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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 97 84
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 718 390 513
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.63% 2.89% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.91% 3.09% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 227 360
10th Percentile £492 £497 £475
25th Percentile £525 £568 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £638
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
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 £88.00
% change year-on-year +15.89% -30.11% +33.33%

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 18,349 12,611 16,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.31% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,077 8,527 11,798
10th Percentile £358 £332 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
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 319 194 301
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.38 £23.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.17% -28.69%
75th Percentile £62.93 £50.50 £46.50
90th Percentile £80.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +13 106 £685 +0.29% 36
South London -10 6 £637 -2.00%
West London -14 5 £688 +17.02% 9
East London 0 3 £630 +20.00% 3
North London - 1 £650 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 217 (30.22%) Azure
2 155 (21.59%) AWS
3 125 (17.41%) AI
4 124 (17.27%) Migration
5 117 (16.30%) Security Cleared
6 116 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 115 (16.02%) Roadmaps
8 112 (15.60%) DevOps
9 107 (14.90%) Agile
10 100 (13.93%) SC Cleared
11 99 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
12 95 (13.23%) Microsoft
13 77 (10.72%) CI/CD
14 76 (10.58%) Analytics
15 72 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
16 68 (9.47%) TOGAF
17 66 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 60 (8.36%) .NET
20 59 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
20 59 (8.22%) SAP
21 58 (8.08%) Data Modelling
22 57 (7.94%) ERP
23 54 (7.52%) Data Architecture
24 53 (7.38%) Event-Driven
24 53 (7.38%) GCP
24 53 (7.38%) Microservices
25 50 (6.96%) Machine Learning
26 48 (6.69%) Architectural Patterns
27 46 (6.41%) 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 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.25%) Confluence
3 8 (1.11%) Camunda
4 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.84%) CMS
6 4 (0.56%) Apache
7 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) 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%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.11%) SAP BRIM
4 7 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.56%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.56%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.42%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.14%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.14%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.14%) Maximo
9 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 217 (30.22%) Azure
2 155 (21.59%) AWS
3 53 (7.38%) GCP
4 39 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 28 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (3.90%) SaaS
6 24 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.20%) Serverless
8 22 (3.06%) Entra ID
9 20 (2.79%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.37%) GitHub
10 17 (2.37%) PaaS
11 14 (1.95%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
12 12 (1.67%) IaaS
12 12 (1.67%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.53%) Azure AI
13 11 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.95%) Firewall
2 12 (1.67%) Network Security
2 12 (1.67%) VPN
3 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.84%) DNS
5 4 (0.56%) MPLS
5 4 (0.56%) WAN
6 3 (0.42%) FTP
6 3 (0.42%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.42%) SSL
6 3 (0.42%) VoIP
6 3 (0.42%) Wireless
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.28%) SDH
7 2 (0.28%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.29%) Data Lake
2 22 (3.06%) Power BI
3 17 (2.37%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.95%) Metadata
6 11 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.39%) Big Data
8 6 (0.84%) Tableau
9 5 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.56%) Flink
10 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.42%) GIS
11 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 14 (1.95%) JIRA
2 6 (0.84%) MLflow
3 5 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.56%) Git
4 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.42%) ERwin
5 3 (0.42%) Maven
6 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) 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
1 168 (23.40%) Finance
2 144 (20.06%) Social Skills
3 64 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 57 (7.94%) Banking
5 51 (7.10%) Retail
6 33 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (3.20%) Billing
7 23 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.37%) Legal
10 16 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.84%) Local Government
12 6 (0.84%) Marketing
12 6 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.42%) Automotive
13 3 (0.42%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.28%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.36%) .NET
2 39 (5.43%) REST
3 32 (4.46%) Middleware
4 23 (3.20%) .NET Framework
5 18 (2.51%) React
6 15 (2.09%) Kafka
7 12 (1.67%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.11%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.11%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (1.11%) SOAP
9 7 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.97%) Vue
10 6 (0.84%) CSS
10 6 (0.84%) HTML
11 5 (0.70%) LDAP
11 5 (0.70%) Spring
12 4 (0.56%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.56%) OAuth
12 4 (0.56%) SAML
12 4 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.37%) Mainframe
6 16 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 12 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.39%) NHS
11 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.84%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.84%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.84%) Windows
2 3 (0.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.28%) Android
3 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (17.41%) AI
2 124 (17.27%) Migration
3 116 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 115 (16.02%) Roadmaps
5 112 (15.60%) DevOps
6 107 (14.90%) Agile
7 99 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
8 77 (10.72%) CI/CD
9 76 (10.58%) Analytics
10 72 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
11 68 (9.47%) TOGAF
12 66 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
13 65 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 59 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
15 58 (8.08%) Data Modelling
16 57 (7.94%) ERP
17 54 (7.52%) Data Architecture
18 53 (7.38%) Event-Driven
18 53 (7.38%) Microservices
19 50 (6.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.99%) Python
2 40 (5.57%) Java
3 33 (4.60%) C#
4 25 (3.48%) SQL
5 19 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.42%) Bash
8 3 (0.42%) R
8 3 (0.42%) Scala
9 2 (0.28%) 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%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) RPG
10 1 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 117 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.85%) Degree
4 17 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.70%) CISA
10 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.56%) CISSP
12 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.28%) CCNP
13 2 (0.28%) CCSP
13 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.90%) GDPR
2 18 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.09%) SEPA
4 12 (1.67%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.53%) NIST
6 10 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.11%) PSD2
8 7 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.84%) QA
10 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.56%) HL7
10 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.42%) NCSC
11 3 (0.42%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) PMO
13 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 22 (3.06%) Docker
2 15 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Squid
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 34 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.60%) Terraform
3 14 (1.95%) Ansible
4 9 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.11%) Grafana
6 7 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.42%) SCCM
9 2 (0.28%) Argo
9 2 (0.28%) Consul
9 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.14%) Avamar
10 1 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 95 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.22%) SAP
3 46 (6.41%) Oracle
4 41 (5.71%) Databricks
5 39 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.81%) Cisco
8 11 (1.53%) Ariba
9 10 (1.39%) Workday
10 9 (1.25%) Google
11 8 (1.11%) IFS
11 8 (1.11%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.97%) IBM
13 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.70%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.70%) Siemens
14 4 (0.56%) Confluent
14 4 (0.56%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.56%) Planon
14 4 (0.56%) Software AG