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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 113 100
Rank change year-on-year +33 -13 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 738 342 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.66% 2.55% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.93% 2.75% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 198 247
10th Percentile £504 £463 £463
25th Percentile £560 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £632 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -6.37% +0.37%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £800
90th Percentile £813 £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 2 1
10th Percentile £36.65 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 £85.00 £52.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £90.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% +66.67% +47.78%
75th Percentile £49.63 £95.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £52.55 - -
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 18,770 12,424 15,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.67% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,117 8,295 9,975
10th Percentile £363 £332 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 204 179
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.97 £22.69 £24.17
Median hourly rate £40.96 £27.81 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -23.80% -3.31%
75th Percentile £64.63 £50.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.92 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +5 95 £694 +6.77% 84
West London -17 4 £650 +80.56% 23
South London -11 3 £800 +10.00% 5
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 5 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.

1 232 (31.44%) Azure
2 170 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 135 (18.29%) Migration
4 130 (17.62%) AWS
4 130 (17.62%) Roadmaps
5 128 (17.34%) AI
6 117 (15.85%) Security Cleared
7 111 (15.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 108 (14.63%) Microsoft
9 97 (13.14%) DevOps
9 97 (13.14%) SC Cleared
10 96 (13.01%) Agile
11 92 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
12 87 (11.79%) Integration Patterns
13 78 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 75 (10.16%) CI/CD
15 73 (9.89%) Analytics
16 70 (9.49%) TOGAF
17 68 (9.21%) Event-Driven
18 67 (9.08%) SAP
19 61 (8.27%) Data Architecture
20 60 (8.13%) Architectural Patterns
21 58 (7.86%) Translating Business Requirements
22 57 (7.72%) Architecture Governance
22 57 (7.72%) Microservices
23 56 (7.59%) Data Modelling
24 55 (7.45%) Power Platform
25 51 (6.91%) GCP
26 48 (6.50%) CRM
26 48 (6.50%) Machine Learning

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 (1.36%) 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 (0.41%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 31 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.08%) SAP BRIM
4 7 (0.95%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.54%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 3 (0.41%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.14%) Cognos Controller
10 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.14%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (31.44%) Azure
2 130 (17.62%) AWS
3 55 (7.45%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.91%) GCP
5 36 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (4.07%) SaaS
7 26 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 21 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (2.85%) Serverless
9 19 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.44%) GitHub
11 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (1.76%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.63%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.49%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.49%) PaaS
14 11 (1.49%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.36%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.22%) IaaS
16 9 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.22%) Network Security
2 7 (0.95%) Firewall
2 7 (0.95%) VPN
3 5 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.54%) DMZ
4 4 (0.54%) Wireless
5 3 (0.41%) MPLS
5 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.14%) ATM
7 1 (0.14%) BGP
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) OSPF
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.66%) Data Lake
2 22 (2.98%) Power BI
3 16 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.03%) Metadata
5 9 (1.22%) Big Data
6 7 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.68%) 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 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.41%) GIS
10 3 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (0.95%) JIRA
2 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.14%) MSI
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 163 (22.09%) Finance
2 156 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 66 (8.94%) Retail
4 64 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.78%) Banking
6 26 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.71%) Billing
9 13 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.76%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.36%) Legal
10 10 (1.36%) Marketing
11 9 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.95%) Advertising
13 5 (0.68%) Automotive
14 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.41%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.96%) .NET
2 38 (5.15%) REST
3 26 (3.52%) Kafka
4 23 (3.12%) Terraform
5 19 (2.57%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.76%) Middleware
7 9 (1.22%) OAuth
7 9 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (1.08%) SOAP
9 7 (0.95%) .NET Core
9 7 (0.95%) React
10 6 (0.81%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.81%) SAML
10 6 (0.81%) Web Services
11 5 (0.68%) JWT
11 5 (0.68%) OpenID
11 5 (0.68%) PySpark
11 5 (0.68%) XML
12 4 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.52%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.30%) Mainframe
8 15 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (1.36%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.08%) IoT
12 8 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.95%) NHS
14 6 (0.81%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.68%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.95%) Windows
2 5 (0.68%) 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 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 135 (18.29%) Migration
3 130 (17.62%) Roadmaps
4 128 (17.34%) AI
5 111 (15.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 97 (13.14%) DevOps
7 96 (13.01%) Agile
8 92 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
9 87 (11.79%) Integration Patterns
10 78 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 75 (10.16%) CI/CD
12 73 (9.89%) Analytics
13 70 (9.49%) TOGAF
14 68 (9.21%) Event-Driven
15 61 (8.27%) Data Architecture
16 60 (8.13%) Architectural Patterns
17 58 (7.86%) Translating Business Requirements
18 57 (7.72%) Architecture Governance
18 57 (7.72%) Microservices
19 56 (7.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (3.39%) Java
2 24 (3.25%) C#
3 20 (2.71%) SQL
4 17 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.49%) Python
6 10 (1.36%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.41%) Bash
9 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.27%) Bicep
10 1 (0.14%) ABAP
10 1 (0.14%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Groovy
10 1 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.88%) Degree
4 22 (2.98%) Azure Certification
4 22 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.68%) CISA
11 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.54%) CISSP
11 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.41%) CCSP
12 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.41%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.12%) GDPR
2 19 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.90%) SEPA
5 10 (1.36%) NIST
6 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.95%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.95%) 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 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.41%) 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 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.90%) Ansible
3 7 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
5 3 (0.41%) SCCM
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.08%) SAP
3 46 (6.23%) ServiceNow
4 45 (6.10%) Databricks
5 36 (4.88%) Oracle
6 27 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.17%) Google
8 13 (1.76%) BMC
9 11 (1.49%) IBM
10 10 (1.36%) Ariba
11 9 (1.22%) Cisco
11 9 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.08%) Workday
13 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.81%) TikTok
15 5 (0.68%) Concur
15 5 (0.68%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.68%) VMware
16 4 (0.54%) Remedy
16 4 (0.54%) Siemens