Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 95 81
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 592 357 490
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.31% 2.86% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% 3.06% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 218 342
10th Percentile £481 £513 £488
25th Percentile £525 £575 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £809 £813 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £54.35 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £64.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% - +15.34%
75th Percentile £69.06 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £63.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +13.13% -30.00% +34.83%

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 16,584 11,651 16,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.40% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,987 11,953
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £426 £428 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £681
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 145 329
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.21 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.36 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.81% -18.34% -17.38%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +2 89 £685 -0.80% 47
West London -22 8 £625 +6.38% 6
South London -14 6 £637 -0.08%
East London -6 3 £630 - 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 163 (27.53%) Azure
2 125 (21.11%) AWS
3 103 (17.40%) AI
4 100 (16.89%) Security Cleared
5 98 (16.55%) DevOps
6 94 (15.88%) Agile
7 86 (14.53%) SC Cleared
8 83 (14.02%) Roadmaps
9 81 (13.68%) Microsoft
10 76 (12.84%) Migration
11 70 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
13 61 (10.30%) CI/CD
14 59 (9.97%) Integration Patterns
15 58 (9.80%) Enterprise Architecture
16 57 (9.63%) SAP
17 53 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
18 52 (8.78%) Analytics
18 52 (8.78%) Microservices
19 51 (8.61%) Middleware
20 49 (8.28%) ERP
21 45 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 44 (7.43%) Oracle
23 43 (7.26%) .NET
23 43 (7.26%) Python
24 42 (7.09%) GCP
25 39 (6.59%) Architectural Patterns
25 39 (6.59%) Machine Learning
25 39 (6.59%) TOGAF
26 38 (6.42%) Event-Driven

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 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.35%) Camunda
3 6 (1.01%) Confluence
4 4 (0.68%) Apache
4 4 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) Appian
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.17%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (5.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.84%) SAP BRIM
3 5 (0.84%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.84%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.84%) SAP PM
3 5 (0.84%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.84%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.68%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.68%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 163 (27.53%) Azure
2 125 (21.11%) AWS
3 42 (7.09%) GCP
4 30 (5.07%) SaaS
5 27 (4.56%) Power Platform
6 17 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.70%) Serverless
7 16 (2.70%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 13 (2.20%) Azure AI
9 13 (2.20%) PaaS
10 12 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.86%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (1.35%) GitHub
12 8 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.35%) OCI
12 8 (1.35%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.35%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.52%) Firewall
1 9 (1.52%) WAN
2 8 (1.35%) Network Security
3 7 (1.18%) VPN
4 6 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.84%) MPLS
6 4 (0.68%) DNS
7 3 (0.51%) 5G
7 3 (0.51%) FTP
7 3 (0.51%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.34%) IPv4
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.34%) SDH
8 2 (0.34%) SMS
8 2 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.39%) Data Lake
2 13 (2.20%) Power BI
3 12 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.01%) Big Data
6 5 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
6 5 (0.84%) Metadata
6 5 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (0.84%) Tableau
7 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.51%) Flink
9 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.34%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.34%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.86%) JIRA
2 6 (1.01%) MLflow
3 4 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.51%) Git
4 3 (0.51%) Maven
5 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.17%) ERwin
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) MSI
6 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.17%) Subversion
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) VersionOne
General
1 156 (26.35%) Finance
2 125 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 57 (9.63%) Banking
4 48 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.22%) Telecoms
7 22 (3.72%) Billing
8 21 (3.55%) Legal
9 17 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.20%) Retail
13 9 (1.52%) Law
14 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.18%) Marketing
16 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.51%) Local Government
18 2 (0.34%) Games
18 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
18 2 (0.34%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.61%) Middleware
2 43 (7.26%) .NET
3 30 (5.07%) REST
4 18 (3.04%) React
5 14 (2.36%) .NET Framework
5 14 (2.36%) AngularJS
6 12 (2.03%) Kafka
7 10 (1.69%) Vue
8 6 (1.01%) CSS
8 6 (1.01%) HTML
8 6 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.01%) SOAP
9 5 (0.84%) Spring
10 4 (0.68%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.68%) FHIR
10 4 (0.68%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.68%) gRPC
10 4 (0.68%) LDAP
10 4 (0.68%) OpenID
10 4 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.04%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.03%) FMCG
5 12 (2.03%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.18%) NHS
10 6 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.84%) Windows
2 2 (0.34%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (17.40%) AI
2 98 (16.55%) DevOps
3 94 (15.88%) Agile
4 83 (14.02%) Roadmaps
5 76 (12.84%) Migration
6 70 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 68 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (10.30%) CI/CD
9 59 (9.97%) Integration Patterns
10 58 (9.80%) Enterprise Architecture
11 53 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
12 52 (8.78%) Analytics
12 52 (8.78%) Microservices
13 49 (8.28%) ERP
14 45 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (6.59%) Architectural Patterns
15 39 (6.59%) Machine Learning
15 39 (6.59%) TOGAF
16 38 (6.42%) Event-Driven
17 37 (6.25%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.26%) Python
2 36 (6.08%) Java
3 24 (4.05%) C#
4 21 (3.55%) SQL
5 12 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.86%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.51%) R
9 2 (0.34%) Bash
9 2 (0.34%) Korn
9 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.34%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) ABAP
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) RPG
10 1 (0.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 100 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 86 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.25%) Degree
4 20 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.36%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.84%) CISA
10 5 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.68%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.51%) CISSP
13 2 (0.34%) CCNP
13 2 (0.34%) CISM
13 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.22%) GDPR
2 12 (2.03%) SEPA
3 10 (1.69%) PSD2
4 9 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.52%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.35%) QA
6 6 (1.01%) NIST
7 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.68%) HL7
8 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.51%) TARGET2
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (3.89%) Docker
2 12 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.51%) Squid
4 2 (0.34%) Ceph
4 2 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.34%) Lustre
4 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.07%) Terraform
3 8 (1.35%) Grafana
3 8 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.18%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.51%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Consul
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.34%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 81 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.63%) SAP
3 44 (7.43%) Oracle
4 34 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 32 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 25 (4.22%) Databricks
7 14 (2.36%) Workday
8 12 (2.03%) Software AG
9 11 (1.86%) Ariba
10 10 (1.69%) Cisco
10 10 (1.69%) Google
11 7 (1.18%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.01%) IBM
12 6 (1.01%) IFS
13 5 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.68%) Confluent
14 4 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.68%) Planon
14 4 (0.68%) Yardi