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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 89 87
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 445 372 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.85% 2.75% 2.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.08% 2.93% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 230 305
10th Percentile £463 £489 £475
25th Percentile £562 £550 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £739 £762 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.06 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £77.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -18.52% +15.71%

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 14,448 12,681 16,978
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 93.64% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,636 8,215 12,242
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £778
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 142 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +28.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £59.79 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £66.60
England median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -12.50%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -12 76 £675 +3.85% 35
West London -20 5 £625 +6.38% 10
South London - 5 £750 - 5
East London -4 1 £630 -9.68% 2
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 19 February 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.

1 156 (35.06%) Azure
2 96 (21.57%) AWS
3 76 (17.08%) Security Cleared
4 75 (16.85%) Roadmaps
5 74 (16.63%) Microsoft
6 66 (14.83%) Agile
7 65 (14.61%) SC Cleared
8 63 (14.16%) AI
9 62 (13.93%) DevOps
9 62 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 60 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
11 52 (11.69%) Microservices
11 52 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 49 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
14 43 (9.66%) Middleware
15 41 (9.21%) TOGAF
16 40 (8.99%) SAP
17 39 (8.76%) GCP
18 38 (8.54%) Migration
19 37 (8.31%) Integration Patterns
20 35 (7.87%) SaaS
21 32 (7.19%) ERP
22 31 (6.97%) CI/CD
22 31 (6.97%) CRM
22 31 (6.97%) Degree
22 31 (6.97%) Python
23 29 (6.52%) Analytics
23 29 (6.52%) Architectural Design
23 29 (6.52%) Salesforce

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 14 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.35%) Confluence
3 4 (0.90%) CMS
3 4 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.67%) Camunda
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.45%) nginx
5 2 (0.45%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (5.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.12%) SAP EWM
3 5 (1.12%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.90%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.90%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.67%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.67%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 156 (35.06%) Azure
2 96 (21.57%) AWS
3 39 (8.76%) GCP
4 35 (7.87%) SaaS
5 20 (4.49%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.04%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.92%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (1.80%) iPaaS
11 8 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.35%) Serverless
14 5 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.12%) Fivetran
14 5 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.25%) Firewall
1 10 (2.25%) WAN
2 8 (1.80%) SD-WAN
2 8 (1.80%) VPN
3 5 (1.12%) DNS
3 5 (1.12%) MPLS
3 5 (1.12%) Network Security
4 4 (0.90%) 5G
4 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.67%) BGP
5 3 (0.67%) DHCP
5 3 (0.67%) LAN
5 3 (0.67%) OSPF
5 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.45%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.45%) 4G
6 2 (0.45%) IPsec
6 2 (0.45%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.45%) VLAN
6 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.47%) Data Lake
3 11 (2.47%) Power BI
4 7 (1.57%) Tableau
5 4 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.67%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.67%) Metadata
6 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.45%) GIS
7 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.45%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (2.02%) JIRA
2 4 (0.90%) MLflow
3 3 (0.67%) Git
4 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.45%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.45%) GitLab
4 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 146 (32.81%) Finance
2 117 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 51 (11.46%) Banking
4 41 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.27%) Legal
7 17 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.60%) Billing
9 15 (3.37%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.92%) Retail
11 13 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.47%) Marketing
13 10 (2.25%) Law
14 9 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.12%) Back Office
17 4 (0.90%) Electronics
17 4 (0.90%) Private Banking
18 3 (0.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.66%) Middleware
2 27 (6.07%) .NET
3 22 (4.94%) REST
4 10 (2.25%) AngularJS
4 10 (2.25%) React
5 9 (2.02%) OAuth
6 8 (1.80%) JSON
6 8 (1.80%) OpenID
6 8 (1.80%) SOAP
7 7 (1.57%) Kafka
8 6 (1.35%) XML
9 5 (1.12%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.12%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.12%) CSS
9 5 (1.12%) HTML
9 5 (1.12%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.12%) SAML
9 5 (1.12%) Vue
10 4 (0.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.47%) FMCG
4 10 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.35%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.35%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.35%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.12%) NHS
8 5 (1.12%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (0.90%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.80%) Windows
2 4 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (16.85%) Roadmaps
2 66 (14.83%) Agile
3 63 (14.16%) AI
4 62 (13.93%) DevOps
4 62 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
6 52 (11.69%) Microservices
6 52 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
9 41 (9.21%) TOGAF
10 38 (8.54%) Migration
11 37 (8.31%) Integration Patterns
12 32 (7.19%) ERP
13 31 (6.97%) CI/CD
13 31 (6.97%) CRM
14 29 (6.52%) Analytics
14 29 (6.52%) Architectural Design
15 28 (6.29%) Machine Learning
16 27 (6.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.97%) Python
2 19 (4.27%) C#
2 19 (4.27%) Java
3 18 (4.04%) SQL
4 11 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.25%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.12%) Bash
6 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.67%) R
8 2 (0.45%) Korn
8 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.22%) RPG
9 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 65 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.97%) Degree
4 22 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.12%) CISSP
11 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.90%) CISM
12 3 (0.67%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.45%) CCNP
13 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.22%) CCIE
14 1 (0.22%) CSSLP
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.07%) GDPR
2 8 (1.80%) QA
3 7 (1.57%) ISO 20022
3 7 (1.57%) PSD2
4 6 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.12%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.12%) NIST
5 5 (1.12%) SEPA
6 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.67%) GRC
7 3 (0.67%) HL7
7 3 (0.67%) NCSC
7 3 (0.67%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) COBIT
9 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (4.49%) Docker
2 11 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Ceph
3 2 (0.45%) Firmware
3 2 (0.45%) Lustre
3 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.45%) Squid
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.49%) Kubernetes
1 20 (4.49%) Terraform
2 6 (1.35%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.12%) Ansible
4 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.67%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.45%) SCCM
7 1 (0.22%) Consul
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 74 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.99%) SAP
3 29 (6.52%) Salesforce
4 28 (6.29%) Oracle
5 19 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.92%) Databricks
7 12 (2.70%) Software AG
8 11 (2.47%) Cisco
8 11 (2.47%) Google
9 9 (2.02%) Workday
10 8 (1.80%) IBM
10 8 (1.80%) IFS
10 8 (1.80%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.90%) Adobe
12 4 (0.90%) Dell
12 4 (0.90%) Foundry
12 4 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.67%) Juniper
13 3 (0.67%) OneLogin