Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 95 87
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 635 349 480
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.47% 2.89% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.74% 3.09% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 212 330
10th Percentile £495 £510 £485
25th Percentile £525 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £750 £748 £763
90th Percentile £800 £813 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.69%
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 £64.50 £90.00
% change year-on-year +10.50% -28.33% +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 16,983 11,286 16,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.40% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 7,681 11,806
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £682
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 145 319
10th Percentile £19.19 £20.10 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.18 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.81 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.23% +12.02% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £45.62
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.30 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +12 106 £694 +2.81% 55
South London -12 6 £637 -0.08% 2
West London -27 6 £625 +6.38% 6
East London -4 3 £630 - 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 180 (28.35%) Azure
2 135 (21.26%) AWS
3 118 (18.58%) Security Cleared
4 110 (17.32%) AI
5 100 (15.75%) DevOps
5 100 (15.75%) SC Cleared
6 95 (14.96%) Migration
7 92 (14.49%) Agile
8 90 (14.17%) Roadmaps
9 82 (12.91%) Microsoft
10 78 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 65 (10.24%) CI/CD
11 65 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (10.08%) Enterprise Architecture
13 60 (9.45%) Integration Patterns
14 58 (9.13%) SAP
15 55 (8.66%) Analytics
16 53 (8.35%) Technical Leadership
17 50 (7.87%) ERP
17 50 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 48 (7.56%) .NET
19 46 (7.24%) Event-Driven
19 46 (7.24%) Microservices
20 44 (6.93%) GCP
21 43 (6.77%) Middleware
22 42 (6.61%) Oracle
23 41 (6.46%) Degree
23 41 (6.46%) Infrastructure as Code
23 41 (6.46%) Python
23 41 (6.46%) 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 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.26%) Camunda
3 6 (0.94%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) Apache
4 4 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.47%) nginx
5 3 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) Appian
6 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (5.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.26%) SAP BRIM
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.79%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.63%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 4 (0.63%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.63%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.47%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.47%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 180 (28.35%) Azure
2 135 (21.26%) AWS
3 44 (6.93%) GCP
4 30 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.41%) SaaS
6 18 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (2.83%) Serverless
7 16 (2.52%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.20%) PaaS
9 13 (2.05%) Azure AI
9 13 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.73%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (1.42%) IaaS
13 8 (1.26%) GitHub
13 8 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.42%) Firewall
1 9 (1.42%) Network Security
2 8 (1.26%) VPN
2 8 (1.26%) WAN
3 6 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.79%) DNS
4 5 (0.79%) MPLS
4 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.47%) 5G
5 3 (0.47%) FTP
5 3 (0.47%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.47%) SDH
5 3 (0.47%) VoIP
6 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.31%) InfiniBand
6 2 (0.31%) IPv4
6 2 (0.31%) IPv6
6 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.31%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.25%) Data Lake
2 17 (2.68%) Power BI
3 13 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.42%) Metadata
5 8 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.94%) Big Data
7 5 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.79%) Tableau
8 4 (0.63%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.47%) Flink
9 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.73%) JIRA
2 6 (0.94%) MLflow
3 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.47%) Maven
5 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.31%) Git
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) ERwin
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) MSI
6 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.16%) VersionOne
General
1 164 (25.83%) Finance
2 126 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 56 (8.82%) Banking
4 51 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.09%) Telecoms
7 24 (3.78%) Billing
8 21 (3.31%) Retail
9 20 (3.15%) Legal
10 17 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.26%) Law
14 7 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.94%) Marketing
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.47%) Automotive
16 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.47%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.56%) .NET
2 43 (6.77%) Middleware
3 29 (4.57%) REST
4 18 (2.83%) .NET Framework
4 18 (2.83%) React
5 14 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.42%) Kafka
6 9 (1.42%) Vue
7 6 (0.94%) LDAP
8 5 (0.79%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.79%) CSS
8 5 (0.79%) HTML
8 5 (0.79%) SOAP
8 5 (0.79%) Spring
9 4 (0.63%) FHIR
9 4 (0.63%) OpenID
9 4 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.63%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.47%) RESTful
10 3 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.15%) Product Ownership
3 18 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.52%) Mainframe
6 15 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 9 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.26%) FMCG
11 8 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.10%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.10%) NHS
12 7 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.79%) Windows
2 3 (0.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (17.32%) AI
2 100 (15.75%) DevOps
3 95 (14.96%) Migration
4 92 (14.49%) Agile
5 90 (14.17%) Roadmaps
6 78 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (10.24%) CI/CD
7 65 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (10.08%) Enterprise Architecture
9 60 (9.45%) Integration Patterns
10 55 (8.66%) Analytics
11 53 (8.35%) Technical Leadership
12 50 (7.87%) ERP
12 50 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 46 (7.24%) Event-Driven
13 46 (7.24%) Microservices
14 41 (6.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (6.46%) TOGAF
15 40 (6.30%) Architectural Patterns
15 40 (6.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.46%) Python
2 34 (5.35%) Java
3 25 (3.94%) C#
4 18 (2.83%) SQL
5 11 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.73%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.94%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.47%) R
8 2 (0.31%) Korn
8 2 (0.31%) Scala
9 1 (0.16%) ABAP
9 1 (0.16%) Bash
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) C++
9 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.16%) RPG
9 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 118 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.46%) Degree
4 18 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (0.79%) CISA
8 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.47%) CISSP
10 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.31%) CCNP
11 2 (0.31%) CISM
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.09%) GDPR
2 12 (1.89%) SEPA
3 10 (1.57%) PSD2
4 9 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.42%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.42%) QA
5 5 (0.79%) NIST
5 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.63%) HL7
6 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.47%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (3.46%) Docker
2 11 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Squid
4 2 (0.31%) Ceph
4 2 (0.31%) Firmware
4 2 (0.31%) Lustre
4 2 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (5.04%) Kubernetes
1 32 (5.04%) Terraform
2 7 (1.10%) Ansible
2 7 (1.10%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.10%) Grafana
2 7 (1.10%) Prometheus
2 7 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.31%) Argo
3 2 (0.31%) Consul
3 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 58 (9.13%) SAP
3 42 (6.61%) Oracle
4 37 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 34 (5.35%) Salesforce
6 31 (4.88%) Databricks
7 13 (2.05%) Workday
8 12 (1.89%) Cisco
9 11 (1.73%) Ariba
9 11 (1.73%) Google
10 10 (1.57%) Software AG
11 7 (1.10%) IFS
12 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.94%) Siemens
13 5 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.79%) IBM
13 5 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.63%) Confluent
14 4 (0.63%) Planon