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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 96 83
Rank change year-on-year +27 -13 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 736 387 508
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.72% 2.85% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% 3.06% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 225 356
10th Percentile £492 £489 £475
25th Percentile £525 £568 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £638
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £52.98 - £52.55
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +5.26% +9.57%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £60.88
90th Percentile £67.33 - £61.85
England median hourly rate £71.27 £61.50 £87.50
% change year-on-year +15.89% -29.71% +32.58%

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 18,394 12,646 16,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 93.25% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,070 8,556 11,553
10th Percentile £360 £331 £331
25th Percentile £449 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 200 275
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.48 £22.86 £20.98
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +24.80% +3.61% -19.40%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.75 £70.55
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.70 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.46% -30.75% -6.98%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +11 103 £675 - 27
South London -13 7 £744 +14.38% 2
West London -9 6 £650 +44.44% 7
East London 0 3 £630 -6.67% 2
North London - 1 £650 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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.

1 223 (30.30%) Azure
2 164 (22.28%) AWS
3 130 (17.66%) AI
4 127 (17.26%) Migration
5 122 (16.58%) Roadmaps
6 119 (16.17%) Security Cleared
6 119 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 113 (15.35%) DevOps
8 109 (14.81%) Agile
9 103 (13.99%) Enterprise Architecture
10 101 (13.72%) SC Cleared
11 95 (12.91%) Microsoft
12 80 (10.87%) Analytics
13 78 (10.60%) CI/CD
14 76 (10.33%) Integration Patterns
15 72 (9.78%) TOGAF
16 71 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
17 69 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 66 (8.97%) SAP
19 61 (8.29%) Data Modelling
20 60 (8.15%) ERP
20 60 (8.15%) GCP
20 60 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
21 58 (7.88%) .NET
21 58 (7.88%) Event-Driven
22 55 (7.47%) Data Architecture
22 55 (7.47%) Microservices
23 54 (7.34%) Machine Learning
24 52 (7.07%) Architectural Patterns
25 49 (6.66%) CRM

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 13 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.22%) Confluence
3 8 (1.09%) Camunda
4 7 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.82%) CMS
6 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.09%) SAP BRIM
4 7 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.54%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 4 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.41%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 223 (30.30%) Azure
2 164 (22.28%) AWS
3 60 (8.15%) GCP
4 39 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 30 (4.08%) SaaS
6 28 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.13%) Serverless
9 22 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.72%) Snowflake
11 17 (2.31%) GitHub
11 17 (2.31%) PaaS
12 14 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.63%) IaaS
13 12 (1.63%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.49%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.90%) Firewall
2 12 (1.63%) Network Security
2 12 (1.63%) VPN
3 8 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.82%) DNS
5 4 (0.54%) MPLS
6 3 (0.41%) FTP
6 3 (0.41%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.41%) SSL
6 3 (0.41%) VoIP
6 3 (0.41%) WAN
6 3 (0.41%) Wireless
7 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.27%) HTTP
7 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.27%) SDH
7 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.16%) Data Lake
2 22 (2.99%) Power BI
3 17 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.90%) Metadata
5 11 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.36%) Big Data
7 6 (0.82%) Tableau
8 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.54%) Flink
9 4 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.41%) GIS
10 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 14 (1.90%) JIRA
2 6 (0.82%) MLflow
3 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.54%) Git
4 4 (0.54%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.41%) ERwin
5 3 (0.41%) Maven
6 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.27%) GitLab
6 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) Subversion
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) VersionOne
General
1 170 (23.10%) Finance
2 146 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 65 (8.83%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.02%) Banking
5 54 (7.34%) Retail
6 32 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.99%) Billing
9 19 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.17%) Legal
11 15 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.82%) Local Government
14 6 (0.82%) Marketing
14 6 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.41%) Automotive
15 3 (0.41%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.27%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.88%) .NET
2 42 (5.71%) REST
3 33 (4.48%) Middleware
4 23 (3.13%) .NET Framework
5 19 (2.58%) Kafka
6 18 (2.45%) React
7 12 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.22%) SOAP
9 8 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
10 7 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.95%) Vue
11 6 (0.82%) CSS
11 6 (0.82%) HTML
12 5 (0.68%) LDAP
12 5 (0.68%) OAuth
12 5 (0.68%) Spring
13 4 (0.54%) PySpark
13 4 (0.54%) SAML
13 4 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 20 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (2.31%) Mainframe
5 16 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 12 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.36%) NHS
11 9 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.95%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.68%) Windows
2 4 (0.54%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Android
3 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (17.66%) AI
2 127 (17.26%) Migration
3 122 (16.58%) Roadmaps
4 119 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 113 (15.35%) DevOps
6 109 (14.81%) Agile
7 103 (13.99%) Enterprise Architecture
8 80 (10.87%) Analytics
9 78 (10.60%) CI/CD
10 76 (10.33%) Integration Patterns
11 72 (9.78%) TOGAF
12 71 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
13 69 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 61 (8.29%) Data Modelling
15 60 (8.15%) ERP
15 60 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (7.88%) Event-Driven
17 55 (7.47%) Data Architecture
17 55 (7.47%) Microservices
18 54 (7.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.84%) Python
2 39 (5.30%) Java
3 33 (4.48%) C#
4 24 (3.26%) SQL
5 19 (2.58%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.77%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.41%) Bash
8 3 (0.41%) R
8 3 (0.41%) Scala
9 2 (0.27%) Bicep
10 1 (0.14%) ABAP
10 1 (0.14%) C++
10 1 (0.14%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Groovy
10 1 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 119 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.71%) Degree
4 18 (2.45%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.68%) CISA
13 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.54%) CISSP
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.27%) CCSP
15 2 (0.27%) CISM
15 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.94%) GDPR
2 18 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.17%) SEPA
4 13 (1.77%) ISO 20022
5 12 (1.63%) NIST
6 11 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.09%) PSD2
8 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.82%) QA
10 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.54%) HL7
12 3 (0.41%) NCSC
12 3 (0.41%) PMO
12 3 (0.41%) TARGET2
13 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.27%) GRC
14 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 22 (2.99%) Docker
2 15 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) Squid
3 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.48%) Terraform
3 14 (1.90%) Ansible
4 9 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.09%) Grafana
6 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.41%) SCCM
8 2 (0.27%) Argo
8 2 (0.27%) Consul
8 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.14%) Avamar
9 1 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.97%) SAP
3 46 (6.25%) Oracle
4 41 (5.57%) Databricks
4 41 (5.57%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.63%) Ariba
6 12 (1.63%) Cisco
7 11 (1.49%) Workday
8 10 (1.36%) Google
9 8 (1.09%) IFS
9 8 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.95%) IBM
11 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.68%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.68%) Siemens
12 4 (0.54%) Confluent
12 4 (0.54%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.54%) Software AG
12 4 (0.54%) Yardi