Principal Solutions Architect Contracts in London

Principal Solution Architect
England > London

The median Principal Solution Architect daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 495 601
Rank change year-on-year +118 +106 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 12 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.067% 0.018% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.019% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile - £788 -
25th Percentile £588 £806 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% - -
75th Percentile £763 £881 -
90th Percentile - £893 -
England median daily rate £675 £800 £750
% change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +14.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Solutions Architect in London

Principal Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Solutions Architect in London

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Principal 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 London region featuring Principal Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Service Management
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Puppet
1 12 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
1 12 (100.00%) SDLC
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
1 12 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 12 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
1 12 (100.00%) Data Lake
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 12 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) SDLC
1 12 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) Puppet
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform