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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 96 81
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 0
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 644 353 493
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.49% 2.90% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.75% 3.10% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 211 336
10th Percentile £500 £510 £482
25th Percentile £525 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £750 £739 £763
90th Percentile £800 £813 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £52.98 - £52.55
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +5.26% +9.57%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £60.88
90th Percentile £67.33 - £61.85
England median hourly rate £71.27 £64.50 £89.00
% change year-on-year +10.50% -27.53% +33.33%

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 17,158 11,372 16,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.47% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,358 7,721 11,830
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 153 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.71% -23.18%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.64 £61.85 £65.03
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +11 105 £694 +1.68% 22
South London -11 6 £637 -0.08%
West London -24 6 £625 +6.38% 4
East London -6 3 £630 - 2
North London - 1 £650 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 190 (29.50%) Azure
2 137 (21.27%) AWS
3 123 (19.10%) Security Cleared
4 111 (17.24%) AI
5 105 (16.30%) DevOps
6 104 (16.15%) SC Cleared
7 102 (15.84%) Migration
8 95 (14.75%) Agile
9 91 (14.13%) Roadmaps
10 85 (13.20%) Microsoft
11 80 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 70 (10.87%) Enterprise Architecture
13 67 (10.40%) CI/CD
14 65 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (9.63%) Integration Patterns
16 57 (8.85%) Analytics
17 56 (8.70%) SAP
18 55 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
19 53 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 50 (7.76%) .NET
20 50 (7.76%) ERP
21 47 (7.30%) TOGAF
22 46 (7.14%) Event-Driven
22 46 (7.14%) Microservices
23 45 (6.99%) GCP
24 42 (6.52%) Degree
24 42 (6.52%) Middleware
24 42 (6.52%) Python
25 41 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
25 41 (6.37%) 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 18 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.24%) Camunda
3 6 (0.93%) Confluence
4 4 (0.62%) Apache
4 4 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.16%) Appian
7 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.24%) SAP BRIM
3 5 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.78%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.78%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.62%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.62%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 4 (0.62%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.47%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.31%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 190 (29.50%) Azure
2 137 (21.27%) AWS
3 45 (6.99%) GCP
4 31 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.35%) SaaS
6 20 (3.11%) Serverless
7 19 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.48%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.33%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.17%) PaaS
12 13 (2.02%) Azure AI
13 12 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
15 10 (1.55%) GitHub
15 10 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (1.40%) IaaS
16 9 (1.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.71%) Network Security
2 10 (1.55%) Firewall
2 10 (1.55%) VPN
3 8 (1.24%) WAN
4 6 (0.93%) DNS
4 6 (0.93%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.78%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) 5G
6 3 (0.47%) FTP
6 3 (0.47%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.47%) SDH
6 3 (0.47%) VoIP
7 2 (0.31%) DHCP
7 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.31%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.31%) IPv4
7 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.31%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 17 (2.64%) Power BI
3 14 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.40%) Metadata
5 9 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.93%) Big Data
7 5 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.78%) Tableau
8 4 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.47%) Flink
9 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.71%) JIRA
2 6 (0.93%) MLflow
3 4 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.47%) Maven
5 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.31%) Git
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) ERwin
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) MSI
6 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.16%) VersionOne
General
1 165 (25.62%) Finance
2 131 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 57 (8.85%) Banking
4 56 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.04%) Telecoms
7 22 (3.42%) Billing
8 21 (3.26%) Retail
9 19 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.95%) Legal
10 16 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.09%) Law
14 6 (0.93%) Marketing
15 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Local Government
17 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.47%) Automotive
17 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.76%) .NET
2 42 (6.52%) Middleware
3 28 (4.35%) REST
4 18 (2.80%) .NET Framework
4 18 (2.80%) React
5 14 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.40%) Kafka
6 9 (1.40%) Vue
7 6 (0.93%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.93%) CSS
7 6 (0.93%) HTML
7 6 (0.93%) LDAP
8 5 (0.78%) SOAP
8 5 (0.78%) Spring
9 4 (0.62%) FHIR
9 4 (0.62%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (0.62%) OpenID
9 4 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.62%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.47%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 22 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.64%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.64%) Mainframe
5 15 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 9 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.09%) NHS
12 6 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.93%) FMCG
13 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.93%) Windows
2 4 (0.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (17.24%) AI
2 105 (16.30%) DevOps
3 102 (15.84%) Migration
4 95 (14.75%) Agile
5 91 (14.13%) Roadmaps
6 80 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 70 (10.87%) Enterprise Architecture
8 67 (10.40%) CI/CD
9 65 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (9.63%) Integration Patterns
11 57 (8.85%) Analytics
12 55 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
13 53 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 50 (7.76%) ERP
15 47 (7.30%) TOGAF
16 46 (7.14%) Event-Driven
16 46 (7.14%) Microservices
17 41 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (6.37%) Machine Learning
18 40 (6.21%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.52%) Python
2 34 (5.28%) Java
3 25 (3.88%) C#
4 20 (3.11%) SQL
5 13 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.47%) R
9 2 (0.31%) Bash
9 2 (0.31%) Korn
9 2 (0.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) Bicep
10 1 (0.16%) C++
10 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.16%) RPG
10 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 123 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 104 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.52%) Degree
4 18 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (0.78%) CISA
8 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.62%) CISSP
10 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.31%) CCNP
11 2 (0.31%) CCSP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.35%) GDPR
2 12 (1.86%) Data Quality
2 12 (1.86%) SEPA
3 10 (1.55%) PSD2
3 10 (1.55%) QA
4 9 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.24%) NIST
6 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.62%) HL7
8 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.47%) TARGET2
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (3.42%) Docker
2 14 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Squid
3 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Ceph
4 2 (0.31%) Firmware
4 2 (0.31%) Lustre
4 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.97%) Terraform
3 8 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.09%) Ansible
4 7 (1.09%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.09%) Grafana
4 7 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
5 2 (0.31%) Consul
5 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.70%) SAP
3 41 (6.37%) Oracle
4 36 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 33 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 31 (4.81%) Databricks
7 13 (2.02%) Cisco
7 13 (2.02%) Workday
8 11 (1.71%) Ariba
8 11 (1.71%) Google
9 10 (1.55%) Software AG
10 8 (1.24%) IFS
11 6 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.93%) Siemens
12 5 (0.78%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.78%) IBM
12 5 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.78%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.62%) Confluent
13 4 (0.62%) Planon