Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in England is £625, 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 94 75 87
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 685 1,011 1,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.81% 2.72% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 2.93% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 695 964
10th Percentile £463 £494 £525
25th Percentile £550 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £754
90th Percentile £800 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 11
10th Percentile £39.06 £54.50 £36.54
25th Percentile £58.50 £71.75 £63.75
Median hourly rate £63.00 £88.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +33.33% +11.86%
75th Percentile £74.38 £91.00 £80.13
90th Percentile £81.47 £96.35 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £88.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% +31.84% +13.14%

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%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in England

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 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 -17 359 £650 - 283
North of England +5 105 £600 -4.00% 62
North West +8 83 £600 -4.00% 37
Midlands +16 64 £525 -19.23% 31
South East -21 64 £625 - 115
South West -23 47 £550 -15.38% 31
West Midlands +8 40 £575 -11.54% 16
East Midlands +14 23 £475 -19.15% 12
East of England +13 19 £650 -3.70% 12
Yorkshire -5 19 £613 -5.77% 22
North East -2 4 £725 +20.83% 3
Solutions Architect
UK

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

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

1 210 (30.66%) Azure
2 188 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 156 (22.77%) AWS
4 143 (20.88%) Agile
5 133 (19.42%) Roadmaps
6 125 (18.25%) Microsoft
7 121 (17.66%) Security Cleared
8 120 (17.52%) Finance
9 108 (15.77%) SC Cleared
10 99 (14.45%) Migration
11 95 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 89 (12.99%) TOGAF
13 81 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (11.39%) DevOps
15 77 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
16 60 (8.76%) GCP
17 59 (8.61%) Microservices
17 59 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
18 58 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
18 58 (8.47%) Degree
19 53 (7.74%) Banking
20 52 (7.59%) Java
20 52 (7.59%) CI/CD
21 50 (7.30%) Power Platform
22 49 (7.15%) SAP
23 48 (7.01%) Decision-Making
24 44 (6.42%) Architectural Design
24 44 (6.42%) .NET
25 43 (6.28%) Retail
26 41 (5.99%) ServiceNow

