Solutions Designer Contracts in England

Solution Designer
UK > England

The median Solution Designer daily rate in England is £488, 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 449 533 607
Rank change year-on-year +84 +74 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 36 9 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.024% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.026% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 20
10th Percentile £350 £470 £565
25th Percentile £409 £475 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -29.31% +20.83%
75th Percentile £650 £539 £813
90th Percentile £683 - £839
UK median daily rate £506 £513 £684
% change year-on-year -1.27% -25.05% +13.96%

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 Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Designer in England

Solutions Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Designer in England

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Designer in England

Solutions Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Designer in England

Solutions Designer
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 Designer 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 - 20 £600 - 3
South East +52 10 £350 -31.71% 7
North of England +21 5 £475 -5.00% 4
North West +16 2 £475 -5.00% 1
North East - 2 £505 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Solutions Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Solutions Designer 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 Designer in the job title.

1 11 (30.56%) Telecoms
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) Web Services
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) Microservices
3 8 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 8 (22.22%) Degree
3 8 (22.22%) Business Strategy
3 8 (22.22%) Customer Experience
4 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (19.44%) Billing
4 7 (19.44%) UML
4 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
4 7 (19.44%) REST
5 6 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (16.67%) AWS
5 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 6 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 6 (16.67%) Network Design
5 6 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (13.89%) TM Forum
6 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.89%) Edge Computing
6 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
6 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture

Solutions Designer 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 2 (5.56%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (8.33%) Azure API Management
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (8.33%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) 5G
1 4 (11.11%) LTE
1 4 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (5.56%) BGP
2 2 (5.56%) Broadband
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) MPLS
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) OSPF
2 2 (5.56%) VLAN
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
1 11 (30.56%) Telecoms
2 7 (19.44%) Billing
3 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) Web Services
2 7 (19.44%) REST
3 5 (13.89%) JSON
3 5 (13.89%) Middleware
4 2 (5.56%) Ajax
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
4 2 (5.56%) LDAP
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Frameworx
1 5 (13.89%) TM Forum
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) SCADA
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) Business Strategy
2 8 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 8 (22.22%) Microservices
3 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (19.44%) UML
4 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 6 (16.67%) Network Design
4 6 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (13.89%) CRM
5 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.89%) Edge Computing
5 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (13.89%) ITIL
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.11%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.33%) CCIE
4 3 (8.33%) CCNP
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) JNCIE
5 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.78%) PMP
6 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
3 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (5.56%) BT
5 2 (5.56%) F5
5 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.56%) Openreach
5 2 (5.56%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) SAP
6 1 (2.78%) Temenos
6 1 (2.78%) VMware