Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 116 99
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 743 339 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.65% 2.52% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.92% 2.71% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 196 251
10th Percentile £504 £463 £475
25th Percentile £556 £563 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £632 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -6.37% +0.75%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £800
90th Percentile £813 £800 £888
England median daily rate £638 £621 £625
% change year-on-year +2.62% -0.60% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.65 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 - £54.00
75th Percentile £49.63 - £56.00
90th Percentile £52.55 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 - £91.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.33%

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 18,962 12,491 15,139
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.75% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,257 8,339 9,944
10th Percentile £360 £330 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 201 175
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.35
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.22% -19.64% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -0.46%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in London

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 Solutions Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 1 October 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 96 £694 +6.77% 92
West London -18 4 £650 +80.56% 23
South London -9 3 £800 +10.00% 6
North London +1 2 £650 -27.78% 2
East London -1 1 £630 -8.36% 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 2026, 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 235 (31.63%) Azure
2 167 (22.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 136 (18.30%) Migration
4 134 (18.03%) AWS
5 131 (17.63%) AI
5 131 (17.63%) Roadmaps
6 121 (16.29%) Security Cleared
7 109 (14.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 109 (14.67%) Microsoft
8 103 (13.86%) DevOps
9 101 (13.59%) SC Cleared
10 99 (13.32%) Agile
11 93 (12.52%) Technical Leadership
12 90 (12.11%) Integration Patterns
13 79 (10.63%) CI/CD
14 78 (10.50%) Analytics
14 78 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 70 (9.42%) TOGAF
16 68 (9.15%) Event-Driven
17 63 (8.48%) SAP
18 62 (8.34%) Data Architecture
19 61 (8.21%) Architectural Patterns
20 60 (8.08%) Data Modelling
21 59 (7.94%) Translating Business Requirements
22 57 (7.67%) Microservices
23 56 (7.54%) Architecture Governance
24 55 (7.40%) Power Platform
25 51 (6.86%) GCP
26 49 (6.59%) CRM
26 49 (6.59%) ERP

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 10 (1.35%) CMS
2 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.81%) Confluence
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 27 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.08%) SAP BRIM
4 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.40%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.40%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.13%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 235 (31.63%) Azure
2 134 (18.03%) AWS
3 55 (7.40%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.86%) GCP
5 36 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (3.50%) Entra ID
6 26 (3.50%) SaaS
7 23 (3.10%) Serverless
8 22 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.42%) GitHub
11 16 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (1.75%) PaaS
12 13 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.62%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.62%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.48%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.48%) OCI
15 10 (1.35%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.21%) Network Security
2 7 (0.94%) Firewall
2 7 (0.94%) VPN
3 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.54%) DMZ
4 4 (0.54%) Wireless
5 3 (0.40%) FTP
5 3 (0.40%) MPLS
5 3 (0.40%) SSL
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) HTTP
6 2 (0.27%) SDH
6 2 (0.27%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.13%) ATM
7 1 (0.13%) OSPF
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.04%) Data Lake
2 22 (2.96%) Power BI
3 17 (2.29%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.02%) Metadata
5 9 (1.21%) Big Data
6 8 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.67%) Power Query
9 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.40%) GIS
10 3 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (0.94%) JIRA
2 5 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.40%) Git
4 2 (0.27%) ERwin
4 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 2 (0.27%) Maven
4 2 (0.27%) MLflow
4 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.13%) MSI
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 159 (21.40%) Finance
2 155 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 66 (8.88%) Retail
4 64 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.46%) Banking
6 26 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.69%) Billing
9 19 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.48%) Legal
13 10 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.35%) Marketing
14 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Advertising
16 4 (0.54%) Automotive
16 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.40%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.33%) .NET
2 40 (5.38%) REST
3 26 (3.50%) Kafka
4 24 (3.23%) Terraform
5 21 (2.83%) .NET Framework
6 15 (2.02%) Middleware
7 10 (1.35%) SOAP
8 9 (1.21%) OAuth
9 8 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.94%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.94%) React
11 6 (0.81%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.81%) SAML
12 5 (0.67%) JWT
12 5 (0.67%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.67%) OpenID
12 5 (0.67%) PySpark
12 5 (0.67%) Web Services
12 5 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.29%) Mainframe
8 16 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 12 (1.62%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.08%) IoT
14 7 (0.94%) NHS
15 6 (0.81%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.94%) Windows
2 5 (0.67%) Linux
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Android
4 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (22.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 136 (18.30%) Migration
3 131 (17.63%) AI
3 131 (17.63%) Roadmaps
4 109 (14.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 103 (13.86%) DevOps
6 99 (13.32%) Agile
7 93 (12.52%) Technical Leadership
8 90 (12.11%) Integration Patterns
9 79 (10.63%) CI/CD
10 78 (10.50%) Analytics
10 78 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 70 (9.42%) TOGAF
12 68 (9.15%) Event-Driven
13 62 (8.34%) Data Architecture
14 61 (8.21%) Architectural Patterns
15 60 (8.08%) Data Modelling
16 59 (7.94%) Translating Business Requirements
17 57 (7.67%) Microservices
18 56 (7.54%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.63%) Java
2 25 (3.36%) C#
3 20 (2.69%) SQL
4 17 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.62%) Python
6 11 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.35%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.40%) Bash
10 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.27%) Bicep
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Groovy
11 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 121 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.85%) Degree
4 22 (2.96%) Azure Certification
4 22 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.67%) CISA
10 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.54%) CISSP
10 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.40%) CCSP
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.23%) GDPR
2 19 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.88%) SEPA
5 10 (1.35%) NIST
6 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.81%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.54%) QA
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.40%) PSD2
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.48%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.88%) Ansible
3 9 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
5 3 (0.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.13%) Avamar
7 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.48%) SAP
3 46 (6.19%) Databricks
3 46 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 37 (4.98%) Oracle
5 28 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.15%) Google
7 13 (1.75%) BMC
8 11 (1.48%) IBM
9 9 (1.21%) Cisco
9 9 (1.21%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.08%) Workday
11 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.81%) TikTok
13 5 (0.67%) Ariba
13 5 (0.67%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.67%) VMware
14 4 (0.54%) Aruba
14 4 (0.54%) Remedy
14 4 (0.54%) Siemens