Solutions Designer Contracts in England

Solution Designer
UK > England

The median Solution Designer daily rate in England is £478, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 541 588
Rank change year-on-year +82 +47 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 33 10 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.027% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.029% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 19
10th Percentile £350 - £565
25th Percentile £423 £475 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £519 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -30.83% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £813
90th Percentile £675 £703 £840
UK median daily rate £488 £538 £693
% change year-on-year -9.30% -22.38% +15.42%

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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +67 15 £550 -33.33% 16
South East +55 11 £480 -12.73% 16
North of England +31 6 £475 -5.00%
North West +10 4 £475 -5.00%
North East - 2 £505 -
Solutions Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 9 (27.27%) Degree
4 8 (24.24%) Azure
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Web Services
4 8 (24.24%) Salesforce
4 8 (24.24%) Microservices
4 8 (24.24%) Serverless
4 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (21.21%) REST
5 7 (21.21%) UML
5 7 (21.21%) Telecoms
5 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.21%) Billing
5 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
6 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) CMS
6 6 (18.18%) High Availability
6 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
6 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (18.18%) Customer Experience
6 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
7 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (15.15%) TM Forum
7 5 (15.15%) Headless CMS
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS

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 6 (18.18%) CMS
2 5 (15.15%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Serverless
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon Cognito
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) BGP
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
1 4 (12.12%) MPLS
1 4 (12.12%) Network Security
1 4 (12.12%) OSPF
1 4 (12.12%) VLAN
1 4 (12.12%) VPN
2 2 (6.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Postman
General
1 7 (21.21%) Billing
1 7 (21.21%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Publishing
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) Web Services
2 7 (21.21%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) JSON
3 5 (15.15%) Middleware
3 5 (15.15%) OAuth
3 5 (15.15%) OAuth2
3 5 (15.15%) OpenID
3 5 (15.15%) SAML
4 2 (6.06%) OpenAPI
4 2 (6.06%) Swagger
5 1 (3.03%) Ajax
5 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.03%) LDAP
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Frameworx
1 5 (15.15%) TM Forum
2 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.12%) IoT
3 3 (9.09%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) CMDB
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) SCADA
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 8 (24.24%) Agile
2 8 (24.24%) Microservices
2 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
3 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (21.21%) UML
4 6 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (18.18%) High Availability
4 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (15.15%) CRM
5 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
5 5 (15.15%) Data Integration
5 5 (15.15%) E-Commerce
5 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (15.15%) ITSM
5 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
5 5 (15.15%) Service Delivery
5 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.12%) CCIE
4 4 (12.12%) CCNP
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (12.12%) JNCIE
4 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Salesforce
2 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco
3 4 (12.12%) F5
3 4 (12.12%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.06%) BT
4 2 (6.06%) Openreach
4 2 (6.06%) Virgin Media