Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £626, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 93 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 337 421 580
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.52% 2.66% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 2.83% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 251 415
10th Percentile £455 £463 £520
25th Percentile £562 £544 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.70% +1.50%
75th Percentile £725 £794 £760
90th Percentile £801 £888 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £82.00 - £31.91
25th Percentile £83.13 £52.00 £33.65
Median hourly rate £90.00 £54.00 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +47.78% -51.28%
75th Percentile £95.00 £56.00 £67.02
90th Percentile - - £85.31
England median hourly rate £88.75 £91.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -2.47% +21.33% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,385 14,895 19,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.06% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,246 9,671 14,260
10th Percentile £335 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 166 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -5.85% +21.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.75 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +14 65 £650 -3.70% 58
East London +5 6 £688 -4.51% 1
South London - 5 £727 - 1
West London -8 2 £511 -21.38% 13
North London - 1 £900 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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.

1 134 (39.76%) Azure
2 93 (27.60%) AWS
3 65 (19.29%) Microsoft
4 58 (17.21%) Roadmaps
5 56 (16.62%) TOGAF
6 53 (15.73%) Agile
6 53 (15.73%) Enterprise Architecture
6 53 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (15.43%) Security Cleared
8 46 (13.65%) GCP
9 44 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
10 43 (12.76%) SC Cleared
11 42 (12.46%) Microservices
12 41 (12.17%) SDLC
13 40 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (11.57%) Migration
15 38 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (9.79%) AI
16 33 (9.79%) SAP
17 32 (9.50%) DevOps
18 31 (9.20%) SaaS
19 30 (8.90%) Python
20 28 (8.31%) Java
21 27 (8.01%) Salesforce
22 26 (7.72%) CI/CD
23 25 (7.42%) Data Architecture
24 24 (7.12%) Architectural Design
24 24 (7.12%) Data Modelling
25 23 (6.82%) Google
26 22 (6.53%) Business Intelligence

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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 10 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.89%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Drupal
6 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (4.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.78%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.19%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.89%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.59%) Endur
6 2 (0.59%) Maximo
6 2 (0.59%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.30%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.30%) Magento
7 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.30%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 134 (39.76%) Azure
2 93 (27.60%) AWS
3 46 (13.65%) GCP
4 31 (9.20%) SaaS
5 22 (6.53%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.93%) Snowflake
7 17 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.75%) Entra ID
9 15 (4.45%) PaaS
10 12 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (3.56%) IaaS
11 11 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (3.26%) Serverless
12 9 (2.67%) Fivetran
13 8 (2.37%) GitHub
14 7 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.15%) Firewall
2 7 (2.08%) WAN
3 6 (1.78%) DNS
3 6 (1.78%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.78%) VPN
4 5 (1.48%) BGP
4 5 (1.48%) Network Security
4 5 (1.48%) OSPF
5 4 (1.19%) DHCP
5 4 (1.19%) LAN
5 4 (1.19%) VLAN
6 3 (0.89%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.89%) MPLS
6 3 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.59%) 4G
7 2 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.59%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.86%) Data Lake
3 12 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.26%) Power BI
5 6 (1.78%) SAP BW
6 5 (1.48%) Big Data
7 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.19%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.89%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.89%) Metadata
8 3 (0.89%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (0.89%) Tableau
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.59%) OLTP
9 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.30%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (5.04%) JIRA
2 8 (2.37%) GitLab
3 7 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.19%) Liquibase
5 3 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) Git
6 1 (0.30%) MLflow
6 1 (0.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 112 (33.23%) Finance
2 89 (26.41%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.98%) Banking
4 35 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.86%) Billing
8 12 (3.56%) Legal
8 12 (3.56%) Retail
9 11 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.37%) Marketing
12 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.19%) Law
12 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.89%) Back Office
13 3 (0.89%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.89%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.93%) .NET
2 17 (5.04%) REST
3 15 (4.45%) AngularJS
3 15 (4.45%) Middleware
4 12 (3.56%) React
5 11 (3.26%) Kafka
6 9 (2.67%) RESTful
7 7 (2.08%) JSON
7 7 (2.08%) Node.js
7 7 (2.08%) OAuth
7 7 (2.08%) SOAP
8 6 (1.78%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (1.48%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.48%) SAML
10 4 (1.19%) OpenID
10 4 (1.19%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.19%) Spring
10 4 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.19%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.64%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.78%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.48%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.48%) Reinsurance
6 5 (1.48%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.48%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.19%) PDA
7 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.89%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.08%) Windows
2 6 (1.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Debian
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (17.21%) Roadmaps
2 56 (16.62%) TOGAF
3 53 (15.73%) Agile
3 53 (15.73%) Enterprise Architecture
3 53 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
5 42 (12.46%) Microservices
6 41 (12.17%) SDLC
7 40 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (11.57%) Migration
9 38 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (9.79%) AI
11 32 (9.50%) DevOps
12 26 (7.72%) CI/CD
13 25 (7.42%) Data Architecture
14 24 (7.12%) Architectural Design
14 24 (7.12%) Data Modelling
15 22 (6.53%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (6.53%) CRM
15 22 (6.53%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.90%) Python
2 28 (8.31%) Java
3 15 (4.45%) SQL
4 13 (3.86%) TypeScript
5 9 (2.67%) C#
6 8 (2.37%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.19%) Go
7 4 (1.19%) R
8 3 (0.89%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.89%) COBOL
8 3 (0.89%) Scala
9 2 (0.59%) Bash
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.30%) Groovy
10 1 (0.30%) JCL
10 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.64%) Degree
4 11 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.48%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.19%) CCNP
9 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.89%) CCIE
10 3 (0.89%) CCNA
10 3 (0.89%) CCSE
10 3 (0.89%) JNCIE
10 3 (0.89%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.59%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.04%) GDPR
2 8 (2.37%) NIST
3 7 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.78%) QA
5 5 (1.48%) COBIT
5 5 (1.48%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.89%) GRC
7 3 (0.89%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.89%) MiFID
7 3 (0.89%) NCSC
8 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.59%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.97%) Docker
2 9 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.30%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.30%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.30%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.56%) Terraform
3 5 (1.48%) Ansible
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 65 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.79%) SAP
3 27 (8.01%) Salesforce
4 23 (6.82%) Google
5 22 (6.53%) ServiceNow
6 21 (6.23%) Oracle
7 18 (5.34%) Databricks
8 11 (3.26%) Cisco
9 7 (2.08%) IBM
10 6 (1.78%) Workday
11 5 (1.48%) IFS
11 5 (1.48%) Juniper
11 5 (1.48%) Talend
12 4 (1.19%) Concur
12 4 (1.19%) F5
12 4 (1.19%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.19%) Remedy
12 4 (1.19%) VMware
12 4 (1.19%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.89%) Okta