Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 95 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 525 356 495
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.03% 2.81% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.27% 3.01% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 224 352
10th Percentile £475 £505 £488
25th Percentile £525 £574 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £738
90th Percentile £813 £821 £811
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £54.35 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £64.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £69.06 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £66.00 £87.00
% change year-on-year +7.98% -24.14% +28.89%

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 16,061 11,840 16,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,718 8,107 12,065
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 144 342
10th Percentile £18.63 £21.22 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.03 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.63 £64.95
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.53
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.88% -21.17%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -10 75 £675 - 50
South London -13 6 £637 -2.00%
West London -21 6 £625 +6.38% 7
East London -2 3 £630 - 1
North London - 1 £700 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 153 (29.14%) Azure
2 121 (23.05%) AWS
3 90 (17.14%) Agile
3 90 (17.14%) Roadmaps
3 90 (17.14%) Security Cleared
4 86 (16.38%) AI
5 80 (15.24%) DevOps
6 79 (15.05%) Microsoft
7 76 (14.48%) SC Cleared
8 73 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (12.57%) Migration
10 65 (12.38%) Enterprise Architecture
10 65 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (10.48%) Integration Patterns
11 55 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 55 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
12 53 (10.10%) Middleware
13 51 (9.71%) Analytics
13 51 (9.71%) ERP
13 51 (9.71%) Microservices
14 48 (9.14%) CI/CD
15 46 (8.76%) SAP
16 44 (8.38%) Python
17 41 (7.81%) Oracle
17 41 (7.81%) TOGAF
18 39 (7.43%) .NET
18 39 (7.43%) GCP
19 38 (7.24%) Data Modelling
20 36 (6.86%) CRM
21 35 (6.67%) Architectural Design

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 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.33%) Camunda
3 6 (1.14%) Confluence
4 5 (0.95%) Apache
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.76%) CMS
5 4 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.19%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (5.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.95%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.95%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.95%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.76%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.76%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.76%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.57%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (29.14%) Azure
2 121 (23.05%) AWS
3 39 (7.43%) GCP
4 33 (6.29%) SaaS
5 25 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 17 (3.24%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.10%) Serverless
10 10 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.52%) PaaS
12 7 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (1.33%) Azure AI
12 7 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.10%) Firewall
2 10 (1.90%) WAN
3 9 (1.71%) VPN
4 7 (1.33%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.95%) DNS
5 5 (0.95%) Network Security
6 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.57%) 5G
7 3 (0.57%) MPLS
7 3 (0.57%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.38%) FTP
8 2 (0.38%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.38%) IPv4
8 2 (0.38%) IPv6
8 2 (0.38%) LAN
8 2 (0.38%) SMS
8 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.19%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.14%) Data Lake
2 16 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.48%) Power BI
5 7 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.33%) Tableau
6 6 (1.14%) Big Data
7 5 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.95%) Metadata
8 4 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.57%) Flink
9 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.38%) GIS
10 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (2.10%) JIRA
2 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.76%) MLflow
3 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
3 3 (0.57%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.38%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.19%) ERwin
5 1 (0.19%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) Maven
5 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.19%) Subversion
5 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.19%) VersionOne
General
1 151 (28.76%) Finance
2 132 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 54 (10.29%) Banking
3 54 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (3.62%) Legal
7 17 (3.24%) Retail
8 16 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.10%) Billing
11 10 (1.90%) Law
12 9 (1.71%) Marketing
13 8 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.95%) Local Government
16 4 (0.76%) Back Office
16 4 (0.76%) Private Banking
17 2 (0.38%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.10%) Middleware
2 39 (7.43%) .NET
3 30 (5.71%) REST
4 18 (3.43%) React
5 16 (3.05%) AngularJS
6 13 (2.48%) Kafka
7 12 (2.29%) .NET Framework
8 10 (1.90%) Vue
9 7 (1.33%) OAuth
9 7 (1.33%) SOAP
10 6 (1.14%) CSS
10 6 (1.14%) HTML
10 6 (1.14%) OpenID
11 5 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.95%) Spring
11 5 (0.95%) XML
12 4 (0.76%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.76%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.76%) LDAP
12 4 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.24%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.10%) FMCG
6 9 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.76%) NHS
11 4 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.52%) Windows
2 4 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (17.14%) Agile
1 90 (17.14%) Roadmaps
2 86 (16.38%) AI
3 80 (15.24%) DevOps
4 73 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (12.57%) Migration
6 65 (12.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 65 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (10.48%) Integration Patterns
7 55 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 55 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
8 51 (9.71%) Analytics
8 51 (9.71%) ERP
8 51 (9.71%) Microservices
9 48 (9.14%) CI/CD
10 41 (7.81%) TOGAF
11 38 (7.24%) Data Modelling
12 36 (6.86%) CRM
13 35 (6.67%) Architectural Design
13 35 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.38%) Python
2 34 (6.48%) Java
3 23 (4.38%) C#
4 20 (3.81%) SQL
5 13 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.95%) Bash
9 3 (0.57%) R
9 3 (0.57%) Scala
10 2 (0.38%) Korn
10 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) RPG
11 1 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 90 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.29%) Degree
4 22 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.57%) CISSP
10 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.57%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CCNP
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CISM
12 1 (0.19%) CCIE
12 1 (0.19%) CCSE
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.52%) GDPR
2 8 (1.52%) ISO 20022
2 8 (1.52%) PSD2
2 8 (1.52%) QA
3 6 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.95%) NIST
4 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.95%) SEPA
5 4 (0.76%) HL7
6 3 (0.57%) TARGET2
7 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.00%) Docker
2 13 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) Squid
4 2 (0.38%) Ceph
4 2 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.38%) Lustre
4 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.33%) Terraform
3 8 (1.52%) Grafana
3 8 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.33%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.14%) Ansible
6 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.38%) Consul
7 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.38%) SCCM
8 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 79 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.76%) SAP
3 41 (7.81%) Oracle
4 33 (6.29%) Salesforce
5 23 (4.38%) Databricks
5 23 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.48%) Workday
7 12 (2.29%) Software AG
8 11 (2.10%) Google
9 10 (1.90%) Ariba
9 10 (1.90%) Cisco
10 7 (1.33%) IBM
11 6 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.76%) IFS
13 4 (0.76%) Planon
13 4 (0.76%) Yardi