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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 116 94
Rank change year-on-year +44 -22 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 768 340 459
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 2.54% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 2.73% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 195 317
10th Percentile £500 £468 £485
25th Percentile £540 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £747 £719 £800
90th Percentile £800 £800 £888
England median daily rate £628 £624 £630
% change year-on-year +0.60% -0.99% -3.08%
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% +27.72%

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 18,712 12,462 15,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 92.97% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,149 8,386 10,664
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.22% -10.28%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +25 99 £675 +1.47% 28
West London -17 6 £650 +80.56% 5
South London -10 4 £744 +14.38%
North London -2 2 £650 -27.78%
East London -3 2 £650 -5.53% 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 230 (29.95%) Azure
2 157 (20.44%) AWS
3 149 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 134 (17.45%) Migration
5 131 (17.06%) Roadmaps
6 130 (16.93%) AI
7 125 (16.28%) Security Cleared
8 110 (14.32%) Enterprise Architecture
9 107 (13.93%) SC Cleared
10 106 (13.80%) Agile
11 105 (13.67%) DevOps
12 104 (13.54%) Microsoft
13 92 (11.98%) Integration Patterns
14 88 (11.46%) Analytics
15 85 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
16 84 (10.94%) CI/CD
17 79 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 70 (9.11%) Event-Driven
18 70 (9.11%) SAP
18 70 (9.11%) TOGAF
19 69 (8.98%) Data Architecture
20 66 (8.59%) Data Modelling
21 62 (8.07%) Architectural Patterns
22 58 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
23 57 (7.42%) Translating Business Requirements
24 56 (7.29%) ERP
25 55 (7.16%) GCP
26 54 (7.03%) Architecture Governance
26 54 (7.03%) Databricks
27 53 (6.90%) .NET

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 9 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.91%) CMS
2 7 (0.91%) Confluence
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.65%) Camunda
5 4 (0.52%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.04%) SAP BRIM
4 6 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.52%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.52%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.39%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 230 (29.95%) Azure
2 157 (20.44%) AWS
3 55 (7.16%) GCP
4 50 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 31 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (3.52%) SaaS
7 26 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 22 (2.86%) Serverless
9 21 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.47%) GitHub
11 18 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (2.21%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.95%) PaaS
14 13 (1.69%) Azure AI
14 13 (1.69%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.43%) OCI
15 11 (1.43%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.30%) IaaS
16 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
17 9 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.30%) Firewall
1 10 (1.30%) Network Security
2 8 (1.04%) VPN
3 6 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.52%) DMZ
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
4 4 (0.52%) MPLS
5 3 (0.39%) FTP
5 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 3 (0.39%) VoIP
5 3 (0.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
6 2 (0.26%) IPv4
6 2 (0.26%) IPv6
6 2 (0.26%) RFID
6 2 (0.26%) SDH
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
6 2 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.47%) Data Lake
2 26 (3.39%) Power BI
3 19 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.82%) Metadata
6 10 (1.30%) Big Data
6 10 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.78%) Delta Lake
7 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.65%) Power Query
9 4 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.52%) Flink
9 4 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.39%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.17%) JIRA
2 5 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.52%) Git
4 3 (0.39%) ERwin
4 3 (0.39%) Maven
4 3 (0.39%) MLflow
4 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.26%) GitLab
5 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.13%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
6 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.13%) VersionOne
General
1 164 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 155 (20.18%) Finance
3 67 (8.72%) Retail
4 66 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 46 (5.99%) Banking
6 33 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.86%) Billing
9 17 (2.21%) Legal
10 16 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.04%) Marketing
13 8 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.78%) Advertising
14 6 (0.78%) Local Government
15 4 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.52%) Automotive
15 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.90%) .NET
2 47 (6.12%) REST
3 25 (3.26%) Terraform
4 24 (3.13%) Middleware
5 23 (2.99%) Kafka
6 21 (2.73%) .NET Framework
7 12 (1.56%) React
8 10 (1.30%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.30%) OAuth
8 10 (1.30%) SOAP
9 8 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
10 6 (0.78%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.78%) SAML
10 6 (0.78%) Vue
11 5 (0.65%) OpenID
11 5 (0.65%) RESTful
11 5 (0.65%) Spring
12 4 (0.52%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 30 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.34%) Mainframe
5 18 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.04%) IoT
13 7 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.78%) NHS
14 6 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.91%) 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
1 149 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 134 (17.45%) Migration
3 131 (17.06%) Roadmaps
4 130 (16.93%) AI
5 110 (14.32%) Enterprise Architecture
6 106 (13.80%) Agile
7 105 (13.67%) DevOps
8 92 (11.98%) Integration Patterns
9 88 (11.46%) Analytics
10 85 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
11 84 (10.94%) CI/CD
12 79 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 70 (9.11%) Event-Driven
13 70 (9.11%) TOGAF
14 69 (8.98%) Data Architecture
15 66 (8.59%) Data Modelling
16 62 (8.07%) Architectural Patterns
17 58 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
18 57 (7.42%) Translating Business Requirements
19 56 (7.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 36 (4.69%) Java
2 28 (3.65%) Python
3 27 (3.52%) C#
4 23 (2.99%) SQL
5 18 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.56%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.39%) Bash
9 3 (0.39%) Scala
10 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) C++
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Groovy
11 1 (0.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 125 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 107 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.69%) Degree
4 19 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.65%) CISA
7 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.26%) CCSP
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.26%) CISSP
10 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.52%) GDPR
2 20 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.69%) NIST
5 12 (1.56%) SEPA
6 7 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.65%) QA
8 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.39%) PSD2
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 19 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.69%) 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%) Squid
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.82%) Ansible
3 9 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.78%) Grafana
5 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.39%) SCCM
7 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.13%) Avamar
8 1 (0.13%) Consul
8 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.11%) SAP
3 54 (7.03%) Databricks
4 43 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 41 (5.34%) Oracle
6 35 (4.56%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.34%) Google
8 13 (1.69%) BMC
9 12 (1.56%) Ariba
10 10 (1.30%) Cisco
10 10 (1.30%) IBM
11 9 (1.17%) Workday
12 8 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.78%) TikTok
13 6 (0.78%) VMware
14 5 (0.65%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.65%) Siemens
15 4 (0.52%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.52%) Remedy