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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 91 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 0
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 603 358 488
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.37% 2.89% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.64% 3.10% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 217 343
10th Percentile £486 £512 £488
25th Percentile £525 £570 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £748 £763
90th Percentile £812 £813 £885
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.98 - -
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% - +15.34%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.33 - -
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 16,586 11,567 16,351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 93.33% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,005 7,920 11,814
10th Percentile £350 £344 £325
25th Percentile £429 £426 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £688
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 265 143 323
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +25.93% -23.94%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.14 £30.20 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.78% -18.77% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +11 99 £694 +2.81% 30
West London -18 7 £625 +6.38% 5
South London -9 6 £637 -0.08%
East London -4 3 £630 - 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 168 (27.86%) Azure
2 129 (21.39%) AWS
3 107 (17.74%) Security Cleared
4 103 (17.08%) AI
5 97 (16.09%) DevOps
6 92 (15.26%) SC Cleared
7 91 (15.09%) Agile
8 85 (14.10%) Roadmaps
9 83 (13.76%) Migration
10 82 (13.60%) Microsoft
11 70 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (10.28%) CI/CD
14 60 (9.95%) Integration Patterns
15 57 (9.45%) SAP
16 56 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
17 53 (8.79%) Analytics
18 50 (8.29%) ERP
19 49 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
20 48 (7.96%) Middleware
21 47 (7.79%) Microservices
22 45 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 43 (7.13%) .NET
24 42 (6.97%) Event-Driven
24 42 (6.97%) Oracle
25 41 (6.80%) GCP
25 41 (6.80%) Python
26 39 (6.47%) Architectural Patterns
26 39 (6.47%) Machine Learning
27 38 (6.30%) Degree

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 16 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.33%) Camunda
3 6 (1.00%) Confluence
4 4 (0.66%) Apache
4 4 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) Appian
6 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.17%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) 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 33 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.16%) SAP BRIM
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.83%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.83%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.66%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.66%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.66%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.50%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 3 (0.50%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.50%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.50%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 168 (27.86%) Azure
2 129 (21.39%) AWS
3 41 (6.80%) GCP
4 28 (4.64%) Power Platform
5 26 (4.31%) SaaS
6 17 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.65%) Serverless
7 16 (2.65%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.16%) Azure AI
11 12 (1.99%) PaaS
11 12 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.33%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
14 7 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.33%) Firewall
1 8 (1.33%) Network Security
1 8 (1.33%) WAN
2 7 (1.16%) VPN
3 6 (1.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.83%) MPLS
5 4 (0.66%) DNS
6 3 (0.50%) 5G
6 3 (0.50%) FTP
6 3 (0.50%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.50%) SDH
6 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.50%) VoIP
7 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.33%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.33%) IPv4
7 2 (0.33%) IPv6
7 2 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.48%) Data Lake
2 15 (2.49%) Power BI
3 12 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.16%) Metadata
5 7 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.00%) Big Data
7 5 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.83%) Tableau
8 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.66%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.50%) Flink
9 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.33%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.82%) JIRA
2 6 (1.00%) MLflow
3 4 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.66%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.50%) Maven
5 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.33%) Git
6 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
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
1 159 (26.37%) Finance
2 118 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 58 (9.62%) Banking
4 47 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 24 (3.98%) Billing
8 21 (3.48%) Legal
9 16 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.49%) Retail
11 13 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.49%) Law
13 8 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.16%) Marketing
15 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.50%) Automotive
16 3 (0.50%) Local Government
17 2 (0.33%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.96%) Middleware
2 43 (7.13%) .NET
3 28 (4.64%) REST
4 18 (2.99%) React
5 15 (2.49%) .NET Framework
6 14 (2.32%) AngularJS
7 11 (1.82%) Kafka
8 9 (1.49%) Vue
9 5 (0.83%) CSS
9 5 (0.83%) HTML
9 5 (0.83%) LDAP
9 5 (0.83%) SOAP
9 5 (0.83%) Spring
10 4 (0.66%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.66%) FHIR
10 4 (0.66%) OpenID
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.66%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.50%) LangChain
11 3 (0.50%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.32%) Mainframe
6 10 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.49%) FMCG
7 9 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.16%) NHS
9 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.83%) IoT
10 5 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.66%) Windows
2 2 (0.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (17.08%) AI
2 97 (16.09%) DevOps
3 91 (15.09%) Agile
4 85 (14.10%) Roadmaps
5 83 (13.76%) Migration
6 70 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (10.28%) CI/CD
9 60 (9.95%) Integration Patterns
10 56 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 53 (8.79%) Analytics
12 50 (8.29%) ERP
13 49 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (7.79%) Microservices
15 45 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 42 (6.97%) Event-Driven
17 39 (6.47%) Architectural Patterns
17 39 (6.47%) Machine Learning
18 37 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 37 (6.14%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.80%) Python
2 35 (5.80%) Java
3 24 (3.98%) C#
4 18 (2.99%) SQL
5 12 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.50%) R
9 2 (0.33%) Korn
9 2 (0.33%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) ABAP
10 1 (0.17%) Bash
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) RPG
10 1 (0.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 107 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 92 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.30%) Degree
4 19 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.16%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.83%) CISA
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.50%) CISSP
11 2 (0.33%) CCNP
11 2 (0.33%) CISM
11 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.15%) GDPR
2 12 (1.99%) SEPA
3 10 (1.66%) PSD2
4 9 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.49%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.49%) QA
5 6 (1.00%) NIST
6 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.66%) HL7
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.50%) TARGET2
9 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (3.65%) Docker
2 13 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) Squid
4 2 (0.33%) Ceph
4 2 (0.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.33%) Lustre
4 2 (0.33%) 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 (5.14%) Terraform
2 30 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.16%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.16%) Grafana
3 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.66%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Argo
5 2 (0.33%) Consul
5 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.45%) SAP
3 42 (6.97%) Oracle
4 34 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 30 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 28 (4.64%) Databricks
7 14 (2.32%) Workday
8 11 (1.82%) Ariba
8 11 (1.82%) Software AG
9 10 (1.66%) Cisco
10 9 (1.49%) Google
11 6 (1.00%) IFS
11 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.83%) IBM
12 5 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.83%) Siemens
13 4 (0.66%) Confluent
13 4 (0.66%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.66%) Yardi