Senior Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Senior Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 512 589
Rank change year-on-year +65 +77 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 33 26 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.077% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 40
10th Percentile £493 - £613
25th Percentile £600 £606 £632
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £710
Median % change year-on-year - -4.93% +5.19%
75th Percentile £748 £813 £791
90th Percentile £875 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £688 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% +5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £102.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £102.87 -

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 22,000 33,716 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.79% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,637 22,379 32,182
10th Percentile £290 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 2,449 1,335
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £61.09 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in England

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in England

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in England

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in England

Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 +61 13 £700 -15.15% 37
South East +49 7 £588 -4.08% 74
North of England +18 4 £850 +38.78% 58
South West +38 3 £600 -11.11% 40
Midlands +17 3 £613 -9.26% 54
West Midlands +12 3 £613 -9.26% 30
Yorkshire - 2 - - 23
North West +8 1 - - 29
North East - 1 £850 - 6
Senior Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Migration
3 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
4 9 (27.27%) AWS
4 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
5 8 (24.24%) Azure
5 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (21.21%) Architectural Design
6 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
7 6 (18.18%) Data Migration
8 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
8 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
8 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Technology Roadmap
9 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (12.12%) IoT
9 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (12.12%) Degree
9 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.12%) Validation
10 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (9.09%) Device Driver
10 3 (9.09%) VMware

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) IaaS
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) PaaS
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) Serverless
3 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.06%) SAP BW
2 2 (6.06%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (6.06%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) DB2
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
3 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Military
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) CSS
1 3 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (3.03%) MACH
2 1 (3.03%) SAP PI
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) IoT
2 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Device Driver
2 3 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Migration
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (21.21%) Architectural Design
5 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.18%) Data Migration
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.15%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (15.15%) TOGAF
7 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (12.12%) Validation
9 3 (9.09%) Multithreading
9 3 (9.09%) Security Architecture
9 3 (9.09%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) C
1 3 (9.09%) Embedded C
1 3 (9.09%) Java
1 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.06%) C++
3 1 (3.03%) COBOL
3 1 (3.03%) JCL
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) SAP Certification
5 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Firmware
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
2 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.09%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) Workday
4 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.03%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce