Lead Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Lead Solution Architect
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in Leicestershire 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 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 166 101 114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 78.91% 91.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 66 80
10th Percentile £165 £126 £180
25th Percentile £313 £132 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £425
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% -20.47% -
75th Percentile £575 £469 £525
90th Percentile £640 £524 £608
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £403 £450
% change year-on-year +21.12% -10.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 4
10th Percentile £13.38 £19.03 -
25th Percentile £14.65 £19.81 £22.50
Median hourly rate £16.28 £20.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% -17.00% +36.02%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.38 £27.81
90th Percentile £27.64 £24.85 £28.38
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.31 £21.39 £21.25
% change year-on-year -14.40% +0.66% +1.19%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Lead Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Lead Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester - 1 £625 -
Lead Solutions Architect
East Midlands

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

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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