Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 93 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 546 357 488
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.13% 2.81% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.38% 3.00% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 224 344
10th Percentile £481 £506 £486
25th Percentile £525 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £639
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +1.76% -5.37%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £749
90th Percentile £813 £822 £834
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £54.35 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £64.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £69.06 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £66.00 £87.00
% change year-on-year +7.98% -24.14% +28.89%

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 16,175 11,887 16,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 93.50% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 8,153 11,950
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 142 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -21.66%
75th Percentile £63.21 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.95
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -22.22%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -10 78 £675 -2.17% 39
South London -14 6 £637 -2.00%
West London -21 6 £625 +6.38% 5
East London -2 3 £630 - 3
North London - 1 £700 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 155 (28.39%) Azure
2 121 (22.16%) AWS
3 92 (16.85%) Agile
4 91 (16.67%) AI
4 91 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 88 (16.12%) Roadmaps
6 83 (15.20%) DevOps
7 80 (14.65%) Microsoft
8 78 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 72 (13.19%) Migration
10 71 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
13 56 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
15 54 (9.89%) ERP
16 53 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (9.34%) Analytics
17 51 (9.34%) Middleware
18 50 (9.16%) CI/CD
19 49 (8.97%) Microservices
20 48 (8.79%) SAP
21 43 (7.88%) Oracle
21 43 (7.88%) Python
22 42 (7.69%) .NET
22 42 (7.69%) TOGAF
23 39 (7.14%) Data Modelling
23 39 (7.14%) GCP
24 37 (6.78%) CRM
25 36 (6.59%) Java

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 15 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.28%) Camunda
3 6 (1.10%) Confluence
4 5 (0.92%) Apache
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Appian
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.18%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (5.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.92%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.92%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.92%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.73%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.73%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.73%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.73%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.55%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.18%) Maximo
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 155 (28.39%) Azure
2 121 (22.16%) AWS
3 39 (7.14%) GCP
4 31 (5.68%) SaaS
5 28 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (3.11%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.93%) Snowflake
9 15 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (2.01%) Serverless
10 11 (2.01%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.65%) Azure AI
11 9 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.47%) PaaS
13 7 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.83%) Firewall
1 10 (1.83%) WAN
2 9 (1.65%) VPN
3 7 (1.28%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.10%) Network Security
5 5 (0.92%) DNS
6 4 (0.73%) MPLS
6 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) 5G
7 3 (0.55%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.37%) FTP
8 2 (0.37%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.37%) IPv4
8 2 (0.37%) IPv6
8 2 (0.37%) LAN
8 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.37%) SMS
8 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.95%) Data Lake
2 16 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.38%) Power BI
4 12 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.10%) Big Data
7 5 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.92%) Metadata
7 5 (0.92%) Tableau
8 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.73%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.55%) Flink
9 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.37%) DB2
10 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.37%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (2.01%) JIRA
2 4 (0.73%) MLflow
3 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
3 3 (0.55%) Git
4 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.37%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.18%) ERwin
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Maven
5 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.18%) Subversion
5 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 153 (28.02%) Finance
2 131 (23.99%) Social Skills
3 54 (9.89%) Banking
3 54 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (3.48%) Legal
7 17 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.93%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.93%) Retail
9 14 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.01%) Billing
11 10 (1.83%) Law
12 9 (1.65%) Marketing
13 7 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.92%) Local Government
15 4 (0.73%) Back Office
16 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.37%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.34%) Middleware
2 42 (7.69%) .NET
3 29 (5.31%) REST
4 18 (3.30%) React
5 13 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.38%) Kafka
6 12 (2.20%) .NET Framework
7 10 (1.83%) Vue
8 7 (1.28%) SOAP
9 6 (1.10%) CSS
9 6 (1.10%) HTML
9 6 (1.10%) OAuth
10 5 (0.92%) OpenID
10 5 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.92%) Spring
10 5 (0.92%) XML
11 4 (0.73%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.73%) LDAP
11 4 (0.73%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (2.93%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.01%) FMCG
7 10 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.10%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.73%) NHS
13 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.47%) Windows
2 4 (0.73%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (16.85%) Agile
2 91 (16.67%) AI
3 88 (16.12%) Roadmaps
4 83 (15.20%) DevOps
5 72 (13.19%) Migration
6 71 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
9 56 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
10 55 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
11 54 (9.89%) ERP
12 53 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 51 (9.34%) Analytics
14 50 (9.16%) CI/CD
15 49 (8.97%) Microservices
16 42 (7.69%) TOGAF
17 39 (7.14%) Data Modelling
18 37 (6.78%) CRM
19 35 (6.41%) Architectural Patterns
19 35 (6.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.88%) Python
2 36 (6.59%) Java
3 25 (4.58%) C#
4 20 (3.66%) SQL
5 12 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.55%) Bash
8 3 (0.55%) R
8 3 (0.55%) Scala
9 2 (0.37%) Korn
9 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) RPG
10 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 91 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.41%) Degree
4 22 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.92%) CISA
10 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.55%) CISSP
11 3 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.55%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.37%) CCNP
12 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.37%) CISM
12 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.31%) GDPR
2 10 (1.83%) SEPA
3 9 (1.65%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.47%) PSD2
4 8 (1.47%) QA
5 6 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.92%) NIST
6 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.73%) HL7
8 3 (0.55%) TARGET2
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (3.48%) Docker
2 14 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) Squid
4 2 (0.37%) Ceph
4 2 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.37%) Lustre
4 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (4.95%) Kubernetes
1 27 (4.95%) Terraform
2 8 (1.47%) Grafana
2 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.28%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.37%) Consul
5 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.37%) SCCM
6 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 80 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.79%) SAP
3 43 (7.88%) Oracle
4 32 (5.86%) Salesforce
5 28 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 23 (4.21%) Databricks
7 13 (2.38%) Workday
8 12 (2.20%) Software AG
9 11 (2.01%) Ariba
9 11 (2.01%) Google
10 9 (1.65%) Cisco
10 9 (1.65%) IBM
11 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.73%) Adobe
13 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.73%) IFS
13 4 (0.73%) Yardi