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 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 93 83
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 341 434 614
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.54% 2.69% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 2.86% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 276 424
10th Percentile £463 £484 £521
25th Percentile £563 £552 £582
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -
75th Percentile £725 £800 £775
90th Percentile £800 £888 £846
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £32.49
25th Percentile - £52.00 £35.09
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £52.02
Median % change year-on-year - +3.81% -30.64%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £75.94
90th Percentile - - £88.88
England median hourly rate £30.20 £91.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.81% +21.33% +4.90%

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 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +11 62 £675 -2.88% 39
South London - 7 £727 - 2
East London +12 6 £688 -9.54% 4
West London -11 2 £360 -43.53% 2
North London - 1 £900 -
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 132 (38.71%) Azure
2 106 (31.09%) Finance
3 87 (25.51%) AWS
4 85 (24.93%) Social Skills
5 67 (19.65%) Microsoft
6 61 (17.89%) Agile
7 58 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (16.13%) TOGAF
8 55 (16.13%) Security Cleared
9 47 (13.78%) Enterprise Architecture
9 47 (13.78%) Roadmaps
10 45 (13.20%) Technical Leadership
10 45 (13.20%) Migration
10 45 (13.20%) GCP
11 42 (12.32%) SC Cleared
12 41 (12.02%) Microservices
12 41 (12.02%) DevOps
13 39 (11.44%) SDLC
14 38 (11.14%) Java
15 36 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (10.26%) Banking
17 31 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
18 30 (8.80%) Python
19 29 (8.50%) SAP
19 29 (8.50%) Public Sector
20 26 (7.62%) CI/CD
20 26 (7.62%) Salesforce
20 26 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence
20 26 (7.62%) Cloud Native
20 26 (7.62%) SaaS

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.28%) Confluence
2 11 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.17%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.88%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
6 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) Smallworld
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.76%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 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%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.59%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.29%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.29%) Magento
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.29%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (38.71%) Azure
2 87 (25.51%) AWS
3 45 (13.20%) GCP
4 26 (7.62%) SaaS
5 23 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.87%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (4.11%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.11%) PaaS
9 12 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.52%) IaaS
9 12 (3.52%) Serverless
10 9 (2.64%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.05%) Fivetran
12 7 (2.05%) GitHub
13 6 (1.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.81%) Firewall
2 9 (2.64%) DNS
3 6 (1.76%) WAN
4 5 (1.47%) BGP
4 5 (1.47%) OSPF
4 5 (1.47%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.47%) VPN
5 4 (1.17%) DHCP
5 4 (1.17%) LAN
5 4 (1.17%) Network Security
5 4 (1.17%) VLAN
6 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.59%) 4G
7 2 (0.59%) IPsec
7 2 (0.59%) MPLS
7 2 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.11%) Data Lake
3 11 (3.23%) Big Data
3 11 (3.23%) Power BI
4 7 (2.05%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.17%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.88%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (0.88%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.59%) DB2
8 2 (0.59%) EDMS
8 2 (0.59%) Metadata
8 2 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.59%) OLTP
9 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (5.28%) JIRA
2 9 (2.64%) GitLab
3 8 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.17%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 106 (31.09%) Finance
2 85 (24.93%) Social Skills
3 35 (10.26%) Banking
4 31 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.40%) Retail
8 11 (3.23%) Marketing
9 10 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.93%) Legal
10 9 (2.64%) Billing
10 9 (2.64%) Law
11 7 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Back Office
13 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.88%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.88%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.74%) .NET
2 14 (4.11%) Middleware
2 14 (4.11%) REST
3 13 (3.81%) Kafka
4 11 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 11 (3.23%) React
5 8 (2.35%) RESTful
6 7 (2.05%) SOAP
7 6 (1.76%) JSON
7 6 (1.76%) OAuth
8 5 (1.47%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.17%) JWT
9 4 (1.17%) Node.js
9 4 (1.17%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.17%) Spring
9 4 (1.17%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.17%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.52%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.17%) PDA
9 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.88%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.88%) NHS
10 3 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.93%) Windows
2 9 (2.64%) Linux
3 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.59%) CentOS
4 2 (0.59%) Debian
4 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (17.89%) Agile
2 58 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (16.13%) TOGAF
4 47 (13.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 47 (13.78%) Roadmaps
5 45 (13.20%) Migration
5 45 (13.20%) Technical Leadership
6 41 (12.02%) DevOps
6 41 (12.02%) Microservices
7 39 (11.44%) SDLC
8 36 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence
9 26 (7.62%) CI/CD
10 25 (7.33%) CRM
11 24 (7.04%) Data Architecture
11 24 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (6.74%) Architectural Design
12 23 (6.74%) Architectural Patterns
12 23 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (6.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.14%) Java
2 30 (8.80%) Python
3 16 (4.69%) C#
4 15 (4.40%) SQL
5 13 (3.81%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.47%) Scala
8 4 (1.17%) Go
8 4 (1.17%) R
9 3 (0.88%) COBOL
10 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.59%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) Bicep
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) JCL
11 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.87%) Degree
4 12 (3.52%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.52%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (2.93%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.47%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.17%) CCNP
9 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.88%) CCIE
10 3 (0.88%) CCNA
10 3 (0.88%) CCSE
10 3 (0.88%) JNCIE
10 3 (0.88%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.81%) GDPR
2 8 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.35%) QA
3 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.47%) NIST
5 4 (1.17%) COBIT
6 3 (0.88%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.59%) GRC
7 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.59%) MiFID
7 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) EMIR
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.35%) Docker
3 5 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.17%) vSphere
5 2 (0.59%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.59%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.59%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.59%) vCloud
5 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.93%) Terraform
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.17%) Ansible
5 3 (0.88%) Kibana
6 2 (0.59%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) MIIS
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.50%) SAP
3 26 (7.62%) Salesforce
4 23 (6.74%) Google
4 23 (6.74%) ServiceNow
5 22 (6.45%) Oracle
6 20 (5.87%) Databricks
7 7 (2.05%) Cisco
7 7 (2.05%) IBM
7 7 (2.05%) VMware
7 7 (2.05%) Workday
8 6 (1.76%) Talend
9 4 (1.17%) Concur
9 4 (1.17%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.17%) Informatica
9 4 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.17%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.88%) Ariba
10 3 (0.88%) IFS
10 3 (0.88%) Juniper