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 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 97 88
Rank change year-on-year -13 -9 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 393 361 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 2.60% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 2.77% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 227 301
10th Percentile £463 £487 £500
25th Percentile £563 £550 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £738
90th Percentile £837 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £87.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -24.57% +25.00%

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 13,690 13,011 16,973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.60% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,077 8,349 12,255
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 141 306
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.14
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.18 £19.10
Median hourly rate £33.46 £35.00 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +18.20% -14.17%
75th Percentile £63.05 £53.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £67.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -8 69 £675 +6.93% 26
West London -14 5 £625 -7.41% 9
East London +2 3 £765 +9.68% 1
North London - 2 £800 -
South London - 2 £750 - 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 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.

1 144 (36.64%) Azure
2 83 (21.12%) AWS
3 72 (18.32%) Security Cleared
4 70 (17.81%) Microsoft
5 64 (16.28%) Roadmaps
6 61 (15.52%) SC Cleared
7 60 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 58 (14.76%) Agile
9 51 (12.98%) Enterprise Architecture
9 51 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 50 (12.72%) DevOps
11 49 (12.47%) AI
12 47 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
14 43 (10.94%) Microservices
15 38 (9.67%) TOGAF
16 37 (9.41%) SAP
17 35 (8.91%) Middleware
17 35 (8.91%) Migration
18 33 (8.40%) SaaS
19 32 (8.14%) Salesforce
20 31 (7.89%) Integration Patterns
21 30 (7.63%) Architectural Design
21 30 (7.63%) GCP
22 29 (7.38%) Data Modelling
23 27 (6.87%) CRM
24 25 (6.36%) Analytics
24 25 (6.36%) CI/CD
24 25 (6.36%) Data Integration
24 25 (6.36%) Degree

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 11 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.78%) Confluence
3 4 (1.02%) CMS
3 4 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.76%) Camunda
5 2 (0.51%) Apache
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 22 (5.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.27%) SAP EWM
3 5 (1.27%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.76%) SAP PM
4 3 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.76%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.51%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.51%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (36.64%) Azure
2 83 (21.12%) AWS
3 33 (8.40%) SaaS
4 30 (7.63%) GCP
5 21 (5.34%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (4.07%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (2.80%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.54%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.53%) Serverless
11 5 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (1.27%) iPaaS
11 5 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.54%) WAN
2 8 (2.04%) Firewall
2 8 (2.04%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.53%) VPN
4 5 (1.27%) MPLS
5 4 (1.02%) 5G
5 4 (1.02%) DNS
5 4 (1.02%) Network Security
6 3 (0.76%) BGP
6 3 (0.76%) DHCP
6 3 (0.76%) LAN
6 3 (0.76%) OSPF
6 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.51%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.51%) 4G
7 2 (0.51%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.51%) VLAN
7 2 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (2.80%) Power BI
2 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.27%) Tableau
5 3 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.76%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.76%) Metadata
5 3 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.76%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.51%) GIS
6 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
7 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (1.78%) JIRA
2 3 (0.76%) Git
3 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.51%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.51%) GitLab
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.25%) MLflow
4 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 129 (32.82%) Finance
2 112 (28.50%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.69%) Banking
4 38 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 36 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.83%) Legal
7 17 (4.33%) Billing
8 15 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.80%) Marketing
11 11 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.54%) Retail
13 9 (2.29%) Law
14 8 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.27%) Back Office
17 4 (1.02%) Electronics
18 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.76%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.91%) Middleware
2 20 (5.09%) REST
3 18 (4.58%) .NET
4 9 (2.29%) OAuth
5 8 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.04%) JSON
5 8 (2.04%) SOAP
6 7 (1.78%) OpenID
7 6 (1.53%) Kafka
7 6 (1.53%) XML
8 5 (1.27%) Node.js
8 5 (1.27%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.27%) React
8 5 (1.27%) SAML
9 4 (1.02%) gRPC
9 4 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.02%) Vue
10 3 (0.76%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.80%) FMCG
4 10 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.53%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.76%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.04%) Windows
2 4 (1.02%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (16.28%) Roadmaps
2 60 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 58 (14.76%) Agile
4 51 (12.98%) Enterprise Architecture
4 51 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 50 (12.72%) DevOps
6 49 (12.47%) AI
7 47 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (10.94%) Microservices
10 38 (9.67%) TOGAF
11 35 (8.91%) Migration
12 31 (7.89%) Integration Patterns
13 30 (7.63%) Architectural Design
14 29 (7.38%) Data Modelling
15 27 (6.87%) CRM
16 25 (6.36%) Analytics
16 25 (6.36%) CI/CD
16 25 (6.36%) Data Integration
16 25 (6.36%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 20 (5.09%) Python
2 15 (3.82%) Java
3 14 (3.56%) C#
3 14 (3.56%) SQL
4 9 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.27%) Bash
6 5 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.51%) Korn
7 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.51%) R
8 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.25%) Go
8 1 (0.25%) RPG
8 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.36%) Degree
4 18 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.76%) CISSP
11 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.76%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.51%) CISM
13 1 (0.25%) CCSE
13 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.25%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.25%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.83%) GDPR
2 9 (2.29%) QA
3 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.53%) NIST
5 5 (1.27%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.76%) GRC
7 3 (0.76%) NCSC
7 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.76%) PSD2
8 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.51%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.25%) TARGET2
System Software
1 15 (3.82%) Docker
2 10 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Ceph
3 2 (0.51%) Firmware
3 2 (0.51%) Lustre
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Squid
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (4.83%) Terraform
2 15 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.27%) Ansible
3 5 (1.27%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.51%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.51%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.41%) SAP
3 32 (8.14%) Salesforce
4 22 (5.60%) Oracle
5 17 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.80%) Google
7 10 (2.54%) Cisco
7 10 (2.54%) Databricks
7 10 (2.54%) Software AG
8 8 (2.04%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.78%) Workday
10 6 (1.53%) IBM
11 5 (1.27%) Adobe
12 4 (1.02%) Ariba
12 4 (1.02%) Dell
12 4 (1.02%) IFS
12 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.76%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.76%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud