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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 100 85
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 354 409 536
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 2.57% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 2.74% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 251 384
10th Percentile £454 £475 £503
25th Percentile £550 £530 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -1.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £731 £760 £738
90th Percentile £825 £888 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 £52.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £54.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £56.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.95% -13.33% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,126 14,911 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.69% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,694 9,671 13,219
10th Percentile £333 £340 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £794 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 162 215
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +3.36% +3.66%
75th Percentile £50.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.14 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -1 68 £650 -2.40% 14
East London +8 6 £688 -4.51% 1
West London -11 4 £569 -20.21% 7
South London - 4 £750 - 2
North London - 2 £800 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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.

1 151 (42.66%) Azure
2 87 (24.58%) AWS
3 70 (19.77%) Microsoft
4 69 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (17.80%) Roadmaps
6 57 (16.10%) Enterprise Architecture
7 55 (15.54%) Agile
8 54 (15.25%) TOGAF
9 53 (14.97%) Security Cleared
10 51 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 50 (14.12%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (12.15%) SC Cleared
13 42 (11.86%) GCP
13 42 (11.86%) Microservices
13 42 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (11.30%) DevOps
15 39 (11.02%) Migration
16 34 (9.60%) SaaS
16 34 (9.60%) SDLC
17 33 (9.32%) Data Modelling
18 30 (8.47%) AI
18 30 (8.47%) SAP
19 26 (7.34%) CI/CD
19 26 (7.34%) Integration Patterns
19 26 (7.34%) Python
20 25 (7.06%) Data Architecture
20 25 (7.06%) Salesforce
21 24 (6.78%) .NET
21 24 (6.78%) ServiceNow
22 23 (6.50%) 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 18 (5.08%) Confluence
2 12 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.41%) CMS
5 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.85%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Drupal
7 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.13%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.85%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.56%) Endur
6 2 (0.56%) Maximo
6 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.56%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.56%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.28%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.28%) Magento
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 151 (42.66%) Azure
2 87 (24.58%) AWS
3 42 (11.86%) GCP
4 34 (9.60%) SaaS
5 20 (5.65%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.65%) Power Platform
6 15 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.82%) PaaS
9 10 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.26%) GitHub
11 6 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.69%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.69%) Serverless
11 6 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (1.41%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.52%) Firewall
2 9 (2.54%) WAN
3 8 (2.26%) VPN
4 7 (1.98%) DNS
5 6 (1.69%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.41%) BGP
6 5 (1.41%) DHCP
6 5 (1.41%) LAN
6 5 (1.41%) Network Security
6 5 (1.41%) OSPF
6 5 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.13%) MPLS
7 4 (1.13%) VLAN
8 3 (0.85%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.56%) 4G
9 2 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.56%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.95%) Data Lake
2 13 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.98%) Power BI
3 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.85%) Big Data
5 3 (0.85%) Metadata
5 3 (0.85%) SAP BW
5 3 (0.85%) Tableau
6 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (4.80%) JIRA
2 6 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) Git
3 3 (0.85%) GitLab
3 3 (0.85%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.56%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
General
1 123 (34.75%) Finance
2 113 (31.92%) Social Skills
3 39 (11.02%) Banking
4 38 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.67%) Billing
7 13 (3.67%) Legal
7 13 (3.67%) Retail
8 12 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.54%) Marketing
11 7 (1.98%) Back Office
11 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.41%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.13%) Law
14 3 (0.85%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.78%) .NET
2 23 (6.50%) Middleware
3 22 (6.21%) REST
4 12 (3.39%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.82%) Kafka
5 10 (2.82%) OAuth
5 10 (2.82%) React
6 9 (2.54%) RESTful
7 8 (2.26%) JSON
8 7 (1.98%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.98%) SOAP
9 6 (1.69%) Node.js
9 6 (1.69%) Web Services
9 6 (1.69%) XML
10 5 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (1.41%) OpenID
10 5 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.13%) SAML
12 3 (0.85%) gRPC
13 2 (0.56%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.26%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.41%) FMCG
5 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.41%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.41%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.41%) Taxonomies
6 4 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.13%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.13%) PDA
6 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.69%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Linux
3 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 63 (17.80%) Roadmaps
3 57 (16.10%) Enterprise Architecture
4 55 (15.54%) Agile
5 54 (15.25%) TOGAF
6 51 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (14.12%) Technical Leadership
8 42 (11.86%) Microservices
8 42 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (11.30%) DevOps
10 39 (11.02%) Migration
11 34 (9.60%) SDLC
12 33 (9.32%) Data Modelling
13 30 (8.47%) AI
14 26 (7.34%) CI/CD
14 26 (7.34%) Integration Patterns
15 25 (7.06%) Data Architecture
16 23 (6.50%) Architectural Design
16 23 (6.50%) CRM
16 23 (6.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.34%) Python
2 22 (6.21%) Java
3 13 (3.67%) TypeScript
4 11 (3.11%) C#
4 11 (3.11%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.11%) SQL
5 5 (1.41%) Bash
5 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.28%) Go
7 1 (0.28%) PHP
7 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.65%) Degree
4 14 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.13%) CCNP
10 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.13%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.85%) CCIE
11 3 (0.85%) CCNA
11 3 (0.85%) CCSE
11 3 (0.85%) CISSP
11 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.85%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.93%) GDPR
2 9 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.54%) NIST
3 6 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.69%) QA
4 5 (1.41%) COBIT
4 5 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.41%) EU AI Act
5 4 (1.13%) GRC
6 3 (0.85%) MiFID
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) EMIR
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.54%) Docker
3 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.56%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (4.80%) Terraform
2 12 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.98%) Ansible
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.56%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) MIIS
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.47%) SAP
3 25 (7.06%) Salesforce
4 24 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.65%) Google
6 19 (5.37%) Oracle
7 18 (5.08%) Databricks
8 10 (2.82%) Cisco
9 9 (2.54%) IBM
10 8 (2.26%) Workday
11 5 (1.41%) F5
11 5 (1.41%) IFS
11 5 (1.41%) Juniper
12 4 (1.13%) Adobe
12 4 (1.13%) Concur
12 4 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.13%) Remedy
12 4 (1.13%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.85%) OneLogin