
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -0.46% +71.64%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.82% +70.19%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Lead Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in England

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in England

Lead Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 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
London +24 5 £700 -23.29% 4
North of England -28 3 £700 +3.70% 3
South West +18 2 £700 +3.70% 1
Midlands -12 2 - -
North West -16 2 £608 -10.00% 1
West Midlands -16 2 - -
South East +12 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £700 -
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

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

1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) Foundry
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
5 3 (23.08%) Google
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (23.08%) Azure AI
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
6 2 (15.38%) Target Operating Model
6 2 (15.38%) Metadata
6 2 (15.38%) Vertex AI
6 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
6 2 (15.38%) Electronics
6 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle
6 2 (15.38%) SAP

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure AI
3 2 (15.38%) Vertex AI
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Metadata
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Electronics
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Open Source
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Target Operating Model
4 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Foundry
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Pega
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler