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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 95 87
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 402 364 467
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.73% 2.64% 2.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.95% 2.82% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 227 312
10th Percentile £463 £496 £500
25th Percentile £563 £550 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £769 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £87.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -24.57% +25.00%

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 13,645 12,924 17,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 93.63% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,056 8,253 12,514
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 139 327
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.66 £19.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -15.09%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.15 £65.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -8 69 £675 +3.85% 35
West London -20 5 £625 -7.41% 8
South London - 4 £750 - 3
East London 0 3 £765 +9.68% 2
North London - 1 £700 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 145 (36.07%) Azure
2 87 (21.64%) AWS
3 71 (17.66%) Security Cleared
4 68 (16.92%) Microsoft
5 67 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 61 (15.17%) SC Cleared
7 60 (14.93%) Agile
8 59 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (13.18%) Enterprise Architecture
10 50 (12.44%) AI
10 50 (12.44%) DevOps
10 50 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 47 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (10.95%) Microservices
12 44 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (9.70%) TOGAF
14 37 (9.20%) SAP
15 35 (8.71%) Migration
16 34 (8.46%) Middleware
17 33 (8.21%) SaaS
18 32 (7.96%) GCP
19 31 (7.71%) Integration Patterns
19 31 (7.71%) Salesforce
20 30 (7.46%) Architectural Design
21 29 (7.21%) Data Modelling
22 27 (6.72%) CRM
23 26 (6.47%) Analytics
23 26 (6.47%) Degree
23 26 (6.47%) ERP
24 25 (6.22%) CI/CD

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 11 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.74%) Confluence
3 4 (1.00%) CMS
3 4 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) Apache
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.50%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 23 (5.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.24%) SAP EWM
3 5 (1.24%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.75%) SAP PM
4 3 (0.75%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.75%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.25%) SAP AFS
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 145 (36.07%) Azure
2 87 (21.64%) AWS
3 33 (8.21%) SaaS
4 32 (7.96%) GCP
5 21 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 16 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (3.98%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.99%) Snowflake
8 11 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.49%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.49%) iPaaS
10 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.49%) Serverless
11 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.24%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (1.24%) Fivetran
11 5 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.49%) WAN
2 8 (1.99%) Firewall
2 8 (1.99%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.49%) VPN
4 5 (1.24%) MPLS
5 4 (1.00%) 5G
5 4 (1.00%) DNS
5 4 (1.00%) Network Security
6 3 (0.75%) BGP
6 3 (0.75%) DHCP
6 3 (0.75%) LAN
6 3 (0.75%) OSPF
6 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.50%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.50%) 4G
7 2 (0.50%) IPsec
7 2 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (2.99%) Power BI
3 11 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.24%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.49%) Tableau
6 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.75%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.75%) Metadata
6 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.75%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.50%) GIS
7 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (1.99%) JIRA
2 3 (0.75%) Git
3 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.50%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.50%) GitLab
3 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.25%) MLflow
4 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 130 (32.34%) Finance
2 112 (27.86%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.95%) Banking
4 39 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 37 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.48%) Legal
7 17 (4.23%) Billing
8 15 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.99%) Marketing
10 12 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.49%) Law
12 9 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.24%) Retail
13 7 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.24%) Back Office
15 4 (1.00%) Electronics
16 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.75%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.46%) Middleware
2 21 (5.22%) REST
3 20 (4.98%) .NET
4 9 (2.24%) OAuth
5 8 (1.99%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.99%) JSON
5 8 (1.99%) SOAP
6 7 (1.74%) OpenID
7 6 (1.49%) Kafka
7 6 (1.49%) React
7 6 (1.49%) XML
8 5 (1.24%) Node.js
8 5 (1.24%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.24%) SAML
9 4 (1.00%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.00%) gRPC
9 4 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.00%) Vue
10 3 (0.75%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.74%) FMCG
4 10 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.49%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.49%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.99%) Windows
2 4 (1.00%) Linux
3 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 60 (14.93%) Agile
3 59 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (13.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 50 (12.44%) AI
5 50 (12.44%) DevOps
5 50 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 47 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (10.95%) Microservices
7 44 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
8 39 (9.70%) TOGAF
9 35 (8.71%) Migration
10 31 (7.71%) Integration Patterns
11 30 (7.46%) Architectural Design
12 29 (7.21%) Data Modelling
13 27 (6.72%) CRM
14 26 (6.47%) Analytics
14 26 (6.47%) ERP
15 25 (6.22%) CI/CD
15 25 (6.22%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.47%) Python
2 16 (3.98%) Java
3 15 (3.73%) C#
4 14 (3.48%) SQL
5 8 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.24%) Bash
7 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.50%) Korn
8 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.50%) R
9 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.25%) Go
9 1 (0.25%) RPG
9 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.47%) Degree
4 18 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.24%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.75%) CISSP
11 3 (0.75%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.50%) CISM
12 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.25%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.25%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.73%) GDPR
2 9 (2.24%) QA
3 6 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.49%) NIST
4 5 (1.24%) EU AI Act
5 4 (1.00%) PSD2
6 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.75%) GRC
6 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.75%) NCSC
6 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.50%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.25%) COBIT
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (3.73%) Docker
2 10 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Ceph
3 2 (0.50%) Firmware
3 2 (0.50%) Lustre
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Squid
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (4.73%) Terraform
2 14 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.24%) Ansible
3 5 (1.24%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.50%) Grafana
5 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 68 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.20%) SAP
3 31 (7.71%) Salesforce
4 23 (5.72%) Oracle
5 18 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.74%) Google
7 10 (2.49%) Cisco
7 10 (2.49%) Databricks
7 10 (2.49%) Software AG
8 8 (1.99%) IBM
8 8 (1.99%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.74%) Workday
10 5 (1.24%) Adobe
11 4 (1.00%) Ariba
11 4 (1.00%) Dell
11 4 (1.00%) IFS
11 4 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.75%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud