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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 115 91
Rank change year-on-year +40 -24 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 763 333 449
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 2.48% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.02% 2.68% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 194 292
10th Percentile £501 £466 £485
25th Percentile £550 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -
75th Percentile £750 £725 £800
90th Percentile £805 £800 £888
England median daily rate £638 £618 £625
% change year-on-year +3.23% -1.19% -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 £30.20 £91.00
% change year-on-year +135.99% -66.81% +27.72%

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 18,969 12,439 15,125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 92.80% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,323 10,236
10th Percentile £363 £325 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 207 180
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.97 £23.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% -8.06% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.05% +5.56%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +7 91 £694 +4.32% 43
West London -16 4 £650 +80.56% 10
South London -10 3 £850 +27.87% 2
North London -1 2 £650 -27.78%
East London -1 2 £650 -5.53% 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 238 (31.19%) Azure
2 158 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 156 (20.45%) AWS
4 138 (18.09%) Migration
5 133 (17.43%) AI
6 130 (17.04%) Roadmaps
7 118 (15.47%) Security Cleared
8 113 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
9 110 (14.42%) Agile
10 109 (14.29%) Microsoft
11 105 (13.76%) DevOps
12 101 (13.24%) SC Cleared
13 91 (11.93%) Technical Leadership
14 89 (11.66%) Integration Patterns
15 87 (11.40%) Analytics
16 84 (11.01%) CI/CD
17 81 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 71 (9.31%) Event-Driven
18 71 (9.31%) TOGAF
19 67 (8.78%) Data Architecture
20 66 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
21 65 (8.52%) SAP
22 64 (8.39%) Data Modelling
23 61 (7.99%) Translating Business Requirements
24 60 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
25 57 (7.47%) Architecture Governance
26 56 (7.34%) Power Platform
27 55 (7.21%) Microservices
28 54 (7.08%) GCP
29 52 (6.82%) .NET

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 9 (1.18%) CMS
2 8 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.92%) Confluence
4 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.52%) Apache
5 4 (0.52%) Camunda
6 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.05%) SAP BRIM
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.52%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.39%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.26%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 238 (31.19%) Azure
2 156 (20.45%) AWS
3 56 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 54 (7.08%) GCP
5 33 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (3.67%) SaaS
7 26 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.15%) Serverless
9 22 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.49%) GitHub
12 15 (1.97%) PaaS
13 14 (1.83%) Azure AI
13 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (1.70%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.57%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.57%) Snowflake
16 11 (1.44%) Azure Functions
16 11 (1.44%) OCI
17 10 (1.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) Network Security
2 9 (1.18%) Firewall
3 7 (0.92%) VPN
4 5 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.52%) DMZ
5 4 (0.52%) MPLS
6 3 (0.39%) DNS
6 3 (0.39%) FTP
6 3 (0.39%) SSL
6 3 (0.39%) VoIP
6 3 (0.39%) Wireless
7 2 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) DHCP
7 2 (0.26%) HTTP
7 2 (0.26%) IPv4
7 2 (0.26%) IPv6
7 2 (0.26%) RFID
7 2 (0.26%) SDH
7 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 2 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.24%) Data Lake
2 25 (3.28%) Power BI
3 19 (2.49%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.10%) Metadata
5 15 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.31%) Big Data
7 9 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.79%) Delta Lake
8 6 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.66%) Power Query
10 4 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.52%) Flink
10 4 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.39%) GIS
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.18%) JIRA
2 5 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.52%) Git
4 3 (0.39%) ERwin
4 3 (0.39%) Maven
4 3 (0.39%) MLflow
5 2 (0.26%) GitLab
5 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.13%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
6 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.13%) VersionOne
General
1 170 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 154 (20.18%) Finance
3 67 (8.78%) Retail
4 66 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.16%) Banking
6 34 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.88%) Billing
9 17 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.10%) Legal
11 15 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.92%) Marketing
14 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.79%) Advertising
16 5 (0.66%) Local Government
17 4 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.52%) Automotive
17 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.82%) .NET
2 45 (5.90%) REST
3 25 (3.28%) Kafka
4 24 (3.15%) Terraform
5 22 (2.88%) .NET Framework
6 20 (2.62%) Middleware
7 11 (1.44%) React
8 10 (1.31%) SOAP
9 9 (1.18%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.18%) OAuth
10 8 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
11 6 (0.79%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (0.79%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (0.66%) PySpark
12 5 (0.66%) RESTful
12 5 (0.66%) SAML
12 5 (0.66%) Spring
12 5 (0.66%) Vue
12 5 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.36%) Mainframe
6 18 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.05%) IoT
13 8 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.79%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.79%) NHS
16 5 (0.66%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.92%) Windows
2 5 (0.66%) Linux
3 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Android
4 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 138 (18.09%) Migration
3 133 (17.43%) AI
4 130 (17.04%) Roadmaps
5 113 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 110 (14.42%) Agile
7 105 (13.76%) DevOps
8 91 (11.93%) Technical Leadership
9 89 (11.66%) Integration Patterns
10 87 (11.40%) Analytics
11 84 (11.01%) CI/CD
12 81 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 71 (9.31%) Event-Driven
13 71 (9.31%) TOGAF
14 67 (8.78%) Data Architecture
15 66 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
16 64 (8.39%) Data Modelling
17 61 (7.99%) Translating Business Requirements
18 60 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
19 57 (7.47%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.85%) Java
2 28 (3.67%) C#
3 25 (3.28%) Python
4 23 (3.01%) SQL
5 19 (2.49%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.57%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.57%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.39%) Bash
8 3 (0.39%) Scala
9 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.26%) Bicep
10 1 (0.13%) ABAP
10 1 (0.13%) C++
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 118 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.98%) Degree
4 22 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.66%) CISA
11 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.39%) CCSP
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) CISSP
13 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.41%) GDPR
2 19 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.70%) NIST
4 13 (1.70%) SEPA
5 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.79%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) QA
8 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.39%) NCSC
8 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.26%) GRC
9 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.26%) PSD2
9 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.70%) Docker
3 5 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) 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 30 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.83%) Ansible
3 8 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.66%) Grafana
5 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.39%) SCCM
7 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.13%) Avamar
8 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.52%) SAP
3 51 (6.68%) Databricks
4 46 (6.03%) ServiceNow
5 39 (5.11%) Oracle
6 32 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.23%) Google
8 13 (1.70%) BMC
9 11 (1.44%) IBM
10 9 (1.18%) Cisco
11 8 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.92%) Ariba
12 7 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.92%) Workday
13 6 (0.79%) TikTok
13 6 (0.79%) VMware
14 5 (0.66%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.66%) Siemens
15 4 (0.52%) IFS
15 4 (0.52%) Remedy