Solutions Architect Contracts in Knutsford

Solution Architect
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Knutsford is £492, 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 15 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 15 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 10.27% 3.70% -
As % of the Job Titles category 12.00% 3.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile £391 £435 -
25th Percentile £405 £442 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% - -
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £644 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £550 £688 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.77% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Knutsford

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Knutsford

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Knutsford

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

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 Knutsford region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Banking
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (40.00%) Kafka
4 6 (40.00%) Docker
4 6 (40.00%) Microservices
4 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) SDLC
5 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (33.33%) Project Planning
6 4 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Finance
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
6 4 (26.67%) DynamoDB
6 4 (26.67%) RESTful
6 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
6 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
6 4 (26.67%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (26.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (26.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (26.67%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (6.67%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) ATM
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) RAML
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Blockchain
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (40.00%) Microservices
3 5 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Contingency Planning
4 4 (26.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (6.67%) VMware