Solutions Architect Contracts in Leeds

Solution Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Leeds is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 48 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 25 42 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.07% 3.54% 5.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.32% 3.59% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 48
10th Percentile £478 £513 £534
25th Percentile £493 £588 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% -1.85% +17.39%
75th Percentile £655 £747 £725
90th Percentile £683 £800 £750
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +13.04%

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 752 1,170 1,479
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 98.48% 97.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 848 1,099
10th Percentile £300 £361 £262
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £626 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 22
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £15.16
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.75 £18.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £21.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% +1.18% +1.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.00 £26.50
90th Percentile - £63.75 £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £20.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -8.65% +9.59% -12.05%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024, 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 13 (52.00%) Migration
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.00%) F5
4 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (20.00%) Data Management
5 4 (16.00%) Degree
5 4 (16.00%) Brio
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) NHS
5 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (16.00%) Service Design
5 4 (16.00%) Architecture Governance
5 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
6 3 (12.00%) Big Data
6 3 (12.00%) Kafka
6 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.00%) OpenText
7 2 (8.00%) Finance
7 2 (8.00%) PLM

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DHCP
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Big Data
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Flink
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) NHS
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.00%) Data Management
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
3 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (16.00%) Architecture Governance
3 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.00%) Service Design
4 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (8.00%) PLM
5 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (4.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (4.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (4.00%) Logistics
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (20.00%) F5
2 4 (16.00%) Brio
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) OpenText
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Confluent
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) VMware