Solutions Architect Contracts in Leeds

Solution Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Leeds is £600, 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 47 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 13 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.80% 2.25% 3.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 2.45% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 27
10th Percentile £500 £550 £513
25th Percentile £547 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £788
90th Percentile £736 £770 £805
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £650 £688
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% +7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Leeds

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Leeds

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Leeds

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

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 Leeds region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Unisys
3 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) HPUX
3 2 (15.38%) Solaris
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) OOP
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) LDAP
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Sun
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Degree

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OpenID
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) HPUX
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Solaris
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Migration
1 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
1 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (15.38%) CRM
2 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) ETL
2 2 (15.38%) High Availability
2 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (15.38%) OOP
2 2 (15.38%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science
3 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C++
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) IBM
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Sun
1 2 (15.38%) Unisys
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce