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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 110 100
Rank change year-on-year +31 -10 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 746 340 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.69% 2.53% 2.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.96% 2.73% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 198 249
10th Percentile £505 £463 £463
25th Percentile £560 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £626 £672
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% -6.81% -0.44%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £800
90th Percentile £813 £800 £888
England median daily rate £640 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +4.49% -2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £85.00 £52.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £90.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.11% +66.67% +47.78%
75th Percentile - £95.00 £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £90.00 £91.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -1.10% +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 18,822 12,435 15,223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.56% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,299 9,958
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 207 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.64% -21.71% -9.58%
75th Percentile £65.60 £48.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

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 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
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 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 +9 96 £694 +6.77% 82
West London -13 4 £650 +80.56% 24
South London -14 3 £800 +10.00% 4
North London +1 2 £650 -27.78%
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 236 (31.64%) Azure
2 176 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 139 (18.63%) Migration
4 136 (18.23%) Roadmaps
5 131 (17.56%) AWS
6 125 (16.76%) AI
7 123 (16.49%) Security Cleared
8 114 (15.28%) Enterprise Architecture
9 113 (15.15%) Microsoft
10 102 (13.67%) DevOps
11 101 (13.54%) SC Cleared
12 95 (12.73%) Agile
13 91 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
14 90 (12.06%) Integration Patterns
15 80 (10.72%) CI/CD
15 80 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 74 (9.92%) TOGAF
17 73 (9.79%) Analytics
18 72 (9.65%) Event-Driven
19 67 (8.98%) SAP
20 64 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
21 61 (8.18%) Data Architecture
21 61 (8.18%) Microservices
22 58 (7.77%) Architecture Governance
23 57 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
24 56 (7.51%) Power Platform
25 55 (7.37%) Data Modelling
26 53 (7.10%) GCP
27 52 (6.97%) Infrastructure as Code
28 49 (6.57%) Event-Driven Architecture

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 (1.34%) CMS
2 8 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Camunda
7 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 31 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.07%) SAP BRIM
3 8 (1.07%) SAP MM
4 5 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 3 (0.40%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 236 (31.64%) Azure
2 131 (17.56%) AWS
3 56 (7.51%) Power Platform
4 53 (7.10%) GCP
5 36 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
6 34 (4.56%) SaaS
7 30 (4.02%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.22%) Serverless
9 23 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.82%) GitHub
10 21 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.88%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.61%) Azure Functions
13 12 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.47%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.47%) PaaS
14 11 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.34%) Network Security
2 8 (1.07%) Firewall
2 8 (1.07%) VPN
3 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.67%) Wireless
4 4 (0.54%) DMZ
5 3 (0.40%) DHCP
5 3 (0.40%) DNS
5 3 (0.40%) MPLS
5 3 (0.40%) SSL
6 2 (0.27%) HTTP
6 2 (0.27%) SDH
6 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
6 2 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) Converged Networks
7 1 (0.13%) DKIM
7 1 (0.13%) DMARC
7 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.49%) Data Lake
2 22 (2.95%) Power BI
3 17 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.14%) Metadata
5 15 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.07%) Big Data
6 8 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.80%) Delta Lake
7 6 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.67%) Power Query
8 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.40%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.40%) Redis
10 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.80%) 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
1 170 (22.79%) Finance
2 160 (21.45%) Social Skills
3 70 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.98%) Retail
5 51 (6.84%) Banking
6 26 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 20 (2.68%) Billing
10 13 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.34%) Legal
12 10 (1.34%) Marketing
13 9 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.94%) Advertising
14 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.67%) Automotive
16 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.40%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.90%) .NET
2 39 (5.23%) REST
3 29 (3.89%) Terraform
4 27 (3.62%) Kafka
5 18 (2.41%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.74%) Middleware
7 11 (1.47%) OAuth
8 9 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.07%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (1.07%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.07%) React
9 8 (1.07%) SOAP
10 7 (0.94%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.94%) JWT
10 7 (0.94%) OpenID
10 7 (0.94%) SAML
11 6 (0.80%) Web Services
12 5 (0.67%) JSON
12 5 (0.67%) Spring
12 5 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.28%) Mainframe
9 13 (1.74%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.94%) IoT
13 7 (0.94%) NHS
14 6 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.07%) 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
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 139 (18.63%) Migration
3 136 (18.23%) Roadmaps
4 125 (16.76%) AI
5 114 (15.28%) Enterprise Architecture
6 102 (13.67%) DevOps
7 95 (12.73%) Agile
8 91 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
9 90 (12.06%) Integration Patterns
10 80 (10.72%) CI/CD
10 80 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 74 (9.92%) TOGAF
12 73 (9.79%) Analytics
13 72 (9.65%) Event-Driven
14 64 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
15 61 (8.18%) Data Architecture
15 61 (8.18%) Microservices
16 58 (7.77%) Architecture Governance
17 57 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
18 55 (7.37%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (3.49%) Java
2 23 (3.08%) C#
3 22 (2.95%) SQL
4 19 (2.55%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.61%) Python
6 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.47%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.80%) Bicep
8 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.40%) Bash
10 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Groovy
11 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 123 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.69%) Degree
4 25 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.67%) CISA
12 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.54%) CISSP
12 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.40%) CCSP
13 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.08%) GDPR
2 20 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.88%) SEPA
5 10 (1.34%) NIST
6 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 6 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.80%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.54%) QA
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.40%) PSD2
9 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.61%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.88%) Ansible
3 9 (1.21%) Grafana
4 8 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
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
1 113 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.98%) SAP
3 46 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 43 (5.76%) Databricks
5 36 (4.83%) Oracle
6 27 (3.62%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.14%) Google
8 13 (1.74%) BMC
9 11 (1.47%) Ariba
9 11 (1.47%) IBM
10 10 (1.34%) Cisco
11 8 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.94%) Workday
13 6 (0.80%) Concur
13 6 (0.80%) TikTok
13 6 (0.80%) VMware
14 5 (0.67%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.67%) OpenText