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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 94 81
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 656 356 512
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.48% 2.90% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.74% 3.10% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 212 348
10th Percentile £493 £500 £481
25th Percentile £525 £568 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £775
90th Percentile £800 £800 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £52.98 - £52.55
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +5.26% +9.57%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £60.88
90th Percentile £67.33 - £61.85
England median hourly rate £71.27 £64.50 £89.00
% change year-on-year +10.50% -27.53% +33.33%

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 17,520 11,482 16,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.52% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,780 11,924
10th Percentile £358 £342 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £677
90th Percentile £760 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 163 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £24.66 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +22.26% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.63 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.69 £64.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +18 108 £675 -2.88% 22
South London -7 6 £637 -0.08% 1
West London -23 4 £650 +10.64% 27
East London -3 3 £630 +20.00% 2
North London - 1 £650 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 199 (30.34%) Azure
2 144 (21.95%) AWS
3 127 (19.36%) Security Cleared
4 113 (17.23%) AI
5 108 (16.46%) Migration
6 107 (16.31%) DevOps
6 107 (16.31%) SC Cleared
7 100 (15.24%) Agile
8 95 (14.48%) Roadmaps
9 91 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 87 (13.26%) Microsoft
11 79 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
12 74 (11.28%) CI/CD
13 67 (10.21%) Integration Patterns
14 63 (9.60%) Analytics
14 63 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (8.69%) TOGAF
16 55 (8.38%) SAP
16 55 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
17 54 (8.23%) .NET
18 52 (7.93%) ERP
19 48 (7.32%) Event-Driven
19 48 (7.32%) GCP
19 48 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
20 46 (7.01%) Degree
20 46 (7.01%) Microservices
21 45 (6.86%) Data Modelling
22 43 (6.55%) Data Architecture
23 42 (6.40%) Architectural Patterns

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 17 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.22%) Camunda
3 7 (1.07%) Confluence
4 4 (0.61%) Apache
4 4 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (4.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.22%) SAP BRIM
3 7 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.61%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.61%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 3 (0.46%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.46%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.15%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 199 (30.34%) Azure
2 144 (21.95%) AWS
3 48 (7.32%) GCP
4 34 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.27%) SaaS
6 22 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.20%) Serverless
8 18 (2.74%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.44%) PaaS
11 13 (1.98%) GitHub
12 12 (1.83%) Azure AI
13 11 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (1.68%) IaaS
13 11 (1.68%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.52%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.98%) Firewall
2 11 (1.68%) Network Security
2 11 (1.68%) VPN
3 8 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.07%) WAN
5 6 (0.91%) DNS
5 6 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.61%) MPLS
7 3 (0.46%) FTP
7 3 (0.46%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.46%) SSL
7 3 (0.46%) VoIP
7 3 (0.46%) Wireless
8 2 (0.30%) DHCP
8 2 (0.30%) IPv4
8 2 (0.30%) IPv6
8 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.30%) RFID
8 2 (0.30%) SDH
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.42%) Data Lake
2 19 (2.90%) Power BI
3 14 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.37%) Metadata
4 9 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.91%) Big Data
6 5 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.76%) Tableau
7 4 (0.61%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.61%) Flink
7 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (1.83%) JIRA
2 6 (0.91%) MLflow
3 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.46%) Maven
5 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.30%) ERwin
5 2 (0.30%) Git
5 2 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.15%) MSI
6 1 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) VersionOne
General
1 169 (25.76%) Finance
2 134 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 60 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.08%) Banking
5 36 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.96%) Retail
7 24 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.05%) Billing
9 19 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.74%) Legal
11 16 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.91%) Marketing
15 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.76%) Law
15 5 (0.76%) Local Government
16 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.46%) Automotive
16 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.23%) .NET
2 36 (5.49%) Middleware
3 32 (4.88%) REST
4 19 (2.90%) .NET Framework
5 17 (2.59%) React
6 13 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.37%) Kafka
8 8 (1.22%) Vue
9 6 (0.91%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.91%) CSS
9 6 (0.91%) HTML
9 6 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.91%) SOAP
10 5 (0.76%) HTML5 Canvas
10 5 (0.76%) LDAP
10 5 (0.76%) Spring
11 4 (0.61%) FHIR
11 4 (0.61%) PySpark
11 4 (0.61%) SAML
11 4 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.59%) Mainframe
5 15 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.07%) NHS
11 6 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.22%) Windows
2 3 (0.46%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Android
3 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (17.23%) AI
2 108 (16.46%) Migration
3 107 (16.31%) DevOps
4 100 (15.24%) Agile
5 95 (14.48%) Roadmaps
6 91 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 79 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 74 (11.28%) CI/CD
9 67 (10.21%) Integration Patterns
10 63 (9.60%) Analytics
10 63 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 57 (8.69%) TOGAF
12 55 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
13 52 (7.93%) ERP
14 48 (7.32%) Event-Driven
14 48 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (7.01%) Microservices
16 45 (6.86%) Data Modelling
17 43 (6.55%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.40%) Python
2 37 (5.64%) Java
3 28 (4.27%) C#
4 22 (3.35%) SQL
5 14 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.46%) R
9 2 (0.30%) Bash
9 2 (0.30%) Bicep
9 2 (0.30%) Korn
9 2 (0.30%) Scala
10 1 (0.15%) ABAP
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Groovy
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.15%) RPG
10 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 127 (19.36%) Security Cleared
2 107 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.01%) Degree
4 19 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.76%) CISA
12 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.61%) CISSP
13 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.30%) CCSP
14 2 (0.30%) CISM
14 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.27%) GDPR
2 13 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.83%) SEPA
4 11 (1.68%) QA
5 10 (1.52%) PSD2
6 9 (1.37%) ISO 20022
6 9 (1.37%) NIST
7 8 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.61%) HL7
9 4 (0.61%) NCSC
9 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.46%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (3.20%) Docker
2 14 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Squid
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 35 (5.34%) Terraform
2 32 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.98%) Ansible
4 7 (1.07%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.07%) Grafana
4 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.46%) SCCM
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
6 2 (0.30%) Consul
6 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 87 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.38%) SAP
3 42 (6.40%) Oracle
4 40 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 32 (4.88%) Databricks
6 31 (4.73%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.29%) Cisco
8 11 (1.68%) Ariba
8 11 (1.68%) Google
8 11 (1.68%) Workday
9 8 (1.22%) IFS
9 8 (1.22%) Software AG
10 7 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.76%) Aruba
12 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.76%) IBM
12 5 (0.76%) Siemens
13 4 (0.61%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.61%) Yardi