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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 93 84
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 589 355 488
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.33% 2.87% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.59% 3.08% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 215 342
10th Percentile £485 £511 £488
25th Percentile £525 £573 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -4.06%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £763
90th Percentile £807 £813 £886
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.98 - -
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% - +15.34%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.33 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £63.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +13.13% -30.00% +34.83%

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 16,392 11,541 16,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.35% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,894 11,839
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £428 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £688
90th Percentile £753 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 143 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +24.77% -23.24%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.97 £45.18
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.80 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.00% -20.00% -14.88%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +9 92 £675 - 29
West London -23 7 £625 +6.38% 4
South London -11 6 £637 -0.08%
East London -4 3 £630 - 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 163 (27.67%) Azure
2 126 (21.39%) AWS
3 103 (17.49%) Security Cleared
4 102 (17.32%) AI
5 95 (16.13%) DevOps
6 91 (15.45%) Agile
7 88 (14.94%) SC Cleared
8 80 (13.58%) Microsoft
8 80 (13.58%) Roadmaps
9 79 (13.41%) Migration
10 67 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 65 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (10.19%) CI/CD
13 58 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
14 55 (9.34%) Enterprise Architecture
14 55 (9.34%) SAP
15 51 (8.66%) Analytics
16 49 (8.32%) ERP
16 49 (8.32%) Technical Leadership
17 47 (7.98%) Microservices
17 47 (7.98%) Middleware
18 43 (7.30%) .NET
18 43 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 42 (7.13%) Oracle
20 41 (6.96%) Python
21 40 (6.79%) GCP
22 39 (6.62%) Architectural Patterns
23 38 (6.45%) Degree
23 38 (6.45%) Machine Learning
23 38 (6.45%) TOGAF

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 16 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.36%) Camunda
3 6 (1.02%) Confluence
4 4 (0.68%) Apache
4 4 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) Appian
6 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.17%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (5.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.02%) SAP BRIM
3 5 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.85%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.85%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.68%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.68%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.51%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.51%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 163 (27.67%) Azure
2 126 (21.39%) AWS
3 40 (6.79%) GCP
4 26 (4.41%) Power Platform
4 26 (4.41%) SaaS
5 17 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (2.72%) Entra ID
6 16 (2.72%) Serverless
6 16 (2.72%) Snowflake
7 14 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.21%) Azure AI
9 12 (2.04%) PaaS
9 12 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.36%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.36%) Firewall
1 8 (1.36%) Network Security
1 8 (1.36%) WAN
2 7 (1.19%) VPN
3 6 (1.02%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.68%) DNS
4 4 (0.68%) MPLS
5 3 (0.51%) 5G
5 3 (0.51%) FTP
5 3 (0.51%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.34%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.34%) IPv4
6 2 (0.34%) IPv6
6 2 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.34%) SDH
6 2 (0.34%) SMS
6 2 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.41%) Data Lake
2 13 (2.21%) Power BI
3 12 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.19%) Metadata
5 7 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.02%) Big Data
7 5 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.85%) Tableau
8 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.51%) Flink
9 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.34%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.34%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.87%) JIRA
2 6 (1.02%) MLflow
3 4 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.51%) Maven
5 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.34%) Git
6 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.17%) ERwin
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) MSI
6 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.17%) Subversion
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) VersionOne
General
1 153 (25.98%) Finance
2 117 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 55 (9.34%) Banking
4 46 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.24%) Telecoms
7 23 (3.90%) Billing
8 21 (3.57%) Legal
9 16 (2.72%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.04%) Retail
13 9 (1.53%) Law
14 8 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.19%) Marketing
16 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.51%) Automotive
17 3 (0.51%) Local Government
18 2 (0.34%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.98%) Middleware
2 43 (7.30%) .NET
3 27 (4.58%) REST
4 18 (3.06%) React
5 15 (2.55%) .NET Framework
6 14 (2.38%) AngularJS
7 11 (1.87%) Kafka
8 9 (1.53%) Vue
9 5 (0.85%) CSS
9 5 (0.85%) HTML
9 5 (0.85%) SOAP
9 5 (0.85%) Spring
10 4 (0.68%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.68%) FHIR
10 4 (0.68%) LDAP
10 4 (0.68%) OpenID
10 4 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.68%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.51%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.51%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 17 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.72%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.38%) Mainframe
6 10 (1.70%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.53%) FMCG
8 8 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.19%) NHS
10 6 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.85%) IoT
11 5 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.68%) Windows
2 2 (0.34%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (17.32%) AI
2 95 (16.13%) DevOps
3 91 (15.45%) Agile
4 80 (13.58%) Roadmaps
5 79 (13.41%) Migration
6 67 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (10.19%) CI/CD
9 58 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
10 55 (9.34%) Enterprise Architecture
11 51 (8.66%) Analytics
12 49 (8.32%) ERP
12 49 (8.32%) Technical Leadership
13 47 (7.98%) Microservices
14 43 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (6.62%) Architectural Patterns
16 38 (6.45%) Machine Learning
16 38 (6.45%) TOGAF
17 37 (6.28%) Event-Driven
18 36 (6.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.96%) Python
2 35 (5.94%) Java
3 24 (4.07%) C#
4 18 (3.06%) SQL
5 12 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.51%) R
9 2 (0.34%) Korn
9 2 (0.34%) Scala
10 1 (0.17%) ABAP
10 1 (0.17%) Bash
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) RPG
10 1 (0.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 103 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 88 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.45%) Degree
4 19 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.85%) CISA
8 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.51%) CISSP
11 2 (0.34%) CCNP
11 2 (0.34%) CISM
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CCIE
12 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.24%) GDPR
2 12 (2.04%) SEPA
3 10 (1.70%) PSD2
4 9 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.53%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.53%) QA
5 6 (1.02%) NIST
6 5 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.68%) HL7
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.51%) TARGET2
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (3.74%) Docker
2 12 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.51%) Squid
4 2 (0.34%) Ceph
4 2 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.34%) Lustre
4 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.26%) Terraform
2 30 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.19%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.19%) Grafana
3 7 (1.19%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
5 2 (0.34%) Consul
5 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 80 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.34%) SAP
3 42 (7.13%) Oracle
4 34 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 30 (5.09%) Salesforce
6 26 (4.41%) Databricks
7 13 (2.21%) Workday
8 11 (1.87%) Ariba
8 11 (1.87%) Software AG
9 9 (1.53%) Cisco
9 9 (1.53%) Google
10 6 (1.02%) IFS
10 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.85%) IBM
11 5 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.85%) Siemens
12 4 (0.68%) Confluent
12 4 (0.68%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.68%) Yardi