Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends 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 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 90 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 825 769 993
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.64% 2.65% 2.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.89% 2.86% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 470 698
10th Percentile £458 £463 £513
25th Percentile £519 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £713 £725 £725
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £645
% change year-on-year - -3.10% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 2
10th Percentile £63.50 - £72.75
25th Percentile £77.55 £61.50 £73.13
Median hourly rate £83.82 £65.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.97% -12.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £94.83 £66.38 £76.88
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.98 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -12.00% +7.14%

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 28,510 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,200 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 December 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 -8 367 £650 - 107
South East +29 145 £600 -7.69% 103
North of England -29 138 £600 +2.56% 86
North West -42 69 £563 -4.05% 51
Midlands -39 64 £550 -3.00% 70
Yorkshire -5 63 £600 +4.71% 33
South West -6 55 £688 +19.57% 46
West Midlands -36 48 £550 -4.01% 42
East of England -16 31 £588 -9.62% 45
East Midlands -13 16 £500 +2.04% 26
North East -4 6 £663 -10.17% 3
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 273 (33.09%) Azure
2 174 (21.09%) AWS
3 172 (20.85%) Security Cleared
4 151 (18.30%) Roadmaps
5 146 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 136 (16.48%) Microsoft
7 127 (15.39%) Agile
8 121 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 118 (14.30%) TOGAF
10 109 (13.21%) SC Cleared
11 104 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
12 98 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
13 96 (11.64%) Migration
14 93 (11.27%) DevOps
15 91 (11.03%) Microservices
16 86 (10.42%) Architectural Design
17 75 (9.09%) GCP
18 72 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
19 71 (8.61%) SAP
20 68 (8.24%) AI
21 64 (7.76%) Identity Access Management
22 59 (7.15%) Salesforce
23 56 (6.79%) CI/CD
23 56 (6.79%) Data Modelling
24 51 (6.18%) DV Cleared
25 50 (6.06%) Architectural Patterns
25 50 (6.06%) SaaS
26 49 (5.94%) Degree
26 49 (5.94%) Integration Patterns
27 48 (5.82%) ERP

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:

Application Platforms
1 39 (4.73%) Confluence
2 27 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.21%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.61%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.48%) Smallworld
7 3 (0.36%) Apache
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.24%) Documentum
8 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.12%) Revit
5 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 43 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.82%) Maximo
2 15 (1.82%) Workday HCM
3 11 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (1.09%) SAP PM
5 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.85%) SAP PP
7 6 (0.73%) Oracle SCM
7 6 (0.73%) SAP EWM
7 6 (0.73%) SAP QM
8 5 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.61%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.61%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.48%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.36%) SAP Retail
10 3 (0.36%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 273 (33.09%) Azure
2 174 (21.09%) AWS
3 75 (9.09%) GCP
4 50 (6.06%) SaaS
5 33 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (3.76%) Entra ID
7 27 (3.27%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.55%) Serverless
11 18 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.70%) GitHub
13 13 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.58%) PaaS
13 13 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
14 12 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (1.33%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.33%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.00%) Firewall
2 19 (2.30%) DNS
3 18 (2.18%) WAN
4 17 (2.06%) VPN
5 14 (1.70%) SD-WAN
6 12 (1.45%) LAN
7 11 (1.33%) MPLS
8 10 (1.21%) BGP
8 10 (1.21%) Network Security
8 10 (1.21%) OSPF
9 9 (1.09%) DHCP
10 8 (0.97%) VLAN
11 6 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (0.73%) IPsec
12 5 (0.61%) 5G
12 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.48%) ATM
13 4 (0.48%) IPv4
13 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
13 4 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (1.82%) GIS
3 14 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.58%) Tableau
5 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.21%) Power BI
7 6 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (0.73%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.73%) SAP BW
8 5 (0.61%) Metadata
9 4 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (0.48%) Big Data
9 4 (0.48%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.36%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 45 (5.45%) JIRA
2 16 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.82%) Git
4 11 (1.33%) GitLab
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.24%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Postman
6 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) MLflow
7 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 249 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 183 (22.18%) Finance
3 82 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 71 (8.61%) Banking
5 60 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (4.12%) Retail
7 29 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.67%) Legal
12 19 (2.30%) Billing
13 16 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.58%) Marketing
15 8 (0.97%) Back Office
15 8 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.97%) Military
16 6 (0.73%) Law
17 5 (0.61%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.97%) Middleware
2 33 (4.00%) REST
3 31 (3.76%) .NET
4 18 (2.18%) SOAP
5 17 (2.06%) OAuth
6 16 (1.94%) SailPoint
7 14 (1.70%) Kafka
8 12 (1.45%) SAML
9 11 (1.33%) OAuth2
9 11 (1.33%) OpenID
9 11 (1.33%) React
9 11 (1.33%) RESTful
10 10 (1.21%) JSON
10 10 (1.21%) Web Services
11 9 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.09%) Node.js
11 9 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (0.97%) XML
13 7 (0.85%) Spring
13 7 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 14 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.33%) FMCG
8 11 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.09%) NHS
10 7 (0.85%) IoT
10 7 (0.85%) Mobile App
10 7 (0.85%) PACS
10 7 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.73%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.91%) Windows
2 17 (2.06%) Linux
3 12 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) MVS
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (18.30%) Roadmaps
2 146 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 127 (15.39%) Agile
4 121 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 118 (14.30%) TOGAF
6 104 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
7 98 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
8 96 (11.64%) Migration
9 93 (11.27%) DevOps
10 91 (11.03%) Microservices
11 86 (10.42%) Architectural Design
12 72 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (8.24%) AI
14 64 (7.76%) Identity Access Management
15 56 (6.79%) CI/CD
15 56 (6.79%) Data Modelling
16 50 (6.06%) Architectural Patterns
17 49 (5.94%) Integration Patterns
18 48 (5.82%) ERP
19 47 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.82%) Java
2 34 (4.12%) Python
3 21 (2.55%) SQL
4 20 (2.42%) C#
5 15 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.58%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.61%) Bash
9 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.24%) Go
10 2 (0.24%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) Bicep
11 1 (0.12%) Perl
11 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.12%) R
11 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 172 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 109 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 49 (5.94%) Degree
5 32 (3.88%) Azure Certification
6 30 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (3.52%) CISSP
8 21 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.18%) CISM
11 15 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.97%) CCNP
14 8 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.85%) CCIE
15 7 (0.85%) PhD
16 6 (0.73%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.85%) GDPR
2 20 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.30%) NIST
4 13 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.45%) QA
6 11 (1.33%) NCSC
7 8 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.85%) GRC
9 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.61%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.24%) COBIT
13 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.24%) MiFID
13 2 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.03%) Docker
3 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.48%) vSphere
6 3 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.24%) Ceph
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.24%) Lustre
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) SRDF
8 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (5.09%) Terraform
2 38 (4.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.18%) Ansible
4 17 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.36%) SCCM
8 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.24%) SCOM
9 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.12%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 136 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.61%) SAP
3 59 (7.15%) Salesforce
4 44 (5.33%) Oracle
5 29 (3.52%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.27%) IBM
7 25 (3.03%) Google
8 23 (2.79%) Workday
9 20 (2.42%) Cisco
10 18 (2.18%) CyberArk
10 18 (2.18%) Databricks
11 16 (1.94%) BiZZdesign
12 14 (1.70%) Centrify
12 14 (1.70%) F5
13 12 (1.45%) VMware
14 11 (1.33%) OpenAI
14 11 (1.33%) Palo Alto
15 10 (1.21%) Juniper
15 10 (1.21%) Virgin Media
16 8 (0.97%) Ariba