Solutions Architect Contracts in Glasgow

Solution Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Glasgow 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 51 60 61
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 28 22 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.51% 2.51% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 2.64% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 18
10th Percentile £406 £513 £561
25th Percentile £569 £592 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £711 £688 £694
90th Percentile £723 £700 £700
Scotland median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +12.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Glasgow

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Glasgow

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Glasgow

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

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 Glasgow region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (53.57%) Finance
4 12 (42.86%) AWS
5 11 (39.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 11 (39.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (39.29%) AWS Certification
6 9 (32.14%) Azure Certification
7 8 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (28.57%) Event-Driven
7 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
7 8 (28.57%) Agile
7 8 (28.57%) Banking
8 7 (25.00%) TOGAF
8 7 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (21.43%) Community of Practice
9 6 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (21.43%) Data Security
10 5 (17.86%) Python
10 5 (17.86%) Microservices
10 5 (17.86%) Waterfall
10 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (14.29%) Architectural Design
11 4 (14.29%) Java
11 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (7.14%) Finacle
1 2 (7.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (53.57%) Finance
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Private Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Back Office
7 1 (3.57%) Front Office
7 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) JMS
2 1 (3.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Derivative
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Architectural Patterns
1 11 (39.29%) Enterprise Architecture
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 7 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 6 (21.43%) Community of Practice
4 6 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
4 6 (21.43%) Data Security
5 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (17.86%) Microservices
5 5 (17.86%) Waterfall
6 4 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps
7 3 (10.71%) OO
7 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.71%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) AWS Certification
2 9 (32.14%) Azure Certification
3 8 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) CISM
4 3 (10.71%) CISSP
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.57%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle
1 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.14%) Autodesk
2 2 (7.14%) Avaloq
2 2 (7.14%) Qualys
2 2 (7.14%) Temenos
3 1 (3.57%) Ariba
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Sybase