Senior Solutions Architect Contracts in London

Senior Solution Architect
England > London

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 389 413
Rank change year-on-year +35 +24 +145
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 17 6 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.036% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.038% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 44
10th Percentile £593 £644 £446
25th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £748 £825 £738
90th Percentile £800 £840 £839
England median daily rate £650 £738 £683
% change year-on-year -11.86% +8.06% -2.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,663 15,831 23,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.16% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 11,283 17,345
10th Percentile £331 £338 £359
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 248 265
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.69 £22.00 £23.36
Median hourly rate £30.40 £32.15 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% -17.58% +11.43%
75th Percentile £50.13 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £82.40
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -35.98% -3.53% +72.76%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in London

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in London

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in London

Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 23 July 2025. 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 +4 4 £700 -
South London - 1 - -
Senior Solutions Architect
England

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Azure
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
5 4 (23.53%) Banking
6 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Degree
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 3 (17.65%) HTML
6 3 (17.65%) Java
6 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (17.65%) CSS
6 3 (17.65%) ITSM
6 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) SAP BW
2 2 (11.76%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (11.76%) SAP HANA
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) SAP PI
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) COBOL
2 1 (5.88%) JCL
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) SAP Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Guidewire