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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 17 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 9.83% 7.96% -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.33% 8.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 0
10th Percentile £391 £428 -
25th Percentile £426 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% - -
75th Percentile £537 £473 -
90th Percentile £617 £520 -
Cheshire median daily rate £550 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 150 110 132
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.71% 97.35% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 102 107
10th Percentile £322 £356 £415
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -14.55% +12.59%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £606
90th Percentile £537 £630 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -5.89% -3.06% +8.89%

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 18 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 18 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 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 6 (35.29%) Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Java
4 6 (35.29%) Kafka
4 6 (35.29%) Docker
4 6 (35.29%) Microservices
5 5 (29.41%) Project Planning
5 5 (29.41%) Architectural Design
5 5 (29.41%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Serverless
5 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (23.53%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven
6 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
6 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB

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 (5.88%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) ATM
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (52.94%) Banking
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) RAML
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
2 6 (35.29%) Microservices
2 6 (35.29%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Architectural Design
3 5 (29.41%) Project Planning
3 5 (29.41%) SDLC
4 4 (23.53%) Budget Control
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Contingency Planning
4 4 (23.53%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven
4 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
5 3 (17.65%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.88%) VMware