Lead Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Lead Solution Architect
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in Leicester is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 88 67 89
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 78.82% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 42 62
10th Percentile £313 £123 £267
25th Percentile £409 £183 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% +1.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £479 £530
90th Percentile £698 £525 £604
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £338 £425
% change year-on-year +33.14% -20.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £15.08 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile - - £28.13
90th Percentile - - £28.50
Leicestershire median hourly rate £16.28 £20.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% -17.00% +36.02%

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, Lead Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leicester region featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce