Principal Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Principal Solution Architect
England > London

The median Principal Solution Architect daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 - 386
Rank change year-on-year - - +102
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 4 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% - 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% - 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £669 - £763
90th Percentile £838 - -
England median daily rate £550 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,164 12,468 16,484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.32% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,941 8,412 11,793
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 190 304
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.86 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.11 £20.24
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.66% +15.07% -25.68%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.63 £63.88 £67.70
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.95%

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Principal Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

Principal Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Principal Solutions Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Principal Solutions Architect job vacancies in London

Principal Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Solutions Architect in London

Principal Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Central London - 1 £525 - 1
Principal Solutions Architect
England

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 July 2026, Principal 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 London region featuring Principal Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Jupyter
3 2 (50.00%) AI Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) AI Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI