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 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 91 80
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 477 362 480
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.89% 2.84% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.12% 3.03% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 236 336
10th Percentile £463 £494 £495
25th Percentile £532 £552 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +0.78% -4.44%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
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 £87.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -24.14% +24.29%

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 15,265 11,951 16,907
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.67% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,232 8,093 12,205
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 145 337
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £34.75 £35.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +25.93% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.50 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.04 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -19 73 £650 -0.42% 28
West London -13 7 £625 +6.38% 4
South London -11 6 £637 -2.00% 1
East London -5 1 £630 -6.67% 3
North London - 1 £700 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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.

1 150 (31.45%) Azure
2 106 (22.22%) AWS
3 92 (19.29%) Roadmaps
4 85 (17.82%) Security Cleared
5 76 (15.93%) Microsoft
6 70 (14.68%) AI
6 70 (14.68%) SC Cleared
7 67 (14.05%) Agile
8 66 (13.84%) DevOps
9 62 (13.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 59 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 58 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 51 (10.69%) Migration
13 49 (10.27%) Middleware
13 49 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
15 46 (9.64%) Microservices
16 45 (9.43%) SAP
17 44 (9.22%) TOGAF
18 41 (8.60%) GCP
19 40 (8.39%) ERP
20 38 (7.97%) Python
21 35 (7.34%) Analytics
21 35 (7.34%) CI/CD
22 33 (6.92%) Architectural Design
23 32 (6.71%) CRM
23 32 (6.71%) Oracle
23 32 (6.71%) SaaS
24 31 (6.50%) Data Modelling

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 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.26%) Camunda
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.84%) CMS
3 4 (0.84%) Confluence
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.63%) Apache
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.63%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (6.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.05%) SAP EWM
3 5 (1.05%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (1.05%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.84%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.84%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.63%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.63%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.63%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.42%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.21%) Maximo
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (31.45%) Azure
2 106 (22.22%) AWS
3 41 (8.60%) GCP
4 32 (6.71%) SaaS
5 22 (4.61%) Power Platform
6 17 (3.56%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.56%) Snowflake
7 15 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (1.89%) Serverless
10 8 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.26%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.26%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.10%) Firewall
1 10 (2.10%) WAN
2 9 (1.89%) VPN
3 7 (1.47%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.26%) Network Security
5 5 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.84%) DNS
7 3 (0.63%) 5G
7 3 (0.63%) MPLS
7 3 (0.63%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.42%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.42%) IPv4
8 2 (0.42%) IPv6
8 2 (0.42%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.21%) BGP
9 1 (0.21%) DHCP
9 1 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) OSPF
9 1 (0.21%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.35%) Data Lake
2 15 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.52%) Power BI
5 7 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.26%) Metadata
6 6 (1.26%) Tableau
7 5 (1.05%) Big Data
7 5 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.42%) Flink
10 2 (0.42%) GIS
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (1.47%) JIRA
2 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
2 3 (0.63%) Git
2 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.63%) MLflow
3 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.42%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) ERwin
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Maven
4 1 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.21%) Subversion
4 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.21%) VersionOne
General
1 150 (31.45%) Finance
2 122 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.11%) Banking
4 50 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.40%) Legal
7 20 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.35%) Billing
8 16 (3.35%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.14%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.14%) Retail
10 10 (2.10%) Law
11 9 (1.89%) Marketing
12 7 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Back Office
13 4 (0.84%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.63%) Local Government
14 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.27%) Middleware
2 28 (5.87%) .NET
3 25 (5.24%) REST
4 13 (2.73%) React
5 12 (2.52%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.31%) Kafka
7 9 (1.89%) OAuth
7 9 (1.89%) Vue
8 8 (1.68%) OpenID
9 6 (1.26%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.05%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.05%) CSS
10 5 (1.05%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.05%) gRPC
10 5 (1.05%) HTML
10 5 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.05%) SAML
10 5 (1.05%) SOAP
10 5 (1.05%) XML
11 4 (0.84%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.56%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.31%) FMCG
7 9 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.26%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.26%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.84%) NHS
12 3 (0.63%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.68%) Windows
2 4 (0.84%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (19.29%) Roadmaps
2 70 (14.68%) AI
3 67 (14.05%) Agile
4 66 (13.84%) DevOps
5 62 (13.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 59 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 51 (10.69%) Migration
9 49 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
11 46 (9.64%) Microservices
12 44 (9.22%) TOGAF
13 40 (8.39%) ERP
14 35 (7.34%) Analytics
14 35 (7.34%) CI/CD
15 33 (6.92%) Architectural Design
16 32 (6.71%) CRM
17 31 (6.50%) Data Modelling
18 28 (5.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (7.97%) Python
2 24 (5.03%) Java
3 20 (4.19%) C#
3 20 (4.19%) SQL
4 10 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.05%) Bash
6 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.63%) R
8 2 (0.42%) Korn
8 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.42%) Scala
9 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) RPG
9 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 85 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.50%) Degree
4 21 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.05%) CISSP
9 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.84%) CISM
11 3 (0.63%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.42%) CCNP
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.21%) CCIE
13 1 (0.21%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.08%) GDPR
2 8 (1.68%) ISO 20022
2 8 (1.68%) PSD2
2 8 (1.68%) QA
3 7 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.26%) NIST
5 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.05%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.05%) SEPA
6 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.84%) HL7
7 3 (0.63%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.42%) GRC
8 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) COBIT
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (3.98%) Docker
2 11 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) Squid
4 2 (0.42%) Ceph
4 2 (0.42%) Firmware
4 2 (0.42%) Lustre
4 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.61%) Kubernetes
1 22 (4.61%) Terraform
2 8 (1.68%) Grafana
2 8 (1.68%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.47%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.05%) Ansible
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.42%) Consul
6 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.42%) SCCM
7 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 76 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.43%) SAP
3 32 (6.71%) Oracle
4 29 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.56%) Databricks
7 12 (2.52%) Cisco
7 12 (2.52%) Software AG
7 12 (2.52%) Workday
8 11 (2.31%) Google
9 10 (2.10%) Ariba
10 9 (1.89%) IBM
11 8 (1.68%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.26%) IFS
13 5 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.05%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.84%) Juniper
15 3 (0.63%) Red Hat