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 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 90 82
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 341 415 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 2.66% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 2.83% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 252 399
10th Percentile £454 £463 £510
25th Percentile £550 £529 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% -
75th Percentile £725 £781 £750
90th Percentile £833 £888 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £82.00 - -
25th Percentile £83.13 £52.00 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £54.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £56.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £66.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +32.58% -12.00% +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 12,732 14,689 18,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 94.01% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 9,491 13,721
10th Percentile £333 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 157 210
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.50 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.57 £38.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -30.99% -4.15% +22.64%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.73 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

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 5 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
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 5 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 +12 66 £650 -3.70% 138
East London +8 6 £688 -4.51% 6
South London - 4 £750 - 13
West London -11 2 £511 -21.38% 24
North London - 2 £800 - 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 142 (41.64%) Azure
2 90 (26.39%) AWS
3 66 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 60 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (17.01%) Roadmaps
6 56 (16.42%) Enterprise Architecture
7 53 (15.54%) Agile
8 52 (15.25%) Security Cleared
8 52 (15.25%) TOGAF
9 45 (13.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 44 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
11 43 (12.61%) SC Cleared
12 42 (12.32%) GCP
13 40 (11.73%) Migration
14 38 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (10.85%) Microservices
16 36 (10.56%) SDLC
17 32 (9.38%) DevOps
17 32 (9.38%) SaaS
18 29 (8.50%) AI
18 29 (8.50%) Data Modelling
18 29 (8.50%) SAP
19 25 (7.33%) Java
19 25 (7.33%) Python
20 24 (7.04%) .NET
20 24 (7.04%) CI/CD
21 23 (6.74%) Data Architecture
21 23 (6.74%) Integration Patterns
21 23 (6.74%) Salesforce
21 23 (6.74%) ServiceNow

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 (5.28%) Confluence
2 11 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.88%) CMS
4 3 (0.88%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Appian
6 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.05%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.76%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.17%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.88%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.59%) Endur
6 2 (0.59%) Maximo
6 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.59%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.29%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.29%) Magento
7 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (41.64%) Azure
2 90 (26.39%) AWS
3 42 (12.32%) GCP
4 32 (9.38%) SaaS
5 22 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.28%) Entra ID
7 17 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (4.69%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.52%) PaaS
10 11 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (3.23%) Serverless
11 9 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.35%) IaaS
13 7 (2.05%) GitHub
14 6 (1.76%) Fivetran
14 6 (1.76%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.11%) Firewall
2 8 (2.35%) WAN
3 7 (2.05%) VPN
4 6 (1.76%) DNS
4 6 (1.76%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.47%) BGP
5 5 (1.47%) Network Security
5 5 (1.47%) OSPF
6 4 (1.17%) DHCP
6 4 (1.17%) LAN
6 4 (1.17%) VLAN
7 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.88%) MPLS
7 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.59%) 4G
8 2 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.59%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.52%) Data Lake
3 10 (2.93%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.05%) Power BI
5 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.88%) Big Data
6 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.88%) Metadata
6 3 (0.88%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.88%) Tableau
7 2 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.29%) DB2
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (4.99%) JIRA
2 7 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.17%) GitLab
4 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.29%) Git
5 1 (0.29%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 118 (34.60%) Finance
2 97 (28.45%) Social Skills
3 36 (10.56%) Banking
4 34 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (4.40%) Retail
7 12 (3.52%) Billing
7 12 (3.52%) Legal
8 11 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.35%) Marketing
11 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.17%) Back Office
13 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.17%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.88%) Law
14 3 (0.88%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.04%) .NET
2 20 (5.87%) REST
3 15 (4.40%) Middleware
4 13 (3.81%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.23%) Kafka
5 11 (3.23%) OAuth
6 10 (2.93%) React
7 9 (2.64%) JSON
7 9 (2.64%) RESTful
8 7 (2.05%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.05%) SOAP
9 6 (1.76%) XML
10 5 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (1.47%) Node.js
10 5 (1.47%) OpenID
10 5 (1.47%) SAML
10 5 (1.47%) Web Services
11 3 (0.88%) JWT
11 3 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.59%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
5 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.47%) Reinsurance
6 5 (1.47%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.47%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.17%) PDA
7 4 (1.17%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.88%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.88%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.88%) Replication
9 2 (0.59%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.47%) Linux
1 5 (1.47%) Windows
2 2 (0.59%) Debian
3 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (17.01%) Roadmaps
3 56 (16.42%) Enterprise Architecture
4 53 (15.54%) Agile
5 52 (15.25%) TOGAF
6 45 (13.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 44 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
8 40 (11.73%) Migration
9 38 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (10.85%) Microservices
11 36 (10.56%) SDLC
12 32 (9.38%) DevOps
13 29 (8.50%) AI
13 29 (8.50%) Data Modelling
14 24 (7.04%) CI/CD
15 23 (6.74%) Data Architecture
15 23 (6.74%) Integration Patterns
16 22 (6.45%) Architectural Design
17 21 (6.16%) Architectural Patterns
17 21 (6.16%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.33%) Java
1 25 (7.33%) Python
2 13 (3.81%) TypeScript
3 11 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 11 (3.23%) SQL
4 9 (2.64%) C#
5 3 (0.88%) COBOL
6 2 (0.59%) Bash
6 2 (0.59%) R
7 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.29%) Go
7 1 (0.29%) Groovy
7 1 (0.29%) JCL
7 1 (0.29%) PHP
7 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.28%) Degree
4 10 (2.93%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.17%) CCNP
8 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.17%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.88%) CCIE
9 3 (0.88%) CCNA
9 3 (0.88%) CCSE
9 3 (0.88%) CISSP
9 3 (0.88%) JNCIE
9 3 (0.88%) JNCIP
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.87%) GDPR
2 8 (2.35%) NIST
3 7 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.47%) COBIT
4 5 (1.47%) EU AI Act
4 5 (1.47%) QA
5 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.17%) GRC
6 3 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.88%) MiFID
6 3 (0.88%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.35%) Docker
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.29%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (3.81%) Kubernetes
1 13 (3.81%) Terraform
2 5 (1.47%) Ansible
3 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.29%) MIIS
5 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.50%) SAP
3 23 (6.74%) Salesforce
3 23 (6.74%) ServiceNow
4 21 (6.16%) Google
5 17 (4.99%) Oracle
6 16 (4.69%) Databricks
7 10 (2.93%) Cisco
7 10 (2.93%) IBM
8 6 (1.76%) Workday
9 5 (1.47%) IFS
9 5 (1.47%) Juniper
10 4 (1.17%) Adobe
10 4 (1.17%) Concur
10 4 (1.17%) F5
10 4 (1.17%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.17%) Informatica
10 4 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.17%) Remedy
10 4 (1.17%) Zscaler