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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 112 99
Rank change year-on-year +38 -13 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 764 349 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 2.59% 2.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.02% 2.79% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 204 264
10th Percentile £501 £463 £482
25th Percentile £556 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £645 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -4.44% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £800
90th Percentile £805 £800 £888
England median daily rate £638 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.65 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 - £54.00
75th Percentile £49.63 - £56.00
90th Percentile £52.55 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £30.20 £91.00
% change year-on-year +135.99% -66.81% +21.33%

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 18,993 12,497 15,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.71% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,277 8,357 10,071
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £670 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 208 179
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.97 £22.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -17.86% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.17 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +1 96 £694 +2.81% 79
West London -18 4 £650 +80.56% 22
North London +1 2 £650 -27.78%
East London -3 2 £650 -5.53% 2
South London -15 2 £1,050 +44.38% 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 239 (31.28%) Azure
2 169 (22.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 145 (18.98%) AWS
4 138 (18.06%) Migration
5 134 (17.54%) Roadmaps
6 131 (17.15%) AI
7 120 (15.71%) Security Cleared
8 115 (15.05%) Enterprise Architecture
9 111 (14.53%) Microsoft
10 108 (14.14%) Agile
11 107 (14.01%) DevOps
12 102 (13.35%) SC Cleared
13 94 (12.30%) Integration Patterns
14 93 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
15 84 (10.99%) CI/CD
16 83 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 82 (10.73%) Analytics
18 74 (9.69%) TOGAF
19 70 (9.16%) Event-Driven
20 67 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
21 65 (8.51%) SAP
22 64 (8.38%) Data Architecture
23 62 (8.12%) Data Modelling
24 61 (7.98%) Translating Business Requirements
25 60 (7.85%) Microservices
26 58 (7.59%) Architecture Governance
27 55 (7.20%) Power Platform
28 54 (7.07%) Infrastructure as Code
29 53 (6.94%) .NET
29 53 (6.94%) GCP

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 10 (1.31%) CMS
2 9 (1.18%) Confluence
3 8 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 28 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.05%) SAP BRIM
4 6 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.52%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.39%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 239 (31.28%) Azure
2 145 (18.98%) AWS
3 55 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 53 (6.94%) GCP
5 35 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (3.53%) SaaS
7 26 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 22 (2.88%) Serverless
9 21 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (2.62%) GitHub
11 15 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.83%) PaaS
13 12 (1.57%) Azure AI
13 12 (1.57%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.57%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.44%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.44%) OCI
14 11 (1.44%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.18%) Network Security
2 8 (1.05%) Firewall
2 8 (1.05%) VPN
3 5 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.52%) DMZ
4 4 (0.52%) Wireless
5 3 (0.39%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) FTP
5 3 (0.39%) MPLS
5 3 (0.39%) SSL
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
6 2 (0.26%) RFID
6 2 (0.26%) SDH
6 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
6 2 (0.26%) VoIP
6 2 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) Converged Networks
7 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.45%) Data Lake
2 24 (3.14%) Power BI
3 17 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.09%) Metadata
5 9 (1.18%) Big Data
6 8 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.79%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.65%) Power Query
9 4 (0.52%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.52%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.39%) GIS
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (1.31%) JIRA
2 6 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.39%) Git
3 3 (0.39%) MLflow
4 2 (0.26%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) GitLab
4 2 (0.26%) Maven
4 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.13%) MSI
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 164 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 155 (20.29%) Finance
3 68 (8.90%) Retail
4 63 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.54%) Banking
6 32 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.62%) Billing
9 19 (2.49%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.57%) Legal
13 11 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.18%) Marketing
15 8 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.92%) Advertising
17 5 (0.65%) Automotive
18 4 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
19 3 (0.39%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.94%) .NET
2 45 (5.89%) REST
3 28 (3.66%) Terraform
4 27 (3.53%) Kafka
5 23 (3.01%) .NET Framework
6 17 (2.23%) Middleware
7 11 (1.44%) React
7 11 (1.44%) SOAP
8 9 (1.18%) OAuth
9 8 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.92%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.79%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.79%) PySpark
11 6 (0.79%) SAML
12 5 (0.65%) JWT
12 5 (0.65%) OpenID
12 5 (0.65%) Spring
12 5 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 21 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.36%) Mainframe
6 18 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.05%) IoT
11 8 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.92%) NHS
13 6 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.92%) Windows
2 5 (0.65%) Linux
3 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Android
4 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (22.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 138 (18.06%) Migration
3 134 (17.54%) Roadmaps
4 131 (17.15%) AI
5 115 (15.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 108 (14.14%) Agile
7 107 (14.01%) DevOps
8 94 (12.30%) Integration Patterns
9 93 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
10 84 (10.99%) CI/CD
11 83 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 82 (10.73%) Analytics
13 74 (9.69%) TOGAF
14 70 (9.16%) Event-Driven
15 67 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
16 64 (8.38%) Data Architecture
17 62 (8.12%) Data Modelling
18 61 (7.98%) Translating Business Requirements
19 60 (7.85%) Microservices
20 58 (7.59%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 33 (4.32%) Java
2 26 (3.40%) C#
3 22 (2.88%) SQL
4 20 (2.62%) JavaScript
4 20 (2.62%) Python
5 15 (1.96%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.39%) Bash
9 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.26%) Bicep
9 2 (0.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.13%) ABAP
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 120 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.84%) Degree
4 23 (3.01%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.65%) CISA
10 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.52%) CISSP
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.39%) CCSP
12 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.40%) GDPR
2 20 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.83%) SEPA
5 11 (1.44%) NIST
6 8 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.92%) PMO
8 6 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.65%) NCSC
10 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.52%) QA
11 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.39%) PSD2
12 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.26%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.44%) Docker
3 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.96%) Ansible
3 9 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.52%) Grafana
5 3 (0.39%) SCCM
6 2 (0.26%) Argo
6 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.13%) Avamar
7 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.51%) SAP
3 50 (6.54%) ServiceNow
4 49 (6.41%) Databricks
5 42 (5.50%) Oracle
6 33 (4.32%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.96%) Google
8 13 (1.70%) BMC
9 11 (1.44%) IBM
10 9 (1.18%) Cisco
10 9 (1.18%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.92%) Workday
13 6 (0.79%) TikTok
14 5 (0.65%) Ariba
14 5 (0.65%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.65%) Siemens
14 5 (0.65%) VMware
15 4 (0.52%) Aruba
15 4 (0.52%) Remedy