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 14 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.90%) Confluence
3 7 (1.02%) WebSphere
4 6 (0.88%) Apache
4 6 (0.88%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Appian
6 1 (0.15%) CICS
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 12 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.73%) InfoPath
5 4 (0.58%) Trello
6 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.44%) Revit
7 1 (0.15%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.73%) SAP MDG
3 5 (0.73%) SAP MDG-S
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.58%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.44%) Magento
5 3 (0.44%) Maximo
5 3 (0.44%) Primavera
5 3 (0.44%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.44%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.29%) Avolution ABACUS
6 2 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 210 (30.66%) Azure
2 156 (22.77%) AWS
3 60 (8.76%) GCP
4 50 (7.30%) Power Platform
5 40 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
6 37 (5.40%) Serverless
7 35 (5.11%) SaaS
8 30 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (3.94%) PowerApps
10 26 (3.80%) Entra ID
11 22 (3.21%) PaaS
12 20 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (2.77%) Power Automate
14 14 (2.04%) Azure Functions
15 13 (1.90%) GitHub
16 12 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
18 10 (1.46%) IaaS
19 9 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.80%) Firewall
2 17 (2.48%) DNS
3 13 (1.90%) Kerberos
4 11 (1.61%) Network Security
5 8 (1.17%) WAN
6 7 (1.02%) MQTT
6 7 (1.02%) VPN
7 6 (0.88%) LAN
7 6 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.58%) HTTP
8 4 (0.58%) Modbus
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
9 3 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.29%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.29%) MPLS
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.77%) Big Data
1 19 (2.77%) Power BI
1 19 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.75%) Data Lake
2 12 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.17%) DB2
5 8 (1.17%) RDBMS
5 8 (1.17%) SAP HANA
6 7 (1.02%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.44%) GIS
8 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.44%) MySQL
8 3 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (2.48%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.19%) GitLab
3 13 (1.90%) JIRA
4 7 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.58%) MSI
5 4 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 188 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.52%) Finance
3 59 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.74%) Banking
5 43 (6.28%) Retail
6 40 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 35 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.65%) Legal
9 23 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.04%) Marketing
12 12 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.31%) Law
15 7 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
16 6 (0.88%) Aviation
17 5 (0.73%) Back Office
17 5 (0.73%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.42%) .NET
2 27 (3.94%) HTML
3 24 (3.50%) Kafka
3 24 (3.50%) Middleware
4 21 (3.07%) CSS
5 20 (2.92%) REST
6 16 (2.34%) .NET Framework
7 13 (1.90%) React
8 12 (1.75%) JSON
9 11 (1.61%) RESTful
9 11 (1.61%) Web Services
10 10 (1.46%) AngularJS
10 10 (1.46%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.46%) Node.js
10 10 (1.46%) XML
11 9 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 9 (1.31%) OAuth
12 8 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
13 6 (0.88%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (0.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.55%) Public Cloud
2 29 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.77%) Private Cloud
6 18 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.19%) Replication
9 13 (1.90%) PKI
10 12 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.61%) CMDB
12 10 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.31%) IoT
13 9 (1.31%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
14 8 (1.17%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.34%) Windows
2 15 (2.19%) Linux
3 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.44%) CentOS
5 3 (0.44%) HPUX
5 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (20.88%) Agile
2 133 (19.42%) Roadmaps
3 99 (14.45%) Migration
4 95 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 89 (12.99%) TOGAF
6 81 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (11.39%) DevOps
8 77 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
9 59 (8.61%) Microservices
10 58 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
11 52 (7.59%) CI/CD
12 48 (7.01%) Decision-Making
13 44 (6.42%) Architectural Design
14 39 (5.69%) Event-Driven
15 38 (5.55%) Analytics
15 38 (5.55%) CRM
15 38 (5.55%) Data Integration
16 37 (5.40%) Data Modelling
17 36 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 35 (5.11%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (7.59%) Java
2 39 (5.69%) JavaScript
3 37 (5.40%) SQL
4 31 (4.53%) C#
5 22 (3.21%) Python
6 11 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.88%) Scala
9 5 (0.73%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.73%) Bicep
10 3 (0.44%) C
10 3 (0.44%) C++
10 3 (0.44%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.44%) Go
10 3 (0.44%) PHP
11 1 (0.15%) Bash
11 1 (0.15%) COBOL
11 1 (0.15%) Groovy
11 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 108 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.47%) Degree
4 34 (4.96%) TOGAF Certification
5 33 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.92%) Azure Certification
9 15 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.46%) CISSP
11 7 (1.02%) CISM
11 7 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.73%) CCNP
13 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.58%) OCP
14 4 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.58%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.53%) QA
2 10 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.17%) GDPR
4 7 (1.02%) GRC
5 6 (0.88%) NIST
6 4 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.29%) DICOM
8 2 (0.29%) HL7
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.29%) SEPA
9 1 (0.15%) FISMA
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.19%) Docker
3 12 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.44%) Firmware
6 3 (0.44%) vCloud
6 3 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (0.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) KVM
7 1 (0.15%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.15%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.15%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (4.96%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.92%) Terraform
3 13 (1.90%) Ansible
4 6 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.58%) Kibana
7 3 (0.44%) SCCM
8 1 (0.15%) CASB
8 1 (0.15%) Grafana
8 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 125 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.15%) SAP
3 41 (5.99%) ServiceNow
4 40 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 35 (5.11%) Oracle
6 28 (4.09%) Google
7 16 (2.34%) Databricks
8 12 (1.75%) IBM
8 12 (1.75%) VMware
9 9 (1.31%) BiZZdesign
10 8 (1.17%) Cisco
10 8 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.02%) Ariba
11 7 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.02%) Workday
12 6 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.88%) Qualys
12 6 (0.88%) Talend
13 5 (0.73%) Dell
13 5 (0.73%) Fortinet